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Old Jun 2, 2011 | 9:01 pm
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Pesky Monkey
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Originally Posted by Always Flyin
You're confused? You'll be more than confused if you try what you posted.



No. I don't need one. You are in the secure area of the airport and have therefore submitted to all security inspections pursuant to our procedures, which you cannot see becuase they are SSI. It's a security issue.



This is not an involuntary detention. You agreed to submit to security inspections by entering the secure area of the airport. This is an administrative inspection that you consented to by entering the secure area.



Not yet, but you are working on it. Are you refusing to allow us to inspect you for security issues? Are you aware there is a fine of up to $11,000 for such failure? And, if you hinder or delay our security procedures, you are subject to arrest.



And where might one find such a right? Several courts of appeal haven't found it.

I respect the attitude, but you better know the law cold when you try to apply it because you won't like the ramifications if you are wrong.
Originally Posted by Always Flyin
You might want to take a look at: http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...10/0410226.pdf

"We have held that airport screening searches, like the one at issue here, are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches because they are 'conducted as part of a general regulatory scheme in furtherance of an administrative purpose, namely, to prevent the carrying of weapons or explosives aboard aircraft, and thereby to prevent hijackings.'"

While that case dealt with initial screening, do you really think courts will not give the TSA similar authority throughout the entire secure area (particularly because so many airport employees enter it without screening)?
We don't know until it happens. Nobody has challenged "random" screenings like this in court.
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