I cannot imagine for even a New York Second that the hundreds of delegates for the convention that proposed the original 10 Amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of Rights), and those members of the legislatures in each of the 13 States who debated and then voted to ratify those Amendments would think that the Fourth Amendment would allow a federal official to stop each traveler crossing every state line and copy the contents of every saddle bag and every carriage box of documents, just in case in some future dispute the evidence would easily be retrieved upon perfunctory approval by a federal magistrate.
The ONLY means to prevent government from violating the Fourth as plainly as they currently do is to prevent them from having the means to do so. It should be clear that government will always give itself permission to do something that it dearly wants to do, no matter how much it violates the plain letter of the Bill of Rights.
such stuff is so much a part of the bizarre synthetic fabric of todays society that most have no idea that its NOT legal
It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism. Indeed, it likely makes terrorism more likely by providing too much noise and preventing them from focusing on the actual threats which do exist.
Rationalizing totalitarianism is the norm for all branches of government nowadays, and the elite of both mainstream parties.
It can only be stopped by resistance and revolt. I don't believe voting very 2 years will ever have any effect.
Enjoy your chains, everybody, because we're definitely all wearing them. And, collectively, we appear to be too cowardly to cast them off. Plenty of us are willing, but that and a dime will get us a cup of coffee...