Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that we have no control over our bodies, our lives and our property, especially when it comes to interactions with government agents.
Such is life in America today that individuals are being threatened with arrest and carted off to jail for the least hint of noncompliance, homes are being raided by police under the slightest pretext, property is being seized on the slightest hint of suspicious activity, and roadside police stops have devolved into government-sanctioned exercises in humiliation and degradation with a complete disregard for privacy and human dignity.
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Show Notes
“How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses,” The Nation
“Utah hospital to police: Stay away from our nurses,” The Washington Post
“‘Disturbing Video’ Shows Cops Forcibly Drawing Blood of DUI Suspects — And It’s Legal,” The Blaze
“Spring woman claims constitutional violation in body cavity probe,” Houston Chronicle
“Video of roadside vaginal search revives calls for charges against cops,” Vice News
“Texas Cops Spent 11 Minutes Searching a Woman's Vagina, Found No Drugs,” Reason
“N.M. Man Sues Over Multiple Anal Cavity Searches,” FindLaw
“Cops Strip Search Mom, "Forcibly" Pull Tampon Out of Her for Maybe Rolling Through Stop Sign,” Broward Palm Beach NewTimes
“Female US cop caught on tape giving two women body cavity search during routine traffic stop... and 'using the SAME gloves on both'” Daily Mail
“Texas trooper being sued in Irving body cavity search case has been suspended,” The Dallas Morning News
“4 Milwaukee police officers charged in strip-search case,” Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
Cox v. Sampson County School Board
“Ga. Tech Fan Claims Strip Search Over Sandwich,” WSBTV
Florence v. Burlington
“Flashlight that can smell your breath: Police use high-tech torch on drivers to detect alcohol,” Daily Mail
“'No Refusal' DUI checkpoints raise questions,” USA Today
“Supreme Court ruling on blood draws could have big impact on drunken driving cases,” Journal-Sentinel
“Federal Funds Fuel Nationwide Increase in “No Refusal” Blood-Draw DUI Checkpoints,” Ben Swann
“Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks,” Daily Caller
“Forget Fingerprints: Law Enforcement DNA Databases Poised To Expand,” NOVA Next
“JFK Airport officials filter fecal matter in search for drugs,” The Washington Times
“To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never Forgets a Face,” The New York Times
Some Who Decline an Optional Iris Photo Are Kept Longer in Jail, Critics Say,” The New York Times
“Iris scans are the new school IDs,” CNN Money
“Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools,” ABC News
“The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics,” NovaNext
“State photo-ID databases become troves for police,” The Washington Post
What Country Is This? Forced Blood Draws, Cavity Searches and Colonoscopies
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
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