Privacy is another victim of the war on (some) drugs
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Wed Dec 13 05:34:15 PST 2000
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >John Gilmore adds:
>
> >> I doubt that ALL privacy invasion has been engendered by the
> >> War on Drugs.
>
> Definitely not - the invasion of privacy engendered by taxation
> far exceeds that from the War on Drugs. It's primarily violation
> of Fifth Amendment issues rather than Fourth Amendment,
Actually taxation, war on drugs, etc. violate the 1st primarily, the other
amendments only get broken as a secondary action.
Why? They violate the right to choose that is guaranteed in the 1st.
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