Alphecca

I believe that we should work to curb all of the governmental abuses of The Bill of Rights. Dynamic entry is just one form of unreasonable search and seizure (4th Amendment). Asset forfeiture violates both the 4th (seizure) and 5th (due process) Amendments. I'm not sure that marginalizing the weird fits any amendment specifically, but many governmental acts against them violate various amendments, depending on the act.

So who among us could be against supporting freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, representation at trial by a competent lawyer, or more comprehensively, that as stated in the introduction to The Bill of Rights, these first ten amendments were written to restrain the government "to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers?"

If we want to enlarge our tent, why not broaden our emphasis to embrace the all of the restrictions on government delineated in The Bill of Rights?

"If we want to enlarge our tent, why not broaden our emphasis to embrace the all of the restrictions on government delineated in The Bill of Rights?"

That's a distilled Libertarian argument. I agree with it. That's why I'm a libertarian.

But that argument doesn't play TACTICALLY with a lot of factions whose support we'd need. I spoke to that, briefly: " If [there were popular support for repealing laws against victimless crimes], there would be Libertarians in the Oval Office. There aren't, so don't [try that line of argument]. (Plenty of libertarians like me in the RKBA movement, granted, but we're part of a coalition and we have to cooperate.) "

What I like about libertarians is that we cut to the chase, distill things to the essense. Not everyone else engages in the practice, fewer still appreciate the practice's tendency to expose embarrassing flaws and 800-pound gorillas. Not everyone reads the writing on the wall as clearly as drug-warrior Bob Barr did.

Don't confront the gorillas, don't point and snicker at the polka-dotted undies. Play nice with Mr Barr. Just cooperate where it works.

Jeff, thanks for the link.