"Equal before the law" is not egalitarian.
Airport security is another issue. We are at war. There is nothing wrong with searching the citizens of enemy nations, which is to say, enemy aliens. The idea that old vietnamese ladies must be body searched is not rooted in conservatism.
It would be reasonable to say that all citizens must be searched, if our attackers were native-born Americans, based on the "equal before the law" notion, but of course they are not. They are from an identifiable part of the world. And they are not citizens.
There are two problems. One is that we are at war. "War" is what exists when normal civil and criminal law are no longer adequate to handle the current situation. But it is necessary to have a legal "finding" by our elected leaders that we are at war. They have, rather ambiguously, done that, but a more explicit declaration would, in my view, simplify the legal and constitutional quandaries that we find ourselves in.
Another problem is that approximately half of our country is not "conservative", in the sense we are discussing here. And this is where much of the irrationality in our system enters. It is obvious that profiling can be an abuse of power, but it is nevertheless a legitimate and necessary tool of law enforcement.
The original article is flawed, in that it attributes opinions to conservatives that they do not hold.