Our New Fourth Amendment Free Zone

Someone may want to ask Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur how her district became a fourth amendment free zone and why she didn't bother to tell the voters. That's right. The rights guaranteed by the constitution no longer operate in Cleveland, Toledo, or even Perrysburg. The sainted legislator was in Cleveland just the other day extolling the advantages of wind energy and one can understand how she might be reluctant to bore voters with the pedestrian fact that the Bill of Rights has become obsolete thanks to Obama and the Department of Homeland Security. As the Plain Dealer reports Kaptur is all about resiliency.

"You hear a lot of names used to describe our region," said the congresswoman, offering the North Coast moniker and other examples. "The most descriptive ... might be the Resilient Coast. Despite the hand that was dealt to us, our region is fighting back."

On the other hand we could call it the Third Reich but at least with Kaptur in Congress it will be a solar and wind powered Reich.

Kaptur also previewed an announcement she and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson have planned for next week, when both will offer their support to an offshore wind-energy initiative. The Icebreaker project would put seven wind turbines along Lake Erie.

Peachy! but why are the Plain Dealer and the Blade not sharp enough to mention that most of their readers have no right to electronic privacy? The DHS first concluded in 2009 travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security. Then it defined the border zone to extended inland for 100 miles. This was questioned at the time and the DHS agreed to investigate the “civil rights impact” of the practice, but the full report wasn't completed until nearly four years later and civil right aren't worth the worry.
“imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits.”
In other words it's too hard for DHS' intellectually challenged workforce. The fourth amendment has always been operationally harmful and an impediment to police investigations but up until now it was the law of the land. So far the DHS has only issued a two page executive summary of its report and has refused to expand upon that. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a FOIA request to view the entire document reasoning that the 197 million Americans impacted by the report have a right to know what the law is from one day to the next.
It's not all bad. Think wind turbines!