[Zhang Fei]

So, sixty odd posts through this thread, and nobody has rallied to your cause or embraced your argument . . . yet we're the "so-called conservatives" around here? Might want to take a look in the ol' mirror, there, my faux Chinese friend, and consider the previously unthinkable: you're wrong. It's okay. Even Arthur Fonzarelli was known to make mistakes from time to time. And giving a draconian, statist, decidedly anti-American notion like "stop-n-frisk" a big ol' bearhug when you're a self-styled conservative is, um, not right.

Actually, I'll think what is decidedly thinkable, that none of these commenters has lived in a slummy area of NYC (or anywhere else), but love indulging in the Walter Mitty-ish fantasies prevalent in Hollywood action thrillers. I have, and it's no picnic. Given the actual lay of the land, stop-and-frisk is the worst law enforcement program out there except for all the other real-world options.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Actually, I'll think what is decidedly thinkable, that none of these commenters has lived in a slummy area of NYC (or anywhere else), but love indulging in the Walter Mitty-ish fantasies prevalent in Hollywood action thrillers.

If you don't like the lay of the land, don't live in a f*cking lawless hell hole, then. I think most of us can do the math on that, and we understand by instinct that free men cannot be ruled as though their default state were criminal.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Ben Franklin

If you cannot grasp this, you, sir, are the fraud, and don't belong among free men here on FR.