[jazminerose]

That part actually makes a little sense. If someone gets part way thru screening & then decides to flee the scene, I think that merits a bit of investigating.

I’m told that this fine has always been in place, but never enforced. Tho, that apparently is going to be changing now.

[OldDeckHand]

"That part actually makes a little sense. If someone gets part way thru screening & then decides to flee the scene, I think that merits a bit of investigating."

How's is that fair to the aspiring terrorists?

(sarcasm)

[PghBaldy]

Note they do this after the election. You know, i live in Pittsburgh, site of the 2009 G20 - I drove past the police state they had here dowtown. They fenced off downtown, it looked like an occupied city. bit by bit (although the TsA stuff is a GIANT leap towards tyranny) they are enslaving us. They have checkpoints on our roads, they strip seach innocents, they molest children and nuns. Slowly over the years they have been preparing us for the slaughter. Watching what they can get away with helps me understand how monsters can come to power. If this scuntry isn’t saved, I don’t even want to imagine what life will be like in the future.

I don’t even flu yet this stuff makes me so mad I could spit.

[kingu]

What merits investigation is virtual strip searches, or if you refuse that, a physical grope that exceeds what an officer is permitted to do without arresting you first, all without the slightest probable cause.

That people would face that and decline to have their rights violated in a process that has ONLY resulted in arrests for contrband and not a single terrorist doesn’t merit investigating the refusal. What merits investigation is the illegal searches in the first place.

Do it or we arrest you? Ahh, the land of the free.

[driftdiver]

yeah that whole thing about having to prove ones innocence is so convenient in a fascist society

[Yooper4Life]

I’m told that this fine has always been in place, but never enforced. Tho, that apparently is going to be changing now.

Even if it was already in place, it doesn't make it right (I'm not saying that you believe it is right). In fact, that is all more the reason to question its rightousness - why now? Further, IMO, it proves what dirtbags they are: put something "in place" but ignore it until it is there so long that when they start to enforce and people complain they can just say: "its always been there..."

I've gotta run but I can't wait to read this whole thread later...

[Kackikat]

“part way through”,,,,just who is going to stay still and let someone put a hand up your arse?? BOYCOTT AIRLINES.

There are still cars, boats and trains!

[MortMan]

In other words - you think it is fine and dandy to force people to submit to having nude pictures taken, or having their intimate zones violated in public, just because they don’t want to pose for a nude picture or have their intimate zones groped?

Your apologia for the TSA is getting old.