Sunday, September 25, 2016

A bit of Brutal Truth.

I'm gonna lay some brutal truth on you, straight up with no sweetener :

As things stand right now, there is no Fourth Amendment to The Constitution of the United States.
Your cell phone is routinely monitored. Your mail scanned and photgraphed, your email read for keywords and "Suspicious behavior". You are videoed everywhere you go. Police will search you as they want and make up an excuse for why later, up to and including arresting you for Resisting Arrest or Obstructing Justice. Further, you have no right to avoid self-incrimination.
The 5th amendment is supposed to cover you, but so long as police cite the USA-PATRIOT act or its derivatives or successors, and label you a potential terrorist, or say you were in possession of a "Weapon of Mass Destruction"  -- which by the way could be a piece of pipe and a bottle of clorox  -- they can interrogate you without an Attorney present and without reading you your miranda warning -- which in modern day courts is the only thing that triggers your 5th and 6th amendment rights -- and keep talking to you, refuse you medical treatment, refuse you food, water, bathroom breaks or sleep, all in the name of Public Safety. Finally, your Sixth Amendment rights  -- a speedy, fair trial by a jury of your peers, access to legal counsel and to be informed of charges against you , evidence against you and to have means to compell witnesses and confront your accusers is all but gone.
Police and Prosecutors may have secret search warrants, signed by a judge whose signature and name never appears on the warrant. They can use confidential informants to testify against you whom you cannot depose in advance of trial, and they can bring Top Secret evidence against you which you cannot challenge the provenance of because you cannot know whence it came.
To Sum up : You are guilty until they allow you to prove your innocence. You have no privacy.  And your rights if arrested can be severely restricted. You have to trust that the police and prosecutors will use their powers wisely.

Have a Good Day.

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