“DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?”
That was Rick Perry’s line to the DPS officer a few years ago.
This would happen to any of us who refuse the patdown. I am glad that Paul did what I would want to do if I ever decide to fly again...which won’t be before the next election...hopefully things will change. It’s all a bunch of bullcrap and solves nothing.
Mini-Me, or Dr. Evil.
Love or hate the man, the country can not fall back into the hell that was during the last decades of the 18th century, where Senators and Representatives were being summarily arrested by partisan LEOs along the Route 1 corridor on the Eastern Seaboard while they pliticians were in transit to and from Congress.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=293&invol=76
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=207&invol=425#446