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- From: dlo@druwa.ATT.COM (OlsonDL)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:37:45 GMT
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- } In article <1992Dec22.194125.14451@kadsma.kodak.com> pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek) writes:
- } ...
- } As I recall, the Bill of Rights contains a provision regarding
- } 'unreasonable searches and seizures'. I would categorize both the
- } IRS and DEA seizures as 'unreasonable'. Unfortunately, the Reagan/Bush
- } Supreme Court, led by that friend of individual liberty, William
- } Rehnquist, doesn't agree.
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- The people who spearhead the seizures have argued that such things as
- the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Bill of Rights apply only to *criminal*
- cases. That is why such seizures are placed under *civil* procedings.
- It is further argued that it isn't the owners of that property who are
- being arrested; it is the property itself that is being arrested. And
- since property has no rights, it can be taken without due process.
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- Disclaimer: I do *NOT* approve of these tactics. I am just pointing
- out the arguments that the powers-that-be have used to rationalize them.
- --
- David Olson dlo@druwa.ATT.COM
- "Keep in mind that I am speaking from Cambridge Massachusetts, which is
- about as far out as you can get." Robert Reich, economic advisor to
- Bill Clinton, on "This Week with David Brinkley" 11/08/92
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