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VMI77 wrote:

jimlongley wrote:Massive civil rights violations, including a total lack of Miranda, and not one peep from the anti-TSA crowd.

I for one am part of the anti-abuse-of-authority crowd, so I guess that has to make me anti-TSA. Essentially, human beings tend to abuse whatever power they have and in order to prevent such abuses there have to be systemic checks and balances. Our system is in the process of creeping failure. Checks and balances are failing throughout the system at every level from local government right up to Congress and the President. The people who run the TSA have apparently decided they are going to do whatever they want, legal or not, and dare the public to do anything about it, and apparently, big Sis has the full support of Mr. Obama. Since we have a partisan ideologue for an Attorney General and a spineless Congress that services Wall Street instead of Main Street, that essentially means the TSA can do whatever its "leadership" calculates they can get away with, as do other Federal agencies like the BATF.

The TSA is a power hungry bureaucracy, and like all other bureaucracies it is going to act in its own interest and do everything it can to increase its power. It's not just at the airport anymore. It has already conducted illegal searches at train and bus stations, been suggested for screening students at the high school prom, and has stated publicly on numerous occasions that it intends reach out and search Americans everywhere people gather in public. They want to scan you at the mall and on the street and in your car. Accepting their ridiculous excuses for these actions and apologizing for their abuses is like paving a highway to a Police State.

jimlongley wrote:Massive civil rights violations, including a total lack of Miranda, and not one peep from the anti-TSA crowd.