Posted on 08/06/2013 8:18:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.
The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtraks police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administrations Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads VIPR teams for short assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.
The T.S.A., huh, said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. I thought they were just at the airports.
With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You are required to pass through security in order to fly on an airline. That's in the contract. Even the TSA has finally admitted they have no right to detain you if you choose to decline further screening and leave the secure area of the airport. It took a couple of court cases, but that is now official policy.
If I buy a ticket on a subway line, I didn't agree to anything but to pay the fare in exchange for a ride. Have you ever seen even a sign saying that you are consenting to a search if you ride a metro transit line? And again, even if I did agree to such a contract or if notice is provided, it becomes null and void if I decline to board the transit line.
The TSA only gets away with this crap because people allow them to. Don't allow it. It will result in some inconvenience for you, but you have no obligation to submit to an unconstitutional search. They can't search you unless you are suspected to have committed a crime.
This "stop and frisk" crap goes on in NYC, and Bloomberg knows that it's unconstitutional. But, he is betting that the victims are either not educated enough to refuse, or are afraid they will be detained and prosecuted for OTHER crimes.
If a homosexual grabs feels your inner thigh in public it is assault. If a TSA homosexual does it in an airport, it is legal - sometimes mandatory if you want to fly.
Most of the TSA agents watching the doors at the Dallas/Ft. airport are Muslims.
None of this is going to end well.
“...T.S.A. Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security...”
...exactly as they were slated to do. This was on the wish list from day one.
Sick.
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