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RE: Advanced Technology Makes Potential Terrorists Harder to Stop

2001-09-13 05:40:02
At 09:34 PM 9/12/01 -0700, Ian King wrote:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  

And to quote Mark Eckenwiler, Esq., 

"Franklin's dictum is a sound sentiment, but practically 
everyone [ ... ] is a little confused about what 'essential 
liberties' means.

"Specifically, the Constitution does not enshrine privacy as
an absolute 'essential liberty.'  On the contrary, the Fourth
Amendment specifically authorizes reasonable searches of persons
& papers on the basis of probable cause, particularity, etc.  So
the Framers already embodied the notion of liberty trade-offs
in the Bill of Rights."

The point here is that while protection from unreasonable search
is to be guarded carefully, not all searches are unreasonable.

Melinda



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