McCall, Bill wrote: >I am appalled by the concept of a "standing search warrant to look for a >missing person at any location of >interest to law enforcement." While police forces are composed of many fine >individuals, I do believe there are at least 2 incidences of abuse by >members of this group, perhaps there have been a few others. > If such a warrant could be strictly interpreted, i.e. the police could search where they want for the missing person, but they must ignore other evidence in plain sight, i.e. "walk past the weapons & drugs, we're looking for missing teenagers here." Otherwise, such a warrant does reduce to blanket right to unreasonable search. > Consider the Richard Jewell case. > More topical of CRIME, consider Steve Jackson Games <http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/SJG/>. >The law is inconvenient, but that is part of the price of freedom. > I second that. Be careful with civil liberties; they are delicate, and rather badly fractured at the moment. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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