“What is happening?” asks Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz when he arrives at his Nashville factory to question the officers. “We can’t tell you.” “What are you talking about, you can’t tell me, you can’t just come in and …” “We have a warrant!” Well, lemme see the warrant.” “We can’t show that to you because it’s sealed.”
That bullshit, by itself, should see every official involved fired. And probably prosecuted for violating the 4th Amendment.*
The whole damned mess is disgusting.
*The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] 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.
If this "We have a warrant, but you can't see it, and can't tell you why we're raiding you" doesn't violate that, what does?
It's not about Law it's about intimidation. The rule of law has been corrupted by bureaucratic rule making without restraint.
ReplyDeletePretty much. 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse' does not hold when the laws are so numerous, and in some cases actually snuck in, so that people cannot be aware of them.
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