Will Strip Searches Stop Terrorism and Save America?Scott Morgan Bear with me if you dare to behold the perverted madness of the most esteemed judges in the nation. Every detainee who will be admitted to the general population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed, Justice Kennedy wrote, adding that about 13 million people are admitted each year to the nations jails. This right here is where the problem begins: the jailing of a jaw-dropping 13 million people every year, all of whom have to be stripped naked for their own safety, of course. A nun was strip-searched, he wrote, after an arrest for trespassing during an antiwar demonstration. Awesome. Yeah, nothing promotes public safety like strip-searching a pacifist nun. Justice Kennedy responded that people detained for minor offenses can turn out to be the most devious and dangerous criminals. He noted that Timothy McVeigh, later put to death for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was first arrested for driving without a license plate. But they didnt find fifty pounds of fertilizer in his underpants, did they? Seriously, what on earth does Timothy frickin McVeigh have to do with this? One of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks was stopped and ticketed for speeding just two days before hijacking Flight 93, Justice Kennedy added. Again, what are you talking about? Did he have the 9/11 attacks hidden in his ass? This is all just a bunch of insulting irrelevant nonsense that has nothing whatsoever to do with the question of whether we should strip search people for frivolous shit like breaking traffic laws. Justice Breyer wrote that there was very little empirical support for the idea that strip-searches detect contraband that would not have been found had jail officials used less intrusive means, particularly if strip-searches were allowed when officials had a reasonable suspicion that they would find something. A valiant effort from Breyer, but it is apparently a waste of time to demand evidence of an actual public safety purpose to be served by searching the junk of 13 million people every year, or to suggest that one needs to have reasonable suspicion of any particular threat before poking around down there. Keep in mind that the only thing all these people have in common is that a cop somewhere decided to arrest them for something. In a concurrence, Chief Justice Roberts, quoting from an earlier decision, said that exceptions to Mondays ruling were still possible to ensure that we not embarrass the future. Ive never heard the phrase embarrass the future before, but I cant think of a better time and place to introduce such a concept. Its as if somewhere deep in the subconscious mind of the Chief Justice, a little voice is screaming that this is all completely sick, embarrassing, and insane. Please support Scotts work at FlexYourRights.org or StopTheDrugWar.org. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 