Originally Posted by TSORon

Classic avoidance of the facts. Intentional ignorance. Duly noted.



If you go to the airport you know that you will be screened. You know that it may include AIT screening. You also know that it may include a physical pat-down. If you still go to the airport, even knowing all of the above, then yes, you have asked for that screening and all it entails, or may entail. You are making a conscious choice to submit yourself and your property for screening. Your choice. You can always make another choice, a different choice. No one is going to force you to go through screening.

In life there is always more to something than just the thing one seeks. You want to drive, you must have a license. You want to eat, you must buy groceries, or grow them yourself. You want to open your own business, you must pay taxes. There are no exceptions to this truth. The same applies for every form of travel. Walking, one must adhere to the rules. Biking, the same thing. Flying, the same. Just as with driving. One cannot just jump on a bike and go, you have to learn how first. Second, you have laws that you must adhere to or pay the consequences. These are things well beyond the control of the TSA, and ourselves. Complaining about them does nothing but move air.

I don’t know if you have told us when you moved to our country, your new country. What I know is that this is not the same country I remember from my youth either. When I was a kid we played Army, even at school. Now days playing Army will get a kids suspended or expelled. When I was a kid we knew that we could identify the enemy, but today that line is quite blurred. Yes, things are quite different than when I grew up. And I believe that if you go to visit your ailing mother that you will find that things have changed quite a bit there as well. Tis the nature of things Tanja, and not something that can be controlled.