[Howlin]

Oh, dear, now you've done it. Pointed out the hypocrisy of their argument.

And aren't these the very same people who would be raising holy hell if the police sat back and waited for this guy/guys to surrender?

[Eva]

It occurs to me that alot of posters care only for their own personal liberty and safety. As someone pointed out last night, the Libertarians seem closer to the socialist anarchists than they are to the Republicans, or Democrats.
They are probably afraid that the police will find drugs in the vans, since that is their overwhelming interest in life.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"It is the implicit fear of punishment for non-compliance when the cops start broad based searches like this that ought to bother us most."

That statement is the basis of the argument.

There are many crimes that have been committed in the past three weeks, but I haven't heard any call to perform broad-based searches to solve those. Perhaps they should? Car-to-car, house-to-house?

Ya know, if we could just stop every citizen on the street and search them, making identification, etc., we could solve all sorts of crimes.

[soozla]

"And aren't these the very same people who would be raising holy hell if the police sat back and waited for this guy/guys to surrender?"

YUP!!!!!!!!!!