{"id":724,"date":"2009-07-06T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2009-07-06T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T05:44:10","slug":"the-tsa-is-still-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"The TSA is Still At It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" title=\"court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/court.jpg\" alt=\"court\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\" \/>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204556804574261940842372518.html?mod=hps_us_my_industries#articleTabs%3Darticle\">article<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal brings to light continuing abuses by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\">Transport Security Agency<\/a> of people&#8217;s freedoms.\u00a0 In the article several cases are depicted in which the TSA expanded their role from protecting against terrorism on planes to general law enforcement.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the issue: the only reasons the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution allows anyone to screen at all in advance are that the screening is not viewed as a law enforcement activity, and that it is impossible to undo  a successful attack.\u00a0 The principle, then, should be that TSA should be required to invade our privacy to the minimum extent possible to protect against such attacks, so that we can continue to enjoy what little we have left of our rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.\u00a0 The courts have held as such repeatedly, and it is the same logic used to uphold drunk driving checks.<\/p>\n<p>Technology actually hurts and helps.\u00a0 For instance, new scanners make it possible to see through clothing and detect all manner of substances.\u00a0 On the other hand, because they can do so, there should be less need to open containers if those scanners have said that they are safe.\u00a0 Similarly, technology can improve the way we identify individuals.\u00a0 By doing so, quizzing people about their identity should become less necessary.\u00a0 Just to be clear, I do not view anything having to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio-frequency_identification\">RFID<\/a> in such a vein.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll discuss this more soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Wall Street Journal brings to light continuing abuses by the Transport Security Agency of people&#8217;s freedoms.\u00a0 In the article several cases are depicted in which the TSA expanded their role from protecting against terrorism on planes to general law enforcement.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the issue: the only reasons the Fourth Amendment of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The TSA is Still At It.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,15],"tags":[254,137],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","category-stupid-stuff","tag-4th-amendment","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}