You can see good examples on the show "COPS",,..Most cops
are trained to think it is part of their job to use any of the many,
"probable cause",exceptions,to go as far as they think they can
get away with,,,and now days,"probable cause",can be whatever
the cop says it is,,in other words,,guilty until stripsearched,is
standard procedure,,and like E.Johnsons suggests,cops,and other
enforcement people will easily succumb to the part of human nature
that lies dormant in all people,,and this dormant trait can be,and is
cultivated by law enforcement training.It is related to the "power
corrupts" theory.

Going through customs in Moscow,in 1976,,was an experience I will
never forget.The Soviet customs agents were perfect examples of
the "ugliness" E.J. spoke of.....The strange ordeal took a couple of
hours.People were arbitrarily split up at the beginning,after turning
over my visa,(which took 4 months to get,and required information
on family history,,names of relatives,etc..),I was directed into a
certain line.All this took place in this huge aircraft hanger,and while
waiting in line,I got to see numerous incidents where these gestapo-like
customs soldiers interrogated people,tore linings out of garments,emptied
the entire contents of luggage out on tables,and rummaged through everything.
It seemed as if American travelers were treated a bit more respectfully,but
I met several Americans who had Russian ancestry,who were also treated
quite rudely.
Finally I got to the head of the line,and I was directed over to this desk.
The guy behind the desk could best be described as "a bitter munchkin ".He
asked me a bunch of weird questions,,the most memorable one was,as
he began to open up my backpack,he said;"You got any dirty American porno
magazines in here!?"....This guy definitly had the "disease"..The two Bibles
I had were viewed with much suspicion.

Their reasoning for the search was ridiculous. I hope they lose big time just so none of us have to go through it.

As for the drug war being a conservative (Republicrat) thing, the liberals (Demopublicans) back it just as much.

Anyone from the governement will have to make a monthly payments?

Anna, I'm with you. I think I would just say, "I will not allow you to do that and I'd advise you not to try it" and then go berserk if they did. Damn, if they're going to rape you, what do have to lose? Might as well do some damage before being carted off. What else are they gonna do, lock you in jail....what's the worst that could happen there...?

Sadly, I think this is FAR more common that people realize. There was a lawsuit in Boston, Mass, where about a dozen women sued the County Sheriff dept (inlc. the jail), they all got cavity searched on very minor arrests, like outstanding parking tickets, speeding, etc. There, it doesn't matter if you fight back or not, they're equipped and ready for huge guys that resist. Any time you get arrested and put into a jail they can and will search you. Or if you happen to visit the fine city of New York, you might get lucky and draw the "plunger treatment"!

A lot of countries in Europe operate within an overriding philosophy: law enforcement must adhere to the same laws that apply to everyone else. Over time we've picked more and more conservative judges - they just ruled that you can be taken into custody and put in jail for something as minor as a seat belt violation! That was a case with a woman also.

It bothers me how complicit the media is on this stuff - they normalize this type of invasion by validating the propaganda theme:

"Kaniff also acknowledged telling a therapist she was ''constantly stoned'' on marijuana for part of her teen years"

For all intents and purposes, the Customs agents rolled up the Constitution and sodomized this woman with it. Then she was subjected to a forced X-ray that was predetermined to provide no medical benefit, which suggests to me a multi-million dollar medical malpractice suite against Resurrection Hospital.

The gummint attorneys argue for an arbitrary criteria that constitutes probable cause:
Kaniff was returning from Jamaica, a known drug-supplying country, after a reasonably short stay, had paid $600 cash for her ticket and didn't know the exact address of the person who was picking her up at the airport

None of these acts are criminal. In fact, there is no evidence that a crime has taken place. The Feds are literally arguing that the use of "legal tender" suggests the appearance of criminal activity.

I'm willing to bet that the jury will agree with the gummint. Our judicial process allows the prosecutors to dismiss almost any juror who might be honest enough to admit that these actions represent the most egregious tactics of a totalitarian police state. The jury box will be filled with people who more or less have agreed in advance that the Customs agents have to access our interiors and bodily fluids to protect children.

It would be entirely justified: he's coming from a drug-supplying nation, his airfair was stolen from the American taxpayer, and he doesn't even know his own address, let alone those of the people picking him up.

The same aggressive ugly smirking bastards worked there as work here. It's just the uniforms and language are different.

These drug police imagine themselves as heroes, and so did the KGB.

They have personality disease that they catch from an overly large bureacracy that rewards the worst personality traits possible.

Forget Marx -- Communist repression was at its heart a disease of pure human ugliness independent of politcal ideology.

The same ugliness is in the heart of everyone, waiting for the right kind of political situation to allow it to emerge and become strong and dominant.

Now we are dominated by this same kind of ugly people.

How long will it take us to set ourselves free from them?