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What would you do? Six of them armed and one of you with your family in the house, too?

There is a very effective tool called “The Broken Record technique”. It is where you answer the question with the exact same word-for-word answer. The psychological impact to the questioner is to accept that they will get nowhere unless they do something substantially different.

When they demand to enter, I say: Thank you for your concern, but I have inspected my home and only my family is here. If you return with a search warrant I will be happy to allow you to enter. This is not about you or me. It is about protecting my constitutional rights. If I don’t exercise them, they will vanish due to atrophy.

Then, when they reword the “request” or pepper with threats, I repeat, word for word, the above phrase (I’d be reading it from a piece of paper).

John Adams was clear that it is not a people’s willingness to give their lives for liberty but their willingness to give up their COMFORT. I can, at the very least, do THAT for my country.

Did the police feel they had a “right” at that time to search even unoccupied homes? Because that’s what I would have done in that situation; I just wouldn’t have answered the door when they came a knockin’.

After all the point of the “secure at home” (or whatever it was called) was to stay out of the way and not let yourself become a target right? I mean, who is going to answer the door if there’s a terrorist outside, even if the person knocking claims to be the police?

That’s when I’ll start worrying about my rights being violated. When the police start to feel like they have a “right” to knock down my door when I’m not home (without a warrant).

Forget about making a speech. I’m just locking my door and not answering it for even the Pope!