Jeffrey Rosen: TSA Pat-Downs And Body Scans Are Unconstitutional

If you're asserting that there were no people protesting the invasive and DANGEROUS TSA searches, you're wrong.  

However, people tend to go unconscious, submit rather than cause a scene.  We knew that was true from Stanley Milgram's work in the 1960s.  Did you know that few J3ws protested going to their deaths in concentration camps, too?

We don't give up your Constitutional rights to get on an airplane.  

In modern times, where people's jobs are dependent upon their being able to get from point A to point B in record time, or get home from vacations at a particular time in order to make it back to work on time,  plane travel is a *have to*.  Even if we didn't have to use planes to get from point A to point B, there is no more fundamental freedom than being able to travel unrestricted without having to produce identification, explain why, or strip down before boarding a vehicle.  Not without probable cause.

Right after 9/11 (before, actually, when my family fell victim to an act of t3rr0r), I said that it's very easy for the government to keep Americans safe from terr0r attacks by locking everybody up into controllable quadrants, & by invading all of our privacy & restricting our freedom of movement.  We'd all be living like the world was one great big prison (the rich, of course, would be exempt from this, able to fly in private jets & live behind gated communities with private security forces).  To do that would have a chilling effect on our very nature & identities as free people.

By law, the government can't do it, nor is it necessary. Anyone running for public office who suggests it or resorts to it is the wrong person for the job.  Every generation of this country has faced this sort of challenge and not shredded the Constitution to keep Americans' covenant with their government.

Nothing of the abuses being committed by our government have anything to do with keeping us safe. The reason for the scanners is to bilk taxpayers out of money to pay a manufacturer for these machines.  We have these scanners because of a pay-off, a sweetheart deal with former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, who now has a private security consulting firm and whose client manufactures the scanners.

Scanners wouldn't have caught the "underwear bomber", or any of the other attempted bombers; none of the flights they were on originated in the US and foreign airports don't have scanners. It's about lending the illusion that we're safe, in order that commerce continues.

When are you going to wake up to the truth?
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