Americans Need Common Sense: Keep Our Eyes on the Bright Constellation

"Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us."

Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Speech

"...a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question..."

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

In 1776, Thomas Paine's modest pamphlet Common Sense helped American colonists see that it was time to fight for their freedom and the freedom of their children from tyranny.

The natural rights inventoried by the signers of the Magna Carta, and later on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, are the very rights that Americans must fight for today. We fight not only for ourselves, but for our children, and their children, so that our kids grow up in a country where liberty and justice dwell for all.

Our rights are now under attack by the deployment of "body scanners." These machines deliver an untested medical experiment on anyone who is viewed through these machines, whether as airport security theatre, or through secret image-making on people going into court, attending sports events, or simply walking along the street.

Specifically, the 4th Amendment, which prevents unreasonable searches and seizures.
The current U.S. government "deployment" of these scanners, through the Transportation Security Administration and its staff, constitutes unreasonable search and seizure by adopting an illegal "guilty until proven innocent" philosophy.

The present false choice, "the scanner or the grope" by TSA workers, is nothing more than government-sponsored terrorism.

It's time to end the scanner "deployment."
American citizens are not criminals, and America is not a war zone.
Be careful of the verb "deploy," which is used to send troops into enemy territory.
The verb "deploy" shows that the TSA considers itself like an army, and America is enemy territory.
This, simply, is treason against Americans.