The Liberal Gun Club Forum

First, the Indianans considered making pi equal to 3.2:
In 1897 Representative T.I. Record of Posen county introduced House Bill #246 in the Indiana House of Representatives.

Then you may remember the Southern half of the state rebelled against daylight savings time:
http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/ind ... zone.shtml
but they finally relented with a law passed in 2005.

This time, however, the Indiana public officials have really done it, and not just the legislature, but their own High Court. They must've been high, IMO, to come up with their 3-2 decision in Barnes v. State of Indiana:
"A ruling by the state of Indiana’s Supreme Court last Thursday in Barnes vs. Indiana has seemingly vacated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment provision against unreasonable search and seizure."
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/18/the- ... amendment/

Go ahead, Google it up yourself, I dare you.

From the majority opinion, Justice Steven David writes, “We hold that there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”
“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. [emphasis added]

To these Justices, the modern Fourth Amendment is apparently as plastic and insubstantial as all the other Constitutional rights in the age of Patriot II and Total Information Awareness.

I am frankly terrified that this could happen, even in a backwater of inbred peckerwood crackers like Indiana (I hail from Ohio, BTW.) It can't be reversed quickly enough, but even instantaneous reversal begs the question, How could this happen?

I am hoping that this is going to be challenged in the US Supreme Court. However, since 5 of the Justices are so easily bought, it will probably be upheld.

Justice Scalia's son is my brigade XO, I'm gonna have to ask him wtf his dad was smoking.

Edit: to add to that, Scalia's a prick, but he's been a predictable justice, this is surprising to me that he went along with this since he's a traditionalist as far as the constitution is concerned.

gaucheGlock wrote: I am frankly terrified that this could happen, even in a backwater of inbred peckerwood crackers like Indiana (I hail from Ohio, BTW.) It can't be reversed quickly enough, but even instantaneous reversal begs the question, How could this happen?

You have a way with words Mr. Glock! And considering what our nations supremes have had to say recently on the subject, terror is indeed the word of the day.

ABNinfantryman wrote:Justice Scalia's son is my brigade XO, I'm gonna have to ask him wtf his dad was smoking.

Edit: to add to that, Scalia's a prick, but he's been a predictable justice, this is surprising to me that he went along with this since he's a traditionalist as far as the constitution is concerned.

It was the Indiana Supreme Court, not the Supreme Court of the US.