I don’t care if the Constitution says he cannot be arrested to or from attending Congress. He wasn’t arrested. And he’s not above the rest of us when it means getting on public air transportation. But he can do something about it.
What is the difference between being “detained” and being “arrested”?
Actually as a Senator he should be. Imagine - just imagine - holding up a Senator when a contentious vote was in the offing. The Vice President gets to break ties. If a Senator can't be trusted not to blow up an airplane, who can be?
He was held incommunicado for an hour and a half and missed business in Congress. Sounds like an arrest to me.
Let's just say you and I have a different definition of "arrested" and leave it at that.
Whatever.
NONE OF US should put up with this crap!
Yes he is. He, in the course of his duty when the Senate is in session, cannot be detained from travelling to and from the Senate. It was placed in the Constitution to prevent people using LEOs to keep lesgislators from appearing to vote. In the course of doing their constitutional duty, they are different.Rand Paul was stopped from entering the secure area and was prevented from leaving the area with the detectors.
Yes, actually he was arrested. Legally, when you are being detained by a government agent, and are no longer free to leave, that is an “arrest”.
Being arrested in a legal sense doesn’t mean a trip to the jail and charges. It just means that it is not a consensual stop.
If you refuse some TSA action, they will not let you leave. That is an arrest that may or may not end up in charges.
I am glad that Rand Paul is fighting this battle. The one thing that leftist totalitarians do is separate people and attack the lone individual so we are all alone and fearful.
To detain is to arrest—more than 15 minutes during the ‘90s (as instructed to police then), and I don’t know if that’s been changed since then.
Yes I agree with you. As a traveler I am no fan of the TSA however had Rand Paul followed the normal procedures and done what all the rest of us do then this would all have taken just a few minutes and would have been no big deal. That plane had a set schedule and whether he was patted down or not he would have arrived at his destination at the same time. So the TSA did not delay Rand Paul. Rand Paul delayed Rand Paul.