As a Mediator I have lots of contact with judges,
lawyers and cops and I respect their opinions on many matters. In my experience
they are usually straight up and hardworking in their job and believe that the
justice system works more often than it fails. The past few days have seen lots
of comments from my friends about the Supreme Court decision that forbids law
enforcement from looking at your cell phone without a search warrant. The Justices concluded that an invesigator can’t even look at your phone directory
without a warrant.
The media, as usual found a number of
people who wept bitter tears over the fact that investigators couldn’t search
through an individuals private data without approval and that this meant “the
end of law enforcement as we know it”.
When I first heard that argument my reaction was to call “bull shit” and
wonder why the talking head on the TV couldn't remember our Constitutional
privacy rights that are central to our society. With those thoughts in mind I roamed
the internet reading the thoughts of people who operate our justice system
across the country. I also listened
carefully to the comments of the people I work with in the system and without
exception all of them feel that the decision of the Court was right and proper.
My personal observation is that people who
are engaged in protecting and maintaining society are usually more aware of the
fragility of our social order and the importance of protecting the individual
and collective rights of our Constitution. Those who would change our society
to fit their own concepts of the social structure are in for a rude surprise if
they think that the justice system agrees with them.
