Originally Posted by
eyecue
You are making it more difficult than it is. I am searching a bag, you keep reaching into the bag and intentionally impede me. I am on the x-ray and you come in screaming and yelling obscene remarks and I look to see what the commotion is about, you distracted me. I am patting you down and you begin to berate me with personal insults and tell me that I am sexually assaulting you, you have delayed me from performing a patdown.
Those are the easy ones, except the last which I would argue is constitutionally-protected speech. If I say, "Only a weasely little sex pervert would touch another man's genitals without consent," is absolutely protected speech. Saying, "Touch my junk and I'll deck you," would almost certainly NOT be protected speech, and would constitute interference as a threat. Saying, "Exceed your procedure by by half-an-inch or half-an-ounce and I'll have you arrested," is neither a threat nor interference.
One of these days, I'd love to walk through the checkpoint wearing a jacket with, "F*** the TSA," written on the back. I think it's probably time for a court to remind TSA about Cohen v. California Superior Court.
Regardless, how about these:
A TDC at SFO asks how I pronounce my last name. I refuse to tell him saying, instead, "I am uninterested in the fact that TSOs at this station are required to do this unnecessary extra step because of their previous inattention to matching boarding passes with IDs. I have presented you with government-issued photo ID that matches, exactly, the name on my boarding pass, as is required by Secure Flight and your SOP. That is enough."
The TDC calls the STSO, who asks me, "Where are you going today?" I refuse to tell him, as my understanding of the Constitution precludes TSA's ability to demand this information.
The STSO asks the TDC for my ID and is chagrined to discover I have presented my passport, and not my drivers license. He asks me if I have a license. I reply, "Why do you persist in asking me questions, the answers to which you have no legal right to compel?"
The STSO demands my address so he can write up an incident report. I refuse to provide it on the grounds that (1) TSA has failed to provide the necessary disclosures as to what will be done with my private information, and (2) neither TSOs nor STSOs have any legal authority to demand
any personal information from me.
At no time have I raised my voice, become agitated, or acted belligerently.
What do you think,
eyecue? Interference with screening?