Talk about invasive
Thanks to the vigilant Iconoclast for noting this story in the Morning News on a lawsuit filed against the city of Siloam Springs. Its cops apparently have been doing strip- and body-cavity searches of people arrested for minor offenses. Blanket strip search policies, without reasonable cause, are unconstitutional, if you didn't know.
The Iconoclast comments: "Siloam has given a new meaning to rectitude."



Comments
Sounds like a bunch of pervs to me.
Posted by: eark
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July 30, 2008 11:43 AM
Yes, indeed, the days when conservatives backed limited government are gone. Now it seems to be Republican is to endorse any and all government intrusions into privacy. Isn't this the same community that has video cameras for surveillance of the public?
Posted by: Republicans for Obama
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July 30, 2008 11:58 AM
Still another reason -- if one were needed -- to drive 88 miles out of your way to avoid that inbred corner of the despised Benton County.
Posted by: Mannish Boy
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July 30, 2008 12:03 PM
New world American order.
Republicans are fascists
Independents are confused about fascism
Democrats are being invaded and bought out by fascists.
Greens and Libertarians may appear to be crazy, because they know what's going on and are waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.
SIloam Springs took Bush seriously when Bush said about the constitution, "It's just a goddamned piece of paper."
Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR
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July 30, 2008 12:06 PM
Come on DBI where is your post or are you rushing to put in your job application as a women's jail processing clerk.
I bet teenage girls accused of shoplifting at Dillards were getting more searches than public drunk old men.
Posted by: Citizen home
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July 30, 2008 12:29 PM
UP YOURS...now legally sanctioned in S.S.
And what a way for cops to pick up girls!
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Posted by: eLwood
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July 30, 2008 12:36 PM
Any of you out there ever been falsely accused of anything?
Arrested does not mean convicted.
Out of those "over a thousand" searched listed in the article, were any later released without charges filed?
I don't see why the uncharged should not be able to charge sexual abuse.
Posted by: Citizen home
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July 30, 2008 12:40 PM
I want to know what the found up there. Will there be a public auction?
Posted by: Fletch
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July 30, 2008 01:07 PM
Seriously, a good long hard look needs to be had of these police adademies that these "defenders and protectors" of our society graduate from. It just goes on and on and on.
Posted by: Cato
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July 30, 2008 02:16 PM
Why is it that there are only civil penalties when cops blatantly break the law? The taxpayers shouldn't be stuck with the bill for the deliberate misconduct of these officers. Where is the criminal investigation? Attorney General Dustin McDaniel needs to spring to action and launch a criminal investigation of this police force that thinks its above the law.
Posted by: Severus
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July 30, 2008 02:31 PM
How about this one.....clicky
Posted by: Cato
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July 30, 2008 02:40 PM
I couldn't agree with Severus more.
I would add a larger question to this mix. When things like this happen at the top of our government and the bottom.. shouldn't we declare we have a systemic national problem?
Or will the city of Siloam Springs simply argue as Bushco does?
Note emptywheel today: (full link at my name)
The Logic Behind the Script "The Removal of Clothing Is Not Nudity"
Watching the lawyers who established the torture regime a few weeks ago was particularly stunning in one respect. Jim Haynes, Dougie Feith, Jane Dalton, Diane Beaver--all of them at some point in the hearings repeated the non-sensical claim, "the removal of clothing is not nudity" (or naked).
In this video, for example, Jerrold Nadler asks Dougie Feith,
Nadler: How could you force someone to be naked and undergo a twenty hour interrogation?
Feith: It doesn't say naked. It doesn't say naked. This is why the words...
Nadler: Removal of clothing doesn't mean naked?
Feith: Removal of clothing is different from naked.
SNIP
Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR
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July 30, 2008 03:34 PM
How about this video of police abuse. Seen by many, but needs to be seen by all. One of the worst examples I've seen of policy stupidity.
The funny thing is that the bicyclist was charged with attempted assault, Resisting Arrest, and Disorderly conduct...riiiiight.
Posted by: Razorback
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July 30, 2008 03:40 PM
Now let me ask you something: If zelda, cici, jazzy or tina were missing for three years do you suppose no one would report them missing? A man of the cloth......click on cato
Posted by: Cato
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July 30, 2008 04:45 PM