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Originally Posted by denim
It's not for our protection. It's to make us feel like they're doing something, which they are: they're taking your civil liberties. What if I'm not really a fat man? Maybe it's all make up and I've got a bomb. You let the thin edge of the wedge in, and you'll lose your freedoms next. The terrorists won. I wish people would realize that, when they give up the very freedoms the terrorists were against, in the name of "protection", that they've given in.
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Actually, it's perfectly legal and none of our 4th amendment rights are being violated. Why? In the past, the Supreme Court has declared it legal for anyone to be subject to a pat down search without a warrant because of the threat of air piracy. They issued the opinion that the airport security checkpoint is an "emergency search" because of that threat of air piracy.
I totally agree that they're putting on nothing more that a show to give America a warm fuzzy feeling that they’re being made more "secure" when in fact, hundreds if not thousands of people by now have gotten past TSA wonders and nothing is being done about it. As a pilot, I deal with those brainless fuckers every day I go to work and I dread every minute of it.