Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Not an Idle Analogy

Imagine the local police are looking for a document that is evidence of a possible crime. The Judge gives them a warrant based on probable cause. When they search the file cabinet at that address, they can’t find what they are looking for. So they corden off the entire apartment building and seize all the file cabinets containing all of the personal and business records of everyone living there. They cart those off with total disregard to the impact on lives and businesses. Then they tell everyone their file cabinets will be returned as soon as they’ve made a permanent State copy of their entire contents.

What sort of society would you say you were living in if that happened?

Dale Amon, over at Samizdata, was moved to write the above after reading this.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 10:53 AM
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