This article originally appeared on Ted Rall's Blog. Many thanks to Ted Rall.)

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision that could only be described in three letters starting with W and ending with F, to give police the final authority to authorize strip-searches of people arrested for any offense. Broken tail light? Bend over and spread ‘em. That goes for you too, deadbeat dad, shoplifting cat food granny and the rest of you guilty-until-proven-innocent 99 percenters. Bend over, squat and cough. Your body is the new battleground in the “War on Terror”, and the 13 million of you arrested each year are now dungeon fodder play things for uniformed goons on the public payroll. Where once we asked for your cooperation, we now demand your abject humiliation. So if you’re getting any funny ideas about venturing out of the unheated comfort of your soon to be foreclosed upon home, whether it’s to drive with an expired license to the food bank, or more criminally, decide to exercise your democratic right to assemble in the vicinity of a rich person, be prepared not just for water cannons and rubber bullets, but a full-on finger raping by the ever lengthening arms of the law, whose weapons now perform double duty as lethal sex toys.

Your government (or whatever you call the publicly funded entity that exists wholly and unabashedly to ensure the unimpeded transfer of the nation’s wealth into the select coffers of the gangsters on its payroll and their corporate cronies) wants to f#*k you. There’s no other way of putting it. They want to f&*k you in the worst possible way. Literally, lewdly and above all, painfully. Think joyless dungeon master/camp guard giving your genitals the taser treatment kind of painful. You realize, of course, under your tormenter’s pleather gimp suit is some blandly visaged, pot-bellied technocrat hoping to be home in time to watch NCIS with the wife while you are left to whimper in your restraints.

Once content to “screw” you, or just f%*k you over, our “elected” oligarchs have now upped the ante on their depraved appetite for torture porn with a ready army of doctors, soldiers, law enforcement officials and airport screeners to carry out their perverse handiwork. We can now add the judiciary at its highest level to this motley mix of state-sanctioned sex offenders.

It’s bad enough that air travelers have to submit a XXX-Ray or a rough probing molestation by TSA officials to ensure the absence of explosive contraband in their hoo-hoos, prosthetic devices or colostomy bags. Or that abortion seekers in some states are forcibly raped with sonic dildos. You might have thought that Republican presidential candidates making misogyny and homophobia the centerpiece of their campaign trail hate speech was reason enough to fear for an encroaching Idiocracy ruled over by a posse of evil clowns. Now comes the crowning jewel of a full-blown gulag police state in the form of a rubber gloved, raised finger salute to the Bill of Rights and all the other shredder-ready old documents that once served to pre-empt the abuse of power and provide the checks and balances necessary to maintain a republic. The vigilance of The Founding Fathers is clearly no match for the brain trust who brought us the Gaza strip, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay. That the puerile raunch one associates with ‘gonzo’ and straight-to-DVD ‘grindhouse’ porn now serves as blueprints for law enforcement in the age of ‘Hope’ is just something else to choke on like a rubber gag ball restraint.

In the swinging, wife-swapping spirit of ‘bipartisanship’, five Republican and four Democratic appointees have proven they have bigger fish to fry than upholding some shredder-ready old document. By adding DWD (Driving While ‘Do-Able’) to the roster of punishable offenses like DWB (Driving While Black) law enforcement will have even further impetus to be discerning, heat packing meat graders deciding which ‘cuts’ to 'inspect' for the mildest of infractions. Giving police free rein to play the Officer Frisky role in ‘Caged Cuties III’ is just one of the many (and hardly unintended) outcomes of a legal amendment meant to pre-empt civil strife in the event of more robust ‘Occupy’ or anti-war movements. Or in the event that the “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” among the 99-ers finally realize that their humiliation will follow them to the grave and rise up, zombie style to snack on their former overlords as if they were delicious ‘pink slime’ school lunches. In which case, the Supreme Court is ready to rubber stamp into law anything to remove existing legal impediments to a scorched-earth policy of zero tolerance to dissent. Constitutional safeguards like the 4th Amendment and all its blah-blah-blahing about unreasonable searches and seizures be damned. You might think, in your infinite naivete, that public urination is hardly a 'gateway' crime to terrorism, and by finger raping the offender, we can pre-empt the next airliner attack on an office building. But you'd be wrong. And likely a terrorist yourself.

What US leaders openly encourage overseas in the form of civil disobedience, they will not tolerate at home. An ‘Arab Spring’ for our colonial subjects overseas, whose dissent we can work into a neo-liberal framework and impose austerity and military rule later on. For American dissenters, even ones who express an anti-authoritarian bent with a broken bicycle bell, its a swift jack boot to the genitals.

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I am just shaking my head after reading that????

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After reading round one of the pukegressive take on this I knew there had to be an opinion from the OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT..

Low and behold...

Here it is..



The Obama administration is siding with the prisons in the case and urging the court to allow a blanket policy for all inmates set to enter the general prison population.

“When you have a rule that treats everyone the same,” Justice Department lawyer Nicole A. Saharsky argued, “you don’t have folks that are singled out. You don’t have any security gaps.”


As The Guardian said yesterday: “The decision was a victory for the jails and for the Obama administration, which argued for an across-the-board rule allowing strip-searches of all those entering the general jail population, even those arrested on minor offenses.” Civil rights lawyer

It’s rather strange to so vehemently condemn the ruling in this case as a warped, sadistic police state excess, and not even mention that the Obama DOJ vigorously advocated for this very result.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/03/the_obama_doj_and_strip_searches/

Hey bestinshow... this is that social justice you want..


what was your comment to conrad yesterday...

as you are running away from this thread turn off the lights and close the door..

something like that..

Because the Obama admin supports this does not make it right. The republicana ppointed judges passed it the democratic appointed judges opposed it.

It would appear though that the dems and the repugs are two cheeks on the same butt on alot of issues, many progressives includeing myself are not huge obama supporters due to his dissapointments.

Do we americans have any hope at all? Ron Paul was the only candidate opposed to the new police state we are becomeing, looks like our choices will be Obama a moderate republican or Romney a a right wing republican.

Im pretty sure either way the country we grew up in is history.

No I was running errends, I do not sit here waiting for a timely responce its just a hobby of mine not a way of life

then why don't you do us all a favor and change the title of the thread to the Obama Justice Department and Supreme Court wants everyone to squat and cough so we can further the advancement of social justice..

So let us make this crystal clear..

You do not support the 5 conservative justices ruling in favor of the obama administrations opinion that all prisoners be treated equally?

You are perfectly happy with white corrections officers profiling black or hispanic prisoners and strip searching them while they can just wave the white guy through without making them strip?

I don't know where Romney fits in.. He holds no office.. He isn't in charge of the Justice department..

You aren't spinning your way out of this..

Do you have a link to this law in question i.e. the bill that was signed to make this law? I doubt very seriously that it is what this blog claims it to be in regards to common police, I can see and agree with this if your in prison and sent to jail. Seems grossly over reaching otherwise.

There is no spin it is exactly that five republican appointed judges rule in favor four democratic ones did not.

Again my confused oppenent, the choices we have for a candidateto vote for will be two cheeks on the same butt, thus I am assumeing Romney will be the republican and Obama the democratic choice.

Maybe you should slow down your reading and think things through logicly.

With that I am out for most of the evening, not sure if I will come home or stay with my girl tonight regardless we are heading out........