America prides itself upon being known as the “land of the free”, but this simply cannot be true, because through the court decisions so made at the highest levels of government, along with the way that the policing arm of the state is able to conduct its business upon citizens of this great nation -- freedom, has seemingly taken a permanent handcuffed back seat. Despite, the fact that our 4th Amendment clearly states, that “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses… shall not be violated,” literally thousands of times each year, through no-knock police raids, people’s houses and persons are not secure from the long arm of the law, doing whatever it so desires, with minimal oversight by those that are in a position to uphold Constitutional law, but choose not to. Further to the point, in this country, people that are out in public square, are susceptible to being stopped by the police for absolutely no reason, providing the police with the opportunity to then engage them in a conversation or search, in which, though citizens are entitled to ask as to whether they are under arrest or free to go -- many of those citizens are quite reluctant to ask those very questions to a police officer, because they know that the officer has the imminent power to detain them, to arrest them, and regrettably, to use physical force against them, if those officers are not content with their compliance.
So then, when citizens are neither free when they are out in the public, nor when they are at home, then the people are not free and clearly have no safe place of sanctuary. Yet, a person’s home really should be their castle, and therefore the entry of police officers into anybody’s home, should rightly be the highest of hurdles to overcome, of which, citizens at a minimum, are entitled to see the warrant, authorizing such a search, and of which, no-knock raids should be banned as inimical to that Constitution of, by, and for the people.
What a given person does behind closed doors should be to a very large extent their own private business. After all, the fact that what is or is not occurring in the privacy of one’s home is not being done out in the purview of the public eye, is indicative that the government, should not tread within those areas that are the private spaces of those that they are supposed to be servants of. Of course, there are lots of things that people do, that other people and even governments, for that matter, do not care for, but virtually nobody likes a busybody, and there isn’t any good and sound reason of why the Constitution should be forsaken for governmental curiosity, for intimidation, for monitoring, or for control. Rather, people need to have the freedom to be about their business, and to live their lives in a manner of which they are not obligated to being forced to conform to societal or governmental norms, or of always having to look over their shoulder to worry about what the government may or may not do to them; for each of us should be fairly entitled to pursue whatever that it is, that brings us peace and contentment.