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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
When you want to get on an airplane, you have to agree to a search that is entrusive as the security wants to be. They can body cavity search you if they want. So there is some lower level where you WILL be subject to additional search. You can't be bothered by this. Some people MAY be barred entirely? Until I see this actually happen, I can't see it as erosion. How often do you think they'll do this?
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OK, so basically you're not bothered by any erosion of civil rights until it happens to you? Many founders believed that this was a wide-spread attitude, and thus conditioned their acceptance of the Constitution on the adoption of the Bill of Rights, including the provisions noting that powers not delegated to the federal government were reserved to the people.
What is the worry with discriminating against people based on a computer program that may well factor race and national origin in? Well, if you have no objections, than let's ask everyone with a vowel at the end of their sock to go to the back of the bus. This is what Birmingham and Selma were all about.
And as to air travel as a right -- yes, I believe freedom from discrimination on the basis of race or national origin in places of public accomodation is a right. Just like blacks in the back of the bus.
