Originally Posted by
SgtScott31
Airport/mass transit security checkpoints are not going to move out onto the streets of America.
They will the first or second time that terrorists choose to blow up a shopping mall, apartment complex, or gridlocked highway intersection.
We all know this, so I wish everyone would cease from attempting to use the excuse that these type searches are going to move elsewhere. The difference in having such checkpoints where they are now is the constant reminder (through plenty of statistics), that aircraft and mass transit are targets for terrorism because of the high fatality rate that comes with it. It happens worldwide, nothing new.
I remember folks saying that the President would
never condone stuff like Watergate, etc. And I remember when the US took a leadership posture on protecting human rights against imprisonment w/o trial.
This very well could move into the streets. You already get searched going into some airport roads and garages, driving into some parking garages in major metro cities (sign at entrance to midtown NYC parking garage: "all vehicles entering will be searched"). ID checks are commonplace for major commercial buildings in NY and other places.
And the stage is set: drunk driving checkpoints are legal and done all the time, license and registration checkpoints are done all the time. Washington DC implemented a checkpoint for people entering the Trinidad neighborhood in the name of "preventing violence", there are CBP checkpoints inside the border. All appear to have been upheld.
So, yes, we're likely to see it after a non-transportation terror attack.