All these labels. Fascist, Racist, Evidence. SCOTUS says. You don't like that? No one likes that. It is the very point.
IAC>...road stops.
September 13, 2008
Homeland security has setup up 3 internal checkpoints on the Olympic Peninsula. These checkpoints are in addition to checkpoints at Washington Ferry docks and highway border crossings. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, it has a jurisdiction of about 100 miles from the border. This puts most of Washington state in an area where border checkpoints are authorized, including Seattle.
(The point can be debated, but the courts have ruled that vehicle checkpoints at which all vehicles are stopped, and are subjected to no more than cursory search in the absence of probable cause, do not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless search.)
It is very simple. We are in wartime. It is not as bad a WW2 actual, but we see what happens when we get threatened. WE tighten up. There is no THEY.
With the Korean War, we began to loosen up. We had no domestic enemies.
But, then the Cold War. And that is what brought God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Fear of Flash Death. Now we have less fear and we don't want to talk about God so much. Yet, we have a very real threat from the Borders. And suspcionless search applied to all is just fine.
It all is really rather simple if you do your own study.