Now, why should they want to do this? Well, I'm sure it's keyed to drug dealers, who can flush their produce down the toilet if they are given any time to do so. But I would think rather than break into someone's home at 1 am, arrest them on suspicion during the day, and then make your "illegal raid" during the day, wearing your police uniforms.
I say this because more than one innocent person is in jail today because they shot an intruder in their home...who turned out to be a cop. And the fact that they didn't know it was a cop didn't mititage their sentencing - cop killers are sent to jail for long periods of time.
While I support the police and our soldiers and everyone doing their jobs to the best of their ability, the fact remains that these places are run incompetently, and there's a lot of waste going on. Sometimes some vindictive soul will phone in a tip that a house is a drug house, when it really isn't. Instead of checking, the cops break in and terrorize little old ladies into heart attacks. On other occasions, they are given the right address... but go to the wrong one, with the same result, innocent person terrorized and sometimes dying of fright, or shooting at the intruder in self defense only to find out its a police officer.
Anyway, here's what Rush had to say on the Indiana Supreme Court decision. I'm not sure what the Magna Carta had to do with it - the Magna Carta was signed in England and limited the rules of the King while giving power to the nobles...didn't do a thing for the poor schmucks, the peasants, who did the work that kept the nobles in luxury...
"Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes." Did you hear about this? It's as though the Fourth Amendment doesn't exist. "In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry."
Now, stop and think of that for a moment. The cops do not need a reason. They want to enter your home in Indiana, and you have to let them. And here's the reasoning. "'We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,' David said. 'We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.'" And so basically you shouldn't resist because that will possibly lead to violence. And so one of the reasons for allowing the cops in Indiana to enter your house without cause for no reason whatsoever is simply so there won't be any violence when you resist them.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: In Indiana I guess it's official now: A man's home is no longer his castle. It's not a piece of legislation. It's a Supreme Court ruling. Believe me, folks, this is big. I don't know how this is constitutional. If the cops wanna come in your house, you can't stop 'em. They don't have to have cause, don't have to have a warrant, don't even have to have a reason -- and the judge says (summarized): "Yeah, I kinda like this because since you now have to let the cops in, there won't be any violence on the part of the homeowner trying to stop them." So what is this? It's all about getting people to acquiesce to this 'cause it's a nonviolent move?
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