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Originally Posted by Ustwo
And the secret service looks into every kid that tries to make a 10 dollar bill with his color printer.
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which is their jurisdiction, seeing how they are the department of the treasury.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
It hasn't and you haven't lost any freedoms.
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Do you truly believe that or are you just spewing the party line?
Wasn't the Patriot Act written to combat terrorism instead of drug crimes?
Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
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.
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Meeting in the FBI's state-of-the-art command center in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the lawyers talked with senior FBI officials about using the same legal authority to conduct physical searches of homes and businesses of terrorism suspects--also without court approval,
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You don't consider that a violation of the 4th? You don't consider that 'lost freedom'? If you can sit there and declare that no american has the right to be free of warrantless searches then you, sir, are an enemy of the constitution.