Wednesday, November 17, 2010
TSA pats down a screaming toddler
A TSA employee gave Mandy the pat down and she started screaming and kicking her legs. Her dad, Steve, happens to be a TV reporter and caught 17 seconds of the ordeal on his cell phone (watch video).
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Something that would solve much- if not all of this is for everyone to
1)realize that flying (comfortably, quickly, safely, etc.) is not a right,
2)chose not to fly if they do not accept TSA's regulations
or
3)deal with all this crap.
If people stopped flying, their actions would speak louder than any complaints. No one has enough backbone and/or commitment to act on stances. Demanding that you have no choice when traveling and commercial flight is one's right is a way to get nowhere. We are not victims of everything.
I agree that people should stop flying, but only temporarily. Of course technically we don't have a literal "right to fly", but we do have a right to conduct legal business with legal companies that offer a legal service. The TSA has no Constitutionally lawful right to cause the kind of interference that would eradicate airline companies and keep people from using the quickest, safest, most obviously vital modern mode of transportation available. Or to force unlawful searches and seizures. The simplest solution is for airports to exercise their contractual rights and fire TSA.
I wouldn't call what TSA is doing unlawful searches and seizures. I can legally walk up to an airport (or drive) with concealed firearms (with my CCL), razor blades, knives, etc. and tell a cop that I have those items. He/she would say "so what?" It is when I try to carry legally prohibited items into/onto a place where they are (sadly) not allowed that a problem comes up. When you buy an airplane ticket, you are agreeing not to do certain things and to do other things. The airline has the right to deny service at any time for many reasons. Security (no matter how ridiculous) is both a part of the service-customer agreement and (sadly) verification of policy adherence. At any time, the customer can break the contract (ticket policy/service agreement) by deciding not to travel via the agreement they chose to enter into. No force is applied here. The power is in the customer’s hands/decisions. When I went to give blood, I was questioned (including in-depth questioning on if I have had sex with prostitutes, other men, many partners, etc.), my blood tested for a variety of issues (including things that I had already answered questions regarding. I guess they thought I was lying), I had to wait in long lines, and many more inconveniences. I could have said that the government had no right to do that (it was a group working directly with a government entity), I could say that that was an unlawful search of my privacy and blood, or I could accept or reject the terms by donating or not donating blood. The choice was all mine- complete freedom. We all have it- even those that act like they don’t.
Agreed, but donating blood is just that; donating. It's quite different from traveling. Travel is necessary, blood donation isn't. And airports aren't legally obligated to retain TSA. And another problem is instances where the customer said "fine, I won't fly", and TSA detained them, keeping them from leaving the airport. The search and seizure issue will be decided from the lawsuits that are going on right now. But the supreme law of the land isn't suspended when you buy a service from a company. That's classic Communist/Fascist behavior.
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