{"id":37083,"date":"2018-08-26T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37083"},"modified":"2018-08-26T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:21:31","slug":"discretion-in-the-hands-of-every-government-agent-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37083","title":{"rendered":"Discretion in the Hands of Every Government Agent = Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Discretion in the Hands of Every Government Agent = Tyranny<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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There has been an interesting case of an American Muslim woman who had her phone seized<\/strong><\/a> by border guards as she returned home to the United States from a trip to Switzerland. The guards just seized her phone and she had to file a lawsuit to get it returned after 120 days. Meanwhile, they refuse to confirm or deny that a copy of her phone was made and shared with any other agency. This is part of the problem with the rule of law<\/strong> \u2013 there is none! Government agents can do whatever they desire and it is always your burden to hopefully find a judge who will at least acknowledge you have any rights at all.<\/p>\n

Most people will never think of various crimes by the British that led to the American Revolution. Then there was the No Taxation Without Representation<\/strong> slogan. But the act that perhaps began the Revolution was illegal search and seizure.<\/p>\n

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The legal case that became the seminal beginning of the American Revolution was\u00a0Entick v. Carrington and Three Other King\u2019s Messengers<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>reported at length in 19 Howell\u2019s State Trials 1029. This case was the start of the American Revolution and was also based upon\u00a0<\/span>an abuse\u00a0of the king\u2019s agents. The action, dated November 1762, was for\u00a0trespassing\u00a0and interfering with the plaintiff\u2019s dwelling by breaking open his desks and boxes and searching and examining his papers.<\/p>\n

George III (b 1738; 1760-1820) became king in 1760. In February\u00a0<\/span>1761,\u00a0<\/span>Parliament enacted the\u00a0<\/span>Writs of Assistance\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>that\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0challenged in court in Boston, Massachusetts. These were writs that empowered every agent to do as they liked and were no different from how agents act today at their discretion. The Writs of Assistance <\/i><\/strong>allowed the\u00a0king\u2019s agents to search anything they suspected.<\/p>\n

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Discretion in the Hands of Every Government Agent = Tyranny There has been an interesting case of an American Muslim woman who had her phone seized by border guards as she returned home to the United States from a trip to Switzerland. The guards just seized her phone and she had to file a lawsuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12079,5496,93,379,5479,1589,827],"class_list":["post-37083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-american-revolution","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-britain","tag-government","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-rule-of-law","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37084,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions\/37084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}