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As you know I have been more than ardent in my opposition to Roe vs. Wade. I have even written extensively a closely reasoned attack on Justice Ginsburg which I published here as a vanity and elsewhere as well. But there is a distinction to be observed between what is the state of the law and what ought to be the state of the law. I am simply trying to find authority to support the propositions that Freepers have so confidently asserted and I do not find it.

This is obviously going to be an emerging area of the law and technology as well as terrorist events will no doubt drive the law. Meanwhile, I do wish that Freepers would refrain the personal slaps stating that I have no respect for the Constitution, or words to that effect. As the article I cited states, ultimately this is a balancing act to determine the reasonableness. People of good will can differ on a standard of reasonableness. I am more concerned about preserving lives in the air and my conservative colleagues are more concerned about preserving dignity on the ground-which they would describe as the preservation of Constitutional rights. I'm all for preserving constitutional rights, when they are actually there.

I realize that you're one of the good guys, sir. I'm simply arguing that absolutely no Constitutional authority exists to justify the wholesale sexual assault of thousands of US citizens on a daily basis.

Were I to set up one of those scanners in a public place and sent 14 year old girls through it I'd be in prison under the Child Pornography Statutes so fast my head would spin. Further there is NO Federal Statute that I've been able to locate which exempts the TSA from prosecution for those crimes.

I'll further argue that while you may feel safer you are in fact not. This is all a bunch of Kabuki theater designed to reassure rather than actually reduce the threat.

In the meantime it's a multi-billion dollar yearly drain on our economy and even worse than that it's conditioning a formerly free people to become a bunch of bleating sheep.

And I'll not stand for it quietly.