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TSA is Violating our Right to Freedom of Association
Free association is a (first amendment) right. It is expressed through contract. When you buy a plane ticket, it is a contract. You trade money for transportation. The TSA, with zero authority, gets in between you and the other party to the contract (the airline) and decides when you may associate and under what conditions. This is illegitimate and a violation of my right to freedom of association.
This is compounded by the fact that most airports are owned by governments, thus making them property owned by everyone. If it’s my property, I have the right to access it. And someone else does not have the right to limit my access to it.
It’s true, we’re not forced to fly. We’re not forced to buy big-screen TVs either, so does that justify as high a tax on those TV’s as the government would like? What about clothes? I don’t have to buy them. I can use fig leaves instead. I don’t have to buy my food in the supermarket either, right? I could just grow it myself. So the government should be able to tax food as much as it pleases.
For that matter, I’m not forced to be alive. No one will even miss me perhaps. So does that justify the government taking my life?
If this is the direction that statists want to go in, I suggest they set a good example and start with themselves. Surely if this line of thought is so correct and reasonable, they won’t mind proving it by putting their money where their mouth is? Maybe James can go first.
