Originally Posted by
Caradoc
The only bright side is that calling a TSA moron a moron would be considered "protected speech" in the United States.
Were I to end up on a jury wherein someone had been accused of "disorderly behavior" for shouting obscenities at any employee of the TSA, I'd have to vote for acquittal.
Such speech is indeed protected - but such protections would not prevent the TSOs from piling every secondary screening method upon me in retaliation. You know, because I had been causing a disruption, which makes me a suspicious person who needs to be screened heavily. After all, I could be a terrorist who is trying to play the system by causing a disruption as a diversion so I could smuggle IED components through security in my underwear.