donkey wrote:mamabearCali wrote:I knew this would happen you could literally sit there and read the documents they put out that said they wanted to do this type of stuff. Now What..."Don't like it --don't leave your house?" Really. Why don't we just get some saftey scissors and go cut out the 4th amendment of the constitution entirely. Why bother having it if the gov't is going to find any and every way around it to do what it wants to do. I highly doubt these guys have been trained in what citizens are/are not permitted to have on their persons in daily life (knitting needles, water bottles, and even pistols with a CHL carrier are perfectly legit). We have enough trouble in our country educating the real police officers on the law--now we have to deal with rent-a-cops too with pseudo police authority?
At this point privately owned vehicles are not being stopped and search/inspected. The only vehicles affected by this are commercial vehicles subject to DOT regulations and these vehicles are already subject to inspection. Weigh stations and the inspections they conduct have been around for a long time. This doesn't mean I like or agree with this expansion of the TSA's mission, but we (the citizens of the US) have done this to ourselves. Look at the people we elect to Congress and the Presidency. Is it really any surprise that we are getting this type of government.
This is all true. Two things: for the moment it is only commercial vehicles, and I did not vote for this particular administration, the only one of those in congress who I voted for (and was successful in his election) opposes this sort of nonsense.