Jim Logajan wrote:

cavelamb himself wrote:

"You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener
announced. "And you're considered a terrorist."


I wasn't aware that security screeners are also judges.


I actually had one of those people tell me, "if you want to fly you
have to give up some of your constitutional rights" as an excuse for
hassling me.

This was in Phoenix - three years before 9/11.

I went to the American Airlines office and filed a complaint.

Together we went back and he customer advocate lady confronted the guy.

WHOLE different tune this time.


I'm going to start a new conspiracy theory!
The 9/11 attack was not orchestrated by CIA, but by a rogue faction of
airline security, and the trade center was brought down with hair spray
bombs!


"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I
said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this
point ... you don't have any'."


Ignorance of the law is no excuse - unless of course you are a security
screener, in which case it is expected. Maybe the TSA should also train its
screeners in the law - assuming they are doing any training at all.


Hell, ignorance is the ONLY excuse for most of them -
except maybe greed.

FWIW