Sometimes the ACLU Gets It Right

I'm not a big fan of the ACLU. Most of the reason that I'm not is that they seem to be far more interested in causes that I think are not sound. They push the latest political correctness to the max. But I have to admit that sometimes they seem to get it right. The video below shows a bit about how it all started.

Pretty outrageous when a person gets held up and interrogated for carrying around $4,700 in cash. Hello! — That's not even a large amount of money. But then having had my dad's money clip taken from me by these idiots because it had a tiny knife in it, I'm quite familiar with the kind of narrow minded lunacy that stops and strip searchs 80 year old ladies but gives Islamic wackos a pass because after all we wouldn't want to profile. Common sense is obviously not one of the requirements for hold these jobs.
If you want to hear the whole thing (aren't cell phones and other electronic magic helpful sometimes?) you can hear it by CLICKING HERE.
On Thursday, June 18th, the ACLU filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — See the article HERE
"On March 29, 2009, the plaintiff in the case, Steven Bierfeldt was detained in a small room at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and interrogated by TSA officials for nearly half an hour after he passed a metal box containing cash through a security checkpoint X-ray machine. He was carrying the cash in connection to his duties as Treasurer of Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty. Steven’s experience is part of a troubling pattern of the TSA transforming its valid but limited search authority into a license to invade people’s constitutional right to privacy."
This kind of zealotry might be admirable if it made any sense. But as it is, it constitutes unreasonable search and seizure and an invasion of the privacy of the traveler. So score one for the ACLU.