"Even war as a metaphor — the war on drugs, for example — can have a dramatic, and unequal, effect on civil liberties, as shown by the recent revelations of how widespread racial profiling had become before the public even had a name for the practice. "You fly the metaphor of war, and constitutional protections all cut in one direction," said Dennis J. Hutchinson, a law professor and historian at the University of Chicago. He said the "deconstitutionalization of the automobile" — the ever wider discretion for police searches for drugs — "is the most obvious recent example of panic moving the terms of discourse." " see also : Stallman, Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties?