Charles Taylor: “if we knew that government was perfect and it was all goodness and light, we might not need this amendment. We know from…”

“if we knew that government was perfect and it was all goodness and light, we might not need this amendment. We know from the Travelgate revelations that justice is not always blind. In fact, it is not even always just when administered by individuals. We know that the government will mess up a one car funeral, and, when dealing with our civil rights, that is a mistake we do not want to make. I support the Barr amendment because it would protect innocent firearm vendors who could be held liable for failure to know they are lending support to those who may commit crimes. The amendment corrects privacy concerns by eliminating the right of law enforcement officers to access certain consumer, hotel, telephone, and employer records in order to conduct a criminal investigation. Most importantly, the Barr amendment corrects the overreaching language in title III which would allow for good faith exceptions to the exclusionary rule for permitting evidence obtained by wiretaps. I have serious concerns about giving law enforcement officers even more power to use wiretapped evidence, and therefore I support the Barr amendment.”