• BlueHotRage said on Jun 21, 2007....

  I'm absolutely creeped out by this.  This is horrible.  I wanna say it's just as bad as airport security strip-searching unknowning travelers with x-rays, but I'm having a hard time deciding which is worse at the moment...
   
  And, for fuck's sake, it's a bread-knife!  With sandwiches!  That's nothing to lose your basic rights over!

• kelly said on Jun 21, 2007....

  I'd completely forgotten about that new x-ray technology and how very literally invasive it is.  Did they actually implement that?
  
  
  I'm just appalled that statements like that don't get people in more of an uproar.  The more I observe the more I understand how it's possible for really rotten leaders to come into power.  People lose sight of the truly precious rights all too easily.

• silverwhisper said on Jun 22, 2007....

  that's revolting, kelly. and sadly, some people are willing to accept that the ends justify the means enough not to care how they reach the result they want.
  
  ed

• bloc said on Jun 22, 2007....

  those watchlists are way over the line in my eyes for a simple reason. There is no due process. There is no way to say "show me why I"m on it" or to say "hey can you take me off. I'm here's proof that I'm not a terrorist".
  
  This is the type of tool that can be easily abused to harass people for purely political reasons. "We don't like the ACLU let's add them to the watchlist to intimidate them."
  

• Antimatter said on Jun 28, 2007....

  A few years back, I forgot to take a pocket knife off my key ring before going through a security checkpoint. They offered to check it with my carry-on bag (which included my laptop and in-flight reading material), but I declined and allowed them to confiscate it. There was no talk of a fine or a security threat. Surely a woman distracted by 37 children who forgets a bread knife in a cooler full of sandwiches is no more threatening. That’s ridiculous.

• kelly said on Jun 28, 2007....

  Antimatter, just how many years ago was that?  Post  or pre 9/11?

• Antimatter said on Jun 28, 2007....

  It was definitely post-9/11. I don’t remember exactly which trip. It was probably 2004 or 2005, around the time that article was written.

• Antimatter said on Jun 28, 2007....

  In fact, I just noticed that my incident was at the same airport. :}

• kelly said on Jul 01, 2007....

  Now that's interesting.  :-)

• patchwork_neurology said on Jul 08, 2007....

  hmm....guilty of a felony? Is it customary to have a trial first?

• kelly said on Jul 08, 2007....

  Well, it used to be.  Ah, those were the days....  We used to pull the Constitution out of the garage and give a good washing then wax it til it gleamed.  We'd stand there all proud as the neighbors nodded their heads in admiration and approval of our hard word.
  
  
  But nowadays it stays parked in the garage, gathering dust.  I hear Bush and Cheney even put it up on blocks and pulled the radio out of the dash.

• Zayda said on Jul 14, 2007....

  That's just simply ridiculous. And yes, it completely creeps me out that she was informed she had no constitutional rights.

• silverwhisper said on Jul 16, 2007....

  super z: and yet, some blind apologists will go right on insisting that's the case.
  
  ed

• anonymous said on Aug 21, 2007....

  " We all have constitutional rights until they are deprived through due process, something that has been seriously eroded by the current administration."
  
  While I believe what the TSA does is a bunch of crap....so is this statement. Yes, these rights are being eroded, but just by the current administration? If you read history, I'm sure you could see these rights being eroded throughout the last 100 years or more. Read, learn and take in the big picture. Do not be blinded by your obvoius contempt for this president.

• silverwhisper said on Aug 21, 2007....

  and you should not be blinded by your obvious desire to give the current president a pass.
  
  ed

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