Originally Posted by
SATTSO
If I see something that looks like drugs, but I don't know, I let it go, and notify no one.
See, that seems inconsistent with what I've read from other TSOs here (notably TSORon). He's said that if he suspects something is drugs, he always refers it on to the appropriate folks. Here, you say (if I read you correctly) that if you suspect something is drugs, but aren't sure, you don't refer it on.
Which behavior is the one mandated by TSA? The difference is subtle, but important.
Originally Posted by
SATTSO
I do not search for anything other than wei's and unless i can say it's specifically illegal, it's not my business. But sorry, guys, if I ever run into child porn, that will require a leo, and some of you ought to go stuff your collective heads in a toilet for suggesting people like that should be allowed to go free.
Let's be clear ... I don't think anyone here is in favor of child porn.
But we have an imperfect legal system. Sometimes, guilty people go free; sometimes, innocent people go to prison. Where we, as a society, set the lines regarding what those in authority are allowed to do determines, as a whole, the balance we strike between those two undesirable outcomes. Generally, we've decided as a society that it's more important to keep innocent people from going to prison than to guarantee that every guilt person goes to prison. Sometimes, that means exceedingly scum-filled people go free. That's the price we've decided to pay for our civil liberties.