Neither Liberty nor Safety, part two
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin
In an Op-Ed piece in today’s Boston Globe, Laurence Tribe discusses the Fourth Amendment. Tribe notes that in a 2001 case dealing with a the Fourth Amendment issue, the Supreme Court - in a decision penned by Scalia - invalidated a search that used thermal heat imaging because to do otherwise would leave the people “at the mercy of advancing technology.” As Tribe points out:
the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment shield for ”the right of the people to be secure” from ”unreasonable searches” is a shield for all seasons, one that a lawless president, a spineless Congress, and a complacent majority of citizens — who are conditioned to a government operating under a shroud of secrecy while individuals live out their lives in fishbowls — cannot be permitted to destroy, for the rest of us and our children.
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