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Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt
It's not the pat down itself so much, but the principle of the matter. We (especially those in the US) expect to be able to live our lives in freedom, and this new TSA bullshit is just one more intrusion into everyone's lives, and everyone intrinsically knows it's not doing anything to make anyone safer. Think of it as the straw that broke the camel's back.
All the anger you're seeing isn't specifically because of TSA policies. It's because over the last several decades the government has continually stripped away freedoms & rights that were taken for granted before. The government pushed too hard this time, and now they're seeing the backlash from it.
Just think what would happen if it was 1970, and all these current laws & policies got set into place overnight. TSA screenings at airports, people getting arrested for playing chess in the park, if you buy too much cough syrup the cops will pay you a visit, the insane prison sentences for smoking weed, and on, and on... If this was 1970, and all that got set into place overnight, the Whitehouse would be a pile of ashes within a week.
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The Fourth Amendment protects us from 'unreasonable searches and seizures". This means the local cops can't walk into your place of business, house, or car, and look around without proper reason.
It's not an "unreasonable search" to frisk people at an airport or any other secure event.
Grow the fuck up. You either submit to a search, no or no one gets searched and then it's a free for all for anyone who wants to hijack a plane. I'm not worried about terrorists; I'm worried about Bob who lost his job six months ago, was denied unemployment, his wife left him, and he was just evicted from his house... A single gun man on a domestic flight in the US will have the undivided attention of the entire world.