Originally Posted by
ocschwar
So there is no more right to travel in the US now.
That's overstating it a bit. You can travel, but you may have to submit to a search and that may be violating several Amemndments to the Constitution.
In a perverse way, this is a good thing. It should be apparent by now that:
Congress is not going to rein in the TSA;
The courts are not going to rein in the TSA;
The TSA certainly is not going to scale back of their own accord.
While the indignities apply only to the comparatively few Americans who travel by air regularly, the rest of the population is NOT going to care. Much.
The TSA will only be stopped by a groundswell of public opinion and/or outrage. Airport naked scans and gropes are one thing, but if their arrogance leads them to think nobody will mind if it gets expanded to buses, trains, shopping malls, theaters and so on then they might just be mistaken. Badly.
Bring it ON, Janet.
"I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Isoruku Yamamoto 1941