I promise this is the last one. But this is a typical email I’ve gotten from Greenwald’s clan (and in fairness to Greenwald, it’s far more representative than that moonbat email I posted below):

Mr. Goldberg….
In the case Judge Alito ruled in, the mother and daughter did NOT have drugs on them. That’s a fact. So your entire premise is flawed, stem to stern.
This is exactly why we have the restraints of the United States Constitution, which you deem mere “procedural niceties” — to make sure that my daughter and yours are not subject to violation of their rights and modesty, without a damned good reason. And when we’re talking about innocent children, that is very important. You disagree, choosing to punish possible (not even proven!) errant parents through the humiliation and traumatization of their children. If you think that’s emotional hyperbole, just picture YOUR own daughter in the hands of the most careless cop.
I’m from a family of cops, and I think 99.9% of cops are good, honest, and upstanding. So I understand the tension between doing effective police work, and individual right. But I can also tell you that most cops themselves understand full well the need for some restraints, and for limits to police power. It’s no disrespect to them to acknowledge that there must be legal procedures, whether you belittle them glibly as “niceties” or not. Most cops get this. You apparently don’t.
I’m amazed at how you rightwingers are quick to give up on the basics of liberty. Your yearning for a police state borders on pathological.
sincerely,
[Name withheld]

Me: Again, I think the flaws in this argument speak for themselves. But, this reader makes a common — and in my view absurd — assertion: If a search isn’t fruitful it’s objectively unreasonable. By this logic, the millions of searches conducted at airports everyday are all unreasonable.

Also, for the record, should my daughter get caught at a drug dealer’s house and it turns out that the warrant was overly broad and that technically the cops weren’t authorized to have a female cop search her in a separate room, my reaction will not be “Damn this police state!” It will be, “What the hell were you doing at a drug dealer’s house!?”

That people think my reaction should be otherwise truly baffles me.