He shouldn't have been held up at ALL.
If any authorities (fake ones like TSA or real ones like police) have no probable cause for comission of a crime, this shouldn't happen. Period.
I guess infringements are OK as long as they don't last too long, now?
..you misunderstand me entirely.
Again:
I think the Campaign for Liberty has been the best consequence of this election cycle.
I think Ron Paul his supporters are awesome people. Most specifically I think Ron Paul is awesome.
I don't think protesting in wookie suits, staging giant rallies, and protesting the Fox News headquarters doesn't make these people faily, nor does the fact some of them are nerds. I think it makes them awesome. I think nerds are a superior species to non-nerds, and I'd trade six people in three-piece suits who want to be all conventional and boring and never rock the boat for one CFL precinct captain.
I think Ron Paul was the best political candidate to ever seek any Presidential nomination of the Democrats or the Republicans in the last 44 years.
I think the very existence of the TSA is unconstitutional.
I even think this was a disgusting show of thuggery, and the guy abused should have sued them for every dime he can squeeze out of them.
However, this is just not really
newsworthy because worse abuses happen every day. There are people in the US who are not allowed to fly
at all because their name lights up on a terrorist database, there are people who are doing 5-year prison terms because they were possessing the wrong sort of item, there are people shot and killed in no-knock raids, and so on, and so forth, et ad nauseam.
Don't you think some guy getting detained for 30 minutes and NOT missing his flight is sort of minor on the scheme of things?