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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 5:23 pm
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erictank
 
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Originally Posted by the_happiness_store
I don't mind the idiot part but what am I missing in the understanding of the 4th? I noticed that you are driving this thanksgiving but aren't all fliers already that expectation of privacy does not exist?

Do you have a reasonable expectation that what's under your clothes is *YOUR* business, and no one else's? That *YOU* have the right to tell nosy people, "No, you may not view my naked body, or frisk me as though I were a convicted violent felon coming to visit the warden." - and have that stick, even if you wish to fly by common carrier?

*I* think so.

What TSA is doing is an unwarranted invasive search without informed consent, and with coercive government power (*NOT* legitimate authority - just usurped power) as the threat to back it up.
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