I would have said something to the search, but my experience with the Galveston (TX)Sherriff's Dept. would prove me otherwise...

I was getting on the ferry in Bolivar (to Galveston), and the GCSO stopped me at the checkpoint and said something like "By the authority of the Patriot Act, we are searching your car.. ..if you refuse, you will be barred from this ferry and must leave..." I would have taken pretty much anything except being kicked off the ferry, so I, of course, consented (it's like a 3 hour detour, vs. a 45 minute drive after the Ferry).

This is really the first time in my life that I felt violated due to security, and this event really took the cake. Only about 3 weeks ago, beginning of March --two thousand freakin' seven.....and crap like this is still taking place in America. It really upset me, and I am sooooo such a believer in personal rights and individual freedoms.

Anyways, this taught me that, if one wants to be left alone, thy ought to be violated and and go on about your business.

Doesn't that sound like some worthless gangster movie? Oh, well...such as we have become....