That's exactly what I asked the TSA screener in Tampa earlier this month. I repeatedly asked her if she enjoyed violating Americans' rights every day for her paycheck the entire time she was molesting me, while I was separated from my personal belongings and while I had my hands swapped for explosives. I did notice she cut the pat down short, and limited to only my upper body. I think she wanted to get rid of me. I hope she was incredibly uncomfortable, and I hope my questions were the cause of her discomfort.

That's right Amy, there is no tolerance for abuse of the abusers.

When did the whole nation fall into the rabbit hole?

I've recently had the unfortunate experience of multiple pat downs most recently on a return trip from Las Vegas. I was sent to the cancer scatter machine and opted out as I've recently had to do about a half dozen times.

This time in McCarran, the opt out line is a distant separation from my belongings at the end of the conveyor belt. My wallet, phone, ipod and wedding ring were all out of my view. I casually strolled to the belt to retrieve my things and was met with strenuous objection. I can't do that I'm told. I need to wait where I am I'm told. I tell them, there's no way I'm going to be out of sight from my valuables with no belt or shoes or i.d. or money. A resounding chorus of, "Supervisor. SUPERVISOR!!" rang out from at least three unoccupied agents.

Mind you, my stuff, the stuff I didn't want left unattended had just passed their inspection and was cleared to be on the plane with me.

I'm sickened by this treatment, neutering of our rights, and colossal waste of funds this entity is. I'm bound to get in trouble for my attitude and behavior in short order as I'm not the most cooperative of sorts.

You know what bugs me the most about being separated from our belongings during the charade of security? The fact that for how many years the recordings in the airport are "Please do not leave your belongings unattended." Oh and if you have to clear customs, they ask, have your belongings been out of your possession. WTF?!?! Do they want us to keep our belongings with us or not. Fucktards! Sorry...rant over.

Amy, I guess you've seen the bit about the baggage theft ring at JKF? TSA has to be in on it.

Does anyone have any pics of this woman? Is she hot?

Amy, I'm so pleased to see that you are continuing to keep close watch over the TSA. I predict that historians will look back at this period and conclude that Americans lost their mind in the wake of 9/11. To be more precise, they willingly gave up their liberty in the supposed interest of security. However, anyone who reads through a few weeks of your blog or listens to any number of Adam Carolla's [well thought out] rants on the TSA will quickly realize that most of this "security" is nothing but a fraud designed to "look good" but really accomplishing very little.

I hope you turn what now must be a huge collection of material into a book or contact a young, hungry documentary maker and get her or him to create a film based on your endless research.

P.S. I still think you should go on Carolla's podcast to discuss the TSA!!!

For all you regular readers of the Goddess' blog you can skip past this post unless you want to read the additional sentence about the JetBlue pilot. I'm going to post my regular rant about not needing the TSA. For all you new readers, please read it carefully and refute any statement or misstatement. ;-)

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The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!

The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.

The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.

Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.

The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.

At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.

The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?

The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.

If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.

There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.

Since TSA employees do not actually have law enforcement powers, There should be no reason why local police officers should not be on hand to accept formal charges from passengers and make arrests of TSA personal as citizens arrests. TSA staff like to call police against passengers, so why not put the shoe on the other foot? Some local politicians might welcome the opportunity to make points with voters.

I think it curious that everytime I've opted out this year (6 times) each situation has escalated to near panic mode. The escalation is always initiated by the TSA officers themselves. I note to the officers that I will not be separated from my personal belongings, a requirement by their own rules, and three officers begin bellowing for supervisory assistance immediately. It's as if I disclosed I was about to do something dastardly. I guess attempting to preserve my rights and belongings is no longer permitted.

I think I read about the stolen watch, and while I suppose I can appreciate them doing the absolute minimum with regard to videotaping theft, if someone slickly pockets my wallet with cash, cards and i.d. in an airport, whether they have it on tape or not, how am I supposed to negotiate the rest of their security mouse trap for the remainder of my trip?

"Does anyone have any pics of this woman? Is she hot?"

Mike Hunter: do you have an answer for me yet, as to what mode of travel you have a right to?

Like Patrick, you were eager to say that traveling on a plane is not Constitutionally protected. Apparently you've discarded the 4th Amendment already, so I want to know just how you intend to travel without being presumed guilty and patted down for it by a TSA agent.

20 years ago, the idea that an American would hear, "Your papers, pliss?" from a government agent, merely because they were traveling, was unthinkable. That's something the Nazis and the Communists did.

Now it's us.

And some put up with it because it's convenient. Oh, it's too much trouble to insist on rights!

I'm sorry Mr. Waste, but you need an education on the 4th amendment and the cases concerning it.

Getting searched at an airport has been determined by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to be a valid use of this power. Please see this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/44023522/United-States-of-America-v-Daniel-Kuualoha-Aukai

There is alot of good information on this link and in the ruling. I know the Supreme Court sucks and all that, but these are the same people who gave you Roe v. Wade, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and now the ObamaCare law (which won't get overturned unfortunately). You can't pick and choose which ones you like and which you don't...you just have to follow the rules like everyone else.

Although the Supreme Court has never ruled on the issue, on three different cases the Supreme Court has suggested that airport screening searches are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches, if and when the use is where there is a need for such measures to ensure public safety. Please look up the case law from the link.

The issue is the need for searches for the public safety at large, even if there is no expectation of suspicion. This right has been upheld repeatedly, and there is a large number of cases where this is true.

So, before you start throwing around what you know about the 4th Amendment, I would look at the actual case law and not interpret the original Amendment yourself. All that work has already been done for you by the judges your great presidents have given you...

Again:

What mode of travel is your RIGHT?

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Bonus if you can say that you approve....