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comment by thenewgreen

Fascinating and entertaining read. Also.... great song.

I learned a few things while reading this, among them:

    We’ll see how smart you are when the K-9s come . . . A sniff by a drugsniffing dog is not a “search,” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.77 Dog sniffs are “sui generis,” the Court has held—they’re unique in that they don’t reveal any information about the contents of the object sniffed except the presence of contraband, as to which you have no privacy right.78 Thus, if the police have a dog ready to sniff your car when they pull you over for a traffic violation, you have no basis for objecting to the sniff.
-Good to know.

There was a video post a while back here on Hubski of a man refusing to allow his car to be searched at a road block. It was brilliant. I wish I could find it. cliffelam, I think you posted it??

[edit] I FOUND IT sorry for the unnecessary shout out cliffelam.

Here is the link





cliffelam  ·  4668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In the comments someone pointed out that this is what the guy does. Not that it makes it less interesting, but good background.

-XC

thenewgreen  ·  4668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is. I fell down a worm hole of him last night and even watched a good 10 minutes of a trial in which he is suing the Border Patrol for assault etc. He's apparently a Baptist minister..?