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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