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Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police

Paschendale said:
We also must reinforce the fourth amendment and now allow most of the current exceptions for the need for a search or arrest warrant.
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I wonder just how you'd propose going about that. Warrantless searches, etc. are authorized by quite a few Supreme Court decisions that have been in place for quite a few years. The decision the Court really should have overruled, but certainly never will, is Miranda v. Arizona. It's not a Fourth Amendment decision, but it has been hampering police throughout the U.S. for almost fifty years now. Many thousands of violent criminals have been unnecessarily released because of technicalities involving their "Miranda warning," and they have certainly committed thousands more violent crimes that could have been prevented.

Miranda is one of the Supreme Court's turkeys, although not as notoriously bad a turkey as Roe v. Wade. Short of maybe Dred Scott v. Sandford, nothing could be.
 
JumpinJack said:
he also believes that businesses have the right to discriminate based on race, on the theory that it's their own private business.
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So do I. I don't believe there is any constitutional authority for federal laws prohibiting private discrimination.

I'm not a great fan of Rand Paul, and his remarks about racial bias in the enforcement of our laws make me like him even less. The claim that racism infects the American legal system is a disgusting slander. It's part of the efforts of America-hating commies to indoctrinate Americans that this country is rotten to the core, has been so right from its beginning--and therefore is not worth defending. It's very disappointing to see someone as intelligent as Rand Paul, who should know better, contributing to those efforts.
 
TeleKat said:
The ones on the bottom picture have "POLICE" printed on them in bold letters. The ones on the top are wearing desert camouflage gear.
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Thanks, but that was tongue-in-check.... I knew which was which, I was merely underscoring the poster's point.
 
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