I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again.
The 4th Amendment says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”.
Unreasonable.
Targeted searches can be reasonable, if based on facts and evidence. Searches targeting Muslims could be considered reasonable.
Searches of 100% of the people could be considered reasonable under some immediate emergency conditions for limited periods of time.
But there is no way at any point in time that random searches are reasonable. That is a fact that any lawyer worth his/her salt should be able to argue with passion and competence.
I mean, the other side of the issue only has this basic argument: There is a continuing threat that someone will try to smuggle an effective bomb onto an airliner. Therefore, if we randomly select passengers to search with these new methods, we might get lucky and search someone with a bomb.
But because that reasoning will never be accepted by any court, I will continue to drive rather than fly. A two-day car trip for a single person doesn’t cost much more than an airline ticket, and if two people are making that trip, it’s considerably cheaper to drive.
Thank you for posting the 4th. There are some people of Freerepublic that forget we stand for the Constitution. The liberals have just outed themselves on FR.