What's your favorite type TSA Agent?

The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The TSA is a flagrant and absolutely preposterous affront to this
amendment. They have and need no probable cause to search your bag and
seize your… you know. And even if they had probable cause they have
skipped the part about getting warrants because that’s too
time-consuming and people are already waiting long enough to get to
their planes, blah blah blah. It’s just so inconvenient to do the right
thing sometimes, you know? And it’s not just the illegal search
and seizure that bothers me. It’s that these searches and seizures are
incredibly unreasonable. On my trip back from Denver to Atlanta a week
or so ago (with my wife and four kids), they confiscated a juicebox from
my diaper bag after swabbing it for explosives. Wow. That seems
reasonable.

To really narrow down the potential threats to American safety,
they’ve started mounting mirrors in front of their faces… wait, no
that’s not it… I mean they’ve recently started a behavioral profiling
program at Boston Logan to try to determine possible terrorists by facial expressions and attitudes. In other words, they will question you if you look grumpy. That’s pretty stupid. Everyone
at the airport looks grumpy. Because of how annoying airport security
is. Since they’ve implemented this brilliant program, only a fraction of
the 725,000 travelers have been referred for further screening, and not
a single one has been arrested for any wrong-doing. They’ve all just
had their time wasted, their privacy violated, and their rights
discarded.

There are few people standing up to this garbage. Most of us just
want to be left alone, so we just go along to get along. But how far
does this have to go before we say, “NO!” I hear occasionally
of brave people with time on their hands that stand up for their
Constitutional rights and tell airport security nothing about where they
came from or where they’re going or refuse to be in the TSA’s latest
“x-ray”ted photo shoot. You don’t technically have to tell them anything.
But I usually do whatever they ask. Because I have nothing to hide, and
because I have already capitulated to the fact that we live under a
tyranny. What’s the point of pressing your rights? Have you ever refused
to let a police officer search your car? It’s your constitutional
right, you know. Yeah. Hope you like handcuffs and impound lots.

You’re guilty until proven dead.

How do you deal with this? Hit them where it hurts: their wallets.
Government bureaucracies don’t care about another thing in the world.
You can talk about the inhumanity and the Constitution this and that
’til you’re purple in the belly button… they really don’t care.
We need to set up a National No-Fly Day. Get every business and every
person sick of TSA to commit to absolutely no flying on that day. Tell
the airlines that if they want our business, they need to use their
lobbyists to force TSA out of airports… and out of existence for that
matter. We have police officers already, and they are plenty intrusive
enough. If we could actually get everyone in the US to commit to this, I
think we might have a chance of sending an effective message all the
way to Washington. Might be a pipe dream, but it would be pretty
awesome.