Tag Archive: TSA

Keep Up The Good Work TSA … LOL

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Elitism, Hypocrisy, Idiocy, National Security, Regulation, Shame, Statism — Leave a comment

May 13, 2013

The TSA Is So Incompetent, It Can’t Even Make A URL

” In the latest bout of brilliance handed down from the Transportation Security Administration, more frequent fliers and other elite passengers will soon be eligible for something called “expedited screening benefits.” Features include special screening lanes and the luxury of not having to remove your shoes and belt like a common terrorist.

OK, all of that is rather uninteresting—unless you’re the kind of person who thinks programs like the Cedar Point VIP Tour are grossly classist.* (I do.) What’s interesting about TSA Pre✓™—which launched on a small scale in 2011 but is now expanding—is that it’s nearly impossible to go directly to the website by typing in the site’s Web address—because the checkmark and trademark characters are actually part of the URL.”

Transportation Security Administration expands Pre-Check program (charlotte.news14.com)
Rome woman says TSA dog bit her at Atlanta airport (m.onlineathens.com)
Rome woman says TSA dog bit her at Atlanta airport (onlineathens.com)

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Tags: Cedar Point VIP Tour, characters, checkmark, expedited screening benefits, Incompetence, Pre-Check, Slate, trademark, TSA, Unkown Symbols, URL, Web Address

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Court Case To Rein In TSA Abuse

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Statism — 3 Comments

April 3, 2013

TSA Screening Lawsuit Helps Expose Government Abuse

” On April 3, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will hear an appeal for a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) filed by two Harvard law students in 2010 claiming that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated by “nude body scanners” and “enhanced pat-downs.” The First Circuit is also allowing Freedom to Travel USA, an anti-TSA advocacy group, to make an appearance and oral arguments.

A victory on the side of the two students, Jeffrey Redfern and Anant Pradhan, would definitely be a win for civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. But even if, however, the lawsuits are struck down, this case will help continue to highlight and expose one of the most pervasive institutions of government abuse that exists in America.

This case alone is just one of many that the Freedom to Travel USA, Redfern, and Pradhan have helped bring to the public’s attention. They have put pressure on the TSA for not disclosing enough information about the capability of its scanners and attacking them for their veil of secrecy and dismissive nature towards worries over the health effects.

What makes this specific TSA lawsuit that much more interesting is that fact that Freedom to Travel USA includes ”very, very conservative people and Occupy arrestees” as supporters. Usually the bipartisan consensus consists of the authoritarian right and left colluding to expand power and restrict liberty. But much like the grassroots swell that arose from Senator Rand Paul’s anti-drone filibuster, this may unite the populist left and right in another worthy cause.”

Illustration by Ben Garrison

Yeah, Right: Our Rulers Want Your Comments on the TSA (a4cgr.wordpress.com)
TSA Groping Continues (repressedpress.com)
Still Contemptuous of the Court, TSA Doesn’t Even Try to Justify its Strip-Search Machine Policy (cato.org)
More TSA Thuggery (youviewed.com)
How Anyone Can Get Anything Past the Tsa Body Scanners (secretsofthefed.com)
How To Keep TSA From Molesting Wounded Veterans (personalliberty.com)
Congressman vows to end the TSA and stop airport tyranny (rvnewstoday.com)

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Tags: Anant Pradhan, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom to Travel USA, Jeffrey Redfern, Rand Paul, TSA, United States, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

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Now This Is Hope & Change … Rand Paul’s “Platform to Revitalize America”

Filed under: Budget Cuts, Debt, Economy, Monetary Policy, Politics, Spending, Taxation — Leave a comment

March 23, 2013

Paul’s Budget Kills Departments of Commerce, Education, Housing, and Energy

” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) today introduced a budget he says will balance the budget in five years with $2.3 trillion in tax cuts.

Paul’s “Platform to Revitalize America” brings spending below the historical average of 19.1 percent of GDP in the first year and spends $9.6 trillion less over the next 10 years based on the current Congressional Budget Office baseline. It achieves a $17 billion surplus in FY2018 and reforms entitlement programs — Medicare recipients, for example, would receive the same healthcare plan as members of Congress.

It replenishes $126 billion to the Defense Department stripped in sequestration and puts an annual cap on foreign aid at $5 billion. The plan also repeals ObamaCare and Dodd Frank.

Paul’s budget kills four government agencies: the departments of Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy. It also privatizes the Transportation Security Administration.”

Senate endorses Keystone pipeline project via budget amendment – @thehill (thehill.com)
10 things you need to know about Rand Paul’s fiscal year 2014 budget (redalertpolitics.com)
Budget Cuts Without Hysteria (youviewed.com)
Senate passes $3.7 million budget plan (newsday.com)
Senate Passes Democratic Budget (foxnews.com)

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Tags: ACA, Balanced budget, Commerce, Congressional Budget Office, Education, Eliminate Departments, Energy, Foreign Aid Cap, Housing, Medicare, Rand Paul, Spending Reform, TSA

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More TSA Thuggery

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Liberty, Military, Police State, Politics, Regulation, Shame, Statism — 3 Comments

March 20, 2013

TSA Agents ‘Humiliated ‘ Wounded Marine With Aggressive Inspection: Report

” Transportation Security Administration inspectors forced a wounded Marine who lost both of his legs in an IED blast and who was in a wheelchair to remove his prosthetic legs at one point, and at another point to stand painfully on his legs while his wheelchair was examined, according to a complaint a congressman has registered with the TSA.

Rep.Duncan Hunter said in his letter Monday that the Marine, who is still on active duty and showed TSA agents his military identification, was still forced to undergo that scrutiny.“

A TSA office asked the Marine to stand and walk to an alternate area, despite the fact that he physically could not stand or walk on his own. With numerous TSA officers sitting and unwilling to assist, an officer then made him remove his legs, then put them back on, only to advance to a secondary screening location where he was asked again to stand, with extraordinary difficult, while his wheelchair was examined for explosives,” Mr. Hunter said”

Covered at Reason 24/7: TSA Forced Wounded Marine to Remove Prosthetic Limbs (reason.com)
TSA Humiliates Injured Marine (conservativeread.com)
Double-amputee Marine humiliated by TSA (fromthetrenchesworldreport.com)
Congressman: TSA Humiliates Injured Marine (radio.foxnews.com)
Double-amputee Marine humiliated by TSA (rt.com)
TSA Targets and Humiliates Marine (iowntheworld.com)

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Tags: Double Amputee, Duncan Hunter, Humiliation, IED, Phoenix, Sky Harbor airport, TSA, Wheelchair Bound, Wounded Marine

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Nuke Scare On Chicago Subway

Filed under: Crime, Hope and Change, Law, Preparedness, Science & Technology, Terrorism, Weaponry — Leave a comment

March 17, 2013

VIDEO: Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Risk

” It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal agents investigated a possible nuclear threat at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center.

CBS 2′s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann happened to be at the scene and used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action. Reporter Dave Savini looks into what agents were looking for and what they found.

Sources say the agents were members of the elite TSA VIPR team on the 5:04pm Union Pacific West line. They were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection devices that picked up a reading.”

Video: Feds Swarm Chicago Train After Detecting Nuclear Threat (joemiller.us)
Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Risk (conservativebyte.com)
VIDEO: TSA chase down nuclear patient with handheld gieger counters (nuclear-news.net)
Watch: Federal agents swarm Chicago train (cbsnews.com)

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Tags: Chicago, Feds, Geiger Counters, Lana Hinshaw-Klann, Mobile Phone, Nuclear, Nuke Scare, Ogilvie Transportation Center, TSA, VIPR

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What No Shoes Or Dry Cleaning ? $50 Million For New TSA Uniforms

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Corruption, Debt, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Monetary Policy, Police State, Politics, Spending — 4 Comments

March 7, 2013

A sharp-eyed reader called this dose of insanity to our attention and we thought our readers would like to know how seriously the government takes those ” draconian cuts” to it’s budget .

While you may stand in line for an extra hour to board your plane you can rest assured in the knowledge that the TSA thug holding you up is comfortable in his/her new uniform , socks and belts included …

If you find yourself losing patience as your legs go numb from standing in line be sure to save a measure of pity for that poor public ~~tyrant~~ ”servant” that has to pay for his own shoes and dry cleaning …. Oh the horror …

TSA Signs $50 Million Uniform deal, As Billions In Federal Cuts Ripple Across America

” The Transportation Security Administration agreed on a deal last month worth as much as $50 million to buy new uniforms for rank-and-file agents, despite concerns that imminent budget cuts would result in furloughs and 90-minute flight delays.

Agency officials signed the contract just days before the start of the $85 billion in federal budget cuts known as sequester.

On Feb. 22, the same day the contract was signed, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the sequester cuts could result in flight delays as long as 90 minutes at major airports in Chicago, New York and San Francisco and warned about furloughing air traffic controllers.

The deal does not include shoes or dry cleaning, according to CNSNews.com, which first reported the story. TSA did not respond to requests for comment.

Blackburn also is taking issue with a union-negotiated deal in which TSA security officers get a higher uniform allowance than combat Marine lieutenants, who receive a one-time allowance of $400.”

TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester-Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms (sgtreport.com)
Napolitano Warns of Long Lines at Airports Then Blows $50 Million on New TSA Uniforms… (redflagnews.com)
Napolitano Warns of Long Lines at Airports Then Blows $50 Million on New TSA Uniforms (thegatewaypundit.com)
Budget cuts could mean FAA furloughs, air traffic control tower shutdowns in … – NewsOK.com (newsok.com)
Obama: Sequester cuts could create travel delays (usatoday.com)
Airport Wait Times Have Nearly Doubled Since The Sequester (businessinsider.com)

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Tags: $50 Million, Budget Cuts, Delayed Flights, Janet Napolitano, Longer Lines, New Uniforms, Ray LaHood, Sequestration, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

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” I Don’t Want To Go To Disney World ” – This Is The Land Of Liberty ?

Filed under: Arrogance, Barbarism, Civil Discord, Constitution, Corruption, Hope and Change, Idiocy, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Liberty, Shame, War On Terror — Leave a comment

February 21, 2013

3-Year-Old With Spina Bifida Endures Ridiculous TSA Screening

” Because there’s nothing more threatening than a disabled tot in a hot-pink wheelchair and Velcro sneakers, TSA agents singled out 3-year-old Lucy, who has spina bifida, for extra screening at Lambert-St. Louis Airport in Missouri. Irritated parents Nathan and Annie Forck kept the camera rolling, despite agents insisting filming was illegal.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3oPloe08a3Q

Tags: DHS, Disgrace, Fox News Channel, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Lucy Forck, Missouri, Shame, Spina bifida, TSA, Tyranny, Walt Disney World Resort

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Sheriff Lenic Versus The TSA On Behalf Of Protestors … Old But Refreshing

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Civil Disobedience, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Corruption, Education, Founding Fathers, History, Individualism, Law, Libertarians, New Media, Politics, Preparedness, Privacy — Leave a comment

February 4, 2013

” A shocking video has emerged of a police officer who abides by the oath he swore to uphold the constitution by defending the free speech rights of activists who were targeted by airport officials during the opt out and film campaign.

The clip shows activists Ashley Jessica and Jason Bermas handing out flyers warning travelers about the dangers of x-ray body scanners at Albany International Airport in New York.Almost as soon as the activists begin to hand out the flyers, they are confronted by an aggressive airport official later named as Douglas I. Myers, the airport’s Director of Public Affairs.

Myers orders the activists to leave the top floor and later takes the unprecedented step of closing off the entire level and preventing families from meeting their loved ones. He subsequently claims the activists need a permit and a $1 million dollar insurance liability merely to film inside the airport, despite the fact that the TSA’s own website clearly states that TSA checkpoints can be filmed at any airport.

Myers’ attempts to get the activists in trouble with police are derailed when Sheriff Stan Lenic steps in to handle the situation, pointing out to Myers that they have a right to film under the First Amendment.

“Obviously this is your constitutional right, as far as we’re concerned you’re not breaking any laws,” Lenic tells Bermas.When Myers asks the Sheriff to detain the activists, Lenic responds, “I can’t do that.”Myers then asks for Bermas’ identification, to which Sheriff Lenic responds, “He doesn’t have to show you his identification.”

“I need to get it from you,” Myers tells the Sheriff as he winks at him, to which Sheriff Lenic responds “I can’t give you that.”"Just so you know, he’s not doing anything wrong,”Deputy Lenic forcefully tells Myers, before quoting the New York penal law code.

“If I was to ask for his identification he does not have to give it to me because he’s not doing anything wrong,” adds Lenic.Myers’ claim that Jessica is blocking the escalator is also dismissed by Lenic. Myers then claims the filming is illegal because it is “commercial” and could appear on the Drudge Report — which is a news aggregator and not a commercial website.

Lenic should obviously be commended for his fine job in upholding constitutional rights. If there’s an award for cop of the year, he should win it hands down. He is a shining example to other police officers who have completely failed to apply the law in similar situations. http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-cop-protects-first-amendment/“

Airport Official Under Fire For Suppressing 1st Amendment Rights, Deputy Stan Lenic Honored For Protecting Them (libertycrier.com)
Sheriff Protects First Amendment & Becomes Internet Star (dprogram.net)
Deputy Stan Lenic Protects the First Amendment (cspoa.org)
Tsa Opt Out & Film: Deputy Sheriff Protects 1st Amendment at Albany Airport (vaticproject.blogspot.com)
TSA Protester With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest (sgtreport.com)
RT: Rand Paul to bring new fight against TSA (jhaines6.wordpress.com)

Tags: Airport Security, Albany International Airport, Civil Rights, Douglas I Myers, Drudge Report, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Freedom of Speech, Jason Bermas, New York, Sheriff Stan Lenic, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, Videoing Public Officials

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Government Manufactured Ammo Shortage ?

February 3, 2013

OUT OF AMMO

” So what is going on? In part, certainly, the perception of a potential shortage due to the policies of the Obama administration has led to the reality of a shortage, as everyone started to stock up. I can understand the mentality: if I wandered into a gun store and found that they had just put 1,000 9 mm rounds on the shelf, I would buy them all. But does that fully explain what is happening? How about the fact that government agencies are buying up billions of rounds? There have been lots of news reports and lots of rumors, but no clear explanation of why the federal government has invested so massively in ammunition–including the most popular civilian calibers–over the last year. One way or another, it seems that there is a story here. But for it to be pursued, we would need “reporters.” Remember them? Nah, that was a bygone era: you probably don’t.”

If we had a real press instead of a government propaganda machine we might know the truth of the ammunition shortages and the unprecedented massive Federal agency purchases .

Update : Here is a story that differs from the norm regarding these massive ammo purchases by the “State” . It posits that the story is a clever smoke screen designed to root out malcontents . It’s months old but we had been unaware of it up til now .

National ammo shortage continues as gun sales rise during gun control debate (wbtw.com)
Wal-mart Caves to Limit Purchase of Ammo (americanfreedombybarbara.com)
Walmart to Limit Ammo Purchases, Citing Shortages (breitbart.com)
Nationwide Ammo Shortages: The Ammo is Gone (offgridsurvival.com)
Ammunition Shortages? (vitasbrennus.wordpress.com)
Three Per Day: Walmart Limits Ammo Sales (sgtreport.com)
All out of ammo: US cops can’t stay stocked up as gun and bullet sales soar (rt.com)
Nationwide ammo shortage so severe that even cops can’t buy bullets; ammo rationing imminent (conservativeread.com)
Nationwide Ammo Shortages: The Ammo is Gone (sgtreport.com)
Guns, ammo and … sex (politico.com)

Tags: Ammo Out Of Stock, Ammunition, Billions Of Rounds, DHS, Government Agencies, Government Stockpiling Ammo, Guns, Obama administration, TSA

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Go Aaron !

Filed under: Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Law, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Wisdom of Youth — 1 Comment

January 27, 2013

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest

“A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

In sending the case to trial, unless there’s a settlement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 and reversed a lower court judge and invoked Benjamin Franklin in the process. According to the opinion by Judge Roger Gregory:

” Here, Mr. Tobey engaged in a silent, peaceful protest using the text of our Constitution—he was well within the ambit of First Amendment protections. And while it is tempting to hold that First Amendment rights should acquiesce to national security in this instance, our Forefather Benjamin Franklin warned against such a temptation by opining that those ‘who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ We take heed of his warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.”

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest (refreshingnews99.blogspot.com)
4th & 1st Amendments Upheld In TSA Case To The Tune Of $250K (charlesoliverblog.wordpress.com)
Politics & NWO – Re: Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial (disclose.tv)
Court Upholds Airline Passenger’s Claim of First Amendment Retaliation (legaltimes.typepad.com)
Man Arrested While Protesting the TSA Just Won $250,000 in Damages (economicpolicyjournal.com)
Man who was arrested at TSA checkpoint for having text of 4th amendment printed on his torso wins court case for false arrest and violation of his civil rights to the tune of $250,000 [Spiffy] (fark.com)

Tags: Aaron Tobey, Benjamin Franklin, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Henrico County, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, Judge Roger Gregory, Trial, TSA, Virginia

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Who Says It Can’t Happen Here ?

January 13, 2013

“It Can’t Happen Here.”

Click On The Link And Explore All The HotLinks On The Page

It Can And Has Happened Here

HT/Instapundit

Tags: Checkpoints, DHS, Government Abuse, Illegal Stop And Frisk, Japanese Internment Camps, Katrina, Native Americans, NDAA, Statism, Terry Stop, TSA, Tuskegee

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The Joke’s On US

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Nanny State, Police State, Politics, Privacy, Scams, Statism — Leave a comment

December 27, 2012

TSA Creating New Watch List For Passengers Not Concerning Enough To Be On Bloated No-Fly List

” If Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the government’s various lists weren’t ludicrous enough as is, the number of individuals harassed will be increased significantly thanks to a new list specifically for “low risk” passengers as revealed in a recently released Federal Register newsletter.

While this appears to be focused mostly on airline flights, one must wonder if such lists will also be used when the TSA invades locations outside of airports around the entirety of the United States. After all, at least one college student has been harassed, detained and interrogated when traveling via train simply for engaging in Islamic studies.

It must also be mentioned that the claims that this will increase security are simply laughable since the TSA really has no interest in security evidenced by airport employees being allowed to work without background checks and the fact that an illegal immigrant was somehow able to work as an airport security supervisor for a whopping 20 years without being caught.”

TSA agent: ‘We laugh at your nude images, dear passengers’ (rt.com)
Ex-TSA Agent Reveals Cruel Thing (aol.com)
TSA Claims It Is Above Congressional Oversight (prn.fm)
Plots We Imagine the TSA Protected Us From Today: The iPad Plot. (deprofundisclamaviadtedomine.wordpress.com)

Tags: Airport Security, Civil Rights, Federal Register, Harassment, Incompetence, Police State, Statism, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, Tyranny

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Grandma Got Indefinitely Detained (A Very TSA Christmas)

Filed under: Politics, Hope and Change, Corruption, Humor, Barbarism, War On Terror, Statism, Arrogance, Shame, Police State, Civil Liberties, Holidays — Leave a comment

December 23, 2012

Reason TV Replay:

” As Americans get ready to travel for the holidays, here is a look back at last year’s Christmas-themed Remy-ReasonTV collaboration.

Here is the original text from the Dec 19, 2011 video:

In seasons past, Grandma only had to worry about getting run over by a reindeer. With “Grandma Got Run Over by TSA,” web sensation Remy gets us in the holiday mood with a song about Christmas, Homeland Security, and the joys of civil rights abuses. “

Remy Takes on TSA in ‘I Saw Daddy Pat Down Santa Claus’ Video (arlnow.com)
| Irradiating the Sheep: TSA to commission independent study of X-Ray Body Scanners! (truthaholics.wordpress.com)
If the TSA’s ‘natural hair patdown’ practice is not racial profiling, what is? | Imara Jones (guardian.co.uk)

Tags: TSA, Civil Rights, Parody, Remy, ReasonTV, Transportation Security Administration, Grandma, Grama, Indefinitely Detained, Meredith Bragg

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Well , Duh … It’s Intention Is Not Safety , But Control

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Police State, Regulation, War On Terror — 1 Comment

November 25, 2012

Airport Security Is Making Americans Less Safe

” The TSA was created to replace the patchwork of private security companies that handled airport security in the pre-9/11 era. Its budget quickly ballooned: Since 2002 the number of TSA agents has risen from 16,000 to more than 50,000. Still, to a traumatized public, any amount of overreaction in the name of preventing another terrorist attack seemed acceptable.

More than a decade later, it’s time to move on. For one thing, the attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. Since 2000 the chance that the death of a U.S. resident resulted from a terrorist attack was 1 in 3.5 million, according to John Mueller and Mark Stewart of Ohio State and the University of Newcastle, respectively. Out of the 150,000 murders in the U.S. between 9/11 and the end of 2010, Islamic extremism accounted for fewer than three dozen. In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism resulted in just 200 to 400 annual deaths worldwide, outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq—the same number, notes Mueller, that occur in bathtubs in the U.S. each year.

Yet the TSA still commands a budget of nearly $8 billion—leaving the agency with too many officers and not enough to do. The TSA’s “Top Good Catches of 2011,” reported on its blog, did include 1,200 firearms and—their top find—a single batch of C4 explosives (though that payload was discovered only on the return flight). A longer list of the TSA’s confiscations would include a G.I. Joe action doll’s 4-inch plastic rifle (“it’s a replica”) and a light saber toy. For all the face cream, breast milk, and live fish that vigilant screeners collected in airport security lines last year, the TSA didn’t spot a single terrorist trying to board an airline in the U.S. “

Illustration By Glenn McCoy

The High Price of False Security (marginalrevolution.com)
Airport Security Is Killing Us (amresolution.com)
TSA turkeys butcher Americans for Thanksgiving (truthjihad.com)
TSA/Airport Security: Killing Us On Christmas (informationliberation.com)
Did TSA Mothball Scanners In PR Stunt? (dprogram.net)
Solange Knowles Got Her ‘Fro Inspected By Airport Security (refinery29.com)
The Travel Outfit That Will Let You Breeze Through Airport Security (gadling.com)
Meet the Fearsome New Tool in Airport Security. (zedie.wordpress.com)

Tags: Civil Rights, Constitution, Fourth Amendment, Freedom, Incompetence, Islamic extremism, John Mueller, Liberty, Statism, Terrorism, TSA

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Good For Texas

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, War On Terror — Leave a comment

November 13, 2012

NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) is NOT Constitutional

Tags: Constitution, House Bill 80, NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) is NOT Constitutional, New Laws, Texas Strikes Back, TSA

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The Government Against The People

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October 20, 2012

TSA Puts Tea Party Organizer On No Fly List During Trip, Strands Him In Hawaii

” HONOLULU, HAWAII – Wade Hicks Jr., of Gulfport, Mississippi, spent four days in Hawaii, but he wasn’t in the islands since October 14 to enjoy sunshine, palm trees and paradise.
Half way through his journey from San Francisco to Japan aboard a military flight, during what was supposed to be a brief stop over on Oahu, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement agent, accompanied by two heavily armed military guards, informed Hicks he was on the “No Fly List.”
The agent told Hicks he would have to find other means of transportation off our remote Pacific island, which was 2,500 miles from where he started.”

Tags: Hawaii, No-Fly List, Tea Party, TSA, Wade Hicks Jr

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Conservative Radio Host: TSA Groped My Vagina

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October 15, 2012

Who Dares Dissent ?

” Conservative radio host and Breitbart Editor Dana Loesch had her vagina groped during an advanced screening by the TSA at Phoenix Airport, with Loesch complaining that she is targeted for such treatment almost every time she flies. “

” In the video, Loesch complains to the screeners that she is “subjected to this almost every time I fly.” In her You Tube blurb, Loesch links to a previous incident in Providence, Rhode Island, where her husband was molested and had his genitals groped after TSA workers claimed he was covered in “nitrates.”

“After concluding that I wasn’t a terrorist hiding weapons in my vagina, the TSA agents allowed me to go,” concludes Loesch.

Groping travelers’ genitals has now become a routine part of TSA screening procedures.

Hundreds of complaint letters about the TSA’s invasive security procedures which were released last month under the Freedom of Information Act include numerous horror stories about TSA screeners directly touching people’s genitals during pat downs. There have also been numerous cases of public figures having their “junk” touched.

Could Loesch be a routine target of TSA harassment due to her public criticism of the agency?

As we have documented, people who opt out of body scanners or those who simply fail to display the proper level of obedience to TSA screeners are routinely subjected to punishment by means of invasive grope downs or other forms of retaliation.

Journalists who are critical of the TSA have also been singled out for retribution.

CNN reporter Drew Griffin was also put on a TSA watch list immediately after he filed reports critical of the organization back in 2008. “

Tags: Alex Jones InfoWars, Conservatives, Dana Loesch, Drew Griffin, Freedom, Harassment, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

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Is America Still A Free Country?

Video

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September 12, 2012

Tags: Airport Photography, Alex Jones, Free Country?, Freedom, Infowars, Is America, Liberty, Still A, TSA

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“What we lost on September 11th 2001″

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September 11, 2012

Some reflections on our present state of affairs from Gun Owners of America

“In America nowadays, when all you have to do is infer that someone MIGHT be up to something that appears to be possibly terroristic in nature you can shred the 4^th Amendment right and do whatever it takes in pursuit of him.

Then we have the TSA. Workers whose starting salary grade is $17,000 a year are given absolute power over whether you are allowed to travel or not. And I don’t mean that these people are stopping you because you have brought anthrax on a plane or reek of plutonium. They can kick you off just because they don’t like you. I feel bad for all the beautiful women who are subjected tocancer causing backscatter screens just because some agent wants to get his jollies off. Or for people who have been sexually assaulted having to relive the experience at one of the agents grope fests.

Not only is the government fighting to keep the TSA in airports they are trying to expand it to bus terminals, train stations and on the streets.”