We have gotten to a pretty bad place in our country when a poster could actually say, as amanuensis just did, that "people naturally assume that people have a reason why they are taking the Fifth, i.e., that they are guilty of something."

These are not Jay Leno's "jaywalkers", giving ridiculous answers to simple questions Jay asks. These people are security officers who presumably are required to operate within some set of rules. Denial of the right to travel freely, based upon some TA employees' personal ideas or views, is not simply a civil liberties issue - it indicates the lack of supervision, oversight and training that many of this forum complain about, while providing the public with the illusion of security.

"Those who are willing to sacrifice Liberty for Security, deserve
neither Liberty nor Security." ---Ben Franklin

---Steve