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Flying Used to Be Fun
I don’t like to think that I can be manipulated by the fear mongers. But the truth is, when someone plants an idea or an image in one’s psyche, it is hard not to let that idea or image impact one’s thinking or even how one sees the world. Fear is a tremendously powerful tool for controlling people. Those who would control other people have known this for centuries. But it is only powerful to the extent that it gets us to abdicate our own powers of reason. We can remain viscerally fearful of terrorism – even irrationally so – and yet not accept the reasoning put forth by the fear mongers, nor the “solutions” that are their true aim. http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer-br/shaffer-br14.1.html
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Super Bowl Fans to Face Mandatory TSA Patdowns
Fans attending this year’s Super Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans will be “watched, sniffed and pawed,” as well as receiving mandatory TSA pat downs as they enter the stadium. The Super Bowl’s designation as a level one National Special Security Event (NSSE) means that the spectacle is now an annual showcase for America’s post-9/11 descent into a security-obsessed police state, despite the fact that statistically, Americans are more likely to be killed by peanut allergies, bee stings and bath tubs than they are by terrorists. http://www.infowars.com/super-bowl-fans-to-face-mandatory-tsa-pat-downs/
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Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State
If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge, throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo. The resulting concoction, I can promise you, will be a messy, noxious stew unfit for consumption, miserable to digest and with after-effects that will leave you reeling and clutching your stomach in dismay. Such is the nature of life in the emerging police state that is America today, where roadside police stops have devolved into government-sanctioned exercises in humiliation and degradation with a complete disregard for privacy and human dignity. http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead68.1.html
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Airport Security is Killing Us
The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. That’s especially true when it comes to Islamic-extremist terror. 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. Since 2000, the chance that a resident of the U.S. would die in a terrorist attack was one in 3.5 million, according to John Mueller and Mark Stewart of Ohio State and the University of Newcastle, respectively. In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism resulted in just 200 to 400 deaths worldwide outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq—the same number, Mueller noted in a 2011 report, as die in bathtubs in the U.S. alone each year. Yet the TSA still commands a budget of nearly $8 billion—which is why the agency is left 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 those were discovered only on the return flight). A longer list of TSA’s confiscations would include a G.I. Joe action doll’s 4-inch plastic rifle (“it’s a replica”) and a light saber. And needless to say, the TSA didn’t spot a single terrorist trying to board an airline in the U.S., notes Bruce Schneier. http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-18/how-airport-security-is-killing-us
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Time Warner Kills TV Show Critical of TSA
Former Governor Jesse Ventura exclusively revealed to Infowars that a show set to air as part of Ventura’s popular Conspiracy Theory series that exposed how TSA body scanners were a major cancer threat was canceled by Time Warner-owned TruTV. http://www.infowars.com/time-warner-kills-tv-show-critical-of-tsa/
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Land of the Free Watch: Security Checkpoints Becoming ‘Normalized’ at Public Events
The Transportation Security Administration will be conducting grope downs and bag searches at three different locations in Charlotte this week at the Democratic National Convention, illustrating the fact that the TSA has expanded well beyond its remit of transportation and into public venues. The DNC will be held at three separate sites this week, all of which will have security checkpoints staffed by TSA officers. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-to-conduct-grope-downs-at-dnc/
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Ego-Death on Concourse C
The responsibilities for preserving our constitutional republic require a citizenry of strong individual egos living everyday lives free from paralyzing fear. Egoism has a bad name. However, a strong ego serves the purpose of stabilizing conscious processes and is indispensable in order for each American to recognize, maintain, and pass to posterity the gifts of God-given rights. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/ego-death_on_concourse_c.html
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TSA Backlash Prompts Move Away From Patdowns
Following a massive nationwide backlash, the TSA looks set to move away from invasive pat downs and return to wanding-style searches of travelers. Although the change will initially apply only to travelers who pass through a body scanner, the fact that the federal agency is actively attempting to reduce the number of physical pat downs, the most controversial of which involve TSA screeners literally touching people’s genitals, represents a victory of sorts for anti-TSA campaigners. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-backlash-prompts-move-away-from-pat-downs/
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Homeland Security in the Land of the Free
The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post 911 environment, civil liberties routinely ignored or eliminated, become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for the entire world. The TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is also an agency of DHS. The public relation spin for the purpose of such authorities is to protect citizens and guard the nation. The reality is that DHS bureaus have the same mission, keep the government safe from potential real or imaginary threats. Interpret threats to mean anyone who opposes the establishment regime, now known as, the military-industrial-financial-security complex. http://batr.org/autonomy/052012.html
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Senator Diane Feinstein: ‘Get Ready For More Invasive TSA Searches to Save Us From Al Qaeda’
Despite widespread negative coverage of the now proven to be manufactured CIA underwear bomb plot, influential Senator Diane Feinstein has warned Americans that more invasive TSA searches are coming in order to keep us safe from al Qaeda. Appearing on Fox News, Feinstein literally chided Americans for complaining about invasive sexual molestation type searches in airports throughout the country while applauding TSA for doing what appears to be absolutely nothing besides a slew of illegal, unconstitutional acts against innocent Americans, including children and the elderly. http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/14/senator-diane-feinstein-get-ready-for-more-invasive-tsa-searches-to-save-us-from-al-qaeda/
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TSA Terror in America
The Cheka blue shirt TSA now has 50,000 agents in its ranks. There are reports of TSA police cruisers being spotted in Denver, Colorado. Every week there are new incidents of outrage involving the TSA. The opposition to this unconstitutional national police force is reaching a fevered pitch. With the latest so called “Underwear Bomber II” plot foiled, the TSA is now looking to expand. http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/tsa-terror-in-america/14824
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Senate to Vote on Bill That Could Kick TSA Out of Airports
Following House approval of the measure on Friday, the Senate is set to vote today on legislation that would allow U.S. airports to replace TSA workers with screeners from private companies, a move that could spell the beginning of the end for the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in airport security. http://www.prisonplanet.com/senate-to-vote-on-bill-that-could-kick-tsa-out-of-airports.html
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Europe Bans Airport Body Scanners For ‘Health and Safety’ Concerns
The European Union issued a ruling this week that bans X-ray body scanners in all European airports. According to the European Commission, the agency charged with enforcing the ruling across the EU’s 27 member nations, the prohibition is necessary “in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens’ health and safety.” X-ray body scanners, which use “backscatter” ionized radiation technology, emit enough radiation to theoretically damage DNA and cause cancer. http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2011/11/15/europe-bans-airport-body-scanners-over-health-and-safety-concerns/
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If The TSA Will Treat Senator Rand Paul Like a Scumbag, What Will They Do to You?
On Monday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA for about two hours at an airport in Nashville. By doing so, TSA officials directly violated the U.S. Constitution and they demonstrated once again why the rest of the world is coming to regard us as a bunch of disgusting, arrogant “pig people”. Do we really want to get such a bad reputation that virtually nobody will ever want to visit this country? We are going to absolutely destroy our tourism industry with this nonsense. Yes, we all want to fly safely, but other countries get the job done without their security officials running around acting like a bunch of Nazi prison guards. http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/what-will-tsa-do-to-you.html
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If the TSA Will Treat Senator Rand Paul Like A Scumbag, What Will They Do to You?
On Monday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA for about two hours at an airport in Nashville. By doing so, TSA officials directly violated the U.S. Constitution and they demonstrated once again why the rest of the world is coming to regard us as a bunch of disgusting, arrogant “pig people”. Do we really want to get such a bad reputation that virtually nobody will ever want to visit this country? We are going to absolutely destroy our tourism industry with this nonsense. Yes, we all want to fly safely, but other countries get the job done without their security officials running around acting like a bunch of Nazi prison guards. http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/if-the-tsa-will-treat-senator-rand-paul-like-a-scumbag-what-will-they-do-to-you
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White House Sides With TSA in Rand Paul Standoff
The White House is standing by the Transportation Security Administration in its standoff with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The elder Paul called the TSA a “police state” Monday after Sen. Paul was reportedly detained by TSA after he refused to take a pat-down from TSA officials at the Nashville International Airport. http://www.infowars.com/white-house-sides-with-tsa-in-rand-paul-standoff/
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Psychology of Tyranny for a Philosophy of Despotism
Much of the media’s distorted worldview is essentially a philistine portrayal of an absurd account of events. The significance of their misinformation embeds a disinformation culture with even more advanced distortions. Without a sincere commitment to follow the search for truth and act upon valid conclusions, from the evidence uncovered, no country can exist as a free nation. America has fallen into a deep and extensive delusional state of mind since 9/11. http://batr.org/solitary/012212.html
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Land of the Free Watch: Rand Paul Detained by TSA, Ron Paul Denounces Police State
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul issued a sharply-worded statement in reaction to the detention of his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, by Transportation Security Administration agents in Nashville on Monday. http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/ron-paul-on-sons-detention-by-tsa-police-state-is-growing-out-of-control/
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Land of the Free Watch: TSA Confiscates Cupcake
A cupcake isn’t always just a cupcake. Sometimes it’s so noteworthy, it creates Cupcakegate. Just ask the nation’s airport security officials. http://www.wpxi.com/nationalnews/30180933/detail.html?taf=burg
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Smoke Screening
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the TSA to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112
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The TSA: More Crimes, More Lies
Remember as well that Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) alone of the Republican presidential candidates has called for abolishing this vile agency. In stunning contrast to his congressional colleagues: Not only did those rats and wusses sic the TSA on us in 2001, they’ve authorized its escalating budget every year since, regardless of how many or bloody its atrocities against their constituents during the preceding 12 months. http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/becky-akers/10078-the-tsa-more-crimes-more-lies
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TSA: Fat, Dumb and Slow
Buried in the report is this concise and telling observation: “Today, TSA’s screening policies are based on theatrics. They are typical, bureaucratic responses to failed security policies meant to assuage the concerns of the traveling public.” In other words, TSA is far more smoke and mirrors than substance. That TSA theatrical show while lackluster carries a price tag for taxpayers much greater than the costliest and most spectacular Hollywood production: “With more than 65,000 employees, TSA is larger than the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and State, combined,” bemoans the report authors. http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan221.htm
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Ventura’s Venture Against the TSA
Actually, it isn’t – at least to Our Rulers. And not just because they’re evil tyrants who spit on the Constitution. They are and they do, but what Mr. Ventura bumped up against is monstrously worse, something far more dangerous, entrenched, and systemic. Yet it remains so incognito and unsuspected that our hero might want to investigate it for his series, Conspiracy Theory, on TruTV. The culprit is a totalitarian nightmare known as “administrative law.” And when we victims assume the Constitution reigns supreme, Our Rulers laugh: they legally (even if unconstitutionally) replaced it about a century ago with administrative law. You’re undoubtedly more familiar with “administrative law” by its acronyms: IRS, BATF, DHS, DEA, SEC, FDA, FCC, FAA, TSA…in other words, bureaucrats. And yes, with their allergy to common sense, their ineptitude, and their unfathomable Jargon, bureaucrats are utterly worthless except as punch-lines. But they’re also responsible for most of the despotism smothering us, with scads of legal triumphs and precedents fortifying their dictatorship. http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers170.html
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The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court
For many years, but especially since the events on 9/11/01, U.S. courts have rolled over and played dead in the face of the usurpation of individual and State rights and do not even remotely resemble being the check and balance to government abuse of power as envisioned by America’s Founding Fathers and enshrined by the U.S. Constitution. The Ventura case is a prime example. http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin674.htm
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Jesse Ventura: ‘I Will Never Stand for the National Anthem Again’
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura held a news conference today to criticize the dismissal of his lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the agency’s pat downs and full body scanners at the airport. Ventura said he was outraged that the court dismissed his case. He called the judge who dismissed the case and the federal courts in general as “cowards.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29621.htm
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Stranded on the Tarmac: Another Fiasco at Bradley
The change in management of Bradley International Airport from the state to the new Connecticut Airport Authority cannot happen soon enough. Maybe the new authority can figure out how to deal humanely with passengers stranded at the airport. That didn’t happen Saturday, when passengers in at least four planes sat on the tarmac for up to seven hours. That had to be a miserable entombment made worse by a lack of food, water or working bathrooms much of the time. “We ran out of water,” said a journalist on one of the flights via cellphone. “The bathrooms are all clogged up and disgusting. The power would go off every 45 minutes or so for five minutes or so, and that would freak people out.” http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-bradley-fiasco-20111101,0,3079142.story
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House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA
In the past, satire was protected under the First Amendment, but it may soon be illegal to poke fun at the TSA or use its logo or even utter its name. Notice there is no exception in the above language for parody. Political satire is as old as the Greeks and the Bible. But it may now become a punishable crime if this legislation is enacted. http://www.infowars.com/house-bill-would-criminalize-satire-of-tsa/
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American Madhouse Watch: TSA Staff at LAX Undergoing Transgender Training
Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles International Airport are undergoing mandatory sensitivity training after a transgender employee alleged she was ordered to dress like a man, pat down male passengers and use the men’s restroom. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OTHTD82&show_article=1
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‘Science’ and America’s Police State
So, you’re sick and tired of being hassled by Transportation “Security” Administration (TSA) thugs, who fondle your “junk” and force 95-year-old grandmothers to take off their adult diapers? Well, that’s tough – because it’s about to get worse. Since 2006, the TSA has been developing a $1 billion program called “Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques” whose proponents – notably, one Rafi Ron, an Israeli airline security “expert” – claim it enables screeners to detect dangerous passengers via nonverbal signals, including facial expressions. The program is undergoing a test run, starting today at Boston’s Logan airport. So before you wrinkle your nose at that Epsilon-Minus Semi Moron rifling through your suitcase, please be aware that the “micro-expressions” you exhibit can and will be held against you. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/08/02/science-and-americas-police-state/
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Tragic Justice – TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer from Naked Body Scanners
In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, “We told ya so,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiation body scanners. At the same time, DHS refuses to issue dosimeters to TSA employees because, obviously, those dosimeters would indicate alarming levels of radiation exposure. So it’s better to just keep everyone ignorant and keep irradiating all the TSA employees and hope nobody notices, apparently. http://www.truthistreason.net/tragic-justice-tsa-reports-agents-developing-cancer-from-naked-body-scanners
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Jesse Ventura Threatens To Vacate U.S. Over TSA Groping
Former Governor Jesse Ventura has promised to never fly again in the U.S. and could even seek Mexican citizenship if a lawsuit that charges the TSA with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for touching the genitals of travelers is struck down by a federal judge this week. http://www.prisonplanet.com/ventura-threatens-to-vacate-us-over-tsa-groping.html
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Ron Paul Speaks Out on TSA Abuse and Foreign Policy
More common sense from about the only Congressman who has any. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVIrItdwXa4
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Stop TSA Molestation: Ron Paul Introduces American Traveler Dignity Act of 2011
Last week Rep. Ron Paul introduced in the House the “American Traveler Dignity Act of 2011,” designed to put an end to TSA thuggery and molestation of small children. Below is the statement Paul made when he introduced the bill. http://www.infowars.com/stop-tsa-molestation-ron-paul-introduces-american-traveler-dignity-act-of-2011/
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‘Belly Bombs’ — Government Claims Phantom Terrorists Will Surgically Implant Explosives In Humans
The alleged intelligence comes in the wake of recent reports that the next generation of body scanners to be rolled out in airports will literally be able to see inside the human body. Security personnel have been testing machines that use deep penetrating radiation, the same kind hospitals use to examine internal organs and bones. http://www.infowars.com/belly-bombs-government-claims-phantom-terrorists-will-surgically-implant-explosives-in-humans/
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Texas TSA Anti-Groping Bill Dead; Fight Just Beginning
Last ditch efforts to save a bill that would restrict the TSA’s ability to conduct invasive pat-downs in the Lone Star State failed Wednesday afternoon. On Tuesday evening, the Texas Senate ignored an amended House bill that lowered the threshold TSA agents would have to meet from “probable cause” to “reasonable suspicion” and passed its own version of the anti-groping legislation (SB29) 19-11. Senators promptly adjourned, leaving representatives just one day to consider the legislation. http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=15772
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Irradiated in the USA
Today, news emerged that the TSA has been caught covering up a surge in cases of TSA workers developing cancer as a result of their close proximity to radiation-firing devices. The information came from the latest FOIA documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. It really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. After all, think about when you go to get an X-ray at your doctors office. They put a heavy lead vest on you and try to just focus the X-ray on the part of the body they wish to investigate. Meanwhile, the doctor, nurse or X-ray specialist goes into a separate room behind protected glass. The Backscatters? The people being X-rayed are getting a full body X-ray… something that can really add up for frequent travellers (and part of the reason why a Pilot group has called for all pilots to refuse the Backscatter). Meanwhile, TSA agents stand literally feet away from the machine, being exposed to radiation hundreds of times per day. Now, I abhor the TSA and I dislike most of the types of people who tend to gravitate to jobs in the TSA – but even I am not in favor of irradiating them constantly, on purpose. http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2011/6/28/irradiated-in-the-usa.html
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TSA Makes Old Lady Remove Adult Diaper
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have patted down a cancer-stricken, 95-year-old woman and forcibly removed her adult diaper during an airport search. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186403.html
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Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Subway, Truck, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane
Think you could avoid the TSA’s body scanners and pat-downs by taking Amtrak? Think again. Even your daily commute isn’t safe from TSA screenings. And because the TSA is working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, you may have your immigration status examined along with your “junk”. As part of the TSA’s request for FY 2012 funding, TSA Administrator John Pistole told Congress last week that the TSA conducts 8,000 unannounced security screenings every year. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/surprise-tsa-is-searching-your-subway.html
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Property Seized at Airports Sold for Profit
A beaming girl’s picture is encased in the snow globe, which is about the size of a grapefruit and rests atop an expensive-looking wooden base proclaiming, “Congratulations, graduate!” Alas, the graduate never received this gift. It rests amid a sea of San Antonio snow globes — and a few globes from Denver, Chicago and Disney World — on the shelves of the Texas State Surplus Store at 6506 Bolm Road, off U.S. 183. Because it’s filled with liquid, you can’t carry a snow globe onto an airplane. But some travelers haven’t gotten the message, or maybe it slips their minds during their harried packing for summer vacation. Thus, rows and rows of snow globes sit at the surplus store, which gets its inventory not only from state surplus but also from items that were left behind or confiscated — “We say willfully surrendered,” said cashier Roberta Siller — at airport security checkpoints in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Waco, El Paso and other small airports. In the five years this store has been open, its plane-related inventory has soared because of heightened security, according to director James Barrington. The airport stuff takes up most of one small room at the store. In 2010, the state’s general fund was enriched $300,000 by the storefront’s sales. http://www.statesman.com/life/where-have-all-the-snow-globes-gone-to-1549784.html
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Land of the Free Watch — TSA ‘Security Exercise’ Covers 3 States, 5,000 Miles
If you’re still living under the delusion that the TSA is just restricted to airports then think again. A joint VIPR “security exercise” involving military personnel has Transportation Security Administration workers covering 5,000 miles and three states, illustrating once again how the TSA is turning into a literal occupying army for domestic repression in America. The TSA, in alliance with a whole host of federal, state, local agencies as well as military personnel, is currently conducting a massive “security exercise” throughout Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. “The participating teams are composed of a variety of TSA assets including federal air marshals, canine teams, inspectors and bomb appraisal officers. They will be joined by state and local law enforcement officials to supplement existing resources, provide detection and response capabilities. The exercise will utilize multiple airborne assets, including Blackhawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as well as waterborne and surface teams,” reports the Marietta Times. Although the exercise is couched in serious rhetoric about preparedness, it relates to “no specific threat” and the details are nebulous to say the least and seems to revolve around little else than testing out high-tech surveillance equipment and reminding Americans who their bosses are. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-security-exercise-covers-3-states-5000-miles/
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The TSA and Texas
Pick your period – Texas’ Revolution with its inspiring cries of “Come and take it!” at Gonzales and “Remember the Alamo!” or the War of Northern Aggression that Lincoln prosecuted against states’ rights – and tell me the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) isn’t setting us up for a replay. “A threat from the federal government to shut down Texas airports or cancel flights may have killed legislation … in the Texas Capitol to prohibit federal Transportation Security Agents from conducting ‘invasive searches,’” the Texas Tribune reports. You remember this bill. You no doubt cheered when you heard that Rep. David Simpson, a Republican from Longview, TX, had introduced it in the state’s House a few weeks ago. It would have “subject[ed] federal employees, including TSA agents, to a Class A misdemeanor if they inappropriately touch someone seeking access to a public building or means of transportation, or if they search an individual without probable cause of criminal activity.” Joy erupted nationwide, not just across the half of it that’s Texas, at the thought of the TSA’s criminals finally being arrested as such. Unfortunately, the bill suffered serious flaws. http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers155.html
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Feds Issue Threat: No Fly Zone for Texas?
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice upped the ante in a high-stakes political game of chicken. Lobbying against pending legislation in the Texas legislature which would criminalize any searches conducted without probable cause, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy sent a letter to a few high-ranking members of Texas’ government warning against promoting the bill and threatening a complete closure of all flights to and from the state. http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/24/feds-issue-threat-no-fly-zone-for-texas/
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Land of the Free Watch: TSA to Oversee Searches at Santa Fe Prom
Saturday night, a certified TSA official will be at the Santa Fe High School prom to oversee student searches. This all comes after two Capital High School students, sisters, filed a lawsuit saying they were groped by a security agent at Capital High School’s prom last month. On Friday, the court ordered Santa Fe Public Schools and the security company ASI to provide at least one TSA certified person at the Santa Fe High School prom and the Capital High School graduation. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2122102.shtml?cat=504
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Big Sis Backs Pat-Down of 6-Year-Old
The shock of a video of a Transportation Security Administration screener patting down a 6-year-old child has drawn anger and even a subsequent potential legislative response. But the TSA’s actions were not improper, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/20/napolitano-backs-6-year-olds-pat-down-done-professionally-according-to-the-protocols/
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TSA Conducts Operation at West Palm Beach Tri-Rail Station
Hoping to keep terrorists and others off-guard Transportation Security Administration conducted what it calls a random “Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Operation” on Thursday morning at the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station. TSA spokesperson Sari Koshetz said that response, known as VIPR, is a highly-visible operation to help detect and deter any suspicious or dangerous activity in various modes of transportation. The TSA VIPR teams are designed to enhance security by working in mass transit, aviation, rail, maritime and other transportation modes alongside state and local law enforcement agencies during major events or as a random deterrent. TSA has partnered with local law enforcement to conduct thousands of VIPR missions from coast to coast across the U.S. http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/tsa-conducts-operation-at-west-palm-beach-tri-rail-station
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Senator Who Wrote the TSA Legistlation Now Wants To Abolish It
Washington refuses to ever move away from totalitarian directions, but pressure keeps mounting on the TSA monster. http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14642
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Land of the Free Watch: 6 Year Old Girl Groped Then Drug Tested by TSA
As hard as the above video is to believe, the same thing happened to Infowars.com employee Michelle, her 8 year old and newborn. Watch the other videos found on this link. http://www.infowars.com/6-year-old-girl-groped-then-drug-tested-by-tsa/
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A Dearth of Depraved Dames
And so while the lines of women awaiting molestation grow ever longer, the supply of thuggettes dishing it out grows shorter. Or, as the Washington Post editorializes in its “Local” news, “Building a diverse workforce has become a mantra, hopefully not a hollow one, for organizations in the public and private sectors. For the Transportation Security Administration, gender diversity is more than a goal, it’s an absolute necessity. … what happens when there are too few female TSOs [sic for ‘assailants’] to handle” – ha, ha! What a punster! – “the load of female passengers? The answer at Washington Dulles International Airport and others across the country has been to transfer female screeners [sic for ‘assailants’] from baggage inspections to passenger lines.” http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers149.html
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Land of the Free Watch — Power To Strip Search Passengers Claimed by Feds
In a breathtaking statement delivered in an official court proceeding, the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims authority to strip search every airline passenger; and to begin such a practice without even soliciting comment from the public. This outrageous statement recently was delivered to the American people by a DHS lawyer in arguments before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which is considering a challenge to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) nude body scanner devices. The suit was brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27765.htm
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TSA to Retest Airport Body Scanners for Radiation
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm
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Texas Legislation Proposes Felony Charges for TSA Agents
Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) introduced a package of bills into the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday that would challenge the TSA’s authority in a number of ways. The first bill, HB 1938, prohibits full body scanning equipment in any Texas airport and provides for criminal and civil penalties on any airport operator who installs the equipment. The second bill, HB 1937, criminalizes touching without consent and searches without probable cause. http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/03/texas-legislation-proposes-felony-charges-for-tsa-agents/
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New Hampshire Bill: TSA Screening Is Sexual Assault
Anti-TSA sentiment continues to grow. http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=14153
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Alaska State Rep Returns by Boat Rather Than Submit to Invasive TSA Search
Sharon Cissna
An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state capital of Juneau after refusing what she called an invasive pat-down search at a Seattle airport. Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday. In a statement released late Monday, she said scan results displayed – as they had during a prior episode three months earlier – the scars from her breast cancer. This caught the attention of the Transportation Safety Administration, Cissna said, but she refused to submit to the “invasive, probing hands of a stranger” this time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/rep-sharon-cissna-tsa-patdown_n_825851.html
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Seattle Business Bans TSA Agents – Will More Follow?
KC McLawson works for a cafe near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and since the body-scan and patdown controversy last November, her boss has taken extraordinary measures to ensure the TSA knows of his displeasure. “We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren’t allowed to come into our business,” she says. “We have the right to refuse service to anyone.” http://www.elliott.org/blog/why-does-everyone-hate-the-tsa-lets-count-the-reasons/
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Can Jesse Ventura Force a TSA Submission?
It’s over three months now since the unelected political appointees heading the TSA made their sexually abusive Hobson’s choice mandatory for American airline customers: either step through a scanner whose potentially cancerous radiation lets TSA agents view your nude body, or adopt guilty-criminal, hands-in-the-air poses, while agents grope you head to toe, genitalia included. Two months since Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano suggested expanding this to all forms of mass transit. Eight weeks since the House of Representatives voted 417 to 3 in favour of House Resolution 28, supporting exactly that TSA expansion. And mere days since Barack Obama joked about the patdowns in his state of the union address. (Easy for him to laugh, as one of the privileged few exempt from the humiliations TSA imposes on his countrymen.) What about the rest of us Americans? I’m one who insists, along with others, “We won’t fly”, so long as TSA abuse remains part of the experience. Yet much of the media insists that makes us stubbornly selfish at best, prudishly insane at worst. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27442.htm
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TSA Invades Roads and Highways With VIPR Checkpoints
Up until now, commercial trucks and other vehicles only were subject to warrantless searches and radiation scans at specially designated “state-owned inspection stations” traditionally set up at rest stops next to highways. These internal checkpoints, run by Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, involve trucks being scanned with backscatter x-ray devices in the name of “safety” and “counter terrorism”. These inspection stations are now being expanded to normal roads and highways, unleashing an army of TSA agents who will be given a free hand to litter America with internal checkpoints in a chilling throwback to Soviet-style levels of control over the population. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-invades-roads-highways-with-vipr-checkpoints/
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Free World Watch: Airport Bans Toy Soldier’s Three-Inch Rifle From Plane — Because It’s a Safety Threat
The crouching, camouflaged figure is most certainly armed. But few would say he was dangerous. Security officials disagreed however when he passed through a scanner at Gatwick Airport. His three-inch, plastic toy gun was branded a ‘firearm’ and banned from a transatlantic flight. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351037/Airport-bans-toy-soldiers-inch-rifle-plane–safety-threat.html
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Privatizing Perversion
We may despise Our sociopathic Rulers, but our contempt for them doesn’t come close to theirs for us. Witness how they play us for fools as they prattle about “privatizing” the groping and ogling they inflict on passengers at airports. http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers141.html
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Jesse Ventura Strikes Back with Lawsuit Against TSA
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has taken steps to sue the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security, naming their chiefs John Pistole and ‘Big Sis’ Janet Napolitano in a lawsuit that will take on invasive airport pat-downs. http://www.infowars.com/ventura-strikes-back-with-lawsuit-against-tsa/
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25 TSA Airport Security Cartoons
Takes about 2 minutes to see them all. http://dailybail.com/slideshows/tsa-airport-security-cartoons/7769626
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As Frustration Grows, Airports Consider Ditching TSA
Some of the nation’s biggest airports are responding to recent public outrage over security screening by weighing whether they should hire private firms such as Covenant to replace the Transportation Security Administration. Sixteen airports, including San Francisco and Kansas City International Airport, have made the switch since 2002. One Orlando airport has approved the change but needs to select a contractor, and several others are seriously considering it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/30/AR2010123005225.html?wprss=rss_metro&sid=ST2010123005248
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TSA Silences Pilot For Telling The Truth
A pilot who posted a YouTube video documenting flaws in TSA’s airport security has his home raided and federally issued firearm confiscated. Body scanners and junk-touching are just the beginning. Ever watchful all 364 days of the year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has discovered a new security threat — pilots who fly our planes and have questions about the TSA’s security practices and policies. Three days after a 50-year-old veteran pilot living outside Sacramento, Calif., posted a YouTube video to shed light on the security gaps he believes exist at major U.S. airports, he had his home raided by four federal air marshals and two sheriff deputies, including members of an anti-terrorism task force. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/557877/201012271845/TSA-Silences-Pilot-For-Telling-The-Truth.htm
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Tensions With India Grow After U.S. Cheers TSA Groping of Ambassador
The sexually-charged pat downs are not “basic screening” in most of the world, and indeed have sparked a growing outcry from opponents in the United States, though officials maintain that the policy won’t change no matter how much popular opposition there is. http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/09/tensions-with-india-grow-after-us-cheers-tsa-groping-of-ambassador/
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The United States of Fear
It’s finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your “safety” will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too. http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt411.html
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Why Washington Engages in Increasing Levels of Aggression Against Americans
The first is the state demonstrating its power and “right” to humiliate people into new levels submission, breaking their spirits and stripping them of their intelligence and willfullness. The second reason is closely related to the first: In the last decade, those who control the U.S. government have demonstrated before the world, their ability to intentionally wreck nations, destroy cultures, imprison, rape, torture and kill with impunity. They increase their belligerance without apology or any serious attempt to justify or even rationalize their crimes against humanity. The psychological impact of this behavior serves them and their agenda well. http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_61680.shtml
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Individual Travel Under Attack
Are President Barack Obama and his administration trying to break the airlines by scaring and inconveniencing riders and jeopardizing our economy? Why would I say that? Didn’t he take over the auto industry? The banks? And more recently Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has mentioned buses, cruise ships and the railroad for additional gropings and nude photos. Napolitano said if the public does not like it, too bad. They should not fly. Frankly, I think this is simply another Testing 1-2-3 to see how long Americans will tolerate these dictatorial excesses. http://www.newswithviews.com/Betty/Freauf179.htm
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Time to End the Unconstitutional Scanner Scam
Let’s begin with one fact. We are using expensive, dangerous and illegal scanners in our airports for one reason. A year ago, single “terrorist,” really a moronic dupe with a defective bomb in his crotch was escorted onto a plane for Detroit, no search, no passport, not even a ticket, placed on a plane by an airport security officer who is a former IDF “commando.” These are the facts, plain and simple. The government depends on you not knowing this so you will let them either radiate you or grope you, you get to choose, next time you fly. In order to get away with this affront to decency and common sense, they hid the fact that their “terrorist act” never really happened. Everyone involved, airline personnel, security, all the video, the statements, the names of those who smuggled the “Crotch Bomber” through Schiphol Airport, all missing, vanished into thin air, along with the civil rights of over 300 million Americans. http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/11/gordon-duff-unconstitutional-time-to.html
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The TSA and America’s Turning Point
The recently-escalated battle between the American people and the TSA is far more important than it first appears. The final outcome of this argument will determine whether we still live in a nation “of the people, by the people, for the people”, or whether we have become a soft tyranny where our democratic forms of elections and representatives have been reduced to a meaningless veneer as in the old Soviet Union or Red China. http://www.scragged.com/articles/the-tsa-and-america-s-turning-point?utm_source=friend&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+TSA+and+America%27s+Turning+Point&utm_content=%27Go+to+article%27+link&utm_campaign=articles
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Land of the Free Watch: Next Step for Tight Security Could be Trains, Boats, Metro
The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/130549-next-step-for-body-scanners-could-be-trains-boats-and-the-metro-
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Media Progressives, State Power, and the TSA
As one who grew up reading the Chattanooga Times most of my life, I have come to understand the so-called Progressivist mindset which takes an out-and-out religious view of state power (or state power in the hands of the “right” people). While the newspaper itself claims to be secular, there is no doubt that over the years, it has promoted the Religion of the “Progressive” State and State Power both in its news columns and on the editorial page. No paper excoriates the “gulf” between the wealthy and poor (except it champions George Soros, the billionaire champion of the hard left) than the TFP, and no paper is more politically correct when it comes to the usual feminist canards of sexual assault and the intrusions of state power into private exchange. Here is an editorial page that professes to worship at the shrine of “good government” to a point that is utterly predictable. So, I decided to do a search of its editorials to see if it had any editorial commentary on the airport assaults, and I will say that the editors took exactly the stand I thought they would take. The editorial writers that are quick to demand that Americans’ privacy be protected from “predatory” private enterprise suddenly declare that when we are bowing to the state, there is no privacy. http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson301.html
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TSA Gestapo Empire
With such expensive counter-terrorism activities, both in terms of the hard-pressed taxpayers’ money and civil liberties, one would think that bombs were going off all over America. But, of course, they aren’t. There has not been a successful terrorist act since 9/11, and thousands of independent experts doubt the government’s explanation of that event. Subsequent domestic terrorist events have turned out to be FBI sting operations in which FBI agents organize not-so-bright disaffected members of society and lead them into displaying interest in participating in a terrorist act. Once the FBI agent, pretending to be a terrorist, succeeds in prompting all the right words to be said and captured on his hidden recorder, the “terrorists” are arrested and the “plot” exposed. The very fact that the FBI has to orchestrate fake terrorism proves the absence of real terrorists. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26902.htm
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American Airlines Besieged With Complaints
With the recent uproar of the new TSA enhanced screening and full body scanners it wasn’t any surprise when a senior ranking American Airlines insider confided that their customer service complaint line has been besieged with TSA complaints. Speaking “off the record” since this senior airline official with American Airlines is not authorized to release media reports had this to say. http://shtf411.com/american-airlines-besieged-with-complaints-t10918.html
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TSA Now Needs False Flag Security Incident to Convince Americans to Accept Obscene Pat-Downs
With the grassroots backlash over the TSA’s obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it’s becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another “terrorist incident” that’s stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners. So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there’s anything to be learned from 9/11, it’s that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so. http://www.naturalnews.com/030471_TSA_false_flag_operation.html
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TSA Searches: Are Trains and Subways Next?
John Pistole
Soon after taking over the TSA earlier this year, the former FBI deputy director John Pistole told USA Today that he will work to expand airport Gestapo zones. “Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration promises,” the newspaper reported on July 17. “Given the list of threats on subways and rails over the last six years going on seven years, we know that some terrorist groups see rail and subways as being more vulnerable because there’s not the type of screening that you find in aviation,” Pistole said. “From my perspective, that is an equally important threat area.” In addition, Pistole said he would like to see TSA workers, including 47,000 screeners at 450 airports, to operate as a “national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts.” He wants to “take TSA to the next level.” http://www.infowars.com/tsa-searches-are-trains-and-subways-next/
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Standing Up to the TSA
Almost overnight, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has gone from national joke to national nightmare. Passengers used to laugh when screeners so inept they missed 60—75% of the fake bombs undercover investigators smuggled past them nonetheless proclaimed themselves gods. No one’s laughing now, though, as the TSA ogles us with carcinogenic technology and sexually assaults anyone who objects. Over 300 of the agency’s “naked” scanners lurk in 60-some airports nationwide, with more on the way; eventually, the agency will irradiate every passenger on every flight. These gizmos peer through clothing to photograph bodies in graphic detail. The TSA makes much of offering a “choice”: if you dislike posing nude for the government, its perverts will grope you instead — “prob[ing],” “prodding” and pushing “up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance” (and they don’t mean a slap in the face). You also suffer this indignity, even if you submit to the scan, should it reveal “anomalies” such as piercings or prostheses. http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers137.html
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The Terrorists Have Won
Ten years after 9/11, Americans who fly are facing a Faustian choice between subjecting themselves to a virtual (and potentially medically damaging) strip search conducted in questionable machines run by federal employees or a psychologically damaging pat-down of their bodies. Osama bin Ladin must be giggling himself silly this week. But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one’s actions, but risk aversion. It’s a failure to acknowledge that we can’t protect against everything bad that can happen to us, so we must protect against everything we think might — might — be harmful at some point. It’s living in fear. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26860.htm
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Grassroots Rebels, Stay on the Ground!
The TSA has eviscerated liberty, dignity, modesty and everything decent since Day One. And before 9/11, it was the FAA conducting the massacre: recall that its high-flying dictators mandated checkpoints for rifling our luggage and forcing us through magnetometers without warrants. Remember ticket agents interrogating us about whether we’d packed our own bags (“You know, ma’am, hmmm, I think I had the upstairs maid handle it this time”), again per the FAA’s imbecilic dictates? And no, none of this approaches the TSA’s utterly incredible sexual assaults, but anyone who understands government could have discerned the embryonic bureaucracy and its abuses lurking in the FAA’s stranglehold. A people that allows the State to impede their travels with silly questions and unconstitutional searches has no logical argument against such lunacy’s going naked. http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers136.html
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Dictatorship Watch: Husband and Wife Victimized by TSA
It took me a while to regain my composure. I felt like I was one of those guys in The Gulag Archipelago who, because the proceedings all seem so unreal, doesn’t fully realize that he is in fact being arrested in a public place in front of crowds of people for…for what? I didn’t know what the crime was. Didn’t matter. Once upstairs, the officers made me remove my shoes and my hat and tossed me into a cell. Yes, your airports have prison cells, just like your amusement parks, train stations, universities, and national forests. Let freedom reign. http://lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html
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DHS Source: TSA Infuriated With Coverage Of Nationwide Backlash
Pistole, Napolitano and the TSA are praying that the resistance withers away, but it is only growing stronger, especially now that local governments are warning TSA workers that they will be prosecuted for groping travelers and with state lawmakers in different areas of the country moving to terminate use of the body scanners entirely. http://www.infowars.com/dhs-source-tsa-infuriated-with-coverage-of-nationwide-backlash/
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Ron Paul: Enough is Enough From the TSA Totalitarians
Ron Paul lays into the TSA. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599164944
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Big Sister’s Police State
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has crossed the line. As if subjecting millions of Americans to X-rated x-ray scans and public groping sessions weren’t bad enough, the agency now threatens $11,000 in fines against anyone refusing to submit to humiliation at the airport. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/16/big-sisters-police-state/
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TSA Hit With Lawsuits as Revolt Explodes
The TSA has been hit with a number of lawsuits as the revolt against Big Sis, naked body scanners, and invasive groping measures explodes, with one case involving a woman who had her blouse pulled down in full public view by TSA goons who then proceeded to laugh and joke about her exposed breasts. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-hit-with-lawsuits-as-revolt-explodes/
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Chertoff Linked to Body Scanner Manufacturer
Since the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports. What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question. http://noworldsystem.com/2010/01/06/chertoff-linked-to-body-scanner-manufacturer/
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Napolitano Shrugs Off Complaints About TSA Policies
Faced with growing complaints about the intrusive “full body scanners” and the even more intrusive “enhanced pat down” procedures the TSA is demanding of Americans who want to fly, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano did what officials have been doing for a decade in the face of public complaints, shrugged them off. http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/15/napolitano-shrugs-off-complaints-about-tsa-policies/
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Homeland Security Trying To Shut Down Air Travel?
Could there be another purpose behind invasive airport security measures that have caused national outrage and led to large numbers of Americans refusing to fly? By making air travel more and more uncomfortable, authorities are killing two birds with one stone – training people to submit to tyranny while also restricting air travel, something the climate change lobby is aggressively pushing for. With a new Reuters poll showing that some 96 per cent of Americans are now less likely to fly because of full body scans and pat downs, the agenda to reduce living standards by restricting CO2 output in the name of global warming is being achieved through the back door. Comments on the poll suggest that Americans are taking trains or choosing to drive thousands of miles in some cases in order to avoid naked body scanners and invasive groping techniques at airports which have caused a massive backlash against the TSA. http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-trying-to-shut-down-air-travel/
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Paying To Be Raped
Every single day millions of us are being subjected to the shameful processes of being searched, screened and viewed naked, patted, groped, fondled, poked and stroked by badge-wearing strangers- police under a different name. Every single day. Millions of us, Americans. Being violated. Being degraded. You know exactly what I am talking about. I am taking about me, you, your mother, her brother, his brother’s wife and toddler son, their grandmothers. I am talking about the systematic degradation of our people. I am talking about being raped of our dignity, privacy, and decency. I am talking about a daily systematic rape we actually pay to be subjected to. I am talking about severe violations we elect people to bring upon us. Yes, I am talking about traveling, TSA police, and being reduced to naked and helpless subjects of government police practices. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26800.htm
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Big Sis Forced To Respond To Nationwide Revolt Against TSA
The feds were forced into action after five prominent pilot and travel associations, along with a flight attendants union, vowed to boycott naked body scanners as well as the new invasive pat down procedure, threatening travel chaos. The backlash has also been characterized by new cases of individuals being abused at the hands of the TSA, stories which continue to pour in on a daily basis. http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-forced-to-respond-to-nationwide-revolt-against-tsa/
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Making Pilots Puke
Sure, the agency may temporarily halt its sexual assaults thanks to the rising resistance from pilots and the public. But if we don’t drive a stake through the TSA’s heart, it will merely await an opportunity to revive its wickedness. Another oh-so-convenient “terrorist” attack will provide cover for Congress, the TSA, and their corporate cronies to whine that only porno-scanners can save us. http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers135.html
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TSA Porno Scanners — What They’re Really Looking For
It’s just after 6 AM. I’m sitting at a gate at Boston’s Logan airport. I had noticed a long line at the checkpoint, and saw that it was because they were using the porno scanners. As a frequent traveler who lives in the Boston area, I know Logan. I went to another checkpoint where I walked through the magnetometer without incident, then made my circuitous way back to my flight’s gate. I hadn’t realized when I took my seat at the gate that the black cloth surrounding the area next to me held the TSA voyeur ogling the images from the porno scanner. “Male, anomaly, lower back.” “Female, anomaly, groin.” “Male, clear.” http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/11/05/tsa-porno-scanners-what-theyre-really-looking-for/
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Resistance to TSA’s Naked Strip Searches Growing
The populist Drudge Report website has stirred a national debate on TSA abuse of passengers through dangerous naked body scanners and invasive groping measures, culminating in an onslaught of resistance from numerous prominent travel and pilots associations, and leading to the organization of a national opt out day on November 24. http://www.prisonplanet.com/drudge-stirs-national-debate-on-tsa-abuse.html
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Invasion of the Body Scanners: More Tales of Terror From the Unfriendly Skies
The outrageous invasion of our privacy rights that is the whole-body scanner (and its equally outrageous counterpart, the full-body pat down) was hurriedly put in place by the government, before Americans could really comprehend what it would mean and whether they were willing to tolerate it. Yet where did the impetus for installing these scanners in our nation’s airports come from? And who’s responsible for this unfolding nightmare being unleashed on the American people? http://www.lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead20.1.html
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TSA: No Fondling, Groping Or Squeezing Is Taking Place At Airports
Despite multiple reports of TSA agents groping, molesting and sexually assaulting passengers in a nationwide epidemic of abuse, a TSA.gov website claims that there are no instances of groping or even squeezing occurring at all, and that TSA agents are completely “professional” in their duties. The denial appears on the blog.tsa.gov website, an official Transport Security Administration clearinghouse for news about the TSA and airport security. http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-no-fondling-groping-or-squeezing-is-taking-place-at-airports.html
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The Indignity About the Full Body Scanners
In the 9 years since 9-11 there have been exactly 0 incidents of hijackings or terror attacks by individuals boarding domestic aircraft in this country (not an international flight originating from another country). When coupled with the facts that there are over 30,000 commercial departures per day with an average passenger load per flight easily exceeding 25, then this most recent mathematical history teaches us: That the odds of being subject to a terrorist attack on a domestic (US) commercial airliner today are greater than 22 BILLION, 173 MILLION, 750 THOUSAND to 1 (22,173,750,000)! http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/negroni1.1.1.html
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Express Jet Pilot a Political Hero
Many air travelers, believing that being made to feel safer is the same thing as being made safer, submit to the intrusive devices with a shrug of the shoulders because they are “willing to do what it takes to be safe from terrorists.” There is, however, a growing number of Americans who may submit to the Big Brother scanning machines only because there is oft times no real alternative and they have deadlines to meet in catching their flights. Many of these grudging participants are quietly seething at the prospect of either having their nude image ogled by a faceless and nameless federal employee in another room, or being publicly groped by a TSA employee who is peeved that the passenger had the audacity to decline their offer of a free scan. http://www.bobbarr.org/default.asp?pt=newsdescr&RI=1271
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World’s Pilots Reject Naked Body Scanners Over Radiation Danger, Privacy Breach
The largest union of airline pilots in the world is urging its members to boycott body imaging machines currently being rolled out in airports all over the globe, citing dangers of excessive exposure to harmful levels of radiation during the screening process. The president of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 11,500 pilots, many of whom work for American Airlines, has urged members of the union to revolt against the devices. http://www.infowars.com/worlds-pilots-reject-naked-body-scanners-over-radiation-danger-privacy-breach/
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Hey, U.S. Air
Once again, I must reiterate that solving my holiday travel plans is only part of what I hope to accomplish by writing to you. This is a much bigger issue, and I was in tears earlier today as I contemplated the corner that the airline industry has backed me into. Since I wrote the previous letter, things have gotten worse, not better. Last Friday, the TSA announced that it will be using a much more aggressive “pat down” on passengers that “opt out” of the scanners. The scanners enable a complete stranger to see me and my child naked. This is a breach of my 4th Amendment right to security in my own person. As the TSA has pointed out, this is not mandatory, because I can choose to undergo a pat-down instead. However, a pat-down is still a violation of my 4th Amendment rights. But now, the new pat down is nothing short of sexual assault and molestation. http://www.lewrockwell.com/muratore/muratore15.1.html
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Israel Promotes Martial Law Type Tactics in Airports World Wide
Israel is the leading country in police state airport technology. Israeli airports are basically under martial law. Israel has openly announced that former Israeli military is actively “profiling” possible terrorists. Remember, the Mossad plays a huge part in staged terror attacks throughout the world. http://theintelhub.com/2010/11/04/israel-promotes-martial-law-type-tactics-in-airports-world-wide/
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New TSA Screening Procedure
The TSA announced today that it is implementing a new screening procedure to replace the so-called X-Ray backscatter machines because of concerns about the cumulative effects of radiation on frequent travelers. The new procedure will be simpler, safer and quicker, a TSA spokesman told Mendax News Service. In order to maintain a sense of modesty and propriety, the new system will have two lines designated “Rams” and “Ewes” in which passengers will remove their clothing and put it on a conveyor for scanning by a TSA professional. The use of animal terms for male and female indicates which sex is appropriate for each line without specifying or mandating compliance, thus avoiding an anticipated challenge to the procedure based on sex discrimination. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/sullivan-c1.1.1.html
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Airport Body Scanners ‘Could Give You Cancer’, Warns Expert
Full body scanners at airports could increase your risk of skin cancer, experts warn. The X-ray machines have been brought in at Manchester, Gatwick and Heathrow. But scientists say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin – one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body – that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1290527/Airport-body-scanners-deliver-radiation-dose-20-times-higher-thought.html
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