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Originally Posted by Jayems
I understand that. I'm just confused why it's OKAY to do this in an Airport, and everyone accepts that this is not infringing on their basic human rights, (dogs randomly sniffing your luggage and person) but why everyone is up in arms that just because this guy was in a bus stop, it's suddenly different, and everyone is crying foul...
This is where I get confused, and why I see this as a "technicality"
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It is not a technicality. You consent to being searched, as a condition to your being allowed to fly. If you don't want to be searched you can drive, or take a bus, or a train, or a boat.
This guy was not searched as a condition for him to be allowed to take the bus. As far as I understand it the police and the drug dog were not in anyway involved in his travel process. That along with the particular circumstance of his case show why this was unreasonable. If he was told before hand that he was going to be or may be searched before, during of immediately after disembarking the bus I don't think this would even be an issue.
Airport searches are not random, they are a part of the process and anyone expecting to fly can reasonably expected for their privacy to be invaded to a certain degree for the priviledge of being allowed to fly.