“... to encourage citizens to cooperate if they have nothing to hide”.
Don’t know about anyone else but that phrase scares the dickens out of me.
Don’t know about anyone else but that phrase scares the dickens out of me.
Why? Just say no to any search request, and that you'd like to be on your way as soon as possible.
Only because you are an unloyal American! How dare you refuse any request of our security forces!
If you really have nothing to hide you shouldn’t mind showing everything. It is for your own protection you know.
It should scare anyone who cherishes Liberty. Many who are attracted to government work have a genetic disposition to "rule" over others. These are humans who are not inherently civil. The iron fist gives them pleasure.
Any government official that states, “... to encourage citizens to cooperate if they have nothing to hide”" would fit right in any totalitarian dictatorship of the past or present.
These are indeed scary times. At all levels bureaucrats, who are paid with our hard earned dollars, spend their days writing rules and regulations that seek to further control us and out right harass us. They get pleasure from making our lives miserable. Government at all levels is becoming oppressive to a dangerous level.