[Pencil]

Wait a minute. Law and order are conservative principles.

I disagree with this method personally, because of the cost, the risk of false positives, and the minor inconvenience of having such a device in the car, but there is some validity I believe to the notion of “What do you have to hide?”

[fr_freak]

Wait a minute. Law and order are conservative principles.

I disagree with this method personally, because of the cost, the risk of false positives, and the minor inconvenience of having such a device in the car, but there is some validity I believe to the notion of “What do you have to hide?”

Law and order are generally conservative principles, but there are limits. For instance, it is the current (declared) law of the land that abortion cannot be made illegal in any state in the union, yet is certainly isn't a conservative principle to argue that abortions should be legal. As an extreme example, if a law were passed saying that all Jews should be rounded up, it would not be a conservative principle to see that law carried out.

The "if you have nothing to hide..." concept should be banned from any conservative thinking whatsoever. If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't mind police coming into your house whenever they want to look around. If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind government watching you 24x7. Similarly, if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't mind the government mandating devices on your automobile that determine when you can and cannot start the car.