I'm pretty sure MH propagated the same dumbass opinion during a debate on searches conducted by border patrol agents. So you were probably right in saying:
MH apparently prefers to give away his rights for nothing, to anyone with a badge.
Just booked a fly to Texas a few days ago. Now I noticed it asked for our DOB and a new 'secure passenger number' or some such, in a section devoted to TSA.
Hopefully this will reduce the wait times and help improve the system.
At the same time, I'm wonderig if they're going to start charging extra to obtain those numbers, and it's just another scam. We'll see over time I guess.
I will help law enforcement do their job. It's the AIRPORT!!
This isn't a stop on the street. He was in the airport, and in a post 9/11 world, it's important to help out.
Do you even realize that he wasted the officers and TSA people's time?
Do you completely ignore, that because he WANTS TO MAKE A CHILDISH POINT ABOUT HIS "RIGHTS".... he wasted their time? Time that could be spent looking for real problems? Nope.
Instead, he wants to be a martyr and prove a point, instead of just being civil and telling them. It's not a big deal. It's an airport.
On the contrary, TSA wasted the time of Mr. Bierstadt, and sought to pry into his personal business for no good reason. The TSA wasted scarce public resources on a man who was no threat to anyone's safety.
You say that Bierstadt asserting his rights was the waste of time and that his point was childish, but the fact was he did not know why he had been diverted for questioning and he did know that the state of Missouri had recently issued guidance linking pro-cons ution political groups (such as he works for) with terrorism and violent extremism.
Therefore, he had a rational basis for believing he had been singled out for his political activities. Believing so, it was not childish to assert his rights, but reasonable and prudent. Bierstadt was under no obligation to help out the TSA, and it was reasonable for him to believe they were not being helpful to him.
It doesn't matter where the authorities stop you, MH. Your 5th Amendment rights don't cease in the airport, and there is nothing at all childish about asserting them for a good reason, a middling reason or no reason at all.
Americans actually using their rights apparently makes MH cranky about the inconvenience this may cause LE. Wah.
Some inconvenience is expected. treating someone as a threat because they have money... That's ed up.
I guess he was only suppose to have hope and change...
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