You are right twyacht. However, think back to Katrina and NO. Outside of the NRA and places like this, how many viewed those citizens as victims rather than nuts? We view their Rights being infringed, and we view this man's Rights as being infringed, but the general public is going to get lost in what ever else it was that he was doing and see him as a "ranting nut."
I'm not saying that the inspector or the officer were anywhere near legal, but they are driving the wedge deeper and deeper every time they do this and we let it go by. Unfortunately, like I was trying to point out, the media will focus more on what she finds than the real issue ... Constitutional protection of Rights.