Sara Palin and the Tea Party think the government has no business interfering with the daily business of innocent Americans. Either you have rights or you don't. Either you're for Liberty or you are against it.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
For a couple of centuries, the country operated on the premise that vagrancy laws and other statutes hostile to the criminal element were not "unreasonable". Again, was the country really one vast gulag before the 1960's? I seem to recall an era when people left their homes and their vehicles unlocked.