Originally Posted by spazlabz

the thing is that you are really missing the point. I can understand the view that safety is higher than personal freedoms and privacy I really can. But it is un-American to do warrant-less searches and Americans should be pissed off about it. The government does not have the right to take away the peoples rights without due cause and simply showing up somewhere does not justify due cause in any way and should not be construe as our tacit consent to such searches. We Americans can be a rowdy bunch of fuckers hell bent on supporting various things without much need for explanations or facts. But to witness the erosion of rights that our grandparents would have (and did) die defending and the American publics seemingly unchallenging acceptance of this 'new reality' is very surprising to me and should be fought.

I have no idea how things are in Europe because I have never been there but I can freely admit my ignorance of your laws and if they are correct. But for Americans we need to rely on and have faith in our constitution and for the government to appear to be dismissing it out of hand is a troubling thing for rational minded people over here.