Originally Posted by
We Will Never Forget
Calm and rational, but non-compliant. For the hundredth time, put the legal issue aside until it is adjudicated. I'm simply referring to his role in this event, which I believe was significant.
For the sake of argument, let's presume that Bierfeldt planned the whole thing. He didn't kowtow to their demands, so I guess that makes him "non-compliant". So what? One cannot lay any portion of blame on Bierfeldt that the TOS and LEO's involved responded like common schoolyard bullies.
Originally Posted by
We Will Never Forget
Your complaint about the money is with the TSA, not me. The reasonable suspicion I was referring to wasn't about the money itself, it's what was developed afterward. I wasn't there, I don't know.
What, exactly, developed later? One didn't have to be there; it's on tape. Bullies acted like bullies. Bierfeldt, bless his libertarian heart, acted like a United States citizen asserting his rights. Do you think it would somehow have made a stronger case if he had simply refused to answer at all? I think it would have turned out substantially the same way. Do you think it would somehow have made a stronger case if he had been "compliant"? Had he been "compliant", no one would be in court testing TSA's limits.
Originally Posted by
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He was declared free to go once he identified the source of the funds.
And your point is ..... ? Actually, the original TSO continued to detain him for several more minutes after he finally identified the source of the funds. Unlike Bierfeldt, I suppose I'd still be in jail -- they'd have had to waterboard me to get me to answer those questions.
Originally Posted by
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Why do you think I'm a screener? Because I feel that there are holes in the case? Try again.
Sorry; my mind ran faster than my fingers -- I was using "you" in the universal sense, meaning "all of TSA" -- I'll be more precise in the future.
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Apparently the TSA believes that large amounts of cash should be investigated by law enforcement officers. That opens Pandoras box and allows everything else to ensue. There are two 4th Amendment violations that were cited in the lawsuit, this matter is for the courts to decide.
To paraphrase the inimitable words of Bumble ... if the TSA presumes that, then the TSA is a a$$. And this is how courts get to decide questions of this kind -- some patriot steps up, draws a line, and says "this far and no farther". Civil disobedience has a long and proud history in this country.