I think the blog writer makes a point in that most people were going through the TSA checkpoint without a pat-down search, so unless they're doing the same search procedures for everyone, I don't see how this is justified.
Unless it's the same search for everyone, it pretty much defeats the whole security argument anyway. While they're wasting time trying to muscle this guy into submitting into a pat-down search, how many potential terrorists got by without having to submit to a pat-down? They should either do it for everybody or nobody.
Also, I would question the legality of someone approaching him and telling him he couldn't leave the airport, especially after they told him that if he didn't submit to a pat-down search, they wouldn't let him past the security checkpoint. If they really thought he was a potential terrorist with an incendiary device, they wouldn't have messed around. They would have called out SWAT and cordoned off the entire area. What kind of terrorist would be fazed by the threat of a civil lawsuit? That whole discussion seems so absurd.
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