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OK fine. Let's not search anyone and just let terrorists and gang members (aka terrorists) have free rein to blow up and kill as they wish. Then we won't even have a constitution so we won't need to worry about the fourth amendment, will we.

P.S. Are you a Professor at UCLA who's first name begins with a J?

No, I am not a professor at UCLA, or anywhere, for that matter.

To reply to your sarcastic comment, then that has to be the result.

Look, this is really a much bigger issue than searching cars at the airport and whatnot. If we stop following the constitution on some issues because it isn't convenient, what is the point of having the document at all? Why should it exist if it can be ignored when it is deemed to be in the "best interests" of the people? Query, of course, as to what the "best interests" of the people are and who "the people" are in general, but government is making that decision for us and we shouldn't fret.

So where does it stop? If we let the government violate the constitution here, why should it matter if it violates it someplace else? Campaign Finance Reform is a really good idea, and it would help the people choose the better candidate, so we shouldn't mind if it violates the First Amendment, right?

Do you see what I'm saying? We have to be vigiliant, even if it's not convenient to do so.