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[QUOTE=Graham;849772]If that is so, isn't that a good thing?[quote]
Only if you think it's reasonable to strip-search, say, all teenagers daily at school, in order to catch the drug traffickers, or strip-search office employees to find the ones who might have cocaine on their persons.
The problem isn't "they're using this to find drugs." (Although I have issues with a lot of the anti-some-drugs laws, too; those are separate.) The problem is that it's requiring *everyone* to give up privacy and dignity, to *potentially* catch a very few criminals. It's "guilty--or at least suspicious--until proven innocent."
And it only potentially catches them, because those who didn't hide drugs or weapons on their persons won't be caught this way. There are still ways to hide contraband in both carry-on and checked luggage, and no amount of searching is ever going to be 100% effective. AAAnd... this only catches individuals. The illegal drug *industries* don't need to sneak a quarter-ounce of white powder onto any particular airplane. To stop those criminals, you need the ability to search warehouses & shipping trucks, or impound private planes. (And for those, you need warrants.) The big criminals bypass airport security entirely.
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