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Friday, June 16, 2006

A note on the Exclusionary Clause

The Supreme Court on the 15th of June rendered an opinion on an illegal search and seizure case. It was a violation of the Knock and Announce provision of searching under authority of a warrant. Hudson v. Michigan is the case. Be sure to take a look at Justice Breyer's dissenting opinion. I wonder how this will play out when it is inevitably applied to a governmental office holder like Republican Senator Bill Jefferson of Louisiana.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Good Deeds never go unpunished?

Is Adam Smith right in his discusion in the Wealth of Nations about the nature of society where
all interactions are reduced to nothing more than a series of simple cost benifit analyses?

What direction will this idea take us as a species, a world where every thing has a price?
That is a very dark future for those who have nothing to trade.

A religous man would say that we are flawed, I disagree, we are always learning.

Ghandi was not perfect but he represented a compelling idea to a
diverse population that was on the edge of the precipice of violent revolution against the British Empire and his compelling idea held the Indian people back from this abyss, freed them of the empires influence, and most importantly saved countless lives.

We need a compelling idea to get us past the heartless aspects of classical economics without totally destroying what good things we have created, what that idea is I do not know but I am always listening.

Maybe this guy has the answer.
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/052206.html#