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May 15, 2014, 10:31 am

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Originally Posted by jkhuggins

You can "choose" to leave the checkpoint. TSA can "choose" to keep all of your personal belongings that you've already submitted for screening, while they conduct a much more "thorough" search --- and claim that, by "choosing" to leave the checkpoint, you've "voluntarily surrendered" those items. TSA can "choose" to call the on-site LEOs and suggest that you be detained on suspicion of carrying WEIs inside an airport, which in many jurisdictions is a criminal offense.

Every "choice" has consequences.

You can also choose to collect your property before leaving or even announcing your intention to leave. TSA has no power to take your property from you.

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