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The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of airport search simply because such search is reasonable because it is done in an effort to prevent mass murder. As long as the threat of terrorism exists, the searches are authorized.
Fair enough. Would you please provide this case ruling by the Supreme Court?
And the last time a commercial airliner was hijacked in this country was when?
Why does one have to be?
The point of terrorism is to cause enough fear so that time, money and convenience is wasted on preventing another possible occurence without ever having to perpetrate one.
What is your position on immigration? Should people be able to move in and out of this country freely?
As freely as i can move in and out of their countries.
My position on immigration is come here if you have something to offer and you're willing to live by our laws and culture. I don't care about your race, religion, language, or anything else.
For those of you choosing safety......do you really think it can be guaranteed no matter what you are willing to put up with?
Straw man. Nobody believes that.
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It's called a false sense of security and that would come at a very high cost.
That's why it's a balance.
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Once you gave up wahtever freedoms you are willing to lose to pay that price, you realize you would never be able to say you didn't get what you "paid for" and get your "money" back?
If I'm dead, I hardly suspect I'll be asking anybody for my money back.
Why does one have to be?
The point of terrorism is to cause enough fear so that time, money and convenience is wasted on preventing another possible occurence without ever having to perpetrate one.
Wrong. The purpose of terrorism is to promote a political agenda. Fear is the tool, not the objective.
I refute the premise of your question. We do not "have" to be searched at all. You can choose to fly and be searched or you can choose not to fly and not be searched.
Not necessarily.
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U.S. airline passengers near the security checkpoint can be searched any time and no longer can refuse consent by leaving the airport, the nation’s largest federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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The decision (.pdf) by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the circuit’s 34-year-old precedent that over time was evolving toward limiting when passengers could refuse a search and leave the airport after they had checked their bags or placed items on the security screening X-ray machine. Citing threats of terrorism, the court ruled passengers give up all rights to be free of warrantless searches once a "passenger places hand luggage on a conveyor belt for inspection" or "passes though a magnetometer."
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