Originally Posted by
Bart
Wow. Tough crowd. Seems like no matter what TSA does, it's not good enough...
Well, that's certainly one way to twist everyone's words.
Here's the issue: so long as everyone, er apparently now most people, must prove their innocence, instead of having the government (that's TSA in this case) prove the peoples' guilt, yeah, I for one am not going to be happy.
The Law clearly states that we are protected from our government by unreasonable search of our persons. Period. It's a pretty simple thing to comprehend.
The spirit of that law is a long tradition, going back even further than the founding of our own country, that
everyone,
every.
one., visitor, resident, citizen, is innocent until proven guilty.
What TSA is currently doing is assuming everyone, well as of today not everyone, to prove their innocence. Nope. Not gonna fly. TSA does this because, as an organization, it has proven itself entirely inept at performing the function for which it was created. For its failures it punishes the people.
When TSA stops abusing the spirit of the law, when TSA stops treating everyone as if they are a criminal, then, and only then will I be happy.
Is it really that difficult to understand?