[Henrietta]

"If these types are citizens, why not?

Actually I agree with you. So where does that leave us? What is the point of watching these facilities and reporting "suspicious" activities around them like people taking videos and pictures and notes?"

These are both really good questions and food for thought. What should the standard be for detaining people we think are acting "suspicious?" How much freedom do we want to grant to the state to stop us if someone else thinks we are acting "suspicious?" How do we balance our needs to be safe with our civil liberties, which are rapidly being eroded by the "War on Drugs" and now the "War on Terror?"

[=Intervention=]

Why am I not surprised that the war on drugs suddenly entered the equation? Minus a few points on credibility with that one. While we can argue all day about the divine right to blow out brain cells with the chemical of our choice, does anyone really want to see the traffic wrecks caused by widespread recreational crack use? No? Well then it's back to the old "restrict drugs until we fix the court system" or "legalize drugs and who cares if innocents die; they're stupid" type arguments. I've yet to hear a rational libertarian answer for the societal chaos that widespread recreational substance use would cause.