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And thanks for that. :-)

There's also Bitcoin if people want it. http://s.ai/btc

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

I've revamped the part of my website about my TSA litigation.

The case with the pending emergency PI/TRO motion now has its own page.

Please use that as the canonical link from now on.

I've revamped the part of my website about my TSA litigation.

The case with the pending emergency PI/TRO motion now has its own page.

Please use that as the canonical link from now on.

Let me rephrase: they're ineffective at finding weapons in any way attempted by TSA. The sort practiced by CBP is aimed at discovering drugs, immigration, and smuggling — not weapons. TSA isn't allowed to do that, though that is in fact the main thing that their attempts (e.g. BDO/SPOT) result in. (Source: 2011 TSA validation study on SPOT, which I have from FOIA but haven't yet released; also GAO's public study of SPOT.)

Whether El Al's version is effective is debatable, but in any case irrelevant, because it would neither be practicable nor constitutional in the US.

FWIW on pronouns: male or gender neutral, please. Kudos for not assuming, though. :)

I have a policy that my customers pay me on time. Unfortunately I tend to get strung along for 90 days. Since my policy doesn't have the force of regulation I tend to have to suck it up.

I hate this type of post.

It's defeatist and dispiriting to the reader. By advocating no action ("suck it up"), it supports and encourages loss of freedom, authoritative control, and hopelessness.

It's also uncreative - there's *lots* of things we could do, both as a group and individually, to try to change the situation.

You don't have the will to fight, so go drown your despair in drink. Don't being down everyone else as well.

The OP took the trouble to file suit against the TSA. Looking at his website, he might be a rare case of a lawyer doing an open source 'kind of thing.

I haven't seen a lot of this type of "open source good for the community" from the legal profession. I'm not saying that there's *none*, but it's very rare compared to the number of lawyers around.

Engineers are pretty generous with their time. There's a ton of open source software and designs for hardware, people answering questions, things you can make and modify and use.

A lot of lawyers I talk to claim to be unemployed or under-employed. Looking through the myriad number of social abuses we come across at Slashdot, I've always wondered why some of them don't put their spare time into fixing some of our problems using the court system. If it's their own time and they are otherwise unemployed, it wouldn't be very expensive.

They'd also get a big boost of popularity (and business) from having defended a rights issue. When the police decided unilaterally that recording them was illegal, it took an incident to take it to court, and not a pair of lawyers who had set up a situation, with proper witnesses and affadavits.

Anyway, this guy appears to be doing some legal things in the manner of open source.

Cut him some slack, OK?

Depends on exactly what the 1st Circuit rules. I very strongly doubt they would rule I don't have standing (which would be the worst case outcome for my ability to prosecute this).

It's possible they might not want to allow an emergency PI/TRO, in which case it'll get delayed on fuller briefing, probably ~1-6 months. They also might deny preliminary injunction and TRO, without prejudice to an ordinary motion for injunction, in which case we're talking 6-12 months.

It's also possible that they'll rule that yes the TSA violated the APA (again) but they'll let 'em get away with it anyway (like in EPIC v DHS, 653 F3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2011)). That would be the worst case outcome on substance. I'd probably try for SCOTUS cert petition if that happens.

We'll find out in about a week, anyway, so no need to speculate too much. Follow me on G+ or Twitter, or watch my TSA litigation page if you want updates. ;-)

I've not watched the video yet; will try later. But the only things I've ever read about "natural law" have seemed to me to be fundamentally philosophically unsound, and basically just ways to bootstrap "I like / don't like this" into a claim of objective morality. I reject that philosophy.

Perhaps my manifesto on civil obedience would answer your question?