Posted on 08/19/2013 5:17:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Janet Napolitano’s TSA agents won’t keep their blue, latex-covered paws to themselves. The TSA is now expanding its grope to rodeos, sports stadiums, music festivals and train stations.
The TSA’s signature move is like the signature move of a guy who “accidently” brushes his hand against a woman’s buttocks or chest—a woman he’s not dating; married to; or, even a friend to. Except the TSA pulls the creeper move on men and women alike, plus grandmothers and toddlers.
Between 2010 and 2012, TSA misconduct increased by 26 percent, according to a report released this summer from the Government Accountability Office. If a business experienced a similar increase in misconduct, it would address the problem by firing all culpable employees. If a government agency experiences a rise in misconduct, everyone gets a raise: Despite 26 percent more TSA misbehavior, Big Sis Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is now using more of your money so she can expand Operation Creeper. Isn’t that terrific?
Back in 2005, our government authorized the creation of Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams under the purview of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). VIPR teams were supposed to conduct random sweeps at transportation centers other than airports.
Now, the Obama administration has expanded the VIPR program to unconstitutional and unprecedented levels. VIPR teams will conduct security clearances in more places where the TSA is not—which is pretty much anywhere human beings gather or move outside of airports. For example, rodeos, music festivals and train stations.
Well, I guess you can see why you should be frisked before entering a rodeo. I mean, how scary would it be if you bumped into a rodeo clown with an Obama mask on!? Good Ol’ Big Sis, always thinking of ways to protect us from buckin’ bronco comedians while leaving us to fend for ourselves against terrorists with explosives tucked inside their underwear.
Big Sis does not seem like a gal who gets out to many music festivals. She seems more like a gal who enjoys watching TV reruns while sharing her couch and cheese curds with five cats. So, Big Sis is likely terrified at the thought of hundreds of young people wearing glow necklaces and jumping up and down to electronic music. The only thing that could make Big Sis feel safe from a crowd of young people having fun would be sending her Creeper Troopers after them to administer full-body pat-downs.
In 2008, there were 10 VIPR teams and today there are 37 VIPR teams. The VIPR program has a $100 million annual budget and was responsible for—wait for it—“8,800 unannounced checkpoints…outside of airports last year,” reports the New York Times.
In other words, the VIPR teams made 8,800 unauthorized passes at Americans in 2012 in addition to and completely separate from all the gropey and unconstitutional TSA searches that were conducted in 2012.
If you have read the Constitution, you know there is no “Grope or Scan” clause allowing government employees to feel you up, unannounced and without probable cause. VIPR security processes are in violation of the law of the land, specifically the Fourth Amendment, which states:
“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.”
Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert summed up the TSA’s VIPR program on his August 13 show: “There is one group that is always dishing out the frisky buffet: The TSA. Because they have the safety of this nation in the palms of their hands.”
We run into enough creepers at the airport as it is. I am pretty sure none of us want to give up an even bigger chunk of our paychecks so that the government can send VIPR creepers in blue latex gloves after us everywhere we go—from the D.C. Metro to the rodeo. Can I get an Amen on that, brothers and sisters?
Because political correctness doesn't allow "the usual suspects" to be scrutinized without obviously-non-threatening people having to be accosted, we have gone over the cliff with the ACLU and scams to employ the low-end of the gene pool in Government Jobs, at Taxpayer expense, that are essentially useless in their Un-Constitutional function.
Just a matter of time before they’re setting up checkpoints outside of your neighborhood to ensure you’re not transporting anything illegal on to the government-owned streets and sidewalks.
I wish they’d just erect the walls around us and let us get the shooting started. I hate being blue-balled.
"Stay in your homes until the crisis is over"
But thankfully not at that illegal border crossing. /s
...and your friendly TSA groper doesn’t change his blue gloves either!
The last time I flew was in 2009 when I visited my daughter and her family in Amarillo, TX, and the last time before that in 1985 when my husband and I flew to Rochester, NY for a family reunion
I’m quite confused as to why this whole illegal immigration thing is even a problem for Dems. They all know, or should know, that the government is acting post-Constitutional and really has no compunction against using trickery to win elections. Why do they suddenly care about doing it legitimately? They haven’t won a fair election in over 10 years.
UNDOCUMENTED!!!!
How dare you refer to them as such? No crossing is illegal.
Someone post the snitch number I’m turning this hater in!!!!!
I have to fly for business twice a week. I spend 2-3 minutes going through security. I use the PreCheck line.
Enroll in Global Entry, and you can do it too. It is $100 for 5 years, but if you fly more than once a year, it is $5 per flight.
However, this non-airport screening is BS. The TSA has no authority to do it, but the spineless Republicans aren’t stopping it.
Defund TSA. Make it part of the Freedom Party’s platform.
My reading of their web site indicates that it is just for going thru customs when entering back into the US...
Has any court ever ruled on this?
This is what happens when we let the camel’s nose under the tent ala DUI check points. We have been conditioned now to EXPECT to be stopped and questioned, examined, tested, impounded and or gropped anywhere the governments decide. I have to take a plane in October as my wife decided where we should vacation this year and I know what is awaiting at the airport. Last time I flew was probably 8 years ago and I still am POed about taking my shoes and belt off, having to have my personal use drugs and toiletrees in clear bags and the like so some low grade moron can examine them but who probably would not be able to distinguish between nitro and shampoo anyway. Perhaps if they put these “teams” on the borders they would have some success stopping drugs and illegals but no, the citizens have to put up with the BS.
Has any court ever ruled on this?
This is what happens when we let the camel’s nose under the tent ala DUI check points. We have been conditioned now to EXPECT to be stopped and questioned, examined, tested, impounded and or gropped anywhere the governments decide. I have to take a plane in October as my wife decided where we should vacation this year and I know what is awaiting at the airport. Last time I flew was probably 8 years ago and I still am POed about taking my shoes and belt off, having to have my personal use drugs and toiletrees in clear bags and the like so some low grade moron can examine them but who probably would not be able to distinguish between nitro and shampoo anyway. Perhaps if they put these “teams” on the borders they would have some success stopping drugs and illegals but no, the citizens have to put up with the BS.
So, wait a minute: Does this mean that Alex Jones was RIGHT?
For advice in dealing with these un-Constitutional Federal checkpoints, see here (and others with search for vipr checkpoint constitutional rights):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTG1EHw1XZw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcaSN4AsQQ
Just keep pushin’...
Global Entry was originally for expedited entry back into the US.
But, the TSA accepts Global Entry membership. You just have to enter your 9-digit PASS ID in your airline flyer profile.
See the TSA PreCheck we page. It lists the other programs they recognize, including Global Entry.
The gloves are to protect the groper (I mistyped as "gorper," which is funny if you ever used the word "gorp"), not the gropee.
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