Originally Posted by
erictank
As long as you do not impose any form of penalty - say, blatantly-retaliatory "secondary searches" intended to assert your authoritah!, deliberately-slowed-in-a-blatant-effort-to-make-you-miss-your-flight searches of person and belongings, or "D-Y-W-T-F-T?" - upon those who refuse to answer, I have no problem whatsoever with you ASKING.
Do you have a problem with people asserting their rights to remain silent when asked nonsensical or irrelevant questions by a government actor?
None what-so-ever Eric. Answer or don’t. I don’t really care. But as with everything in life there are consequences for our actions, both good and bad. Which you get depends on the decisions you make. So, when you refuse to cooperate with the screening process do not be surprised if the consequence of that decision is not something you want.
After all, there is no constitutionally guaranteed right to get on that aircraft now is there.
