Airport TSA…security, or control?

The intrusions on our privacy when we attempt to board an airplane are a good example of the way that the government arranges circumstances that enable them to take away our Constitutional rights with little to no resistance. They are able to achieve this by convincing us, through the corporate controlled media, that we should be afraid and allow the government to “protect” us by taking away our rights. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects us against unreasonable search and seizure, and the shakedown that we experience at the airport would clearly seem to violate this basic and inalienable right.

This is a very juicy topic, but in the interest of space we will toss out just a few facts for you to consider. The first one is that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees us the right to travel freely between states. So if an American citizen lives in Miami and purchases a ticket to fly to New York, they have every right to do so without any governmental impediments. And there is certainly no probable cause that would presuppose that he or she may be intending to commit a crime, and thus be subject to bodily searches, implied by the mere purchase of an airline ticket.

In fact, a person who wanted to commit a violent act of protest could drive a car full of explosives from Miami to New York, and it would be much easier to accomplish. An individual or group could barge into any public place and commit an act of violence. This is part of the “risk” we all take by being human and living in a free society. And when you figure it all out, more Americans die every day from cigarette smoking than have been killed by acts of so-called “terrorism” in the nation’s history.

So the airport intrusions seem to be an opportunity to impose control and fear rather than being a useful and necessary security tool. Every month, for decades, thousands of people come into this country without documentation across our southern border, and we don’t know who they are, what their country of origin is, where they wind up, or what their intentions are. If the TSA really wanted to create an airtight web of true security, they wouldn’t make pregnant fifth-generation American moms remove their shoes on the way to visit their Gramdma in Milwaukee–they would address genuine security threats like border protection. Hijacking an airplane is not the only way to commit an act of violence, so you have to wonder about the true intentions of these misguided and illegal airport intrusion policies.