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“What works in Watertown doesn’t work so well in other places. This IS Massachusetts, after all.”

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

“What would you do?”

#1 - Call my lawyer.
#2 - Ask if they have a warrant.
#3 - If they don’t, then tell them to get one and come back, or they can talk to my lawyer and explain why they want to violate my 4th Amendment rights.

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.