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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Actually if you go back to my original post, I'm of the opinion that these groups are almost always involved in statutory rape.
Its not so much was the right thing done, its was it done for the right reason.
I also think most hippies are pot smokers, so does that mean its ok if someone anonymously says there is a stash of pot at one of the few remaining communes and they do a drug raid based on this anonymous phone call, where they search the entire compound and question everyone about it?
With all the whining these days about the patriot act, I'm surprised so few of the same people who decry that as somehow stepping on the constitution think something like this is ok.
Do I think these people are guilty? Hell ya, bunch of wack jobs in my book, but due process is a price you pay to be free, and if that means you have to actually have a case against the wack jobs thats more than an anonymous phonecall, before you cart everyone off and separate fathers from their children so be it.
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I understand this and can agree with it.
And you'll have to pardon me because I have not been following the current story all that closely. Are they telling the news media all the facts that led to the warrant and what they found when they got there?
You're right in that, if it comes out in the days ahead that this warrant was issued based solely on an anonymous phone call, then I will be a hypocrit for thinking it was still the right thing to do and that it could open the door for actions that I would find egregiously improper. Therefore, if indeed the warrant was issued improperly, it would be proper for any prosecutions that may go forward from this raid to be thrown out of court - as regrettable as that would be. But I will not regret the spotlight that is being focused on this group and will hope that the next time they do it right.
You're right, it's a slippery slope politically. I can only hope at this point that we haven't been told all of the facts.