When Are Americans Going To Stop Acting Like Sheep?

by Melissa Clouthier | August 25, 2010 10:57 am

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Does anyone like the airport screening process? Does anyone believe it makes a lick of security difference? Does the screening process save us?

No, it gets us this[2]:

That same screener started emptying her wallet. “He was taking out the receipts and looking at them,” she said.

“I understand that TSA is tasked with strengthening national security but [it] surely does not need to know what I purchased at Kohl’s or Wal-Mart,” she wrote in her complaint, which she sent me last week.

She says she asked what he was looking for and he replied, “Razor blades.” She wondered, “Wouldn’t that have shown up on the metal detector?”

In a side pocket she had tucked a deposit slip and seven checks made out to her and her husband, worth about $8,000.

Her thought: “Oh, my God, this is none of his business.”

Two Philadelphia police officers joined at least four TSA officers who had gathered around her. After conferring with the TSA screeners, one of the Philadelphia officers told her he was there because her checks were numbered sequentially, which she says they were not.

“It’s an indication you’ve embezzled these checks,” she says the police officer told her. He also told her she appeared nervous. She hadn’t before that moment, she says.

She protested when the officer started to walk away with the checks. “That’s my money,” she remembers saying. The officer’s reply? “It’s not your money.”

At this point she told the officers that she had a good explanation for the checks, but questioned whether she had to tell them.

“The police officer said if you don’t tell me, you can tell the D.A.”

How about these concepts? Probable cause. Search warrant. Personal property.

Just let passengers care for themselves. Riding a plane is like being a helpless sheep before the wolves of evil and also flight attendants, but I repeat myself. This screening is just an excuse to torment people.

Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: http://libertypundits.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/airport-security.jpg
  2. No, it gets us this: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/100960429.html?&c=n

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