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Originally Posted by denim
We're not being "screened" by private companies/groups/property, but by the Federal Government, to which the Fourth Amendment applies specifically. Try again.
It wasn't done AT ALL as far as I know in the 70s or 80s except in very unusual circumstances. All they did back then was put people through metal detectors.
I was thinking of the white guy who blew some punks away on that same train, who was villified for defending himself. Ah well.
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Fair enough. When it was private, everyone screamed that it wasn't consistent or good enough, thus the TSA was born, that's the way that I recall it. Maybe federal mandates and guidelines for those private companies to do so, which I understand is starting to happen as smaller airports.
maybe i'm confusing my international travels but I do recall some invasive searches after the Lockerbie incident.
that was Bernard Getz and that was the subway in the middle of the night. Colin was during rush hour on the way home.
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