Doesn't Matter If You Really Have Nothing to Hide

[wkmac]

We're coming after you just for saying no!

Good reporting by Lucy Steigerwald on an outrageous 13-man SWAT raid, with flashbangs, on a home suspected of illegally growing medical marijuana. It’s of course legal to grow the stuff in Colorado if you have a patient card and stay under the state limit. The residents appear to have received the full brunt force of the SWAT team because they dared to exercise their constitutional rights.

Further details from KRDO reveal that when the police came to the home previously (at around 10 p.m. on Christmas 2011), Ball and Glandorf showed their medical marijuana cards, but refused to let officers in because they didn’t have a warrant. This, says Colorado Springs police spokesperson Barbara Miller, is kind of dubious:

“If you have nothing to hide, most people would open the door and say, ‘Yes, please come in and and let’s dispel any information you have because it’s false.”

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Can we please send every cop who utters the “if you have nothing to hide . . . ” line to Fourth Amendment reeducation camp?

Miller, however, told Reason that she understood that the reaction to a so-called “knock and talk” on Christmas was understandable, and she might have done the same thing. And also that she “really appreciate everybody’s constitution rights” and “everybody should use them.” However . . .

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When someone from the State sez "however" or "but" this means that these protections only apply to the privileged class and state actors and should never be considered to apply to the meer mundane of the population.

Oh, and the NDAA goes into force and effect today but being an election cycle I'm not expecting to much to happen out of concern for startling the lemmings but my guess is after the election, that might all begin to change.

 

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