Stopping the American Police State

AN AMERICAN GENTELMAN, a scholar, a student of Arab culture and language, made a serious mistake recently at an American airport. He got out his Arab language word study flash cards, and began studying them. That simply won't do, not in the United States of Anit-Terrorism. Aforementioned American gentleman was detained for several housrs, cuffed, and questioned, by all manner of airport anti-terrorist security personnel. When it was determined, belatedly, that the young gentleman was a good loyal law abiding American citizen, rather than an Arab terrorist, he was released. All this treatment riled him up a mite, but he fared no better in court, which ruled that his constitutional rights had not been violated, and that his treatment at the airport was within, albeit barely, the scope of legality. Really? Handcuffed, hands behind his back, for five hours, and interrogated, in an American airport: an American citizen, because he was studying Arabic. And that's constitutional? Valid search and seizure, no violations of privavy rights? Where, exactly, is the probable cause? If linguistic studies consiitute probably cause for investigation of potential terroristic activity, the United Sates of America is rapidly approaching the paranoid police state level of a Nazi Germany, a Stalinist Russia, or a Maoist China. I mean, its really getting bad in America, in terms of an encroaching authoritarian police state smothering the life out of the republic. That, combined with America's usual twin demons, public ignorance and apathy. When will the American people revolt, and put an end to all this nonsense? When we all get birthday cards, on the right day, from the National Security Agency? Or when everyone in the country has been strip searched several times?