The thrust of this article is not that pregnant women should never be searched. The complaint has to do with the public disrobing, and the public groping, of this man's wife.To: exodus
That was the author's opinion, not mine, general_re . The searches violate the Constitution. The searches are illegal. The searches violate our rights.
The author was mad about the government making a public spectacle of his wife. He was willing to be searched, and seemed to accept it as just a part of flying.
My fight is with the author, too. His attitude is exactly the attitude our government is trying to install by conducting random public searches. If they hadn't made his wife cry, he would have blindly gone to his friend's wedding, and probably forgotten the details of the search within days.
My problem is that our government has a policy of routinely violating our rights, from even before the Patriot Act was passed.
The Waco massacre wasn't an isolated case, it was just the most publicized instance documenting our loss of freedom.
Unfortunately, I do not think those first two statements are supportable under the law as it is, and the last is a bare assertion. If, as I said above, you would like to discuss how the law should be, I am willing to discuss that as well....