Posted on 11/21/2010 2:48:17 PM PST by FS11
This video shows one woman slammed to the floor for arguing with a TSA agent. Another 71 year-old man with a knee implant describes how TSA pulled down his pants. A 16 year-old girl with a prosthetic leg has her pants removed.
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Heck, I drive 900 miles one-way to Texas and back twice a year rather than fly.
“Stop flying, people. That’s the fastest way to fix this problem. The airlines will quickly revolt if you stop flying.”
From what I understand the airports can opt out of TSA and a few already have.
Top of your game Sir, top of your game.
earlJam is the Master of this thread for his efforts here.
I haven’t done the nipple ring thingy yet (egads and ouch). But I do have an artificial knee. So I get to drop my drawers because of it at the next checkpoint? I’m going to get some underwear that says “THE TSA SUCKS” across the back, and if they make me drop my drawers, I WILL MOON THEM WITH THOSE WORDS! YES I WILL! (jerks!)
I agree. But the FIRST BRANCH had better pit or get off the shot ‘cause folks out here are getting seriously pissed.
Ever wonder why the Founders established the legislature in SECTION ONE and the Executive and Judicial branches in sections two and three respectively?
BECAUSE THEY WANTED CONGRESS TO HAVE THE REAL POWER IN OUR SYSTEM.
“People get the government they deserve” Joseph D’Maistre
We HAD a shot at mucking the foul stable that has become Washington, D.C. in 2008 and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!
The jury is still out but it APPEARS that we did better this last time. We’ll know around February if we did.
While I, like many of you, am saddened that the GOP ran such a poor 2008 campaign that they couldn’t keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, let’s try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: The media, ACORN and the SEIU elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.
For years, I’ve been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) “PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship and/or the increasing numbers of un or ill-educated denizens of the U.S. who feel incapable of lifting themselves out of their own miserable lives has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.
People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER IN CONGRESS and the current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF THEY WANTED TO. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)
But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Don’t get me started on the ENERGY and Algore’s gloBULL warming scam!)
1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?
2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.
3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right.
And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington (unless MILLIONS of pitchfork wielding folk crowd the Mall, the elites are amused by these things and the only folks who benefit from the finite patriot resources devoted to them are the airlines, hotels and restaurants in D.C.)...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS you have identified as NOT having the country’s interests at heart and doing it as many times as necessary to get it right. And then watching the NEW GUYS like a hawk to make certain THEY don’t go bad from imbibing too much of that power Kool-Aid so popular in Disneyland on The Potomac.
A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.
The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more inclined to cling to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.
And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to GRADEGOV at
for your guy’s voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
Then head on over to http://goooh.com and get active in some HOUSE CLEANING in the next election!
I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.
As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.
I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.
One final thought: With the exception of the guys who CLEARLY pass muster at GRADEGOV, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!
We’ve left things to the career politicians for too long. If things continue as they are, there will be NOWHERE TO HIDE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvqb_JcAK18
Sounds like a great program. FAR better than the TSA lunacy.
DO NOT FLY COMMERCIAL!
Reducing the number of flights will help to lower our “dependence” on imported oil far more than all the eco-nut fantasy cars being built and sold with taxpayer subsidies.
Your local economy needs your money just as badly as any distant venue, vacation near to home.
Business junkets for “Important meetings” are really not necessary, teleconference.
Learn to drive decently well, get the artificially low speed limits raised, and have your own car to drive at your destination instead of a rental.
Fewer flyers, remaining flyers are easier to scrutinize.
Thanks for the pics of the 4th Amendment t-shirts. Seems that the entrepreneurs out there are way ahead of me on this.
Meanwhile, young Arab males smirk and go walking right through. Welcome to Obama’s America.
Then you will be relieved that it was all made up by her. She was lying through her teeth and TSA released all the video for her visit to the Atlanta airport. All 7 camera angles. Her son was right there beside her the whole time.
Neither I nor anyone I know have ever seen anything at all like the hyped claims of inappropriate searches. This whole new campaign against the TSA’s search methods smells like a campaign to weaken the TSA’s ability to do its job.
Kyllo involved a person’s home. IIRC, the opinion of the court, including Scalia, is that out in the public, one cannot have a similar “expectation of privacy.” Hence, sniffing dogs at a public roadblock are acceptable. I would think that these airport searches are acceptable under the same regime.
I disagree, generally automobiles are provided a significantly lower degree of constitutional protection than individuals. Thus, police can search a car when they have reasonable suspicion. In contrast, a Terry frisk, which seems to be the lowest threshold for invasion of individual privacy, requires more specific suspicion (of a weapon), as limited to searching for a weapon.
The TSA searches are more invasive than Terry and are based on a lower degree of suspicion, namely none. It is hard to imagine the TSA searches being upheld without drastically altering the landscape of the 4th amendment or without creating a new exception.
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