"I like it just like that"
Posted on 11/18/2010 12:15:54 AM PST by speciallybland
With a week to go until the Thanksgiving travel peak and Americans' anger continuing to rise over heightened airport-security measures, a U.S. congressman launched legislation today to end what he calls Soviet-style searches by the American government.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, introduced the Air Traveler Dignity Act to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation's airports.
"We have seen the videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories of Americans being subjected to humiliating body imaging machines and/or forced to have the most intimate parts of their bodies poked and fondled," Paul said.
"This TSA version of our rights looks more like the 'rights' granted in the old Soviet Constitutions, where freedoms were granted to Soviet citizens – right up to the moment the state decided to remove those freedoms."
Paul's legislation, H.R. 6416, is just two sentences long, stating:
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), X-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual's body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual's parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
you don’t want a love pat?
No but Mario Cuomo does and all his ilk.
Put gamma and infrared radiation in there too
Thanks Ron - good to know someones standing up for us.
Elect a Democrat and watch them burn the Constitution.
israel have one of the toughest airport security and they don’t use this
think it’s bad now? Wait for them to unionize.
Allow pilots and concealed weapons permit holders to carry their handguns aboard flights, and there will be little worry of any terror indents. 911 wouldn’t have happened if this were the case.
you can shoot a bomb?
Can’t wait for the day her and her fellow sickos in Congress feel the shoe on the other foot.
I’m with Ron Paul on this one!
Ya' gotta' love the turds in government...........
I wonder if RP will vote against this act now that he has proposed it.
Where is GOP Leadership? Why don't is see a stream of GOP Senators and Congressmen who say they want limited Government, but are responding to Oppressive, Tyrannical Government practices?
The “Don’t touch my junk” act.
“Can’t wait for the day her and her fellow sickos in Congress feel the shoe on the other foot.”
I like Michael Savage’s suggestion that every member of Congress should be groped by the TSA and nude body scans of them posted on the Drudge Report.
(male Japanese tense)
Female tense would be:
あたしのあそこを触らないで！
Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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