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Breaking News: Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Mumbai Due to Suspicious Object in Cargo Hold, India News Outlets Reporting
I saw this headline on Fox but haven't heard or read anything yet. Anyone else see anything?
I saw this headline on Fox but haven't heard or read anything yet. Anyone else see anything?
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Agreed. Look at the hit to the economy without the air transportation system. If all the groups came together to fight this instead of being the submissive baby, it might change. The problem is that the government has purchased hundreds of these units and now we want to mothball them. (I know, it wont be the first or last waste of our tax dollars)
Liberty, once ceded, is rarely returned without bloodshed.
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While I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, it's a moot point once we've set foot in the airport and voluntarily and willingly subjected ourselves to the screening process. Outside the airport terminal, whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person. To give the TSA this amount of power is to give them a big step down the path of totalitarianism. But again, flying isn't a right and the Fourth Amendment won't protect us from what we might consider an unreasonable search.
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You asked: Which Constitutional right is being violated?
I answered: Unreasonable search and seizure. Privacy. Neither is an absolute right. Both must be weighed, benefit vs. infringement.
As a pilot, can we as a group say we are separate from the public and the risks we pose to the system are minimal and any intrusive search on us is unconstitutional? Yes. Can we argue that the alternative backscatter machines pose an unsafe health risk to us over the normal traveling public because of our already high exposure to radiation and the only option we have is to go through the "excessive search?" Yup. Can we say this search is unreasonable in light of the fact that we undergo heightened security checks and background searches? Absolutely.
If you want me to find a better way for the TSA to stop the underwear bomber, that's not my job. Force everyone through the bacskatter machine if need be.
My concern is for us as pilots. Is the TSA slowly killing us by bombarding us with excessive x-rays 10 times a month? In light of all the scrutiny we go through already, are they trampling on our rights by "frisking" us when we pose a minimal threat to the system?
How many pilots have been caught with a bomb between their nuts? If the number is zero, we have a case to be made that the frisk is unreasonable and unconstitutional.
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While I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, it's a moot point once we've set foot in the airport and voluntarily and willingly subjected ourselves to the screening process. Outside the airport terminal, whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person. To give the TSA this amount of power is to give them a big step down the path of totalitarianism. But again, flying isn't a right and the Fourth Amendment won't protect us from what we might consider an unreasonable search.
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While I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, it's a moot point once we've set foot in the airport and voluntarily and willingly subjected ourselves to the screening process. Outside the airport terminal, whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person. To give the TSA this amount of power is to give them a big step down the path of totalitarianism. But again, flying isn't a right and the Fourth Amendment won't protect us from what we might consider an unreasonable search.
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That's a great question, but not what you originally asked and not what my answer was for.
You asked: Which Constitutional right is being violated?
I answered: Unreasonable search and seizure. Privacy. Neither is an absolute right. Both must be weighed, benefit vs. infringement.
If you want me to find a better way for the TSA to stop the underwear bomber, that's not my job. Force everyone through the backscatter machine if need be.
How many pilots have been caught with a bomb between their nuts? If the number is zero, we have a case to be made that the frisk is unreasonable and unconstitutional.
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You asked: Which Constitutional right is being violated?
I answered: Unreasonable search and seizure. Privacy. Neither is an absolute right. Both must be weighed, benefit vs. infringement.
If you want me to find a better way for the TSA to stop the underwear bomber, that's not my job. Force everyone through the backscatter machine if need be.
How many pilots have been caught with a bomb between their nuts? If the number is zero, we have a case to be made that the frisk is unreasonable and unconstitutional.
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P.S. Don't get me wrong guys. I'm all for secure flight. I'm also for a reasonable interpretation of our Constitution. Something I swore (3 X) to "...faithfully defend from enemies, foreign and domestic..."
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My original question was to Chuck regarding the passengers who willingly submit to it. My question was to this:
QUOTE=1234 I only watched the first one, but this guy is a pain in the ass.
P.I.T.A.? Yes, he really was all that. As it is (a P.I.T.A.) for us every single day we show up at our work station. As it is for every single one of our passengers when they want nothing more than to go from "A" to "B". In a reasonable manner. And yet they somehow still subject themselves to an unbelievably humiliating security screening. I shake my head in unbelief at how much we as a society have seemingly abandoned one of our fundamental constitutional rights.
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P.I.T.A.? Yes, he really was all that. As it is (a P.I.T.A.) for us every single day we show up at our work station. As it is for every single one of our passengers when they want nothing more than to go from "A" to "B". In a reasonable manner. And yet they somehow still subject themselves to an unbelievably humiliating security screening. I shake my head in unbelief at how much we as a society have seemingly abandoned one of our fundamental constitutional rights.
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As a pilot, can we as a group say we are separate from the public and the risks we pose to the system are minimal and any intrusive search on us is unconstitutional? Yes. Can we argue that the alternative backscatter machines pose an unsafe health risk to us over the normal traveling public because of our already high exposure to radiation and the only option we have is to go through the "excessive search?" Yup. Can we say this search is unreasonable in light of the fact that we undergo heightened security checks and background searches? Absolutely.
If you want me to find a better way for the TSA to stop the underwear bomber, that's not my job. Force everyone through the bacskatter machine if need be.
My concern is for us as pilots. Is the TSA slowly killing us by bombarding us with excessive x-rays 10 times a month? In light of all the scrutiny we go through already, are they trampling on our rights by "frisking" us when we pose a minimal threat to the system?
How many pilots have been caught with a bomb between their nuts? If the number is zero, we have a case to be made that the frisk is unreasonable and unconstitutional.
New K
If you want me to find a better way for the TSA to stop the underwear bomber, that's not my job. Force everyone through the bacskatter machine if need be.
My concern is for us as pilots. Is the TSA slowly killing us by bombarding us with excessive x-rays 10 times a month? In light of all the scrutiny we go through already, are they trampling on our rights by "frisking" us when we pose a minimal threat to the system?
How many pilots have been caught with a bomb between their nuts? If the number is zero, we have a case to be made that the frisk is unreasonable and unconstitutional.
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