Another Right has Been Removed

It’s a sad day in hell when one of the more left wing supreme court justices is the only one who sees the obvious here.

The Supreme Court on Monday gave police more leeway to break into residences in search of illegal drugs.

The justices in an 8-1 decision said officers who loudly knock on a door and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant.

Residents who “attempt to destroy evidence have only themselves to blame” when police burst in, said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

In a lone dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she feared the ruling in a Kentucky case will give police an easy way to ignore the 4th Amendment. “Police officers may not knock, listen and then break the door down,” she said, without violating the 4th Amendment.

Our constitutional rights are being stripped away all the the name of “protecting society.” Let’s be real here, the war on drugs has been a colossal and expensive failure. Not only has it turned many neighbors to the south into lawless nightmares, it has empowered gangs and organized crime in utterly insane ways. We are losing our rights wile our world is becoming more dangerous.

How is that a good thing? It needs to stop. Prohibition does not work.