[Stu Cohen]

This thread is about a t-shirt being sold in New York City with a message that defies the police.

It doesn't defy police. It says they don't consent to being searchd. Not giving consent isn't "defiance".

[RedRover]

This shirt is being sold in a far left publication that routinely portrays Bush as a vampire, as a Nazi, etc.
The maker of the shirt is an activist for illegal immigrants.
People who will be buying and wearing this shirt are being defiant of the searches. They are the same people who make New York and America less safe by being pro-illegal, anti-gun, anti-profiling.

[lemura]

I actually like the stop-n-search policy from a strictly Machievillian perspective. The conceit of every generation is that they believe their experiences are unique. Since there is limited institutional memory, people tend to forget what type of people created the US; but the genes don't.

At some point, the f-you attitude will boil over and the real culprits will be targeted. However, this may take another generation or so - we should probably give the phony WOT a chance. That way, there won't be much disagreement when more dramatic war measures are implemented in the correct overseas targets.