Finally, someone in real law enforcement gets it.
There are multiple circuit court and Supreme Court precedents that say that refusing a request for a voluntary search is not grounds for an involuntary search.
The US Code giving TSA the authority for a search is explicitly voluntary. It says that they are required to search people and cargo that WILL BE boarding a plane. The emphasis is mine, but those specific words are used.
Once you decide that you don't want to board the plane, TSA's authority to search you vanishes. US district and circuit court decisions differ on this point, but the most (in)famous one appears to intentionally misquote the law to rationalize their decision.
Unless Congress acts and specifically specifies this, this point is probably going to have to go to the Supreme Court. And right now, I'm not optimistic.
All your important belongings are OUT OF YOUR CONTROL while you are being touched. Your passport, wallet, money, keys, phone, baggage are OUT OF YOUR CONTROL while this is happening. You are completely vulnerable.
Understand the situation the government has placed you in. You are made naked by a machine or a stranger is touching your privates, and you have no posessions.
THAT IS TOTAL SUBMISSION.
Tyranny - simple, clear, and obvious.
Sounds like a technique used 70 years ago.....”Show me your papers”.
EODGUY
another federal agency over stepping and out of control. shut it down now.
The grip of the hands of government around the collective neck of the nation tightens even further.
If you can separate a man from his conscience, you can eventually get him to do anything perverted, evil, vile or of ill intent. Eventually, he will do anything you ask of him, no matter how criminal, and he will feel vindicated in his sin towards his innocent victims.
Jeremiah 17:9 (New King James Version)
The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?”
There are those here who have said the Oath keepers ( or something like that) will not follow illegal orders.
Guess what, TSA is now molesting our children we the excuse is “just following orders!” And not a single arrest made of a TSA agent (or any that have quit).
We are subjects. And yes, the boys and girls in uniform will just follow orders.
Serious about security, I think not. When the DHS, the congress and the administration start dealing with the border, the already present illegal immigrants, and the Muslims among us, none of whom have taken a position in favor of America, then Ill believe DHS/TSA is serious about security. Besides that, with all the America hating Muslims among us, they can blow up something as newsworthy and spectacular as an aircraft, while thumbing their noses at the TSA agents that are busy harassing Americans at airports. If anyone has any doubt as to how tolerant Muslims are of other believes, just look at their homeland where there is no tolerance at all.
And, besides that, profiling works and every cop on the street profiles since, without profiling, law enforcement would be just as ineffective as the TSA random molestations. The gross stupidity of the government, and TSA in particular, was evident in the screening of pilots, based on some absurd notion the pilot would need an explosive to total a plane. The whole process is not about security, but submission of Americans and compromise of our liberties.
"Is the TSA allowing convicted rapists to perform pat-down searches?"
TSA officer charged in boys kidnap attempt"
TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
(How-many-tsa-sex-offendersDHS doc on TSA screenings from 2004)"
A Review of Background Checks for Federal Passenger and Baggage Screeners at Airports (pdf file)"
"Thread dedicated to TSA Criminal Activity"
"Former Orlando TSA officer gets probation in sex-slave case"
"TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
"TSA Agent Arrested at LAX (TSA using drugs at a party)"
"TSA Agent Accused of Harboring Fugitive"
"TSA officer at DIA arrested in connection with luring child online"
"TSA screener arrested for drug theft at Little Rock airport"
"TSA Worker Arrested On Drug, Gun Charges"
" Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks Worker joked about finding drugs in luggage"
"TSA screener arrested for beating co-worker"
"TSA Agent: "I am god, I'm in charge""
"TSA officer among duo arrested for stealing from fliers' luggage at JFK"
"TSA- Screener Charged With Raping 14 Year Old Girl"
"TSA Agent arrested for sex crimes www.privateofficer.com"
"TSA Employee Steals Over $200,000 in Electronics"
"TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings
Compliments of BossLady Friday, November 19, 2010"
Sadeq Naji Ahmed - the Transportation Security Administration
hired him as an airport screener after the Air Force kicked him out for making
statements supporting Osama bin Laden and praising the 9/11 attacks.
Ahmed worked almost a year before enough people at the TSA found that
he previously had his security clearance revoked and had to let him go."
"Are External USB Drives a Target for Espionage?"""
FACT: Had this naked scanning and groping of nuns, children & grandma by TSA occurred under George Bush, the dems & msm would have gone totally BESERK...
As C. Krauthammer opined: Dont Touch My Junk is the new Dont Tread on Me
11/20/10
“IS THE TSA ALLOWING CONVICTED RAPISTS TO PERFORM PAT-DOWN SEARCHES?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630349/posts
I know this is terribly inconvenient for you and your "Terribly Sexually Anxious" goons...
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Yet--
The U.S. Constitution offers every citizen this wonderful guarantee called "due process"--
And once I get you in a REAL court of AMERICAN law --
...instead of your kangaroo court with an "administrative law judge" that lives in your hip pocket...
...[BOGUS & FAIL]...
I am going to prevail with amazing ease...
Then I will enjoy having your sex-crazed TSA feeler-uppers arrested under state law for assault & molestation...
Then I will sue all of you in civil court--
...and let your payments for awarded damages keep me comfortable for a long time.
So, is there a specific Federal law that specifies this authority to detain and fine, or are they just making this up?
Big sign. Post on the walls next to the security point entry:
$11,000 fine if you turn around to leave.
You VILL comply.....
I wouldn’t want to be a TSA employee. They can’t stay at the airport forever and they are GOING to piss someone off who will be waiting outside their home.
Looks like a lot of people will be driving from now on.