Probable Cause

Once upon a time, in the land that would one day become the United States of America, law enforcement officers of the King of England were allowed by the King to stop and search citizens of the land without the need for specific warrants.

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On The Truman Show, Jim Carrey played a character whose every move was available to the television-viewing public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all his life.  Carrey’s character, Truman Burbank, had been adopted by a corporation as a baby and raised on an island within a domed “stage” constructed specifically to turn his whole life into one big reality show.  Near the end of the movie, Truman discovers the truth and manages to escape his faux world, presumably finding a real life of privacy.

In “reality,” this can only happen in the movies.

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