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[marcusestes]

Yes, but friend: it matters much whether the state's deployment of ethics in the selection of potential suspects are good and just. An individual's ethnic heritage and choice of religion cannot in a free society suffice for just cause in being warrantlessly surveilled. That's what warrant means.

[walshemj → marcusestes]

How do you know that the roommates did not have reasonable suspicion and warrants on them.

[TheOtherHobbes → walshemj]

We don't.

But the odds are good - based on hard evidence - that the absence of warrants and reasonable suspicions makes no difference whatsoever.

[walshemj → TheOtherHobbes]

makes no difference to what - your not making sense here