Great idea. Thanks for post.
I have been through enough airports to suspect that at some, this will be grounds to get you specially search and/or refused boarding.
Was recently herded into one of the L3 millimeter wave scanning machines at a Western US airport by an African immigrant wearing a TSA uniform.
I can recall when an individual like him would have stood out like a sore thumb in that city, because 40 years ago, no one had ever seen anyone like that there.
But there he was, ordering the Americans around, and of course, if you said “do you think this is Constitutional?” he would have snarled and said “I don’t geev a damn about jor Constitution, just move”.
Isn’t it wonderful that we are now nothing but cattle to be kicked around by foreigners most likely of the Muslim persuasion?
And isn’t it a bit like being in an insane asylum, where the inmates are running it?
TSA:
Terrorists
Search
Americans
It doesn’t pay to draw more attention to oneself while in the shadow of the TSA baton.
There should be better ways.
If one does choose this form of activism, God bless you.
Just be very sure to have at least two people filming it from different angles and have a couple of unafraid lawyers ready to aggressively defend you.
Do not, repeat, DO NOT rely on TSA ‘seeing the light’ of your logic and suddenly share a can of Pepsi.
I think this is excellent.
With an artistically placed assault rifle.
It’s the price of national cowardice.
There were the choices of going to war against nations sponsoring terrorism or of turning our nation into a police state in an effort toward civilian police detection of foreign enemy threats.
Our nation has no will to fight, so the decision was made to routinely search Americans and the personal effects of Americans in an effort to detect whatever kinds of lawbreaking.
For some reason it reminds me of some retard spending $30 for a Che T-shirt.
It won’t make any difference in a few years anyway. Only military personnel will be flying then.
It was legal to own, but by a strict reading of the law it was illegal to show it to any foreigner, including those just walking down the street.
Wonder how it works on “millimeter wave” machines? All X-Ray backscatter machines were removed from airports 3 years ago. And on millimeter wave machines, all the TSA operators see is the “stick figure” graphic with a yellow box for the “problem area”. Only TSA techs or vendor repair people might see the message in the “RAW” data/display. If you lay the tee shirt flat in your carry on it might work as it passes thru the belt-fed x-ray station, but that is about it.
https://www.propublica.org/special/scanning-the-scanners-a-side-by-side-comparison
I quit flying about 5 years ago after averaging 50k+ miles per year flying and almost a million mile flyer. The effectiveness of TSA in what it supposedly does is a pathetic at best and they continues to get worse and more ridiculous.
If government ever reduces the the TSA by 90% and starts profiling for the actual problem I may start again.
We need to see more of this kind of thing. Creative challenges to violations of citizens’ constitutional rights that tend to embarrass authorities and garner proactive support for those rights.
I suspect there will be ruder ones.
Great idea. Probably lead to some “special treatment,” though.
Send some to Senator Rand Paul. He’s the only lawmaker who squawked about this when he got searched. Of course, nothing has been done by our do-nothing members of Congress...
It’s a cute stunt, but Constitutional case law does not find what the TSA does is a violation of the 4th Amendment. There is no presumption of privacy in the situation and a large presumption of public security - like police road stops to check for drunk drivers. Now if an executive agency wanted to do what the TSA does, to see in and through your house and its contents, and do so without a warrant, THAT would likely violate the 4th amendment.