Strip Search Authoritarian move by Conservative Activist Supreme Court...where's the Tea Party?

As we slip into our new authoritarian age, ruled by an uncompromising Republican majority, it nice to see the U.S. Supreme Court is greasing the skids for the upcoming dictator.

Guardian: The US supreme court ruled on Monday that jails do not violate privacy rights by routinely strip-searching everyone, even those arrested on minor traffic offenses.

What should be confusing and infuriating for hard core tea party politicians and voters, is the freedom loving position taken by the liberal justices:

The court's four liberals, justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented. "I cannot find justification for the strip-search policy at issue here - a policy that would subject those arrested for minor offenses to serious invasions of their personal privacy," Breyer wrote in a 14-page dissent that his liberal colleagues joined. He cited the "serious affront to human dignity" resulting from the strip-searches.

By a 5-4 vote and splitting along conservative-liberal ideological lines, the high court ruled that privacy rights involving the searches were outweighed by security concerns by jails about a suspect hiding drugs, weapons or other contraband.

It will be interesting to see how the tin foil tea party crazies see this decision, made by their own ideologically activist justices that would give the Obama administration the ability to strip search and lock conservatives up permanently in detention centers.

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.

Rachel Maddow provides the details a story that might have been overlooked by most Americans: