Response to the 14th Amendment Question

The 14th Amendment is not designed to hinder protecting citizens from wartime enemies or criminal activity. If a criminal suspect meets a certain description, cops are able to stop a person who meets that description, whether they be red, brown, grew, blue, male female, 10 or 100. This is not a violation of the Constitution. It WOULD be a violation of the Constitution to lock up every single person meeting a description, or even a single person meeting that description without a fair trial…but to think we cannot investigate a suspect meeting a description because of the 14th Amendment is absurd.

If an 18-40 white male murders someone and is trying to drive away, the cops don’t stop cars full of families or Hispanic ladies, they stop cars with white men from 18-40 to check them to see if they have the murder weapon or blood on their shirt. If they pull over an innocent white man 18-40 and let him go, it is not a violation of the 14th Amendment. Now it seems to me stupid to pull over all cars and do a roadblock to “treat everyone equally.” That is what happens on the airlines.

In the post 9/11 world, we face a different type of criminal/enemy…if you believe George Bush, we cannot wait for the terrorist to commit a crime before chasing him down and prosecuting him – by then it is too late. Imagine that - we’ll show you Mohammed Atta – we sentence you to life in prison…no voting for you – HA! Don’t think so. So it’s a tricky situation and clearly terrorists has figured out a loophole in our system to exploit.