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The liberty stuff and freedom stuff.

Some rules/laws are based on safety - your safety and others. 65mph on our highways is for your safety - does it affecting your liberty, affecting your freedom? You can still get to where you want to go, just safer than without the law. Driving isn't a right, it is a privledge. Flying isn't a right, it is a privledge. You are welcome to drive to Costa Rica or walk or take a bus.


Your ignorance of Constitutional law is only matched by your blatant disregard for the dignity of the working girls. Yes, travel is indeed a Constitutional right. Go back to school.

TSA is acting on behalf of the airline. If a carrier doesn't protect you and the other passengers, they'll get sued. You are flying on someone else's property.

The airlines are subsidized by the government, and therefore act on its behalf. And BTW, the airlines still get sued a bunch. Suggesting that the TSA exists to prevent the airlines from being sued is ludicrous.

Let's say a certain passenger refused to let the airport folks search his bags, they tell everyone on the plane to get off or fly at their own risk, if everyone got off the plane what are the chances that Delta will take only you to Costa Rica?

I've never seen this happen. The passenger whose rights (4th Amendment) have been violated is simply detained. Again, Dewey, you need to go back to school.

Mixing constutional arguments with TSA's right to search your bags for the safety of others and on the behalf of Delta and Delta's stockholders is next to insane.

TSA does not have the "right" to do anything. The citizen, under our laws has the rights, not governmental institutions. Again, go back to school.

I don't know of anywhere in the world where they put your rights above the safety of the other passengers. A lot of people might say, well if you don't like it, you should move out of the USA (childish sort of stmt), but in this case, where is there to go? Where you can fly and not have your bags searched?

....I also had my nipples waxed and shaved my sac...er, maybe too much information?

Yes of course EC - right after you've had the last word we'll stop the political debate.

You try to make the USA look bad - just list all the places in the world where they will let you board an airplane without searching. You are so eager to jump on me, you ignored much of what I said in my post. You aren't jumping on your own personal plane to go to CR so you are subject to search like it or not. Flying is a privlegde, it isn't a right.


Wrong! interstate travel without government interference is guaranteed by the Constitution, whether you fly, drive, walk, bicycle or crawl. The mode of travel does not matter.

You are right from this point of view ONLY - you have every right not to allow you bags to be searched.... every right in the world and there is absolutely NO doubt about this. You can exit the airport NO questions asked after refusing because once you invoke this right, you absolutely have no right to fly. I've never ever ever heard (and I'm a news junkie) anyone question searches by the TSA except to say they need to do better searches.

In principle, I have no problem with searches. i really don't. It's just that the American people have been misled into believing that these searches make them safer. They might or might not; my point is, does the loss of liberty/privacy make anyone safer? Nope. A trained fighter with or without weapons can take a plane.

The Constitution was enacted in part to protect the rights of people to assemble, travel, worship, be free from governmental abuses. If we start ignoring the Constitution, we will lose other rights as well.

Strictly speaking, you are right. Trouble is, you won't be flying anywhere if you invoke your right. If you invoke your right, no one, is going to the supreme court with you over this one.

Don't be surprised. There are numerous people who are not afraid to be men, rather than being sheep.

Watch out though, exiting the airport after saying you won't allow a search, you've just given them cause. Strange guy in the airport of all places invoking his constutional rights... what's up with this guy? hmmmmm....