RE: Violation or Protection? [OLYMPICS]

[Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>]

>From: 	tcmay@got.net
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>If the Centennial Park is a public place, not a private one, as I believe
>to be the case, then it seems to me a person is within his rights to turn
>down the offer to be inspected, frisked, interrogated, etc.
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But if the park was a private one, would it make any difference?

Between the "right" of being left alone, and the "legitimate needs" of
law enforcers to frisk suspicious looking characters - whether in public
or in private places - it seems rather difficult to draw that dividing
line between allowance and forbearance.

 I mean, either it is, or it isn't, a "right".   When could it really be
okay to violate that definition.  How are the law enforcers to do their
job if they can't intrude into your shopping bag, when it's a critical
National Emergency.  This is what Denning is always referring to. 

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Blanc 
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