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ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention

Posted by kdawson on from the single-file-please dept.

gavron writes "The ACLU has filed suit against DHS to stop the TSA from conducting illegal searches and detention. In the case at hand, TSA detained a Ron Paul staffer who was carrying $4,300 in cash in a metal box. The suit seeks to focus TSA searches on things having to do with increasing security on aircraft, instead of their current practice of 4th-amendment-violating searches, such as those of laptops, iPods, etc."

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  1. Re:Why, oh why. by PPH · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, I don't like them because they keep forgetting about the Second Amendment.

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  2. Re:What took them so long? by OrangeMonkey11 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    From the transcript I personally think the Staffer and ACLU have no case here; if you look at common sense and reasoning the staffer should have told TSA who he was and who he work for, that would avoid the confrontation and be on his way. But instead he decided to make his little dick be a big dick and think that just because the work for Ron Paul he could stroll through like VIP and TSA just automatically knows who he is. This is just a simple case of some little dick trying to be a big dick and then cry about it when he got called.

  3. Re:Why, oh why. by TinFoilMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hate these GD modders. At least mod me flamebait or something worth while and no -1 for "I disagree" isn't the same thing as troll.

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