It's gotten so bad that you don't even have to be suspected of possessing drugs to be subjected to a strip search.
Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Florence v. Burlison, any person who is arrested and processed at a jail house, regardless of the severity of his or her offense (i.e., they can be guilty of nothing more than a minor traffic offense), can be subjected to a strip search by police or jail officials without reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is carrying a weapon or contraband.
As technology advances, police searches are becoming more invasive on a cellular level, as well, with passive alcohol sensors, DNA collection roadblocks, iris scans and facial recognition software--to name just a few methods--used to assault our bodily integrity.
America's founders could scarcely have imagined a world in which we needed protection against widespread government breaches of our privacy, including on a cellular level.
Yet that's exactly what we so desperately need.
Unfortunately, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the indignities being heaped upon us by the architects and agents of the American police state--whether or not we've done anything wrong--are just a foretaste of what is to come.
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