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smtimelevi wrote:

paulhailes wrote:

smtimelevi wrote:If I wasnt hunting or fishing or didnt have anything to do with wildlife in my vehicle I dont think he would have reason to search it. Even if I did I would need to commit a game violation first. The Dept of Parks and Wildlife may have great jurisdiction but their scope stops at Parks and Wildlife. I think the Patriot Act only usurped the 4th Amendment for homeland security agencies.

How do they know you don't have anything to do with wildlife in your vehicle until they look.

Dont know, wouldnt care. It's parks and wildlife not the FBI. To me that would be like a security gaurd trying to cuff me. I'd just tell him to blow off and call the real cops if it's that big a deal.

smtimelevi wrote:If I wasnt hunting or fishing or didnt have anything to do with wildlife in my vehicle I dont think he would have reason to search it. Even if I did I would need to commit a game violation first. The Dept of Parks and Wildlife may have great jurisdiction but their scope stops at Parks and Wildlife. I think the Patriot Act only usurped the 4th Amendment for homeland security agencies.

boba wrote:

steveincowtown wrote:Not intended as a dig at LEO or other. Can we at least agree that as an American, I have the right to say no to a warrantless search of my home, car, etc? Or is that too much?

PS. I am well educated, earn a good living, and can read...the Constitution.

That's the problem. You're educated and understand plain English. You believe the Constitution says what it does.

On the other hand, the enemies of the Constitution, foreign and especially domestic, don't care what the Constitution says. They only care what they can get away with, by twisting the words of the founding fathers and obfuscating the issue with FUD.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt