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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)that I can not even see how it could ever be operative as a protection.
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
There is no general probable cause because to have such a thing requires a train of thought that asserts there is good reason to believe the population is likely to be committing a specific, articulatable crime at all times which is clearly nonsense.
Somebody somewhere receiving stolen property is not a rationale for shocking everyone's closet.
Under what I discern your logic to be there could be no probable cause because it would ever and always exist in every possible moment in time for every possible person. It would never turn off.
What is it to see? Logic absolutely dictates individual probable cause because there would be none otherwise.