Originally Posted by
elgringito
I am stating that the American Humane organization's opinion is irrelevant to the law.
Quoting from the information you quote in your post, the below certainly does not seem to this individual to support your statements about limitations, most notably what I have bolded. Child abuse is a criminal act is it not and transporting an abducted child is also a criminal act is it not?
First of all, the statute doesn't say, "criminal act," it says, "More generally, the TSA is responsible for creating “regulations to protect passengers and property on an aircraft . . . against
an act of criminal
violence or aircraft piracy.”"
I have no intention of giving you a lesson in Statutory Construction 101 -- frankly, I should charge you for my time to do the minimal research that I did. I couldn't care less what the meaning of the statute is to you. It means what I said it means. Your opinion of its meaning is that of an uninformed layman and therefore irrelevant.
I see you also have conveniently ignored the other material that I provided that clearly defines the limited scope of
non-police authority afforded to TSOs. I don't know what your deal is -- whether you are a TSO, or just one of those, "anything for the children," people -- but you are simply wrong.