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Originally Posted by Thremp
Nice nonsense. Do you honestly expect a rebuttal in earnest when you make a ridiculous argument based on fear? Doug Fanelli likes this.
I don't know why I bothered googling to find out who that is, since you aren't making a coherent argument at all (unless the argument is "they have badges so if you don't submit completely and answer all the questions, even if you aren't legally required to answer the questions, you don't deserve the privilege of being allowed to board an airplane and I hope you are punished severely"). But when I googled Doug Fanelli I came up with
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In the spot, which ran over the weekend on a Fox affiliate in central Florida, Fanelli stands between a middle-aged white man and a younger, swarthy fellow. "Does this look like a terrorist?" he asks, gesturing towards the white man. Then, pointing to the darker dude, he adds: "Or this?"
Maybe he's known for something else besides his "terrorists have dark skin, let whitey be" stance? As that would have absolutely nothing to do with this thread.
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Do you think that the way to alter the process is to harass people at the absolute lowest order of the chain?
Do you think refusing to answer questions constitutes harassment? Open a dictionary some time, you can say he was being uncooperative but "harassment" refers to an aggressive act and all he wanted was to be left alone. Seems to me detaining someone without probable cause that a crime has been committed, cursing him out when he refuses to answer questions (even though it seems he was not legally required to answer these questions), and later threatening him with a bluff about taking him to the DEA in a failed attempt to pressure him into answering these questions is a much better example of harassment.
As for why he was refusing to cooperate with low level agents instead of taking his case to the higher-ups, that's just the situation he was presented with. Later he filed a lawsuit against the TSA so it seems to me he's doing what he can.
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Furthermore, you act as if the sole choice of living arrangements is in the US.
So nobody should complain about the TSA, if they don't like it they should move to another country? I have no idea how to even respond to that, just LOL. I don't know why anyone would want to be a cheerleader for the police state but that's really all you're doing.