Ordinary Day

The Ragister gives a Thistle, from their Roses & Thistles column, to federal and local authorities who recently conducted a routine "spot check to make sure nothing out of the ordinary is going on" at a Des Moines bus station.

The Ragister questions whether authorities Remember the 4th Amendment?

Maybe the Ragister should read the 4th Amendment and the scientific community is united in that fact.

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.

Their appears to be nothing "unreasonable" about what authorities did as there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a bus station.

The Ragister is upset that authorities were looking for illegal immigrants, yet I can find nothing from their recent editorial stuff critical of the TSA, Homeland Security or body scanner checks of legal citizens in airports.

Granted the Ragister's search engine is shitty, but they still have archives of two stories (here and here) from last fall when full body scans were becoming a hot topic.