The Constitution repealed in ten states
Your Constitutional Rights have been repealed in ten states.
No, this isn’t a joke. It is not exaggeration or hyperbole. If you
are in ten states in the United States, some of your rights
guaranteed by the Bill of Rights have been made null and void.
And it is not just those ten states. Those are just the states where
everyone who lives in those states has lost some of their
Constitutional Rights. The sad truth is that there are only fourteen
states where this stripping of the rights of American citizens has not
yet happened.
What is going on?
The government has declared a one
hundred mile zone around the United States borders to be a part of the
border zone exception from the Fourth Amendment’s freedom from
unreasonable searches and seizures.
The Fourth Amendment states: The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall
issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized.
Historically there has always been an exemption from the 4th
Amendment requirement; i.e., at the nation’s border. This is the so-called
border search exception to the Fourth Amendment. Now the Department of
Homeland Security is claiming the right to search electronic devices
such as cell phones, laptops and tablet computers without a warrant or
even any probable cause within that 100-mile zone.
If you live in Hawaii, or Maine, or New Hampshire, or Massachusetts,
or Delaware or Rhode Island or Connecticut or Florida or Michigan, or
New Jersey, congratulations, you live in a 4th Amendment-free zone ! It does not matter where you go in your
state, the Department of Homeland Security can come in and demand to
search your electronic devices. They do not need any probable cause.
They can search you for the hell of it.
Those states listed are only the ones are totally covered by these
“border security” search zones. Other states like New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia have massive parts of their state that are
covered by this too.
This is a Constitution free zone.
Who is responsible for this outrage?
The Obama Regime is responsible of course, because Obama is currently
in power. Unfortunately this outrage started when George W. Bush was
still in the White House.
The language of the 4th Amendment is clear. It is the
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and
effects from unreasonable searches and seizures.
The government still has the right to search a laptop or a cell phone
if the agents have probable cause and get a warrant or if they have
probable cause and there are exigent circumstances. Electronic devices are the 21st century equivalent of papers and are certainly our effects.
If the Department of Homeland Security can search someone’s cell
phone or laptop without a warrant or even probable cause because you are
within 100 miles of the border, what is next? Will the government
start saying that if you live within 100 miles of the border, the
Department of Homeland Security because of the border search exception
to the Fourth Amendment now has the right to search cars and homes
without either a warrant or even probable cause?
This is insanity and it must stop.
Where is the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives? Why
aren’t they screaming about this desecration of the Constitution?
Republicans should be the first to the floor of the House and Senate
denouncing this and introducing legislation to rein in the Department of
Homeland Security.
Will this happen anytime soon?
Don’t hold your breath.
