Supreme Court Serves Up Non-Sense - Long Live Cannedada
I've waited several days before commenting on the Supreme Court of Canada's insanely stupid decision to restrict the activities of "sniffer" dogs while, again, hampering the 'legitimate' work of police officers and school officials. Unreal, lame, dumb and dumber are the words that first came to mind when I read of their 6-3 court ruling. But, their decision is not surprising considering that most of the appointees to the Supreme Court by previous 'liberal' administrations were not worthy appointees in the first place. Many of the justices were controversial appointees in the first place because they lacked the skills to be solid jurists. Their appointments were made to appease those that believe, amongst other things, that a bitch ain't a dog if it holds a law degree. Be that as it may, the bitch still bites.
To make matters worse, the Supreme Court is staffed by many law clerks who are using their inside status to spread weasel thinking, stupidity and groupthink. Remember same-sex marriage? From a column by Douglas Fisher:
"On the first issue, my theory is that to a remarkable degree, same-sex marriage was an "inside job" carried out within the federal Department of Justice, among the law clerks of Canada’s courts, and lawyers (largely women) in tune with the aims of gay organizations such as EGALE Canada. When the time came for crucial decisions supporting same-sex marriage, the senior courts were ready. "Ed: emphasis added
Here are a few thoughts that echo legitimate concerns of the lack of "wisdom" from our Supreme Court.
Calgary Herald:
Forget math and English texts -- lockers are for drugs
Hey kids, guess what? Now you can keep drugs in your locker at school and nobody can stop you. Not the police, the teachers, or mom and dad. It's all thanks to the Supreme Court, that august body that hands down weighty -- and hopefully wise -- decisions.
The court's recent ruling ordering drug-sniffing dogs to keep their noses out of school lockers was certainly weighty, but it wasn't wise. [...]
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Strange Justice The sniffer dog, in other words, is more like an X-ray machine peering into your private space
On Friday the Supreme Court of Canada delivered its first-ever jurisprudence on the relationship between police sniffer dogs and section 8 of the Charter of Rights, which guarantees the citizen against unreasonable police searches. Unfortunately, it did not deliver anything resembling a clear doctrine that police will be able to use in their day-to-day work, beyond establishing a couple of broad principles: that a sniff of a backpack or container is generally to be considered a "search" for section-8 purposes, and that completely random canine fishing expeditions probably will not pass Charter muster unless they are performed in places like airports, where visitors are made aware in advance that they enjoy a low expectation of privacy.
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Sniffing out stupidity
Some elements of society will rejoice that the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sniffer dogs detecting drugs in some cases constitutes a violation of the privacy.
In a couple of landmark cases, the court has ruled (or seems to have ruled) that a sniffer dog detecting drugs in someone's luggage is an invasion of privacy and violates a citizen's right not to be subjected to an unreasonable police search.
In other words, a sniffer dog detecting drugs can be similar to a search without a warrant.
That strikes most of us as odd. No argument that the cops shouldn't conduct searches on the basis of no evidence, or for no reason other than prejudice or hunches. But a dog ...?
How about airline passengers having bags routinely X-rayed? Isn't that a bit like sniffer dogs looking for contraband?
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rufff.......
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