Reply #22: Security measures for special meetings of high-level people are ALWAYS different... [View All]

[Honeycombe8]

we're not talking about turning the country into a police state.

Lots of people want to kill the leaders, who are, unusually, all gathered together in one building. Lots of people are headed that way for the purpose of killing those leaders.

So the police have instituted a reasonable security measure for PEOPLE WHO ARE WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE OF THE BUILDING. They merely ask for I.D. And then they have the right to search anyone they think is suspicious.

If it were your life that were threatened, I wonder if you'd be so high and mighty.

It's not at all the same thing as the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act is a PERMANENT set of laws (altho it has to be extended), that can be used against ANYONE, at ANY TIME, for certain purposes that only certain people in the government conclude is a good purpose. It is also done in SECRET. And RECORDS ARE NOT MAINTAINED, SO THE PUBLIC WILL NEVER KNOW what was done and to whom.

This is out in the open...a mere asking to see I.D. Everyone knows about it. Who was asked, who did the asking. Policeman is answerable for his actions.

If you come into my house, I will ask you who you are and what you want. My house. If you don't want to say who you are and what you want, you have the option of not coming to my house.