Warrantless Vaginal Searches — Are We Living in a Post Constitutional America?

by Ken Marrero | August 12, 2013 4:06 am

vagina search[1]I’m not purposely trying to be dramatic. Almost daily I find examples of governmental abuse that would seem to indicate we are. Key to this is to remember that our Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, lists the unalienable rights possessed by every man and bars the government from vi0lating them.

Today’s example is out of Texas where: dashboard cams on police cruisers have recorded law enforcement officers searching the vaginal areas of women stopped for minor traffic offenses without a warrant[2]: or even a modicum of probable cause.

The officers make a pretense of modesty and protection of rights by having a female officer do the search. As if that makes everything alright.

It seems to me that the noose is drawing ever tighter and will continue to do so until we are choked into submission if we do not push back and demand our liberties not be so nakedly infringed (pun intended).

Here in Tennessee, and elsewhere, we have incredibly bad law which routinely violates the 4th Amendment rights of people to be secure in their persons, papers and possessions. We have laws which rewrite the definitions of words to make people criminals even though they are behaving responsibly. These sorts of things have to stop.

In Tennessee:

The women involved in one of these searches sued the cops and the department settled with them. You can find a mash-up of the story with video here.[3]

Frankly, there needs to be more push back by citizens to outrageous, illegal and unconstitutional behavior on the part of government and its agents. I understand that the purpose of government is to secure our rights. However, if we do not object when government is the very one violating our rights, we will wake up in a not too distant tomorrow to find we have no rights left.

Eternal vigilance, indeed, is what is needed to prevent the reality of a post-constitutional America.

Cross posted from: Blue Collar Muse[4]. This post was used with the permission of Joe for America[5]

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/vagina-search.jpg
  2. : dashboard cams on police cruisers have recorded law enforcement officers searching the vaginal areas of women stopped for minor traffic offenses without a warrant: http://benswann.com/warrantless-vaginal-searches-conducted-by-texas-police/
  3. The women involved in one of these searches sued the cops and the department settled with them. You can find a mash-up of the story with video here.: http://article.wn.com/view/2013/06/26/2_women_settle_lawsuit_in_Irving_roadside_search_w/#/video
  4. : Blue Collar Muse: http://bluecollarmuse.com/
  5. Joe for America: http://joeforamerica.com/

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