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I'm confused - at what point was he detained exactly? Perhaps there is more to the story than what I'm reading. My understanding is he went through the scanner, an alarm was sounded, he refused a pat down, and was refused access to the secure area and didn't get to fly. Was there some point he was not free to leave the situation? Was he told he had to stay and be patted down before he could leave the area? I understand his goal was to get to his flight, but being refused access to a secure area because you refuse to cooperate with their security measures does NOT equal detainment.
Isn't this jerk wealthy to begin with? Why is he flying commercial if he doesn't want to go through a security screening process? He set off a body scanner so if he didn't wanted to be "patted down" he could have easily just have not taken that flight.
That's not going to be as damaging of property and life as a commercial plane.
It's pretty simple if you know about homeland security. The homeland security community doesn't pretend to think that it can stop EVERYTHING. The idea is to stop obvious threats and provent what can be prevented.
It's always funny when people start throwing out "If-I-Were-A-Terrorist-I'd-Do-This ...." Well, the homeland security community does sit around and think about what people WOULD do and COULD do. They then take whatever realistic and feasible matters possible to do the best to prevent these threats.
A lot of you guys talk about how the "terrorists won," blah, blah and because "we all live in fear." No ... if we were truly living in a police state that was monitoring and acting on the justified paranoia, then we WOULD be checking every plane that goes in the air.
You should probably start thinking about who is really the brain dead one and be more open-minded in this discussion.
Obviously you need some more life experience and study to some history. If you have the money you can rent a 747.
Oh right, being that he gets no publicity being a political figure and all. The best way for him to garner "publicity" was to get on a public airline to get to a speaking engagement.
Had he chartered a jet, then you people would whine and moan that he was using "tax payer" funds to live large. People just do not THINK anymore.
It is amazing how thin-skinned and sensitive the RW of today are. There seems to be nothing they won't cry about.
I am disappointed at Rand Paul for crying about having to submit to same treatment as everyone else. I still respect his views, but I respect him less as a person than I did before. His father still gets my vote in Nov though.
The question should be "Why is ANY AMERICAN subject to this mistreatment?", not "why is he crying about it?" He is standing up for ALL of us who have to go through this trampling of our civil rights.
Good for him. Unreasonable search per our Constitution. Good for him. All of us need to follow that example.
I am apsolutely sure that ALL airplane highjacking terrorists agree 100% with your idea
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