Category: Fourth Amendment
United Wisconsin-The Bullies on the Block
| January 17, 2012 | Posted by JerriCook under Fourteenth Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Legal Issues, Media, Political Correctness |
Wisconsin has anti-bullying laws covering both school and workplace behavior. Of course, the laws are vague, and what is and what isn’t bullying is left to the machinations of civil procedure and judicial opinion. The latest proposed workplace bullying law is the Healthy Workplace Bill. It reads in part:
This bill provides an exception to that exclusive remedy provision permitting an employee who alleges that he or she has been injured by being subjected to an abusive work environment or by being subjected to retaliation or a threat of retaliation for opposing an abusive work environment or for initiating or in any manner participating in an investigation, action, or proceeding to enforce the right not to be subjected to an abusive work environment (collectively “unlawful employment practice”) to bring an action in circuit court against the employer or employee who allegedly engaged in the unlawful employment practice for such relief as the court may consider appropriate.
Is the above not the perfect description of what United Wisconsin is doing to the taxpayers of Wisconsin? We have been repeatedly bullied for electing Scott Walker. This small (and small-minded) band of bullies has developed and sustained an abusive work environment for all taxpayers, not to mention our elected officials. It’s been one costly temper tantrum after another, with United Wisconsin leading the charge. Now, we’re being bullied again, and no one is stepping up to put a stop to it. (more…)
Defending SOPA
| January 12, 2012 | Posted by JerriCook under Fourth Amendment, Legal Issues, Media, Political Correctness, The Economy |
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Remember the fable about the boy who cried wolf? Well, both the boy and the wolf have been reincarnated in the latest made-for-the-internet tale, and what a tale it is. The government is coming! The government is coming! Or at least, that’s the claim by the socialist left. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act ), will choke our First Amendment rights. It will nullify the Fourth Amendment. If Congress has its way, bloggers and social media users will no longer be able to share even a single picture without risking a trip to the gulag. The government is coming! But, is any of the bellyaching accurate? (more…)
Police Searches: How Unlucky Can You Get?
| December 9, 2011 | Posted by JerriCook under Criminal Procedure, Fourth Amendment, Uncategorized |
Meet Hollis Deshaun King, the unluckiest SOB on the planet. On October 13, 2005, King and two friends were hanging out in King’s apartment minding their own business while smoking marijuana. Just outside of the apartment complex where the King crew was chilling, a drug bust was going down. The Lexington–Fayette County police were chasing a suspect on foot. The suspect entered the breezeway of the apartment building and promptly disappeared. The police were close enough behind him that they heard a door slam when the suspect ducked into an apartment, but they didn’t know for certain which one. So, summoning all of their hot-pursuit expertise, they chose door number one, King’s door, because they smelled marijuana in breezeway. (more…)
