The non-loyalist, non-royalist patriots, who sued for freedom in the lead up to and conduct of the American Revolution, wanted freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. As a secondary matter, they made the poor choice of wishful thinking about the objectivity of the courts in issuing warrants of reasonable search and seizure. Why on Earth did they believe that courts would be any different here than in England — they were based on the same general model?
Category: Words Poorly Used
Words Poorly Used #135 — Prediction
I am highly skeptical of humans who make predictions. The word “prediction” literally means to say something before it is true. If something is not yet true, it can be only in one other class — not true.
Words Poorly Used #134 — Convergence
People in the technology trades these days are insisting that we are experiencing “convergence.” At TechTarget.com, the following definition is offered: DEFINITION technological convergence … –ComputerWeekly.com In general, convergence is a coming together of two or more distinct entities or phenomena. Technological convergence is increasingly prevalent in the information technology world; in this context, the…
Words Poorly Used #133 — Invention/Intervention
Intervention is taking that which belongs to someone else. Invention is sharing a new idea for the good of its beneficiaries. You cannot coerce people to adopt an invention, since to do so makes it an intervention.
Words Poorly Used #132 — Non-Disclosure
If it is POTUS himself who is trying to hush government employees, doesn’t it violate two trusts of public office? Firstly, he is infringing on the employees’ right to free speech, but worse he is dropping an iron wall on the public’s expectation of transparency in government.
Words Poorly Used #131 — Rich
Apparently, many in the media, referring to Manafort, for instance, as “rich,” confuse lifestyle with net worth. They would likewise have described Madoff as “rich” without recognizing he was spending illicit credit.
Words Poorly Used #130 — Militia
The emotionally driven “we can’t just do nothing” crowd is dragging out the very ambiguous “militia” wording in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment. The Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” There is, to my knowledge, no definition of “Militia” in the Constitution. Furthermore, the addition of the dependent preambulatory clause, and the last comma render the passage ungrammatical.
Words Poorly Used #129 — Specialization
There is no single task in making a pencil that requires rocket science, but there are lots of tasks that require the opportunity to do something in an optimum return situation. A lone pencil maker would have to switch jobs and be proficient in each. But in the real world it is not practical for the person who harvests the wood to also fashion the lead and to formulate the paint and affix the eraser.
Words Poorly Used #128 — Due Process
I want to rush this one onto the web before POTUS infects too many people. He has complained that the two White House staffers who resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct did not get “due process.”
Words Poorly Used #127 — Secrecy, Security, Privacy
These three words, secrecy, security, and privacy, are thrown about, often with an intent to imply relationship among them. But none of them actually imply the others or any combination of the others. the critical element for each is whether they are legitimate provinces of the state, and in the hands of the state, are they appropriately administered. Let’s look at each as a standalone entity.