Bush immune to amendment. Cell phone-enabled speeding. Jesse Ventura.
Bush admin says its immune to the 4th amendment. Wow. Nevermind the fact that Bush specifically swore to uphold the constitution in his inauguration oath! WHAT THE FUCK?
TECHNOLOGY WAR VICTORY?: Use your cell phone to get away with speeding illegally. Of course, this is a bit unsound, as your position can be tracked with a cellphone, so in theory you could still be found as speeding. But GPS verification of non-speeding failed to convince a California judge to acquit a teen charged with speeding, therefore, if things were fair, gps or cellhpones could not be used to prove that you were speeding either. However: Things generally aren’t fair. Anyway, L Dubs — this should help you avoid the $1200 fines :) Of course, that’s a bad thing to. People who speed excessively are a greater threat to every child’s life than Al Queda. Put that in your foreign policy and smoke it.
April 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Politics:
As much as I hate the thought of it, they may actually found a huge legal loophole that might indeed make the 4th amendment not apply.
This loophole needs to be closed.
April 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Under the Unitary Executive Theory interpretation of the constitution, to which the Bush Administration subscribes, the President can and is doing whatever he wants. Congress and the Supreme Court are just advisory committees. I think that might be an even bigger loophole. : )
April 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Both loopholes need to be closed. However, I see the Unitary Theory argument as standing on shady ground, at best.
The other one could possibly be argued.
April 4, 2008 at 9:07 AM
True it stands on shaky ground; however, as Bush has shown us, there’s no way to fight it. When Congress tells Bush he can’t torture, he simply ignores the legislation. Congress has no power to enforce it. When the Supreme Court tells Bush he has to regulate CO2 emissions, he ignores their order. Again, they can’t do anything to enforce it. The UET may have spurious Constitutional support, but there’s no way to stop the Executive from treating it as true.
The next administration has a lot of cleaning up to do. : )
April 4, 2008 at 10:19 AM
It might be time for a constitutional amendment.
May 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM
UPDATE on Jesse Ventura coming out in support of questioning the events of 9/11:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/052108_witch_hunt.htm
“Former Governor Jesse Ventura slammed the media witch hunt that he was subjected to in the wake of questioning the official 9/11 story and admitted that he was shocked by the reaction to his comments about the demolition of WTC 7 and the twin towers.”
“How come we’re not allowed to ask any questions today?” asked Ventura.
Ventura was attacked by both Bill O’Reilly and Hannity on Fox News, among others.