Homework #13

The New York Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of the searches, however, and Mr. Kelly said department lawyers were researching the constitutional implications. "Every certain number of people will be checked," Mr. Kelly said. "We'll give some very specific and detailed instructions to our officers as to how to do this in accordance with the law and the Constitution."

As you can see from above, if the government wants to get something done, they will always find a way around it, no matter what the case may be. I agree with the idea of searching bags for the protection of us as Americans, but i do not like the idea of peoples names being put in a database nonchalantly. If they want to check our bags as a safety precaution then fine, but for us to have our names in a random database doesn't suit me well. I do believe that by having random bag searches, it will make terrorists or anybody trying to harm Americans think twice about doing stuff. The government has been getting ridiculous lately but with recent attacks and threats, its quite reasonable. I mean it all balls down to the question, would you rather have your bag checked? Or be blown up in a train station? Think about it.