Originally Posted by
Darkumbra
And then they start taking notes? - and if you tell them to stop? It's 'do you want to fly today?'
The reality has become - if you wish to fly (or travel) then be prepared to give up ALL your rights.
Each new SOP pushes the boundary back another inch... The question is not, "what will you permit them to do?' but "at what point do we stop flying... Traveling?"
Something somewhere has to happen to bring this issue to a boil.
We have become a world of simpering cowards.
Would like to stop all air travel, but my job requires it. Before saying 'find another job' remember that I am over 55 and good paying jobs are hard to find when you are that old. Got the wallet check once and I told the TSO doing it that I trusted him as much as he trusted me. Said 'you think I am a terrorist and I think you are a thief.' Got the D.Y.W.T.F.T from him over that.
Just because we want to travel doesn't automatically make us suspects. I would expect things like this out of Nazi, Germany or Stalinist, USSR, not out of the US. Some of us have personally witnessed TSOs stating that the checkpoint is a Constitution free zone. What's up with that? I never signed away any of my Constitutional rights by needing to fly somewhere.