Originally Posted by
Superguy
Why? Because a TSO with no real authority to ask and who has no business is asking pressed the issue? I think that'd make anyone a bit testy.
If you were in the same situation, would you roll or would you stand up for your rights?
TSA has the authority to ask anything they like, without restriction. They DO NOT have the authority to compel an answer.
If he was reading the blog, he knew it was coming based on TSA confirming that it would make an issue out of large amounts of cash.
Very possibly yes. If he had actually read the blog then he also would have known how to address the issue without forcing a confrontation.
What he thought was his rights? He was well within in his rights. It was TSA that was out of bounds here. If anything, he was just prepared.
Really? Just which right was that? To ask a question? I’d agree with that, he sure did have that right, just as the TSA did (warning, I’m baiting you here). To refuse to answer? Yep, he has that one as well. Hell, he could have just stood there and not said a word, he had that right as well, or sing songs, or dance in place, or any one of a multitude of other things.
You can't avoid a confrontation with TSA when TSA was the one that initiated it. That's exactly what happens when it asks questions it has no right or authority to ask.
TSA had the right to ask the questions. As for the confrontation, both sides had the opportunity to avoid it. Neither did. Both are to blame.