If TSA can just blow off Congress willy-nilly, and (illegally) detain a sitting Senator in transit (Rand Paul), what does that make you, the average citizen?
Think it through: If TSA is confident enough to ignore your representatives, if it is powerful enough to ignore Congress (and get away with it), then where does that put that quaint “redress of grievances” Constitutional concept? In essence, TSA can address your grievance or not, at its whim. Addressing your request for redress to your elected representatives is worthless, as has been so clearly shown here.
December 2nd, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Is congress mad enough to defund the entire TSA? How about holding the bastards in contempt of congress and then actually detaining them?
Unfortunately, my money is on congress being chickenshit. Again.
December 2nd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
They’re unionized now. Not in the contract.
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:29 am
. . . or John McCain.
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Again, I ask you this:
If TSA can just blow off Congress willy-nilly, and (illegally) detain a sitting Senator in transit (Rand Paul), what does that make you, the average citizen?
Think it through: If TSA is confident enough to ignore your representatives, if it is powerful enough to ignore Congress (and get away with it), then where does that put that quaint “redress of grievances” Constitutional concept? In essence, TSA can address your grievance or not, at its whim. Addressing your request for redress to your elected representatives is worthless, as has been so clearly shown here.