[lOKKI]

What you mean is that for the last 30 years or so, individual rights were allowed to trump the rights of the society as a whole...

The pendulum has now swung to where the protection of society has become important again.

[mysterio]

No, what I mean is there is no astericks beside the Fourth Amendment that grants any exceptions to its limit on government powers. The individual is not the danger. The organized government with unchecked power is the real danger. The founding fathers saw that and did everything they could to prevent it. And we selectively ignore the Constitution at our own peril. That's what I meant.