Knowingly putting yourself in a situation where your "normal" liberties must be compromised is your choice. You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead.
And the TSA is welcome to go fuck off. They don't get to decide which liberties people must voluntarily compromise in order to fly, or at least that's not how it's supposed to work.
The idea that anything that's not a fundamental human right can be taken away on the whim of any random government bureaucracy is, bizarre, to say the least.
What? There are citizens of the United States of America that don't live in the contiguous 48 states. If I have to go on business for my company to the corporate headquarter, I have little choice but to fly. You cannot say that I am putting myself in the situation, if I don't go, I lose my job. What then?
We have our liberties compromised because we want and have the freedom to travel? PLEASE, not by choice, I don't want anyone groping myself or my wife, much less going through a scanner that strips your clothes off. I firmly believe that the TSA has now gone beyond their powers and is infringing of my rights as an American citizen.
The TSA doesn't "own" flying. They are proposing measures that are invasive and fundamentally ineffective, and we're supposed to have a say in whether or not we want that.
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Knowingly putting yourself in a situation where your "normal" liberties must be compromised is your choice. You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead. And the TSA is welcome to go fuck off. They don't get to decide which liberties people must voluntarily compromise in order to fly, or at least that's not how it's supposed to work. The idea that anything that's not a fundamental human right can be taken away on the whim of any random government bureaucracy is, bizarre, to say the least. What? There are citizens of the United States of America that don't live in the contiguous 48 states. If I have to go on business for my company to the corporate headquarter, I have little choice but to fly. You cannot say that I am putting myself in the situation, if I don't go, I lose my job. What then? We have our liberties compromised because we want and have the freedom to travel? PLEASE, not by choice, I don't want anyone groping myself or my wife, much less going through a scanner that strips your clothes off. I firmly believe that the TSA has now gone beyond their powers and is infringing of my rights as an American citizen. The TSA doesn't "own" flying. They are proposing measures that are invasive and fundamentally ineffective, and we're supposed to have a say in whether or not we want that.