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warrantless search? When you go to an airport, this happens. If you don't want it, don't go. I am suggesting that the left and the right on either end are screamiing constantly about anything that remotely steps on their dearly cherished ideas. yeah, we have to keep them from burning the cities and forming vigilante squads. Mostly we have to fly safely and peacefully. And this jerk didn't make it safer or more peaceful to fly. I like authority, I like peace, I like a safe living environment without gun toting thugs and people who don't have any respect for the rules or the rights of others around them. You prefer anarchy? With you making your own rules? With everyone either declining or permitting searches and screens at airports? It is not going to happen. Hope your head doesn't explode here, but most Americans aren't off in that fringe area of paranoic distrust of authority and institutions.

I like authority, I like peace,

Do you love authority and peace more than dignity and freedom?

I like a safe living environment without gun toting thugs and people who don't have any respect for the rules or the rights of others around them.You prefer anarchy?

Really, it doesn't seem that way. All that I ask is that my right to self defense and my right to be secure in my person be honored. Every time I do so I am confronted by gun toting thugs. It is you who are inviting anarchy by revising the social contract.

With everyone either declining or permitting searches and screens at airports? It is not going to happen.

It does happen and the choice belongs to the aircraft owner and the pilot, not the Feds. I fly without being searched and carrying a sidearm all the time.

most Americans aren't off in that fringe area of paranoic distrust of authority and institutions.

Why do insist on using the words WE and MOST.Do you not feel comfortable speaking for yourself? Why do you insist on ventriloquizing the mob? This sort of mobocratic mentality is precisely what Constitutional Republics are formed to guard against.

We are in a war. Wars demand unusual measures, and I think the Constitution permits this. The big test is when the war is over. Will the extra-ordinary wartime measures be eliminated? Knowing how government operates, I'm skeptical, but I'll keep an open mind.