Originally Posted by
Jughead
Sorry to beat this horse even deader.
While I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, it's a moot point once we've set foot in the airport and voluntarily and willingly subjected ourselves to the screening process. Outside the airport terminal, whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person. To give the TSA this amount of power is to give them a big step down the path of totalitarianism. But again, flying isn't a right and the Fourth Amendment won't protect us from what we might consider an unreasonable search.
Ya' know, the problem with the argument "you don't HAVE to travel on an airplane" is, it's not too far a stretch until you're at the "you don't HAVE to walk down the sidewalk/leave your house" argument. Where, exactly, do you draw the line (of reason) of the "you don't have to...." at? I know I don't "have to" go to work. Heck, I don't have to draw the next breath....unless I choose to. I guess my libertarian bias is showing (again).
Chuck