I like how Journeyman put it, that if the dog says search than you get searched. Only one problem with that.... there are thousands of different kinds of explosives and most dogs can only be trained to ?hit? on 5 to 8.
Second, I know the media loves to pump up the idea that racial profiling is illegal, but it is not. That is it is not illegal when used with other reasons and not just race (i.e. actions, clothing, behavior, location, time of year, etc. )
I want to know since when does random mean anyone with a foreign passport? That may be true in your experience, but how come we keep seeing the 80 year old ladies being searched on the news?
O and not liking searches without reasonable suspicion, well not even the courts can agree on what that means (especially the 9th circuit court) so I?m not going to bother.
Wow the cameras help? If they help how come they have been getting blown up lately?
I love Susan?s thinking about the terrorist?s giving the package to someone. But the problem with that thinking is that isn?t how they act. As it is well documented they want to die for their ?religious cause? to get their ?heavenly rewards?.
I may sound like I am a anti rights - pro government, but I?m actually the opposite. I am very much for minimalist government. But being a governor, mayor, president, senator, etc., is kinda like being a police officer or even kinda like being in the military. It doesn?t matter what they do, there is always someone in the public on the news whining and crying about not liking what they are doing. If the politicians let things go along as normal without ?random searches? or some other means to try to stop an attack and something was to happen, they would be crucified. But now they are tying to avoid a incident and they are still being crucified.
I have always had the mentality that if you don?t like what is happening, don?t whine, come up with a better idea on how it should be done and make it happen.
But because our country is full of a bunch of OVERLY SENSITIVE, EASILY OFFENDED, people that somehow constantly get air time on the news, nothing that is ?truly effective? will ever be done.
WOW sorry about the rant, guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />