Just Dear Reader practicing the entire detention of Congress...
They do I believe if they are on the way to Congress.
I seem to remember Pat Kennedy claiming he was on the way to a Congress meeting at 3 am when he ran into a barricade outside the capitol.
http://wonkette.com/171689/breaking-rep-patrick-kennedy-drunk-driving-crashes-car
Yes: I found it.
” I thought Congress Critters had Constitution protections against arrest and detainment while conducting their official business? “
Yeah - but ‘Rand Paul (R-IN) acted stupidly’, don’tcha know??
/sarc
That's in the Constitution; and we know what Obama thinks of that old, dead document...
Maybe if mr POTUS and his handlers lurked at FR, they’d discover that the constitution is on Rand’s side. But that probably would not have stopped them anyway.
Color me surprised.
Oh, sure, like the White Hut would side with TSA if it had been Sheila “Don’t you know who I am” Jackson-Lee.
If the Republican’s were smart (which they are not) they would let Paul do the GOP response to the State of the Union...better yet, let Newt do it.
***The White House is standing by the Transportation Security Administration***
Did anyone really think otherwise?
Nobody on or offline has been able to give me a justification for Bush’s creation of DHS when we have so many other bureaus and agencies slated to do the job. No justification to federalize the TSA either.
Now look what we have. Thanks a lot Jorge.
"The police state in this country is growing out of control," the elder Paul said in a statement released by his presidential campaign.
"One of the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities," he continued. "The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to keep us safe. “That is why my ‘Plan to Restore America,’ in additional to cutting $1 trillion dollars in federal spending in one year, eliminates the TSA."
For anyone baffled by the continued support for Ron Paul, I ask what other candidate will speak this candidly and forcefully about our federal government? If Newt or Santorum would adopt these ideas, they would get probably half of Pauls current supporters.
Related thread:
Senator Rand Paul Detained by TSA at Nashville Airport
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2836584/posts
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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.”
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The Senate is back in session today at 2 p.m., with votes scheduled at 4:30 p.m. It is not clear if Paul will make it to Washington by 4:30 p.m. on his new flight.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/rand-paul-in-pat-down-standoff-with-tsa-in-nashville/
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“Soule noted that Paul was eventually rebooked on another flight and rescreened without incident.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/politics/rand-paul-tsa/index.html
TSA = Gestapo.
Of course the White House backs its own personal “blueshirts.”
Resist. Rebel. Tear down the police state that has been forced upon us. Its time for the slaves to throw off their chains and hold the masters accountable.
Wonder if the White House would have done the same thing had the Congressman’s name been James Clyburn?
Obama has the uncanny, almost instinctual ability to come down on the wrong side of every single issue he sees.
A legislator detained by govt goons. It’s like a scene from Seven Days In May.