Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
So if a citizen comes to the security station with plans to crash the plane, you consider that treating the person as a "citizen" is the priority job.
Yes.
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
See, the trouble is that people have this unspoken prejudice that terror is something done to "citizens" by "foreigners". I think the dead babies in Oklahoma City would wish that were true.
No; "terrorism" is the use of violence to intimidate or coerce and/or to introduce fear and panic into a population.
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
No basically, citizens vs. noncitizens is not the dichotomy. Peaceable travelers versus conspirators is the one that counts. But I don't think that requires TSOs to abuse people not protected by the Constitution.
Constitutional protections apply to everyone on U.S. soil, citizen or not. The dichotomy is not "citizens" vs "non-citizens".
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
If you are the peaceable part of the dichotomy, their job is to insure your peace remains intact.
TSO's are not peace officers.
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
I don't think the Constitution is their primary concern.
It
should be their primary concern.
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
That concern has been addressed in Congress and the court system. Anything that these two bodies says is legal is, under our system of laws, legal. People who don't like that should emigrate to a desert island.
Did you hear that Mrs. Parks?