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Nov 25, 2015, 6:43 pm

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Originally Posted by chollie

Do you recall when Sen. Rand Paul was held by TSA? IIRC, he was at an airport with one of those glass enclosures and he was 'held' there. He was clearly detained, he was not free to go. The only way to challenge them was to try to walk away. If you do that, you risk them surrounding you and trying to provoke physical contact - any physical contact will do, because then you have 'assaulted' a TSO and LE will detain you and TSA will throw the book at you.

If he was traveling from or to a session of Congress, that should have led to some interesting Constitutional issues (see Article 1, Section 6).

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