From: tcmay@got.net

If the Centennial Park is a public place, not a private one, as I believe to be the case, then it seems to me a person is within his rights to turn down the offer to be inspected, frisked, interrogated, etc. ........................................................

But if the park was a private one, would it make any difference? Between the "right" of being left alone, and the "legitimate needs" of law enforcers to frisk suspicious looking characters - whether in public or in private places - it seems rather difficult to draw that dividing line between allowance and forbearance. I mean, either it is, or it isn't, a "right". When could it really be okay to violate that definition. How are the law enforcers to do their job if they can't intrude into your shopping bag, when it's a critical National Emergency. This is what Denning is always referring to. .. Blanc