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| The Supreme Court has authorized the police to conduct strip searches after any arrest. (photo: Ken Light) |
03 April 12
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week, the five Republican partisans who control the U.S. Supreme Court
were all about protecting American "liberties" against the threat of
compulsory broccoli purchases. This week, they are defending the rights
of prison guards to strip search a nun arrested in an anti-war protest
or a black guy who got nabbed by mistake for not paying a fine that he
had actually paid.
But the Court's strip-search ruling on Monday was more
about the future than the past. One could almost see the GOP Five
rubbing their hands together at the prospect of mass strip searches of
young men and women arrested for challenging corporate greed in Occupy
protests. Perhaps the justices would like to take a page from Rush
Limbaugh's playbook and suggest the videos be posted online so they
could watch.
"Every detainee who will be admitted to the general
population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while
undressed," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the Republican majority.
Of course, the justices don't expect that they and
their powerful friends would ever be subjected to such humiliation.
That's more for the lesser beings - or those with lesser money -
especially those who find themselves disproportionately tossed into
America's massive prison system: the poor, the minorities and the
protesters. READ MORE
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