Originally Posted by TerminalBliss
Thank you, Spiff, for the legal education. The ridiculous examples provided were meant to be humerous.
Oh, I do know the difference. Here my friend is the definition of "Civil Rights."
"The protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution and Bill of Rights."
Again, it case it wasn't clear...this applies to the interaction of the Government with the citizenry...DOES NOT APPLY TO PRIVATE ENTITIES!
If our civil rights can be taken away by private entities, in this case the airlines via the CofC, why is the government doing the screening? Should not it be the airlines that provide the screeners if it is their provision that we cannot fly until we have been screened?
To those who argue that the OP's cite refers only to handicapped individuals, are you saying that those of us who are not handicapped have no right to travel by air? That's discriminatory.