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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
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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I just don't get your reasoning SM70. Would you prefer another 20 planes go down by the hands of terrorists so your rights won't be violated? Because something was added to our constitution in 1776 (when there were no fucking planes in the first place) you are willing to see more Americans die on our own soil? You want everyone to be presumes innocent until the bomb in their shoe goes off and kills everyone on the plane?
You make a comparison to someone's garage? No one's garage blew up and destroyed the WTC, nor did someone's garage fly around the country with targeted sites in mind. My friend Nicole was not in someone's garage when she died in Pennsylvania.
These are modern times with modern terrorists, with modern means to blow every last SOB in America to kingdome come. Can't we apply laws and amendments to fight these people? I am glad you are proud of your constitution and what it stands for, but this is 2004 and we need strong rules and regulations in place to protect us from 2004 dangers.
We know you are not a criminal, but they don't. It is the element of the unknown that justifies their need to search EVERYONE equally.