very small terrorists?

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. ~ U.S. Constitution, Amendment 4. We have this protection in place against this type of thing, though it does seem to be ignored sometimes here, especialy where federal issues are comcerned, but we have Bush's patriot act (voted for by Obama as well) to thank for that. We also have seen another disturbing trend in violating this...in the form of our border patrol. They have taken up the practice of setting up random checkpoints on highways in states that border Mexico or Canada and in a lot of other cases, states on the coast where no such border exists, they consider them, "ports of entery". I'm not talking about the standard check points you encounter at the border when you cross in to our country, no, these check points are sometimes as much as 75 miles from any border. But what you are describing is even more obsurd and "Orwellian". I have been mainly focused on these things in my own country but it has not escaped my notice thatthe U.K. seems to be reverting to a police state as well, in many ways more blatently and faster than we are. You guys ned to really start rising against this type of thing while you still have the ability to do so. Once liberty is gone, it is rarely returned.

In the USA? Well DUH? Ask Chaney! tdemex

Yes, the way some racists in congress want to do in fighting terrorism in USA is to allow police do 'shi*' like you described in UK, they claimed racial profiling is a great way in stopping terrorism, so they single out minority group like muslims, middle eastern people, non white Americans for harassment , unfortunately many white Americans believe it will work. It is crazy n hateful.!!!!

hi jb, Police and politician in any country and any kind of set up be it democratic or dictoatorship would want as much control and power on the common public as they can. This is so more now in western countries where citizens had lot of freedom and rights. I think police there is as incompitent as elsewhere so they start accumulating powers and then misuse it. Ofcourse most of laws aew rediculous and mostly used by police and politicians to settle their own scores. But this is going too far ahead if police is checking children in name of terrorism ..the children who dont even know what terrorism is.

I think we should not suspect our police work. I know most of childre are not terrorist but you don't know what will happen with some children. They might be used by other adult or terrorits to take terrorism weapon and hurt people. I also want to say becuase the TV and internet develop today's children know a lot more than before. The tradionational definition abut childre should be adjusted. Don't get me wrong I don't mean children are terrorists but some children do have the ability to be a potential terrorist. I think the UK school should tell children more how to avoid being used by terrorists so maybe police would have less excuses to check children. happy mylotting.

Yeah, terrorist make all people worried. I am from Indonesia. As all people know couple weeks ago in Indonesia get bomb terror again. That is bad. That is make Indonesia have bad situation. In here have anti terror laws but I don't know about actualization. I hope no terror again