Reply #30: So, they've waived their 4th Amendment rights. Not too bright...IMHO [View All]

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""We shall deal with the 4th Amendment, which provides:

'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'""

---The police proceeded to

""(break) open the door to plaintiff's said home and seized all of his books, letters, money, papers, notes, evidences of indebtedness, stock, certificates, insurance policies, deeds, abstracts, and other muniments of title, bonds, candies, clothes, and other property in said home, and this in violation of 11 and 23 to the Constitution of Missouri, and of the 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States;...""

from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=232&invol=383

Any search or seizure is considered "reasonable" to this bunch of conservative yo-yos so when confronted with ChoicePoint's list of errant and stolen data combined with the SAIC ID thefts, which included former WMD weapons searcher and Iraq Study Group head David Kay, I might add, no one is secure in information they indavertently 'hand over' to corporations in the first place.

The movie "The Corporation" shows us that corporations act against the public's best interests, so you are guaranteed that real persons (live humans, in other words) are going to get run over in the rush for the almighty dollar. Sorry if those Republican fools get runned over in the process. Just part of doing business. They'll understand.