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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Be careful, you are dangerously close to arguing for a gun ban with that statement.
As to your other points, entering an airport terminal, a hospital building, or a government building are all situations where you are entering specially protected areas. You don't need to enter those areas, you chose to enter those areas. You aren't simply going about your life, you are accessing some non-public space. While I cringe every time I go through those security checkpoints, I can't argue that they violate my rights.
Walking down the street, just existing in the world, is not accessing some non-public space or entering a specially protected area. Walking down the street is a case of "if I'm not doing anything wrong then leave me alone!" This doesn't mean if I have the same skin tone as the guy you expect might possibly do something wrong sometime in the future. It doesn't mean I look like someone who might be up to no good. If I'm not doing something wrong then leave me alone.
Yes, I am against any and all BS random traffic stops. If I'm not doing anything wrong then leave me alone. I don't care what you think, expect, or hope I might be doing, if I'm not doing anything wrong then leave me alone.
No, I don't want you to stop the dog walker but I also don't want you to stop me just because you find my insomnia odd. If I'm not doing anything wrong then leave me alone.
A frisk IS a search by any definition of the word. The only reason to perform a frisk is to determine if someone is carrying something. It IS a search of the person.
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Interesting how you bring back the racial issue that was not even referenced in my post. You say, that you do not have to enter the hospital or airport, but you HAVE TO WALK DOWN THE STREET AT 3am? You don't like being stopped if you aren't doing anything wrong? Remember, driving is a privilege NOT a right. You don't like? I doubt anyone likes being interrupted when they are about their business, but that's life and if our courts are not going to prosecute evil then our first line of defense (besides ourselves) is local law enforcement. Don't you just hate standing in line to make a purchase? I have been in countries where folks did not stand in line. Hated it, but it was their country.
Sometimes we have to live with certain curbed or infringed liberties. That's life.