Of course, you realise,
TSA doesn’t have cuffs or arrest powers. Note in the article it was the Harbor Police.
I have a question for those of us that are ‘in the know’. Does the TSA have arrest powers or are they just faking it?
I guess this is an example of why the word “worthless” so often appears prefixed to the word “bureaucrat”.
There would be physical conflict if this out of control Government Agency illegally confiscated MY property!
It is ONLY a matter of time until this happens and I will predict that it will go down sometime this holiday season.
If the Government can take, touch, or handle ANYTHING you own without any checks or balances we are no longer a Democratic Republic.
I am sure the EPA (and other intrusive agencies) is watching this and just licking their chops to be next in line to apply this logic to GOVERN us.
This reminds me of the fight in the war room in Dr. Strangelove. "There's no fighting in the war room."
You can see, he's not hiding anything. But the TSA MUST follow procedures, so the guy has to put on his clothes to get groped. This is about safety. Really?
Pardon me, but doesn’t the taking of this womans phone constitute yet another act of ‘Unreasonable Search And Seizure’?
“”there was another arrest of a woman who was allegedly illegally filming the x-ray, and TSA screening process with a video camera. The young woman’s camera was confiscated and she was given a citation and released from Harbor Police custody.””
What’s the difference between taking pictures of the process and taking video? She should have put the camera down her pants :-)
Welcome to the Fourth Reich!
Maybe it's time for people to start using such software to make sure the videos get out to the world, regardless of what the TSA thugs do.
The real question that nobody (including the TSA) is answering, is whether all this making us safer. The answer is no, of course not. Essentially 65,000 people have gotten a job to make the flying public’s experience as unpleasant as possible. While little kids and grandmas are being assaulted by TSA pervs, some muslim male between the ages of 18 and 40 can easily ship something in cargo on the same play the now emotionally distressed kids and grandmas fly on.
I love it how 0bama uses the underwear bomber as evidence we all need to get groped and assaulted by TSA, because as usual Mr.0bama hasn’t a clue on the facts. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got on a plan in Nigeria, flew through Amsterdam and never got screened in the USA. However, he was on the no fly list, had his dad call our intelligence agencies on him, and happens to be a muslim male between the age of 18 and 44, all of which should have prevented him from getting on a plane. So if the TSA wants to increase the probability of stopping a terrorist attack, how about screening for people who are on no fly lists, have had their dads call on them to the CIA and/or FBI, and are muslim males between 18 and 40 years onld, and leave the rest of us to whom these criteria don’t apply alone!
What is the reason we’re told the terrorists hate us? Because we have freedom. Well, the terrorists have won. We have allowed the government by way of the TSA to reduce our freedoms, take away our rights. We allow for small children to be groped, for elderly to be abused, for citizens to be treated as suspects. The terrorists never have to do anything to us, because WE ARE DOING IT TO OURSELVES ALREADY!