A while ago I did a post on Aaron Tobey who was arrested during an airport security scan for stripping to his underwear and displaying the 4th amendment to the Constitution written on his torso. He was charged with Disorderly Conduct and nandcuffed and interrogated for 90 minutes before being released and permitted to catch his flight to his grandfather’s funeral.

The case went to court, but the prosecution dropped the charges and no penalty or conviction was recorded. Now according to AOL News, Tobey is suing-

The defendants listed in his legal filing are Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the Richmond airport authority and several security officers there. He’s seeking $250,000 in damages and reimbursement for legal fees.

“This action seeks vindication of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Aaron Tobey, who … was arrested without probable cause, falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted,” the legal complaint states. The civil lawsuit was filed on Tobey’s behalf by the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group.

“Tobey was unduly seized by government agents in violation of the Fourth Amendment, despite the fact that he did nothing to disrupt airport routine,” John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, said in a statement on his group’s website.

I hope he gets his money. There’s a subset of American society that knows nothing of the rights of citizens under the Constitution. If they were not taught about it in school, I guess they will have to learn the hard way.