The 4th amendment of the constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Sorry for being late on covering this topic on TLT, but I have to lay this whole fiasco at the feet of President Barack Obama. This is his TSA and its been reported many places that he believes that the U.S. Constitution is a document of “negative rights”
What he is saying is that the constitution restrains what the government can do on behalf of the people. He wishes that restrains didn’t exist as do most Liberals who find the constitution an annoyance.
Obama believes in big intrusive government and there’s no better example than these new TSA enhanced pat downs procedures. Have you noticed how silent the White House has been during this whole furor?
If these new procedures are allowed to go forward, where does it end?
The Denver Post reporta that despite ongoing criticism from some Washington lawmakers and many travelers, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole refused Wednesday to back off the agency's position that tougher airport screening techniques are needed to counter evolving threats.
"I'm not going to change those policies," he declared to lawmakers.
At U.S. airports, the TSA has been deploying more advanced imaging scanners that perform a kind of electronic strip-search on passengers and allow screeners hidden in control rooms to search the images for concealed weapons and explosives.
And in recent weeks, TSA screeners also have escalated the pat-down procedure on passengers in a way that some say is far too intrusive.
"I'm frankly bothered by the level of these pat-downs," Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., told Pistole, who was testifying before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
"I wouldn't want my wife to be touched in the way that these folks are being touched," LeMieux said. "I wouldn't want to be touched that way."
Pistole, who has been subjected to a pat-down himself, said: "It is clearly more invasive." But the procedures are necessary, he said, to detect devices not seen before.
As passengers traveled through Denver International Airport on Wednesday in advance of the Thanksgiving rush, some invoked their constitutional right against unreasonable search, while others were more forgiving of efforts to keep travel safe.
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