Reply #19: Of course you have the right to fly.

[sabrina 1]

Why are people on the left constantly raising this rightwing meme in an effort to defend this? When these machines were kept out of airports successfully under Bush, the exact same argument was made, and debunked over and over again.

We have the right to travel, and that includes flying, unmolested by the government unless we commit or are a suspect in a crime.

Bush's policies changed the rules and made every US citizen a suspect in order to impose his anti-Constitutional laws. This is what you are defending. No one is a suspect in this country without probable cause. And being frightened does not translate into 'probable cause'.

No wonder countries lose their rights so easily. So many are willing to just give them up without a whimper. Republicans, when their guy is in the WH and Democrats when it's their guy.

What's hillarious about this is how under Bush this was a huge issue for the left and you could not find anyone willing to defend the use of these machines and the idea that all Americans are suspects in crimes yet to be committed. The FFs would roll over in their graves.

'Anyone who would give up their freedom for a little security, deserves neither freedom nor security'! Paraphrased, but so true, and with all the freedoms we've given up, apparently it was all for nothing, but we are still not secure and need to give up even more! :eyes:

When will we be safe?? How many many more rights will it take before we are safe?

Unrec'd this article as Texas and every other state now doing so are to be commended for attempting to restore our constitutional rights. It was a completely bi-partisan bill and it's disgraceful to see the left being so blatantly hypocritical. I argued with rightwingers over this very topic for years. I haven't changed my mind just because now Democrats are doing it.