No, doesn't work for me. My point here is more along the line with post #186... if the NYPD is not allowed to search everyone then they can't search the nervous ME youth with the long bulky coat. I live on an island here in Washington State and we are subject to random searches to ride the ferry. If we were not in this terrorism battle I would not like it one bit but as it is better safe than sorry.
And not I don't think the war on terror is just an excuse to take our rights away from us.
Have you never heard of reasonable articulable suspicion?
Yeah, that's what the "war on boredom" is for. (wtf is a "war on terror anyway, and how do you win it?).
On the other hand as they are searching everyone, the odds of catching real perpetrators diminishes.
Better to search only those with sufficient probable cause and argue the legitimacy of the cause if and when challenged.
" If we were not in this terrorism battle I would not like it one bit but as it is better safe than sorry."
How long do you think we'll be at war with islamofascism? They've been fighting the hindus for hundreds of years....