Backstory:US Gov't domestic intelligence agency in Missouri (one of many throughout the US) tasked with monitoring "terrorist groups" leak reports that Ron Paul supporters and supporters of third party candidates should be monitored as likely terrorists. I just posted about this last week.

While at St. Louis airport, man with Ron Paul stickers in a box is detained for carrying cash.

My wife would argue that he should've just told them why he had the cash and been done with it.

The problem is that this is part of a scary trend. Just try taking pictures on a public street of a government building, and see what happens. It's part of a growing lack of recognition of basic rights. We are headed towards a police state, and we put up with it because it's more convenient at the time. And any time we have any kind of national emergency we give just a little bit more of of freedom away in the name of safety. We put up with police roadblocks conducted in the name of drunk driving prevention. Sure that's a great goal, keep drunks off the road, but does that mean that we all have to consent to suspicionless searches and inquiries? What happens if you don't answer their questions?

Remember this from grade school:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."

Does that even apply anymore?