How did our country get to this point?

[xiphias]

Just got through security at Tampa airport.  Opted for a patdown instead of the backscatter.  Am still shaking from anger.  Didn't show any upset to the agents; not their fault, and didn't want to be arrested for causing a problem.  But how the HELL did out country get to the point that we are willing to be treated as probable-cause criminals for traveling?  It's unAmerican.  It's against everything a free country is supposed to be.  And I have no choice!  If I'm to visit Lis's family, I have to accept this infringement of my right to not undergo a search.

 

I have to accept that free movement around my country is now probable cause for criminal activity.  How the hell is this acceptable?

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[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

This is one of those things where there would need to be some sort of legal ruling that travel on an airplane is somehow completely different in all ways from travel on a train, on a bus, or on a boat, as all are qualified as common carriers. I am not sure that there is such a ruling; and yet, there are no pat-downs on ferries carrying dozens of cars, buses carrying dozens of people, or trains traveling at dozens of miles per hour (hey, I had to get "dozens" in there somehow).