Amendment IV, U.S. Constitution
This is a fundamental human right given to us by God and given legal force by the Bill of Rights. TSA has gone too far.
In other words WHAT THE HECK WAS SCANNING HIM ALL ABOUT ANYWAY? He was getting off a flight arrived from Paris. He didn't get on another flight according to the article. He doesn't fly again until next Wednesday.
I hope he succeeds then. G-d help us all!
It’s a shame that we have to read about people standing up for their rights in this country — in a UK paper.
Are our own news organizations too scared of the Obama Administration to speak the truth? Clearly, on item after item, they demonstrate that they do not have the courage to stand up to the defacto censorship of this administration.
Just as the health care industry was cowed by the threat of punishment, as the Obamacare bill apparently allows the executive branch to write any rules they want and apply them to any businesses they want.
In the same manner, the executive uses the power of the government to silence bank critics, to steal the voice of bondholders at the car companies.
And they even used the military leadership to denounce and silence a pastor who thought burning a Koran was a good method of protest.
Throughout this country, people are scared of the powers that bee. People know what they want to say, sometimes good things, sometimes incorrect things, but they are afraid to speak, lest the powers come down on them, punish them, banish them from the community.
Just like the muslims silencing the world against pointing out the problems with Mohommed, to the point where cable channels will refuse to run fictional TV shows lest their offices be blown up, the powers are afraid of rational discourse, of real discussion of the issues, afraid the populace might be stirred up against their preferred beliefs.
So in this case, knowing they couldn’t win, they let the guy go, but in a way that first made them feel in control, and second hid his victory from other passengers, lest they too understand what it means to stand up for freedom. So far as those passengers knew, the guy rationally arguing his position was hauled away for punishment, strip search, incarceration or to be sent back out of the country.
So, will the people rise up against the censorship, the raw use of power? Will the TSA be shut down as millions refuse to use the machines and overwhelm the gropers? Or will in the end the vast hordes of clueless passengers lash out not against the abuse of government, but against those who stand against it, because that stand holds them up from getting on their planes? The government has already planted THAT seed, having already publicly blamed these “malcontents” for slow lines this week.
My guess is the sheep will, instead of applauding those freedom fighters who stand up for truth, and who are willing to fight the power, will be the first to turn them in, lest they be inconvenienced.
"You see, it is official TSA policy that people (both citizens and non-citizens alike) from international flights are screened as they enter the airport, despite the fact that they have already flown."
Why are they doing this if you have ARRIVED and have ALREADY flown on the plane? Unless you are trying to make a connecting flight, what can they do if you refuse everything and just want to leave the airport?