Obama's TSA: Decliners Fined $11,000

Townhall.com ^ | 11.21.2010 | Kevin McCullough

[jodiluvshoes]

News reports on Saturday reporting that the TSA was announcing warnings to would-be travelers that any "would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint but refuses to undergo the method of inspection as prescribed by the TSA workers on duty would not be allowed to fly, (but far more importantly)--would not be permitted to leave the airport."

But that wasn't all. The TSA also included in it's announcement for the first time the new fine of $11,000 and possible arrest for anyone who refused.

TSA worker Sari Koshetz was quoted in one report, "Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process."

[PGR88]

Osama bin Laden is sitting in his cave laughing his @ss off. He’s more successful than he ever imagined.

[Argus]

Places where your constitutional rights do not apply:

IRS audits

college campuses

prisons

(and now)

airports

[brytlea]

I have a whole lot of Libertarian friends I need to apologize to.

[brytlea]

I have a whole lot of Libertarian friends I need to apologize to.

[spodefly]

Al Queda won.

Face it.

[mountainlion]

So what happens to someone that is in the search line by mistake with no ticket. Do they get fined $11,000? So a little kid wanders away form parents and gets in the line and the parents go after them do they have to pay $11,000?

[HKMk23]

Maybe this is the Obama administration’s strategy to combat illegal immigration; sort of a perverted course of making it suck so bad here that people rethink wanting to come.

[edcoil]

Does the TSA have such authority? Congress?

Sounds like health care, you will be charged for not using their service.

[upchuck]

TSA worker Sari Koshetz was quoted in one report, "Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process."

Check out the attitude: Once a person submits.

Submits? Submits my ass. FUTSA! This patriot doesn't submit to anything! Screw all of you!!

[taxtruth]

TSA people should be arrested in all 50 states and outlawed.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evidently, the purchase of an airline ticket is a criminal act.

Keep that in mind next time you think about purchasing one.

[seowulf]

TSA worker Sari Koshetz was quoted in one report, "Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process."

So, they are under arrest at that point?

Seems like you need to have a lawyer present to apply for a writ of habeas corpus.

[Defiant]

What is this Constitution of which you speak?

[silverleaf]

Once you enter the airport security area:

“All Your A$$ belong to TSA”

Time for a new song like Charlie and the MTA...

[danamco]

Welcome to the Soetoro Marxist Land!!!

How much is the other fines, if chose to op out of the healthscare plane???

[Defiant]

Another word for submission is “Islam”.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Per the head of the TSA flying is a privelege, not a right.

[colderwater]

The government seems to have decided that the only way to keep us safe is to turn the country into a giant prison.

c.w.

[Jean S]

refuses to undergo the method of inspection as prescribed by the TSA workers on duty would not be allowed to fly

Whoa, who gave the TSA workers the power to determine what "method of inspection" is allowed on any particular day. No wonder that these people think they're all powerful, it's because they are.