[kellynla]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

maybe the ACLU & the Village Voice would finally wake up to the fact that WE ARE AT WAR if the camel jockeys dropped off one of their infamous IED's at their offices in NYC...
hmmmmmmm

[beltfed308]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

Dangerous thinking.

[dhs12345]

You know who they would be blaming if it happened -- Bush.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

You're right!

I wonder why the framers of the Constitution didn't realize that?

</sarcasm>

[Oberon]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

Or, to put it another way:

"If you have done nothing wrong, comrade, then you have nothing to fear."
- Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953), chief of the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) under Stalin.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

Bravo Sierra

As it is, we law-abiding citizens barely have any 4^th Amendment protections, and here you are, in a conservative forum, no less, advocating pitching them all away, entirely. Just what the hell do you think we're fighting this war for---for the benefit of living in a police state?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom--go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

--Samuel Adams

[Stu Cohen]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

If you have nothing to hide; then ya have no life ...

[Age of Reason]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

So when a cop opens a woman's suitcase and rummages through her underwear, it's like who knows where his hands had been earlier.

[ml/nj]

wake up to the fact that WE ARE AT WAR

Uh. Maybe this is one of the reasons that the President should have asked Congress for a declaration of war.

When they started the manditory govt searches (long before 9/11) to get on air planes, I suggested that the same logic would allow them to search everyone who want to ride the subway. And next it will be your home. I suggest that probable cause is still necessary, like being an unshaven, 15-35 year-old, foreign looking male.

ML/NJ

[wtc911]

Unless this is targeted by profiling it is nothing but a circle jerk and an utter waste of police manpower. What are they going to do in January, have everyone take off his coat? how many busses run through midtown? How many stops are there? How many taxis are there (and how many are owned and/or operated by muslims)? How many muslim owned and/or operated coffee, pretzel, hot dog carts are there in Manhattan? Each of these should be checked every day if they want to waste manpower in an area where it might actually stop something.

[68 grunt]

if ya have nothin' to hide; then ya have no reason to object...

Your paper's are in order?

PS, DingDong sez hi.