• California Bill to Prohibit Law Enforcement from Wearing Masks

    From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 20:33:04 2025
    Even if passed, this could only be enforced on state and local police, and those aren't the ones the 'progressives' in Sacramento are so upset about.
    It's the ICE agents doing immigration operations that have their panties in a twist and their law will have no force or effect on them. Federal agents enforcing federal law places them well within the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, meaning state officials have no jurisdiction over them.


    https://abc7.com/post/no-secret-police-act-bill-introduced-california-lawmakers-would-prohibit-law-enforcement-covering-faces/16767520/

    Hawaii tried something similar about five years ago when its legislature
    passed a state law prohibiting law enforcement from carrying firearms while off-duty. The law specifically included federal agents-- FBI, Secret Service, DEA, etc.) in its prohibition. It took all of 10 seconds for a federal court
    to invalidate the law with regard to federal personnel and tell Hawaii to stay in its lane; if they want to prohibit their own cops from being able to defend themselves or others while off-duty, they can do it, but they have no
    authority over federal agents.

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work undercover in future cases.

    And, of course, there's the real reason everyone from blue politicians to open borders activists want them to stop wearing masks: so they can take pictures
    of them, run them through a Google reverse image search, and identify them, so that masked (behold the irony, right?) Antifa types can show up at their homes and terrorize them and their children.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 17:48:38 2025
    On 6/23/2025 4:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Even if passed, this could only be enforced on state and local police, and those aren't the ones the 'progressives' in Sacramento are so upset about. It's the ICE agents doing immigration operations that have their panties in a twist and their law will have no force or effect on them. Federal agents enforcing federal law places them well within the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, meaning state officials have no jurisdiction over them.


    https://abc7.com/post/no-secret-police-act-bill-introduced-california-lawmakers-would-prohibit-law-enforcement-covering-faces/16767520/

    Hawaii tried something similar about five years ago when its legislature passed a state law prohibiting law enforcement from carrying firearms while off-duty. The law specifically included federal agents-- FBI, Secret Service, DEA, etc.) in its prohibition. It took all of 10 seconds for a federal court to invalidate the law with regard to federal personnel and tell Hawaii to stay
    in its lane; if they want to prohibit their own cops from being able to defend
    themselves or others while off-duty, they can do it, but they have no authority over federal agents.

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work undercover in future cases.

    And, of course, there's the real reason everyone from blue politicians to open
    borders activists want them to stop wearing masks: so they can take pictures of them, run them through a Google reverse image search, and identify them, so
    that masked (behold the irony, right?) Antifa types can show up at their homes
    and terrorize them and their children.

    Yes, there are obviously "legitimate reasons" for them to cover their
    faces ...just as obviously as doing so smacks of 'secret police".

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to moviePig on Mon Jun 23 19:26:00 2025
    On 2025-06-23 21:48:38 +0000, moviePig said:

    On 6/23/2025 4:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Even if passed, this could only be enforced on state and local police, and >> those aren't the ones the 'progressives' in Sacramento are so upset about. >> It's the ICE agents doing immigration operations that have their panties in a
    twist and their law will have no force or effect on them. Federal agents
    enforcing federal law places them well within the Supremacy Clause of the
    Constitution, meaning state officials have no jurisdiction over them.


    https://abc7.com/post/no-secret-police-act-bill-introduced-california-lawmakers-would-prohibit-law-enforcement-covering-faces/16767520/


    Hawaii tried something similar about five years ago when its legislature
    passed a state law prohibiting law enforcement from carrying firearms while >> off-duty. The law specifically included federal agents-- FBI, Secret Service,
    DEA, etc.) in its prohibition. It took all of 10 seconds for a federal court >> to invalidate the law with regard to federal personnel and tell Hawaii to stay
    in its lane; if they want to prohibit their own cops from being able to defend
    themselves or others while off-duty, they can do it, but they have no
    authority over federal agents.

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is >> actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work >> undercover in future cases.

    And, of course, there's the real reason everyone from blue politicians to open
    borders activists want them to stop wearing masks: so they can take pictures >> of them, run them through a Google reverse image search, and identify them, so
    that masked (behold the irony, right?) Antifa types can show up at their homes
    and terrorize them and their children.

    Yes, there are obviously "legitimate reasons" for them to cover their
    faces ...just as obviously as doing so smacks of 'secret police".

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 19:32:34 2025
    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 24 01:23:50 2025
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is >> actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work >> undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out assignments all the time. You can be an assist on another agents immigration today and working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking case tomorrow.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 27 05:42:19 2025
    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is >>> actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work >>> undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agents immigration today and working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit
    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 27 16:13:58 2025
    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE >>>> agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but >>>> there is
    actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work
    undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking >> case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning impotently on Usenet about it. Whatever.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 08:04:27 2025
    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE >>>>> agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but >>>>> there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking >>> case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning impotently on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 18:50:02 2025
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE >>>>>> agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their >>>>>> ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed >>>>> roundup they can have that privilege then.

    Let's note here for the record that even you couldn't come up with anything worse than "they're being impolite" with regard to your complaints.

    Tactless? Since when are cops required to have tact when enforcing the law? "Oh, I'm sorry, do these handcuffs hurt your feelz?"

    Heavy-handed? Of course they're being heavy-handed. It's what America voted
    for after four years of Biden erasing the border and allowing millions of illegals to flood the country unchecked and unvetted. (Hell, he was sending planes to Central America and flying illegals directly into U.S. cities at taxpayer expense. How that didn't qualify as aiding and abetting illegal entry under the Immigration Statute, I'll never know.)

    We *want* heavy-handed enforcement of laws that were being illegally ignored and subverted by the previous administration. Hell, most people want it be an even heavier hand.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 18:36:40 2025
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE >>>>>> agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their >>>>>> ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed >>>>> roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case >>>> today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as >> opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much as some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have >>> been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning impotently >> on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes you from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" over that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how their government actually works.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 15:38:54 2025
    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their >>>>>>> ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed >>>>>> roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out >>>>> assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case >>>>> today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit >>>
    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement >>> works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much as some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have >>>> been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers >>>> fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes you from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how their government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Sat Jun 28 20:30:40 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" ><super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" ><super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation >operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out >>>>>>> assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human >>>>>>> trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit >>>>>
    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement >agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much >>> as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no >>>>>> good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers >>>>>> fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes >>> you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the >>> federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" >>> over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how >>> their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been >incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    I don't see a Sixth Amendment violation as lawyers (even if not feudal
    lords), have been known to screw their clients.

    I'd point out that America is not and never was a feudal society, that
    the nobility would be unconstitutional, and that droit du seigneur
    (which I'm sure moviePig must have seen in a pr0n movie) wasn't an
    exercise of governmental power, just that the right of a woman not to be
    raped wasn't protected by police. There's a difference between something
    being legal and something not explicitly legal but not stopped by
    enforcing the law that moviePig would never appreciate.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Jun 28 20:15:54 2025
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed >>>>>>> roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out >>>>>> assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human >>>>>> trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit >>>>
    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much >> as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no >>>>> good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers >>>>> fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes >> you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the >> federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" >> over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the >> proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 18:14:39 2025
    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >>> wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out >>>>>>> assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human >>>>>>> trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no >>>>>> good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers >>>>>> fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning >>>>> impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes >>> you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the >>> federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights" >>> over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how >>> their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Jun 28 22:22:08 2025
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human >>>>>>>> trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement >>>>>> agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all >>>>> jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I >>>>> said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning >>>>>> impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting >>>>> residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item >>>>> today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it >>>>> (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience. >>>>
    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power >>>> over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have >>>> jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose >>>> the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy >>>> teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how >>>> their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 28 19:00:54 2025
    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human >>>>>>>>> trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement >>>>>>> agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all >>>>>> jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I >>>>>> said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning >>>>>>> impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting >>>>>> residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item >>>>>> today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it >>>>>> (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience. >>>>>
    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over >>>>> immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with >>>>> regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have >>>>> jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy >>>>> teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in >>>> the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is >>>> absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.


    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Jun 28 23:39:00 2025
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate >>>>>>>>>>>> reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation >>>>>>>>>>>> operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law >>>>>>>> enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all >>>>>>> jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know >>>>>> as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers >>>>>>>>> who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about >>>>>>> California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting >>>>>>> residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it >>>>>>> (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently >>>>>> excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly >>>>>> gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no >>>>>> "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over >>>>>> immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution. >>>>>>
    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with >>>>>> regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy >>>>>> teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in >>>>> the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is >>>>> absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been >>>> incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and >> effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, >> and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or >> affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the >> persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.

    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The courts do.

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due >> process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without >> just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states, any state law that violates it would be void.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 29 11:16:11 2025
    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate >>>>>>>>>>>>> reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation >>>>>>>>>>>>> operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law >>>>>>>>> enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about >>>>>>>> California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently >>>>>>> excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly >>>>>>> gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no >>>>>>> "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over >>>>>>> immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution. >>>>>>>
    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion.

    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur? >>>>>
    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been >>>>> incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.

    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".


    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due
    process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without
    just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states, any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 29 19:27:12 2025
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's >>>>>>>>>>>> immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too >>>>>>>>>>> much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about >>>>>>>>> California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly >>>>>>>> gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of >>>>>>>> federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution. >>>>>>>>
    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I >>>>>>>> suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching >>>>>>>> kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur? >>>>>>
    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it? >>>>
    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
    violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.

    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The
    courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".

    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no*
    discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the
    federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government officials.

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due
    process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, >>>> without
    just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's constitution for those protections from state officials. But after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your protest or censor your newspaper.


    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Sun Jun 29 20:50:43 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states, >>>any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's >constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your >protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 29 17:20:52 2025
    On 6/29/2025 3:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's >>>>>>>>>>>>> immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too
    much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it.

    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly
    gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of >>>>>>>>> federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I
    suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching
    kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur? >>>>>>>
    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it? >>>>>
    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be >>>>> violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.

    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The >>> courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against
    state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".

    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no* discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government officials.

    Sure it is, if we consider anarchy via your protected guns part of the Constitutional process. Short of that, though, it seems that women's
    personal rights under the Constitution hang solely on what a magistrate
    deems "reasonable", a.k.a. "fashionable". Somehow, I don't think it was
    ever supposed to work that way...


    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due
    process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, >>>>> without
    just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without a warrant or
    infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction on state governments
    from doing so. You had to look to your state's constitution for those protections from state officials. But after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your protest or censor your newspaper.


    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Why? Because one is putting something in and the other is taking
    something out? That distinction is grasping at (plastic) straws.


    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Sun Jun 29 21:39:02 2025
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>> public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 29 17:46:02 2025
    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>> 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>>> public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, >>> for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application. >>
    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural >> and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally >> went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>>> abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual, >>>> so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 29 21:53:00 2025
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:20:52 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 3:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's >>>>>>>>>>>>>> immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too
    much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it. >>>>>>>>>>>
    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent >>>>>>>>>>>>> bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law >>>>>>>>>>>>> enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly
    gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of >>>>>>>>>> federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states >>>>>>>>>> *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I
    suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching
    kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment.

    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it? >>>>>>
    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, >>>>>> papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be >>>>>> violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by >>>>>> oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, >>>>>> and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway.

    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The >>>> courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against >>> state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".

    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal >> judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no*
    discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the
    federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government
    officials.

    Sure it is, if we consider anarchy via your protected guns part of the Constitutional process.

    Dude, your entire scenario is based on the idea of government officials invading your home and raping your wife on your wedding night, so we're
    already completely off the reservation here.

    Short of that, though, it seems that women's
    personal rights under the Constitution hang solely on what a magistrate
    deems "reasonable", a.k.a. "fashionable". Somehow, I don't think it was
    ever supposed to work that way...

    Depends on what personal rights you're talking about. If it's her right to be free from unreasonable warrantless seizures of her person or property, then
    the definition of reasonableness has been well established with 200+ years of jurisprudence.

    If it's her right to kill her baby in the womb that you're talking about, that is not a seizure or intrusion of her person by the government, so it is not covered by the federal Constitution and is therefore properly a matter of
    state jurisdiction, where her ability to legally kill her child will necessarily vary from state to state.

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>> without due
    process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, >>>>>> without
    just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the >>>> states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, >> for
    example, the federal government couldn't search your home without a warrant >> or
    infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction on state
    governments
    from doing so. You had to look to your state's constitution for those
    protections from state officials. But after the Civil War, the 14th
    Amendment
    incorporated (most of)** the Bill of Rights against the states as well,
    imposing the same limitations on state governments that it imposes on the >> federal government. That's why you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your >> local police shut down your protest or censor your newspaper.


    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application. >>
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>> abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Why? Because one is putting something in and the other is taking
    something out?

    Yes. The 4th Amendment protects against the government seizing your body without a warrant and absent probable cause that you've committed a crime.

    It doesn't apply to what *you* do with your body.

    The 4th Amendment prohibits the government from taking my car out of my garage and seizing it without a warrant. However, the 4A doesn't prohibit *me* from taking my car to a junkyard and crushing it in a hydraulic press.

    That distinction is grasping at (plastic) straws.

    Not hardly, but even so, plastic straws are the best straws.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 29 21:54:16 2025
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>> 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>>> 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>>> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>>>> public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states". >>>
    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, >>>> for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without >>>> a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction >>>> on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on >>>> state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why >>>> you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your >>>> protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury >>> trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and >>> Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will >>> be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural >>> and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of >>> "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era >>> (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>>>> abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual, >>>>> so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Sun Jun 29 22:03:41 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>> 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>>> public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, >>> for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application. >>
    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural >> and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally >> went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>>> abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual, >>>> so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    Till you made this comment to moviePig, I would have assumed it would
    have been a deprivation of liberty contrary to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, but I've never thought about a feudal lord in America raping
    female serfs.

    Abortion care should be a matter of liberty if it's not an unenumerated
    right under the Ninth Amendment. Yes, I know you make fun of Griswold.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Sun Jun 29 22:08:44 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:20:52 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 3:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig"
    <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" ><nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's
    no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in >deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They can have the 'privilege' now because
    agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's
    immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child
    exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag >operation too
    much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal
    law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood
    understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement
    procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape
    doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt
    means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office >workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent >>>>>>>>>>>>>> bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law >>>>>>>>>>>>>> enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just >continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on
    Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks
    when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on
    what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish
    -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at
    their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights
    (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the
    Constitution expressly
    gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the
    states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of >jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of >>>>>>>>>>> federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the >Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business >whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states
    *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade
    school. But I
    suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these
    days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism
    than teaching
    kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything
    not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something
    like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du >seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments,
    which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment. >>>>>>>>
    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, >>>>>>> papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be >>>>>>> violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by >>>>>>> oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, >>>>>>> and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway. >>>>>
    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The
    courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against >>>> state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".

    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal >>> judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no*
    discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the >>> federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government
    officials.

    Sure it is, if we consider anarchy via your protected guns part of the
    Constitutional process.

    Dude, your entire scenario is based on the idea of government officials >invading your home and raping your wife on your wedding night, so we're >already completely off the reservation here.

    Short of that, though, it seems that women's
    personal rights under the Constitution hang solely on what a magistrate
    deems "reasonable", a.k.a. "fashionable". Somehow, I don't think it was
    ever supposed to work that way...

    Depends on what personal rights you're talking about. If it's her right to be >free from unreasonable warrantless seizures of her person or property, then >the definition of reasonableness has been well established with 200+ years of >jurisprudence.

    If it's her right to kill her baby in the womb that you're talking about, that >is not a seizure or intrusion of her person by the government, so it is not >covered by the federal Constitution and is therefore properly a matter of >state jurisdiction, where her ability to legally kill her child will >necessarily vary from state to state.

    Uh, child?

    I don't think defining human life beginning at conception is a matter
    state law.

    . . .

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 30 15:05:09 2025
    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>> 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>>>> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for >>>>>>>>> public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states". >>>>
    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without >>>>> a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction >>>>> on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's >>>>> constitution for those protections from state officials. But after >>>>> the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill >>>>> of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on >>>>> state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why >>>>> you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your >>>>> protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury >>>> trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and >>>> Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will >>>> be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth >>>> wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era >>>> (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too. >>>>
    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual, >>>>>> so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't. >>>>
    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Mon Jun 30 19:12:23 2025
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>>>> 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>>>>> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"... >>>>>
    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against >>>>>>>> the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without >>>>>> a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's >>>>>> constitution for those protections from state officials. But after >>>>>> the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill >>>>>> of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth >>>>> wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions >>>>> finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too. >>>>>
    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently? >>>>>
    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't. >>>>>
    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my autonomy and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Jun 30 15:12:01 2025
    On 6/29/2025 6:08 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:20:52 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 3:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig"
    <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig"
    <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's
    no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in
    deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so:
    it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    When they start working undercover in this tactless
    and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They can have the 'privilege' now because
    agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's
    immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child
    exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag
    operation too
    much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal
    law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood
    understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement
    procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape
    doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt
    means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office
    workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just
    continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on
    Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks
    when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on
    what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish
    -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at
    their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights
    (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the
    Constitution expressly
    gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the
    states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of
    jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of
    federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the
    Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business
    whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states
    *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade
    school. But I
    suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these
    days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism
    than teaching
    kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything
    not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something
    like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du
    seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments,
    which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment. >>>>>>>>>
    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, >>>>>>>> papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
    violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
    oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
    and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway. >>>>>>
    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The
    courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against
    state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion". >>>>
    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal
    judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no*
    discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the >>>> federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government
    officials.

    Sure it is, if we consider anarchy via your protected guns part of the
    Constitutional process.

    Dude, your entire scenario is based on the idea of government officials
    invading your home and raping your wife on your wedding night, so we're
    already completely off the reservation here.

    Short of that, though, it seems that women's
    personal rights under the Constitution hang solely on what a magistrate
    deems "reasonable", a.k.a. "fashionable". Somehow, I don't think it was >>> ever supposed to work that way...

    Depends on what personal rights you're talking about. If it's her right to be
    free from unreasonable warrantless seizures of her person or property, then >> the definition of reasonableness has been well established with 200+ years of
    jurisprudence.

    If it's her right to kill her baby in the womb that you're talking about, that
    is not a seizure or intrusion of her person by the government, so it is not >> covered by the federal Constitution and is therefore properly a matter of
    state jurisdiction, where her ability to legally kill her child will
    necessarily vary from state to state.

    Uh, child?

    I don't think defining human life beginning at conception is a matter
    state law.

    Sure it is, because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say it isn't!

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 30 15:36:14 2025
    On 6/29/2025 5:53 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:20:52 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 3:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 3:14:39 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 4:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 12:38:54 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/28/2025 2:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 28, 2025 at 6:04:27 AM PDT, "super70s"
    <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-27 16:13:58 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Jun 27, 2025 at 3:42:19 AM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-24 01:23:50 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate
    reason for ICE
    agents to cover their faces while engaged in deportation
    operations, but
    there is actually a helluva good reason to do so: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it preserves their
    ability to
    work undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless
    and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    They can have the 'privilege' now because agents rotate in and out
    assignments
    all the time. You can be an assist on another agent's
    immigration case
    today and
    working undercover on your own child exploitation case or human
    trafficking
    case tomorrow.

    You're giving those involved in this ragtag operation too
    much credit

    No, I actually know how things work in a federal law enforcement
    agency as
    opposed to you, with your Hollywood understanding of how law
    enforcement
    works, who just spouts off on Usenet about it. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    I doubt you know how normal law enforcement procedure works at all
    jackass, these people have been caught on tape doing exactly what I
    said.

    Yeah, 23+ years with a federal badge on my belt means I don't know
    as much
    as
    some rando on Usenet.

    Yep, that checks out.

    -- they appear a bunch of office workers-turned-storm troopers
    who have
    been filmed brandishing their weapons at innocent >>>>>>>>>>>>>> bystanders for no
    good reason. Behavior that would get normal law >>>>>>>>>>>>>> enforcement officers
    fired.

    Then file a lawsuit and get them fired. Or just continue moaning
    impotently
    on
    Usenet about it. Whatever.

    You're the one who started impotently moaning on Usenet about
    California deciding their own policy for face masks when arresting
    residents on their own streets.

    But everyone knows "states rights" just depends on what agenda item
    today's nightmare Trump regime wants to accomplish -- they use it
    (abortion) and reject it (immigrant roundups) at their convenience.

    Anyone who knows anything about states' rights (which apparently
    excludes
    you
    from the Venn diagram) knows that if the Constitution expressly
    gives the
    federal government jurisdiction over a thing, the states have no
    "rights"
    over
    that thing.

    The federal government has an express grant of jurisdiction over
    immigration
    in Article I, Section 8. Conversely, there is no grant of >>>>>>>>>>> federal power
    over
    abortion (or even health care in general) in the Constitution.

    That's why states have no jurisdiction or business whatsoever with
    regard to
    immigration enforcement but, per the 10th Amendment, states
    *do* have
    jurisdiction over health care, which includes abortion. >>>>>>>>>>>
    These are things you should have learned in grade school. But I
    suppose
    the
    proto-communists who run our public schools these days are too busy
    teaching
    about the 87 genders and how to smash capitalism than teaching
    kids how
    their
    government actually works.

    The 10th Amendment gives states rights to everything not enumerated in
    the Constitution ...which, especially for something like abortion, is
    absurd on its face. E.g., will you give them droit du seigneur?

    No, as that would violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, which have been
    incorporated against the states via the 14th Amendment. >>>>>>>>
    Interesting. What text in the 4th or 5th (or 14th) proscribes it?

    AMENDMENT IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS, houses, >>>>>>> papers, and
    effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be >>>>>>> violated,
    and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
    oath or
    affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
    and the
    persons or things to be seized.

    "Unreasonable" would seem to offer a despot considerable leeway. >>>>>
    It's not the 'despot' that decides what is and is not unreasonable. The
    courts
    do.

    And, since "reasonable" depends solely on the courts' mood, the
    Constitution wouldn't've (and, hence, doesn't) afford protection against >>>> state-mandated kingly rape, leaving it to each state's "discretion".

    No, the 4th Amendment is in the federal Constitution, which means federal >>> judicial interpretations apply to all states. The states have *no*
    discretion.

    And the Founders left us the 2nd Amendment should the day come when the >>> federal courts do something like legalize the rape of citizens by government
    officials.

    Sure it is, if we consider anarchy via your protected guns part of the
    Constitutional process.

    Dude, your entire scenario is based on the idea of government officials invading your home and raping your wife on your wedding night, so we're already completely off the reservation here.

    Short of that, though, it seems that women's
    personal rights under the Constitution hang solely on what a magistrate
    deems "reasonable", a.k.a. "fashionable". Somehow, I don't think it was
    ever supposed to work that way...

    Depends on what personal rights you're talking about. If it's her right to be free from unreasonable warrantless seizures of her person or property, then the definition of reasonableness has been well established with 200+ years of jurisprudence.

    If it's her right to kill her baby in the womb that you're talking about, that
    is not a seizure or intrusion of her person by the government, so it is not covered by the federal Constitution and is therefore properly a matter of state jurisdiction, where her ability to legally kill her child will necessarily vary from state to state.

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>> without due
    process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use,
    without
    just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the >>>>> states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states". >>>
    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So, >>> for
    example, the federal government couldn't search your home without a warrant
    or
    infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction on state
    governments
    from doing so. You had to look to your state's constitution for those
    protections from state officials. But after the Civil War, the 14th
    Amendment
    incorporated (most of)** the Bill of Rights against the states as well, >>> imposing the same limitations on state governments that it imposes on the >>> federal government. That's why you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your
    local police shut down your protest or censor your newspaper.


    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both >>>> abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual, >>>> so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Why? Because one is putting something in and the other is taking
    something out?

    Yes. The 4th Amendment protects against the government seizing your body without a warrant and absent probable cause that you've committed a crime.

    It doesn't apply to what *you* do with your body.

    Again, it seems you'd have that protection consist solely in the
    vagaries of what some handy arbiter is willing to call "reasonable". No
    one believes such parochial whimsicality was ever the authors' intent.


    The 4th Amendment prohibits the government from taking my car out of my garage
    and seizing it without a warrant. However, the 4A doesn't prohibit *me* from taking my car to a junkyard and crushing it in a hydraulic press.

    That distinction is grasping at (plastic) straws.

    Not hardly, but even so, plastic straws are the best straws.



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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 30 17:29:21 2025
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>>>>>> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"... >>>>>>
    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against >>>>>>>>> the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's >>>>>>> constitution for those protections from state officials. But after >>>>>>> the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill >>>>>>> of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested. >>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions >>>>>> finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too. >>>>>>
    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently? >>>>>>
    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my autonomy and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin. Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to
    society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the
    meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Tue Jul 1 01:01:45 2025
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"... >>>>>>>
    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested. >>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally >>>>>>> procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>>
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently? >>>>>>>
    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body. >>
    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing
    anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my
    autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th
    Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin. >> Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another
    violation of moviePig law!

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to nobody@nowhere.com on Tue Jul 1 04:30:48 2025
    In article <103un55$2b6ae$1@dont-email.me>, nobody@nowhere.com wrote:
    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>> On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    "Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    BTR1701 wrote:

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, >>>>>>>>>> without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"... >>>>>>>>
    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without >>>>>> a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction >>>>>> on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's >>>>>> constitution for those protections from state officials. But after >>>>>> the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill >>>>>> of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on >>>>>> state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will >>>>> be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth >>>>> wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era >>>>> (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too. >>>>>
    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently? >>>>>
    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't. >>>>>
    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Keep digging that hole deeper, Norm.

    [Kerman's incorrect formatting fixed.]

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 1 11:26:44 2025
    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested. >>>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally >>>>>>>> procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything? >>>>
    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body. >>>
    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing >>> anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's >>> illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my
    autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th
    Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin. >>> Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to
    society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the
    meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 10 18:10:50 2025
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. >>>>>>>>>> That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut >>>>>>>>>> down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine >>>>>>>>>
    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right >>>>>>>>> to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the >>>>>>>>> Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the >>>>>>>>> Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process >>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally
    procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the >>>>>>>>> post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? >>>>>>>>>>> Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything? >>>>>
    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing >>>> anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's >>>> illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my >>>> autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th >>>> Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to >>> me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >>> society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >>> meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another
    violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 10 18:14:41 2025
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"... >>>>>>>
    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested. >>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally >>>>>>> procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process. >>>>>>>
    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently? >>>>>>>
    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body. >>
    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing
    anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my
    autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th
    Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin. >> Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    Except abortion isn't just something that affects you (or the woman, as the case may be). I'm required to fund free abortions with my tax dollars. That affects me.

    If you walked your talk, you should oppose anyone but the mother and father having to pay for anything related to abortion.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    Except that 'meadow' is really the city streets and the '3-hour field trip'
    are tens of thousands of drug-addicted vagrants who lay around on the
    sidewalks and in the gutters, stupefied on drugs until they die of disease or overdose. And their drug use doesn't just affect themselves and no one else.
    It affects everyone-- from the residents of the neighborhoods, whose kids
    can't use the parks because of all the used needles in the grass, and who have to play turd hopscotch just to get to school, to the taxpayers who are forced to shell out billions in tax dollars to deal with the problem, to the homeowners whose homes are routinely burglarized so these people can fund
    their habits.

    Your fantasy utopia where drug use is something that only affects the user is so absurdly naive that I suspect you're just playing stupid for effect here.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 10 18:16:20 2025
    On Jun 23, 2025 at 5:32:34 PM PDT, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-06-23 20:33:04 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    The 'progressive' pols keep saying there's no legitimate reason for ICE
    agents
    to cover their faces while engaged in deportation operations, but there is >> actually a helluva good reason to do so: it preserves their ability to work >> undercover in future cases.

    When they start working undercover in this tactless and heavy-handed
    roundup they can have that privilege then.

    Now Stacey Abrams is worried ICE agents and Marines could target polling
    places during the next election and scare away illegal aliens exercising their right to vote for Democrats.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 10 14:30:49 2025
    On 7/10/2025 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government.
    That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut
    down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in
    application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine >>>>>>>>>>
    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right
    to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the
    Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the >>>>>>>>>> Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process >>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally
    procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original
    meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the >>>>>>>>>> post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? >>>>>>>>>>>> Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing
    anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my >>>>> autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th >>>>> Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to >>>> me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >>>> society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >>>> meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another
    violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    I should think so, unless for you 'sexually' necessitates fucking...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 10 18:44:08 2025
    On Jul 10, 2025 at 11:30:49 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 7/10/2025 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another >>>> violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    I should think so, unless for you 'sexually' necessitates fucking...

    It's weird that for you, artificial insemination in a clinic seems to count as sex.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jul 10 19:11:35 2025
    On Jul 10, 2025 at 11:47:26 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 7/10/2025 2:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. >>>>>>>>>> That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut >>>>>>>>>> down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine >>>>>>>>>
    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right >>>>>>>>> to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the >>>>>>>>> Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the >>>>>>>>> Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process >>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally
    procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the >>>>>>>>> post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? >>>>>>>>>>> Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything? >>>>>
    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing >>>> anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's >>>> illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my >>>> autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th >>>> Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to >>> me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    Except abortion isn't just something that affects you (or the woman, as the >> case may be). I'm required to fund free abortions with my tax dollars. That >> affects me.

    If you walked your talk, you should oppose anyone but the mother and father >> having to pay for anything related to abortion.

    I take no issue with defunding any rationally defined class. But I'd
    exclude religious principles from rationality.


    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >>> society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >>> meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    Except that 'meadow' is really the city streets and the '3-hour field trip' >> are tens of thousands of drug-addicted vagrants who lay around on the
    sidewalks and in the gutters, stupefied on drugs until they die of disease >> or
    overdose. And their drug use doesn't just affect themselves and no one else.
    It affects everyone-- from the residents of the neighborhoods, whose kids >> can't use the parks because of all the used needles in the grass, and who >> have
    to play turd hopscotch just to get to school, to the taxpayers who are
    forced
    to shell out billions in tax dollars to deal with the problem, to the
    homeowners whose homes are routinely burglarized so these people can fund >> their habits.

    Your fantasy utopia where drug use is something that only affects the user >> is
    so absurdly naive that I suspect you're just playing stupid for effect here.

    Afaics, recreational drugs are prosecuted not for their societal harm,
    but for their "immorality" ...which for me is a non-starter. You're
    welcome to legislate prohibitions that don't (seek to) abrogate my right
    to any self-contained practice.

    Well, when you discover a way to keep your heroin addiction self-contained so that it doesn't affect anyone else in the ways described above, you let us know.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 10 14:47:26 2025
    On 7/10/2025 2:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in >>>>>>>>> application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested. >>>>>>>>
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process

    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally >>>>>>>> procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original >>>>>>>> meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything? >>>>
    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body. >>>
    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing >>> anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's >>> illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my
    autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th
    Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin. >>> Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    Except abortion isn't just something that affects you (or the woman, as the case may be). I'm required to fund free abortions with my tax dollars. That affects me.

    If you walked your talk, you should oppose anyone but the mother and father having to pay for anything related to abortion.

    I take no issue with defunding any rationally defined class. But I'd
    exclude religious principles from rationality.


    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to
    society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the
    meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    Except that 'meadow' is really the city streets and the '3-hour field trip' are tens of thousands of drug-addicted vagrants who lay around on the sidewalks and in the gutters, stupefied on drugs until they die of disease or overdose. And their drug use doesn't just affect themselves and no one else. It affects everyone-- from the residents of the neighborhoods, whose kids can't use the parks because of all the used needles in the grass, and who have
    to play turd hopscotch just to get to school, to the taxpayers who are forced to shell out billions in tax dollars to deal with the problem, to the homeowners whose homes are routinely burglarized so these people can fund their habits.

    Your fantasy utopia where drug use is something that only affects the user is so absurdly naive that I suspect you're just playing stupid for effect here.

    Afaics, recreational drugs are prosecuted not for their societal harm,
    but for their "immorality" ...which for me is a non-starter. You're
    welcome to legislate prohibitions that don't (seek to) abrogate my right
    to any self-contained practice.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Thu Jul 10 19:32:08 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig"
    <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" ><ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig ><nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig ><nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty,
    or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private
    property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a
    state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been
    incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated
    against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search
    your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there
    was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to
    your state's
    constitution for those protections from state
    officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most
    of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the
    same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government. >>>>>>>>>>> That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut
    down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in
    application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is >interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine >>>>>>>>>>
    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right
    to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the
    Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the >>>>>>>>>> Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the
    Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive
    due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process >>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally
    procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original
    meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the >>>>>>>>>> post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court
    and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that >contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive
    due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? >>>>>>>>>>>> Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters
    for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them >differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and
    the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything? >>>>>>
    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of
    her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing
    anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my >>>>> autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th >>>>> Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to
    use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to >>>> me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >>>> society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >>>> meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another
    violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    Must resist obvious straight line...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 10 15:44:11 2025
    On 7/10/2025 2:44 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 10, 2025 at 11:30:49 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 7/10/2025 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another >>>>> violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    I should think so, unless for you 'sexually' necessitates fucking...

    It's weird that for you, artificial insemination in a clinic seems to count as
    sex.

    Certainly, if bought, it's renting a body based on its sex.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 10 15:47:25 2025
    On 7/10/2025 3:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 10, 2025 at 11:47:26 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 7/10/2025 2:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 2:29:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 6/30/2025 3:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 30, 2025 at 12:05:09 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 2:46:02 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 6/29/2025 5:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 29, 2025 at 1:50:43 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Jun 29, 2025 at 8:16:11 AM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 7:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 28, 2025 at 4:00:54 PM PDT, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    6/28/2025 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    . . .

    AMENDMENT V

    No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
    without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for
    public use, without just compensation.

    But we're talking about something that'd *be* a state "law"...

    Right, and since the 5th Amendment has been incorporated against
    the states,
    any state law that violates it would be void.

    I don't understand what you mean by "incorporated against the states".

    The Bill of Rights originally only applied to the federal >>>>>>>>>>> government. So,
    for example, the federal government couldn't search your home without
    a warrant or infringe on your free speech but there was no restriction
    on state governments from doing so. You had to look to your state's
    constitution for those protections from state officials. But after
    the Civil War, the 14th Amendment incorporated (most of)** the Bill
    of Rights against the states as well, imposing the same limitations on
    state governments that it imposes on the federal government.
    That's why
    you can sue under the 1st Amendment if your local police shut
    down your
    protest or censor your newspaper.

    **I think the 3rd Amendment still exists as solely federal in
    application.

    Hehehe

    I knew you were going there.

    Here's a helpful chart on the off chance moviePig is interested.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine >>>>>>>>>>
    Note that the Seventh Amendment, which is the procedural right
    to a jury
    trial in a civil suit, is not incorporated, and clauses in the
    Fifth and
    Sixth Amendments aren't incorporated. It's unlikely that the >>>>>>>>>> Ninth will
    be incorporated, the forgotten part of the Constitution, and the Tenth
    wouldn't make any sense.

    Also, moviePig needs an understanding of substantive due process.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/substantive_due_process >>>>>>>>>>
    In fact, he should appreciate it since due process is literally
    procedural
    and therefore "substantive" makes no sense. Also, the original
    meaning of
    "substantive" from the Lochner era got reversed in the >>>>>>>>>> post-Lochner era
    (after Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court and decisions
    finally
    went his way), so moviePig should appreciate that contradiction too.

    I have the most minimal understanding of substantive due process.

    Are you placing some "burden of proof" on the states? >>>>>>>>>>>> Regardless, both
    abortion and rape are (intensely) personal matters for the individual,
    so how do you see the Constitution as treating them differently?

    One is a seizure and invasion of a woman's body and the other isn't.

    Either way, she lacks autonomy.

    Which isn't what the 4th Amendment protects.

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    Using that standard, the government can't prohibiting anyone from doing
    anything unless they get a warrant first.

    For example, I'm prohibited by law from selling one of my kidneys. It's
    illegal to do that. According to you, the government has 'seized' my >>>>> autonomy
    and freedom to do with my body as I wish, so it has violated the 4th >>>>> Amendment's warrant requirement.

    Same with drugs. The government has made it illegal for me to use heroin.
    Under moviePig Law, it has illegally seized my bodily autonomy.

    Of course that's not how it works. It's not how any of it works.

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to >>>> me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    Except abortion isn't just something that affects you (or the woman, as the
    case may be). I'm required to fund free abortions with my tax dollars. That
    affects me.

    If you walked your talk, you should oppose anyone but the mother and father
    having to pay for anything related to abortion.

    I take no issue with defunding any rationally defined class. But I'd
    exclude religious principles from rationality.


    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >>>> society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >>>> meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    Except that 'meadow' is really the city streets and the '3-hour field trip'
    are tens of thousands of drug-addicted vagrants who lay around on the
    sidewalks and in the gutters, stupefied on drugs until they die of disease
    or
    overdose. And their drug use doesn't just affect themselves and no one else.
    It affects everyone-- from the residents of the neighborhoods, whose kids >>> can't use the parks because of all the used needles in the grass, and who >>> have
    to play turd hopscotch just to get to school, to the taxpayers who are >>> forced
    to shell out billions in tax dollars to deal with the problem, to the
    homeowners whose homes are routinely burglarized so these people can fund >>> their habits.

    Your fantasy utopia where drug use is something that only affects the user
    is
    so absurdly naive that I suspect you're just playing stupid for effect here.

    Afaics, recreational drugs are prosecuted not for their societal harm,
    but for their "immorality" ...which for me is a non-starter. You're
    welcome to legislate prohibitions that don't (seek to) abrogate my right
    to any self-contained practice.

    Well, when you discover a way to keep your heroin addiction self-contained so that it doesn't affect anyone else in the ways described above, you let us know.

    I think it likely that numerous addicts do that already.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Mon Jul 14 04:30:51 2025
    In article <104p1lo$10111$5@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
    On Jul 10, 2025 at 11:30:49 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 7/10/2025 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jul 1, 2025 at 8:26:44 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>> On 6/30/2025 9:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    It's also illegal to sexually rent one's body out to another. Another >>>>> violation of moviePig law!

    Surrogate mothers take note...

    Are surrogate mothers renting themselves out sexually?

    I should think so, unless for you 'sexually' necessitates fucking...

    It's weird that for you, artificial insemination in a clinic seems to count >as sex.

    That's because, like FPP (but to a lesser extent), moviepig cannot bear to be wrong and thus keeps diging himself deeper or makes nonsequiturs to derail
    the subject.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 15 15:01:56 2025
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:05:09 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    What is 'seizure' if not a curtailment of autonomy?

    Where in the abortion scenario has the government seized anything?

    It has taken, whether by prohibition or punishment, control of her body.

    How? In most abortion cases it's one or more doctors not the state
    which has temporarily taken control of her body. Most of us call that
    process "treatment" or possibly "surgery".

    While the state sets the parameters for how the doctor does his or her
    role, it's not directly involved in 99.9% of medical procedures. And
    when it is (for instance a prisoner seeing the doctor) those in charge
    of security aren't involved in the medical process.

    I'd like to hear an appeal court justice argue that the state is in
    charge of 99.9+% of medical procedures - this should be good.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 15 15:08:37 2025
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:21 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to >society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the >meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    That's a ridiculous argument since it could be argued that your
    "choices are protected" when you drive at 140 mph on the Interstate at
    a time of day when few if any drivers are on the road.

    (I once found myself at 160 km/h (equivalent to about 120-130 mph) on
    an Interstate 1/2 hour north of Seattle - I said to myself, "uh how
    fast are you going anyhow" and then said to myself out loud after
    checking my speedometer "Holeeee sh***!!!" then took my foot
    completely off the gas pedal for the next 1/4 mile to slow down
    demonstrates that I'm a sane normal driver (but not as attentive as I
    should have been that day) and not auditioning for the Indy.

    (Which I'm sure they actually do do with prospective race drivers but
    not on the interstates...)

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Tue Jul 15 22:25:51 2025
    On 7/15/2025 6:08 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:29:21 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Well, yes, I think that protecting my choices having consequence only to
    me is very much in the spirit of both Declaration and Constitution.

    So, you might outlaw trafficking in body parts as ultimately harmful to
    society ...like obscenity laws. But, if you find some fun drugs in the
    meadow and go on a 3-hour field trip, then by all means bon voyage.

    It's not (or shouldn't be) your business to tell me how to live.

    That's a ridiculous argument since it could be argued that your
    "choices are protected" when you drive at 140 mph on the Interstate at
    a time of day when few if any drivers are on the road.

    (I once found myself at 160 km/h (equivalent to about 120-130 mph) on
    an Interstate 1/2 hour north of Seattle - I said to myself, "uh how
    fast are you going anyhow" and then said to myself out loud after
    checking my speedometer "Holeeee sh***!!!" then took my foot
    completely off the gas pedal for the next 1/4 mile to slow down
    demonstrates that I'm a sane normal driver (but not as attentive as I
    should have been that day) and not auditioning for the Indy.

    (Which I'm sure they actually do do with prospective race drivers but
    not on the interstates...)

    If there are *no* other drivers on the road, then you might at least
    have a discussion. But, even then, your public-road accident imposes
    several ancillary but significant costs to society.

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