Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

What do you expect? The courts have been pretty ballless when it comes to raining this sort of abuse of power in. What the TSA does is pretty much completely unconstitutional and not even effective. I remember when I was a kid, my dad would bring one of those classic buck knives on the plane. He'd toss it in the bin along with his change, the security screener would see it and give it back to him after he passed through the metal detector. There weren't mandatory sexual assaults to get on the plane, and the experience as all around relatively relaxed. Sure, being hijacked was a thing, rarely, but if the passengers went along with it, you might get hijacked to Cuba, and then released to return home. (Even after 9/11, it wouldn't have been much different, it's just that people would have known to fight back) And, it's only possible because interstate travel is no longer a constitutional right in any reasonable sense of the word. If I want to travel out of state, it's hours of driving, or a quick flight that requires subjecting oneself to what used to represent an illegal search.
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@Just-Human Doesn't matter. That's all the more reason for them to not go on these unconstitutional fishing expeditions.
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@ebr-fan1117 Because they're literally caught on camera violating the Constitution and whatever oath they made when they got their badges. This isn't even just one search, this is them repeatedly searching people without the legal authority to do it. As far as innocent until proven guilty, that doesn't really apply to that woman that's righty calling them out for trying to enforce a blatantly illegal law.
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@NSUScooter Hardlines are what make laws and amendments easy to violate. They also wind up having to be amended constantly to keep up. It's why the constitution of one of those Southern states, IIRC Alabama, is so incredibly long. They have to keep amending it to keep up with changing times.
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@Terrackhimself Yes, it's like that around here as well, there are certain things you can't do in the parks, but they're not allowed to search everybody because somebody might be violating the ordinance. They only get to search people if they see the requisite signs to justify the search.
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Although, strictly speaking, those were presumably lawful searches as defined by the laws of the time, but definitely a fair point to make.
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@anon457 Yes, but it will be enforced until such a time as the courts decide that it's not constitutional and those that complete their sentences in the meantime might not get anything back.
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