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Refuse to be groped or scanned - face $11,000 fine and/or arrest
Examiner.com ^ | 11/20/2010 | Joe Newby

Posted on 11/21/2010 7:10:40 AM PST by FredJake

For travelers going through Spokane International Airport - or any airport - this holiday season, the choice is simple. Either go through a device that allows security personnel to see your body through your clothing, get felt up and groped, or find another way to your destination.

According to an article at the Sun-Sentinel:

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport.

If you refuse to be scanned or groped, you could face a penalty of $11,000 and possible arrest.

Miami-based TSA spokesperson Sari Koshetz told the Sentinel that passengers who first submit and then refuse the process would be questioned by authorities "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat"

The Sentinel reported that the ACLU is urging Americans to petition the Department of Homeland Security to change the policy. In a statement, the group said,

"All of us have a right to travel without such crude invasions of our privacy. Tell DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to put in place security measures that respect passengers' privacy rights. You shouldn't have to check your rights when you check your luggage."

But the TSA plans to continue the invasive practice.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; bhotyranny; bodyscanners; donutwatch; lossoffreedom; policestate; powertrip; respectmyauthority; tsa; tsapervs; tyranny
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To: basil
If I can't drive there, I won't go there is my new motto.

Ditto's!

41 posted on 11/21/2010 7:36:21 AM PST by Ron H. (November 2 was only the opening salvo in a long war to retake America!)
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To: basil
The airline industry will be just one more American
business that obammy and his henchmen will destroy.


42 posted on 11/21/2010 7:36:54 AM PST by Iron Munro (Save The USA. Stamp out Affirmative Action: Get the Obamas out of the White House.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

All polls over-sample democrats plus they give Obama a
ten point affirmative action bonus before they make the first call.
And then there is the “Dinkens Effect.”

The real poll took place Nov 2.


43 posted on 11/21/2010 7:36:54 AM PST by A'elian' nation ( America is Exceptional - the only nation of people who escaped from theirs.)
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To: Noamie
The airline industry has the money, the lawyers, and lobbyists, the media personnel to take on Hussein and his TSA.
44 posted on 11/21/2010 7:38:34 AM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: CajunConservative

That’s exactly what it’s about. Among others(including you and me), the lawyer for John Tyner said that the other night on FNC, stating that the Feds want to see if we’ll take it. And, let’s face it, the TSA is no more or less than the equivalent of one of the early ‘30’s Nazi organizations designed to control and destroy opposition.

We need our own “Tiannamen Square” moment in the good ol’ US of A.


45 posted on 11/21/2010 7:39:48 AM PST by izzatzo
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To: Rational Thought

Fly nude, fixes everything but air sickness.


46 posted on 11/21/2010 7:39:55 AM PST by mortal19440
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To: bigbob
heck at my age i visit the airport daily for my free feel.....sarc
47 posted on 11/21/2010 7:40:41 AM PST by FreeperDoll
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To: A'elian' nation
Hats off to the Israelis!!!!

GO BIBI! God, we ask you to keep blessing this man!
48 posted on 11/21/2010 7:40:47 AM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: FredJake

I think that’s part of the strategy: provoke us until good Americans are the “bad guy” when they snap and can’t take any more.


49 posted on 11/21/2010 7:41:55 AM PST by Tigercap
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To: Dallas59
This will get stopped just as soon as enough people stop flying causing a couple of airlines go broke...

...if, on the other hand, people get used to the scanners and do not protest by not flying, then the tyranny will be confirmed.

...it is entirely up to the flying public now as to how this mess is resolved....

50 posted on 11/21/2010 7:41:55 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: presently no screen name

Anyone recall this part of a simple Miranda Warning: if you decide to answer questions now you can later halt the questioning at any time. I guess that does not extend to the notion that once you enter an airport and allow them to abridge your 5th amendment rights by allowing them to begin a search you cannot then say, halt stop I recind that demand.

Can the Gulog be far behind?


51 posted on 11/21/2010 7:43:04 AM PST by Mouton
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To: FredJake

Looks like I won’t be flying anywhere.

Oh well.


52 posted on 11/21/2010 7:43:14 AM PST by chris37
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To: bgill

The airline industry has the money, the lawyers, and lobbyists, the media personnel to take on Hussein and his TSA. “

No. I disagree. Maybe against another Administrations, but not this one. Obama has sent the IRS against even individuals who complain against his policies... Among other policies of intimidation.


53 posted on 11/21/2010 7:43:26 AM PST by Noamie
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To: bgill

They are not going to say anything because once they do away with the TSA, the government will NOT stand in the way of their being sued if anything happens.


54 posted on 11/21/2010 7:44:31 AM PST by Mouton
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To: FredJake
SHOW ME THE LAW (or Statute) INCLUDING THE "FINE PRINT" which in affect, negates/restricts/usurps--at least--the 1st (Freedom of Speech); 4th (Unreasonable Search and Seizures AND PROBABLE CAUSE); 5th (Due Process); and 9th (Asserts the existence of unenumerated rights retained by the people) Amendments.

I seriously doubt (though one never knows) that Congress gave them that much authority (to basically do whatever they want?) when the TSA was formed!

Meanwhile, the Anti-Christian-Litigation-Union (ACLU) is.... encouraging travelers to...."Write Letters?"

Oh, yeah, I forgot, they are tooooo busy defending the (United States Constitutional) "RIGHTS" of "Enemy Combatants" who are captured in FOREIGN COUNTRIES, while trying to kill our Military!

Ah, can you say "Hypocrites????"

55 posted on 11/21/2010 7:44:38 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: izzatzo
stating that the Feds want to see if we’ll take it.

That is EXACTLY what they are doing. Glad someone spoke out to get the sub-missives to 'THINK' before they act.
56 posted on 11/21/2010 7:45:00 AM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: Noamie

Maybe when the new congress is seated in January, the House can refuse to fund the TSA.


57 posted on 11/21/2010 7:45:50 AM PST by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: FredJake

If I have to get an $11,000 fine, I’m gonna earn it. Best thing is for me just to stay away from airports and flying until the TSA and these offensive routines are gone.

There is no where I need to go that I can’t drive. AND I can carry while doing it. FU TSA!


58 posted on 11/21/2010 7:48:08 AM PST by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: kickonly88

Some things are worth an arrest record and a fine.

(I’m going to demand a jury trial)


59 posted on 11/21/2010 7:49:18 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 670 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: CajunConservative
This appears to be more about intimidation and control than actually stopping terrorist attacks.

Of course. When they passed health care despite the objections of 75% of the public, this rogue government was declaring that your body belongs to the state. So why shouldn't agents of the states force you to go through revealing xrays or pat down.

We are nothing but human livestock on a government tax farm. And this latest intrusion is just more conditioning to make the cattle amenable to the eventual ride in the cattle cars to the work camps.

60 posted on 11/21/2010 7:53:12 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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