Ventura sues DHS, TSA over body scans, pat-downs

Minneapolis StarTribune ^ | 1/24/2011 | Associated Press

[Colonel_Flagg]

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, saying full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints are violating his rights.

Ventura filed his lawsuit Monday in federal court in Minnesota. He says the new security measures violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Governor Turnbuckle may finally be onto something. As opposed to on something, for those of us from the Gopher State who know his style of governance.

[hennie pennie]

It will make a good segment for his TV conspiracy show.

[Calvin Locke]

Maybe they wouldn't let him repel down off the control tower.

Seriously, he has a problem with being challenged. Even Dennis Miller
managed to get him to hang up the phone by asking about some
conspiracy.

Ventura should have, at worst, simply deflected the question by saying
"that's the point of the show, to investigate "the conspiracy".
Watch how we do [day of the week @ TOD], on TruTv..."

[Fido969]

Did it show he had a teeny-weenie peenie?

[SunkenCiv]

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, thanks Colonel_Flagg.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeB9GAel-_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rIFFF0QryA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk5TCRQOxcY

[Keith in Iowa]

Jesse Ventura sues TSA, says body scans and pat-down searches violate rights
	01/24/2011 6:00:37 PM PST · by WOBBLY BOB · 15 replies pioneer press ^ | 1-24-11 | Amy Forliti Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to "warrantless and suspicionless" scans and body searches. The lawsuit, which also names Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole as defendants, argues the searches are "unwarranted and unreasonable intrusions on Governor Ventura's personal privacy and dignity and are a justifiable cause...
Ex-Minn. governor sues over body scans, pat-downs
	01/24/2011 5:26:39 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 12 replies Associated Press ^ | Jan. 24, 2011 | AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, saying full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints are violating his rights.

[TASMANIANRED]

Even the insane can be correct sometimes.

[eclecticEel]

After all these years, is Wacky Ventura finally going to do something worthwhile?

[sargon]

Good for Jesse. These searches are unreasonable, and should be much more tightly focused via intelligent, common-sense profiling. After all, we are at war, with limited resources. Our intelligence and security resources should be logically allocated and expended.

Muslims, if they are peaceful, should understand this necessity, a necessity made more imperative by their utter failure to police their own people, countries, and religion.

After all, we're not hauling Muslims off to internment camps or anything (which I guess might be Constitutional, but which I would oppose vehemently.)

[Mariner]

I have to think that a voluntary submission to search is not in conflict with the Bill of Rights.

Don't want the search? Don't fly.

[ldish]

my thoughts exactly...maybe xrays show “he has nothing” to hide after all!

[MsLady]

Well, this is a good thing. Hope he wins.

[rbg81]

Is there a way I could care less about Ventura? I doubt it.

[Jubal Harshaw]

Sorry, Mariner, the right to travel freely using ordinary conveyances and common carriers is a right recognized by American courts (Chicago Motor Coach vs. Chicago, 169 NE 22; Ligare vs. Chicago, 28 NE 934; Boon vs. Clark, 214 SSW 607; Thompson vs. Smith, 154 SE 579) and dating to at least the Rights of Englishmen before the founding of the United States, and perhaps to the Rights of Roman Citizens up to Diocletian. Neither you nor the government has the right to tell Americans not to travel in an ordinary way as the price to pay for refusal to be assaulted by government agents.

[Colonel_Flagg]

erm ... no word on that :)

[Colonel_Flagg]

My pleasure ... sort of, I guess. I’m embarrassed that this guy was governor of my state.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Thanks.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I have to think that a voluntary submission to search is not in conflict with the Bill of Rights.

Doesn't sound from the article that his submission was voluntary.

[CodeToad]

TSA: Too Stupid for Arby’s.

The TSA is proof that the American people are wussies. When I said about 10 years ago after 9/11 that they will be strip searching us everyone one said no way. Well, they do and we take it up the ass literally.