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HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
21. Why TSA can search you without a warrant
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 12:58 PM
Jul 2016

First, you volunteer to have your person and your baggage searched, according to the fine print on your airline ticket. Second, it's a an administrative search, not a legal or criminal search, making it difficult to prosecute you if they find dope or drug money. That's how they sidestep the 4th Amendment.

If all we required was a reasonable likelihood of danger to the public, we would never allow anyone to carry firearms to public gatherings. There is a higher threshold than that. If the two groups start talking smack to each other, that might do it.

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chicken-hearted Kasich... chillfactor Jul 2016 #1
I don't care for Kasich, but there isn't a damned thing he can do. tonyt53 Jul 2016 #4
Amen JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #6
I hope he says JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #8
Who didn't see this coming ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #2
Except - I think John Kasich is basically fair JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #5
Being from Ohio, I have long known of ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #11
Yep JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #15
Since I have a Sister that lives less than 5 miles from the convention center ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #16
I don't want people hurt JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #17
Ronald Reagan signed a gun control law in CA because the Black Panthers started carrying tblue37 Jul 2016 #9
1SBM, perhaps black protesters will be the ones who finally tblue37 Jul 2016 #14
Strange if this had been white tea baggers the NRA would be all over it awake Jul 2016 #3
See my post #9 above. nt tblue37 Jul 2016 #10
We have a long and (dis)honorable history of disarming Black folks ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #12
Yep. I was wondering why the police took so long to request this. underpants Jul 2016 #7
In a nutshell HassleCat Jul 2016 #13
Several thoughts here ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #18
Problem is HassleCat Jul 2016 #19
No a specific threat is NOT required ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #20
Why TSA can search you without a warrant HassleCat Jul 2016 #21
Your first statement is true, the second is not ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #22
So many years and so much blood shed in this country... Basement Beat Jul 2016 #23
I got blasted in GD for saying as much Ellen Forradalom Jul 2016 #24
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