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Originally Posted by teh603
National security is always a sticky area. Just saying, there's some areas where we're less than a heartbeat away from a disaster worse than 9/11. Most of those are close to the border.
Then there's also the issue that Probable Cause in court is vastly different from reasonable suspicion outside of one. I could reasonably suspect that someone has the plans for an attack on (for example) an oil refinery, but I can't pick them up unless they do something that gives me Probable Cause. And by the time I get that, they could've already gone and done the deed.
This isn't always about a few bootlegged PDfs, MP3s, and MKVs, y'know.
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It's exactly this sort of thinking that facilitates government overreach. As soon as someone questions something like the current (massively wasteful) security measures at airports, someone else will scream 9/11, and all arguments about whether it's actually a good idea cease. This sort of argument is barely above the level of "well, if you have nothing to hide..."