On Liberty
Flight Risk?
The following guest blog originally appeared on Boston.com.
The ACLU is always concerned about ways in which ordinary Americans get inconvenienced by "security" measures that actually make us no safer, and less free. TSA's unpopular and invasive scanners and "pat-down" searches, which began frustrating travelers at Logan and nationwide last year, are a perfect example.
Recent reports of what happened to Arlington-based musician Vance Gilbert, who was questioned after reading a book about vintage airplanes on a flight out of Boston, seems to bear out that concern. Mr. Gilbert made it past TSA scanners and screeners, but then found himself being questioned after boarding his flight. We are reposting here Mr. Gilbert's open letter to the ACLU about what he experienced. He titled it "Racial Profiling First Hand".
"What he saw convinced my father that abortion is a decision best left to a woman and her doctor."
On the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, read the On Liberty blog by ACLU of Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose, about why ensuring access to safe and legal abortions is the true pro-life position.
