Originally Posted by chuck416

1. There is credible intel that meth and cocaine is being sold in your children's high school. How would you feel about letting the fed's take bolt cutters to every locker on the campus where your children attend, and pilfer through their belongings at their every whim. Dont' tell me this is not an insidious plague on our society. Death from drug abuse is orders of magnitude more deadly than terrorism in THIS country, and in our communities.

2.When you go to YOUR Dr. it is at YOUR convenience, the Dr. of YOUR choice (usually), whom YOU use, to ascertain YOUR status of health. And you consent to whatever examination he, as a health professional, deems necessary, and is performed according to reasonable and professional decorum. Hardly what happens at the TSA checkpoints. It takes only a cursory search of the internet to find many over-the-top stories that are being inflicted on people every day. Nearly every single one who want only to get where they're headed, and completely undeserving of what they are being subjected to.

3.The police may ONLY test your B.A.C. upon crossing the threshold of "reasonable suspicion", and are almost always being filmed themselves. If R/S is not met, they themselves are not immune to the full force of law, guaranteed under our Constitution.

4."Forced to buy an airline ticket, visit a doctor, drive a car..." Exactly WHERE do you propose to draw the line of "you're not forced to go past...."? The end of your driveway? Because that is most assuredly where this line of thought is taking us. Our Constitution was written to protect us from the tyranny of this animal commonly referred to as "government". It is our ideas that are intended to be protected at all costs. The government's roll is to ensure that that happens. Not infringe upon those rights in some HOPE that they may secure our persons.

Art. IV. "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."

Re-Read the first portion of this Amendment, up to "shall not be violated..." This is NOT that hard folks. Ben Franklin was right. "Those who would give up their rights of privacy, for the hope of security, deserve neither".

Respectfully,
Chuck