ACLU: Do you live in the "Constitution Free Zone"? I do. You probably do, too.

[NYC_SKP]

This is about the DHS claiming extraordinary "flexibility" with your rights to privacy.

The problem:

* Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches.

* The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”

* But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States.

* As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution does not permit.

More:
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/areyoulivinginaconstitutionfreezone.html
and
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/37293res20081022.html



:kick:

[sutz12]

1. Me! Me! Do I get a prize? nt

[NYC_SKP]

2. I'll get you some pie...

But first we'll have to strip search ya!

:hi:

[FLyellowdog]

3. The whole damn state of FL is searchable!!!

I'm screwn!

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. I live in So. Cal, WITHIN the Constitution Zone.

Yay for me!

[izzie]

5. Fit that over a 'red/blue' map and it is scary

People in Maine/Canada have been mixing it up for years. I am sure you will find that both sides of the line, use both sides of the lines goods, such a stores, hospitals etc. or did until Bush got to make a mess of every thing. My cat loves that kicking mule and sits on the key board to get him and this is hard to write.

[Porschenut1066]

6. Does this surprise you? Bush repealed Habeas Corpus and the right

to due process for American Citizens. We can now be locked up for life without the right to a lawyer, a trial, a real court, communication to the outside world all by being "accused" of doing something that the Feds don't even have to tell you what you are supposed to have done. Homeland Security has just spent $350 million building concentration camps all over the US. I wonder why they did that?