Posted on 11/15/2010 3:08:20 PM PST by Superstu321
In a Nov. 15 interview with the Fox News Channel, former TSA Administrator Mo McGowan admitted that the newly instated TSA pat downs are a violation of the Fourth amendment and said, “Nobody likes having their Fourth amendment violated going through a security line, but the truth of the matter is we’re going to have to do it.”
McGowan left the TSA in 2009 and was the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Security Operations. There he was in charge or the largest non-military workforce in the U.S. Government. McGowan currently is employed by the Command Consulting Group, a private “international advisory firm.”
In the last few weeks the TSA has drawn the ire of both sides of the political spectrum over their use of full-body pat-downs. Many have claimed it has violated their Fourth amendment right, which guards against unreasonable search and seizures. Some have gone so far as to claim they might be committing sexual harassment. TwitThis
(Excerpt) Read more at threefingersofpolitics.com ...
Just curious, what makes a former TSA executive an expert on Constitutional law?
Well then, the truth of the matter is that I won’t be flying.
“Nobody likes having their Fourth amendment violated going through a security line, but the truth of the matter is we’re going to have to do it.”
Not true. If you feel you absolutely MUST violate the constitution, then do it in a way that affects the fewest people:
PROFILE MUSLIMS, YOU EFFING MORONS!
The answer is here:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/29963
Well he's had 25 years experience in violating constitutional rights, so I'd say he knows it when he sees it...
Prior to joining TSA, McGowan worked for a Fortune 500 company in the area of network protection. He also was a Richardson, Texas police officer for 25 years.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/TSA-Names-Morris-Mo-McGowan-as-Federal-Security-Director-Dallas-Love-Field-Airport-929754.htm
just so you are aware if you elderly and need a wheelcahir to get in and out the plane you can be refused. As a disabled veteran in a wheelcahir, I have been informed when making a reservation that I would not be able to fly without an attendant, and also I would be subject to body search. i would have to have someone assist me in and out of the wheelchair. Just be prepared this holiday season if your elderly mother or father generally flys alone, he or she can be denied the opportunity to fly. Welcome to Odumbo’s America. I am not pulling your leg, was making reservations to fly out of Green Bay’s Austin straubel airport to fly to Dallas/Ft. Worth International.
Paging John Semmens: this is BEGGING for a parody. There’s surely a huge laundry list of constitutional rights that the Obama administration is “reluctantly” prepared to sacrifice for our own good (the individual mandate comes to mind).
I understand that the tsa does offer a free prostate exam, if they choose to sexually assault you.
LLS
What an idiotic comment.
Why we, as a nation, put up with putting people such as this in positions of bureaucratic power is beyond me. We have no duty to forgo our god-given rights in the name of "security." I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said something to that effect.
The government has a right to take reasonable measures to keep us safe which do not impose upon our god-given rights. The government does not have a right to impose measures upon us which, we, the People, see as dangerous or unduly invasive.
We do not have a responsibility as Americans to sacrifice our fundamental dignity as human beings for the sake of safety. To be sure, while I believe that it is within the role of government to regulate the safety measures taken by private companies connected to air travel, the government has absolutely no right to push such regulation in the direction of abusive measures which demean both ourselves and our children, most especially when such measures are ineffectual at best.
We need more of a ruckus around this issue. Socialist travel policies should not be tolerated in this country.
What an idiotic comment.
Why we, as a nation, put up with putting people such as this in positions of bureaucratic power is beyond me. We have no duty to forgo our god-given rights in the name of "security." I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said something to that effect.
The government has a right to take reasonable measures to keep us safe which do not impose upon our god-given rights. The government does not have a right to impose measures upon us which, we, the People, see as dangerous or unduly invasive.
We do not have a responsibility as Americans to sacrifice our fundamental dignity as human beings for the sake of safety. To be sure, while I believe that it is within the role of government to regulate the safety measures taken by private companies connected to air travel, the government has absolutely no right to push such regulation in the direction of abusive measures which demean both ourselves and our children, most especially when such measures are ineffectual at best.
We need more of a ruckus around this issue. Socialist travel policies should not be tolerated in this country.
What gives Mo McGowan the Constitutional authority to make that decision? When we get America back, these swine-headed usurpers need to live out their lives in prison, all of them.
“no one wants to pull the plug on grandma but the truth of the matter is we are going to have to do it”
I stopped flying a few years ago when this crap really began to become burdensome and offensive. The airlines, and TSA, can suck it as far as I am concerned. When more people do this, things will change.
It's already begun. Obama has Muslim appointees in Homeland Security and LaRaza is part of Obama's go-to staff. Cecilia Munoz, Senior VP of La Raza, appointed to Obama White House Staff California is giving illegals college tuition preference over out-of-state students.
Two more years of democrat "diversity" is their methodology to becoming firmly entrenched by people/activist groups who loudly and consistently make demands that will be next to impossible to remove once granted by the anti-American sovereignty, anti-Constitution, and anti-Bill of Rights democrats, assisted by American media, in bed with the destructive democrats.
“”We need more of a ruckus around this issue. “”
I believe we’re going to see exactly that. Boortz, Rush, Hannity and Beck all covered it today on their radio programs. Boortz covered it for the 2 hours I listened to him. He didn’t mince words and says he expects to be put on the “no fly” list after his tirades today - he lives in Naples, FL and sometimes flys himself back and forth to Atlanta but sometimes flys commercial. Said he will bet someone will deck a TSA employee before the end of the month.
P R O F I L E!!!!!
The TSA is Obama’s civilian army. Think about it. And he wants to unionize it.
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