MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to "warrantless and suspicionless" scans and body searches.
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BRAVO! But I fear the 4th Amendment is dead for all practical purposes.
ReplyDeleteWhen they began allowing police to search vehicles en mass without scant evidence or probably cause the road to hell was paved.
We should (and do) have a RIGHT to not be searched. We should not have to wave this constitutional right in order to travel in our own damn country! What is next, forcing us to pull over in our cars on interstates and making us submit to these pat downs or cancer-causing x-rays?
Go ahead and laugh at the cancer-causing part but even "The Doctors" on network television seemed vary of repeated exposure to radiation from these machines. Some people travel/fly a lot because of their jobs, what will happen when these people start dying from cancer at an enhanced rate? Lawsuits. Multi-billion dollar lawsuits from wealth salesmen that can afford the best attorneys.
I agree, Jessie, and want my rights back.
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