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Which mythological world would you rather live in?
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To be a kind of moral Unix, he touched the hem of Nature's shift.
-- Shelley
(Score: 5, Insightful) by dltaylor on Wednesday February 03 2021, @10:15AM
The Constitution is very much an aspiration rather than a description of the United States of America.
Many of us would like to live in a "more perfect Union". Unfortunately we a stuck with hordes of citizens that have no interest in trying to get there from here. For example, we are supposed to have no laws "respecting an establishment of religion", but organizations claim exemption from taxes because they are religious. There a county in northern New Mexico that faced bankruptcy because so much of the land was held by various churches for retreats that the revenue didn't even support existing infrastructure while all of the freeloaders kept screaming for paving roads, ... Then there are the number of "Christian" jihadists quite happy to use law enforcement guns and threat of deadly force to enforce prohibitions against "sin".
We are supposed to have been presented with a Warrant based on probable cause, listing where the search shall take place, and specificly listing the item(s) and/or persons being sought. "Empty your pockets" and "Unlock your phone" do not fit that description.