Originally Posted by
Jetbee
I keep reading on here how the U.S. Constitution and everyone's civil liberties are being undermined by DHS when, in fact, it is your voting representatives who gave them the right to operate "outside" of the Constitution. It is the same in Canada -- the Members of Parliament voted to let airport security trump citizens rights.
In the U.S. the legislative Branch does not have the power to make unconstitutional laws. If they want to amend our Constitution, they have to go through a rigorous legislative process.
Obviously, the TSA has been operating in gross violation of our Constitution. Their violations of our Constitution are illegal, regardless of any subversive collusion with our legislators or negligence on the part of those same legislators.
Our legislators are on the clock as far as I'm concerned. We flushed quite a few turds on our last election cycle. We'll be flushing again in 2012. (When the stench is bad enough, flush twice!
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