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Rand Paul in Pat-Down Standoff With TSA in Nashville
ABC News ^ | 1/23/12 | Sunlen Miller

Posted on 01/23/2012 8:18:01 AM PST by Kartographer

Sen. Rand Paul told his communications director this morning he was being detained by TSA in Nashville. @moirabagley, the Twitter account associated with Paul staffer Moira Bagley tweeted around 10 a.m., ET, “Just got a call from @senrandpaul. He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville.” A spokesman for TSA said the agency was looking into the matter but could not immediately comment. Paul apparently set off an airport security full-body scanner, “on a glitch,” a spokesman in Paul’s office told ABC News. The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding, according to the staffer, a full body pat-down.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: citizenstargeted; compliance; dhs; drudge; intrusivegovernment; randpaul; tsa
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1 posted on 01/23/2012 8:18:05 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

I like Rand. I hate the TSA. It’s hard not to make a thoughtful comment without knowing more.


2 posted on 01/23/2012 8:20:18 AM PST by Grunthor (I don't vote for Democrats, this includes Mitt Romney.)
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To: Kartographer

If only Rand could hijack the entire TSA and put them on the southern border....


3 posted on 01/23/2012 8:21:43 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kartographer

I never, ever, allow them to use the full body scanner. I’ve been patted down dozens of times and even failed one and they had to do the “private room” thing. Apparently my trip to the feed store to pay my monthly storage bill had set it off.

I did apologize to the guy doing the patting for the wood.


4 posted on 01/23/2012 8:22:02 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Kartographer
Article 1 Section 6 of the U.S. Constitution:

"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

5 posted on 01/23/2012 8:22:28 AM PST by StonyMan451 (As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Kartographer
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?"


6 posted on 01/23/2012 8:22:46 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Grunthor

Maybe this is event that will finally bring sanity.


7 posted on 01/23/2012 8:22:46 AM PST by hadaclueonce (scrap copper is more than $3.00 a pound. wind generators are full of copper)
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To: cuban leaf
"I did apologize to the guy doing the patting for the wood."

Doin' the TSA Tango is almost as good as a lap dance?

8 posted on 01/23/2012 8:23:37 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Old Sarge

“DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?”

That was Rick Perry’s line to the DPS officer a few years ago.


9 posted on 01/23/2012 8:25:09 AM PST by hadaclueonce (scrap copper is more than $3.00 a pound. wind generators are full of copper)
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To: cuban leaf

ROFLMAO. Maybe they’ll make a wand that detects wood.


10 posted on 01/23/2012 8:25:52 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm not cut out to suffer fools like this.)
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To: StonyMan451

Whoa! TSA bit it big time.


11 posted on 01/23/2012 8:26:20 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: cuban leaf

The TSA were unimpressed with my “position” in the FBS as my arthritic fingers cramped into positions they disapproved of.


12 posted on 01/23/2012 8:26:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kartographer

I travel a bit, went through a full body scanner and the glitch hit me. The panel the guard can see, will show where the ‘glitch’ is. There is a stick figure broken into zones. The zones are head, torso, right shoulder/arm, left shoulder/arm, waist to thigh, left thigh, right thigh, left knee to foot, and right knee to foot.
These zones are mirrored again on the back of the stick figure.

Apparently my ‘glitch’ was on my front right thigh - the agent was professional, touched me with his fingers spread, and made a single sweep from my front pocket down to my knee - took all of 3 seconds and I was out of there. If you want to make a scene; I guess you can make a scene - and be detained by the TSA.


13 posted on 01/23/2012 8:28:24 AM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: Past Your Eyes

14 posted on 01/23/2012 8:28:42 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: netmilsmom

“I was chust followink orders”.


15 posted on 01/23/2012 8:28:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Old Sarge

This would happen to any of us who refuse the patdown. I am glad that Paul did what I would want to do if I ever decide to fly again...which won’t be before the next election...hopefully things will change. It’s all a bunch of bullcrap and solves nothing.


16 posted on 01/23/2012 8:29:10 AM PST by Sioux-san
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To: netmilsmom

Its obvious Paul poses a significant hijack or terrorism threat. Carry on, TSA.


17 posted on 01/23/2012 8:30:13 AM PST by rusty millet
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To: Kartographer

Why should he get special treatment?


18 posted on 01/23/2012 8:30:50 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Kartographer

Defiance!
19 posted on 01/23/2012 8:30:50 AM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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A sitting US Senator....really? The TSA has lost it....


20 posted on 01/23/2012 8:33:58 AM PST by databoss
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