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When the Constitution is successfully amended, I'll stop complaining. Until then, the fourth amendment is still there in that very wording. And I don't think anyone's going to get the constitution amended to say that the government has the right to search people arbitrarily because "anyone" can be a threat.
Who's to say it stops at airports? Anyone could be storing stockpiles of chemical warfare in their garage. We just don't know. I guess we should randomly search people's garages as well since anyone could be a terrorist. No particular reason to think they might be, just that ANYONE could be.
It sounds ludicrous, but it's very similar logic. Once rights begin to be violated it starts a very slippery slope.
I am not a criminal and I have a right to not be treated as one until they have reason to suspect me of being one.
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