We don't enforce the borders and that benefits big business, the Democrat party and those Rinos who live off K St.
We do operate on the edge of due process (in this case clearly beyond) because it benefits big business. The idea that one more midair explosion might cause billions of dollars in air travel and billions more in broken business deals means that the government will move heaven and earth to prevent air terrorism.
The interesting question from a due process point of view is how do we manage on the spot decision-making by a host of intervenors from untrained ticket agents to air-traffic controllers and other federal agents who presumably are trained, to decide on the spot whether to risk 300 passengers lines or intrude on one man's constitutional rights.
We will need to build a body of rules and laws which provides for flexibility and yet protects our constitutional values and does not become so rigid that it is both arbitrary and expensive. The difficulty is setting standards which all of these intervenors can apply on the spot in real-time but which do not become bureaucratic and arbitrary.
