[exodus]

To: exodus
"... If you don't like it, you are free to refuse to be searched, and then travel by some other means. You can always take a bus. Or buy your own plane ..."
# 603 by general_re
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We are "free" to refuse to do our job, if the job requires that we be four States away tomorrow morning?

We're "free" to give up a three day vacation in Hawii?

Air travel is a requirement of a major segment of our society, and a welcome luxury for all the rest of us.

Travel is a right. The fact that our government is infringing on that right does not negate it.

[general_re]

Then buy your own plane - it's the very essence of libertarianism, if I do say. The fact that you are "required" to have some particular thing by some particular third party does not make it a right which you can expect the rest of the world to provide to you unencumbered. The fact that your employer requires you to fly does not magically make flying into an absolute right for you or your employer.

Travel is a right. It is not, and cannot be, an absolute and unregulated right. No rights can be absolute and unregulated in any society consisting of more than one person. This society has decided that you must consent to a search in order to fly on a commercial flight, a requirement perfectly in accord with the Constitution. Doing so does not violate your general right to travel, since you are free to seek other means if you object.