Originally Posted by GradGirl
Wow. So we not only have to consent to search in order to fly, but we have to consent before we know what the search or searches might entail. We can from that time forward be searched again and again, before, during, and after our flights, in any manner chosen by the authorities, with no right of refusal, until such time as the presiding LEOs say we can go. The picture of civil liberties in air transportation gets bleaker and bleaker.
Is anybody else scared yet?
Oh, say can you see through the dawn's early light,
How so proudly we failed at liberty's last gleaming,
Those broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous flight,
O'er the televisions we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the people's blank stare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our fear was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? No.