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4th: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The term "persons, houses, papers, and effects" used to include traffic stops and communications. Now the courts are doing a 180.

Sure, the 4th is inconvenient to the police and not the way they currently conduct investigations. So what? Our Constitution is the supreme law of our land. Anyone in government violating it should be summarily removed from government and prosecuted.

If Congress finds that our Constitution is too inconvenient and detrimental to the police powers they want public officials to have over the people, the proper course would be to attempt to amend that provision of the Constitution.

But, violating the original intent -- and, in this case, even the exact words -- of our Constitution is clearly an intentional violation of the supreme law of our land. That should never be tolerated.

That durn old living document! It's over 200 years old, why should politicians and police follow it, when President H. Clinton can protect us from terrorists invading this country...

ANTI-TERROR ÜBER ALLES

The mythical "freedom versus security" tradeoff is a false choice.

The 911 attacks did not occur because Americans have too much freedom.

They occurred because terrorists were able to gain access to the cockpits of hijacked aircraft.

Instead of retrofitting all commercial aircraft with doors which could actually be used to keep terrorists out of cockpits, Washington created an Orwellian monster named the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and hired tens of thousands of minimum-wage Gestapo to root through the underwear of airline passengers and prosecute those who objected.

Simply setting foot in an airport is now considered to be a terrorist act.

The fact that the TSA created a national airport police force without ever addressing the cockpit-door scandal is damning evidence that their mandate has nothing to do with protecting anyone.

The true purpose of the TSA is to turn America into a police state.

Airports are the incubators.

The statists want to condition us to accept the idea that probable cause is dead and they can search our houses, our hard drives and our persons and demand to see our papers at any time.

Airport screeners are the Brown Shirts of our day.

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