That judge with the dissent - what a moron. Maybe Rosa Parks should have protested somewhere other than the bus too eh?<p>Dude was braver than I've ever been, could have ended really badly.
Even though this ruling seems to be in favor of liberty, I'm disheartened to read the excerpt of the appeals court ruling in the article.<p><i>We take heed of [Benjamin Franklin's] warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.</i><p>The court finds itself tempted to set aside Constitutional language for the sake of the nebulous idea of "national security." Next time they're faced with a ruling of this nature, their temptations might just get the better of them.
When I used to travel for work I made a big effort to avoid going through the scanners by selecting lines that weren't using them or opt-ing out. My last opt-out occurred after the new groping pat-downs were put into practice and I found the pat-down much more disturbing than the scanner. Now, I still try to avoid the line with the scanner, but when required, I'll go through them rather than get groped.<p>Unfortunately, this lawsuit will do nothing to change the way the TSA operates. I would have been happier to see the punishment not just be a payment of monies but a requirement to change policies and procedures to avoid this in the future. I don't see that happening.
Lazy protest. He should have sewed the text 4th amendment into the inside of his shirt with strips of aluminum foil and then gone through the nudie scanner.
And this is why I love the US and am a citizen! I can think of almost no other country where such a man would not have been arrested and had no legal recourse.