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TSA Tries to Pat Down Man After His Flight, Watch Him Refuse
benswann.com ^ | Sept 12, 2014 | Barry Donegan

Posted on 09/13/2014 5:36:34 PM PDT by BulletBobCo

Last Saturday, Kahler Nygard took a Spirit Airlines flight to Denver to visit with friends. When he departed from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Transportation Security Administration agents patted him down and allowed him to board his flight. When the plane landed, he was singled out and ordered to exit before the other passengers. After he exited the aircraft, TSA agents approached Nygard and demanded that he go through an additional pat-down and a screening of his luggage for explosive materials.

He had already arrived safely at his destination in Denver and simply wanted to leave the airport. After an argument, which can be seen in the above video, Nygard refused the pat-down, despite the fact that TSA agents claimed that he would be arrested if he did not comply, and exited the airport without incident. According to KMSP-TV Fox 9 News, Nygard flew back to Minnesota yesterday without any complications.

KUSA-TV notes that Nygard indicated that he knew that he had been placed on the FBI’s “no fly” list around three years ago, despite not being told why, and took the flight to Denver in an effort to see if he was still on the list. However, he was apparently downgraded to a lower-level watch list that labeled him as a “Quad S” passenger. Passengers carrying the label “SSSS” on their boarding pass are forced to undergo additional scrutiny during TSA pre-flight screenings. Nygard says he believes he was placed on the list because he posted on anti-government websites, but describes his own advocacy as being against government corruption, rather than the government itself.

The plot thickened when TSA agents working at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport started forgetting the extra checks on Quad S passengers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: noflylist; quads; trapervs; tsa; tsapatdown; tsapervs
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To: ontap

I do remember when taking a flight was fun.
But that dates me...


21 posted on 09/13/2014 6:19:53 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: BulletBobCo

Flight free since Sept. 2002.

I’d rather drive, take my time, and take as much stuff as I want with me, than be harassed, molested, crammed into a flying bus with a bunch of Lofos and given some pretzels.


22 posted on 09/13/2014 6:22:57 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: BulletBobCo

We still believe the function of the US government is to serve the people.

The government believes the people exist to serve the government.


23 posted on 09/13/2014 6:28:00 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BulletBobCo

I got a Quad-S boarding pass once. Airline cancelled my planned itineraty, and put me on a nonstop on another airline, one way, hours before departure. I was happy to have the flight. Anyway, TSA does the full monty on SSSS passengers. Just saying, too, that “SSSS” can be assigned for reasons other than posting stuff in public.


24 posted on 09/13/2014 6:29:05 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: exit82

It’s not a “flying bus.” It’s a cattle car with wings.


25 posted on 09/13/2014 6:30:33 PM PDT by goldi
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Haven’t flown since 03. Take the car now. No countries that I want to visit. Not after their million man marches declaring what a bunch of war mongers and bad people we were. Of course, now they they’re a little worried...let em stew in their own crap.


26 posted on 09/13/2014 6:30:58 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: BulletBobCo

So every freeper is on the pat them down at the end of the flight list?


27 posted on 09/13/2014 6:33:16 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: goldi

Agreed,

I can remember when stewardesses were actually attractive.

And they smiled.


28 posted on 09/13/2014 6:33:17 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Dallas59

How many countries have had million man marches?


29 posted on 09/13/2014 6:35:07 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: exit82

Wow! You’re really old:)


30 posted on 09/13/2014 6:35:46 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: BulletBobCo

I was behind a guy who had a great bumpersticker, a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “if you’re afraid of your government, you live in tyranny. If your government is afraid of you, you live in freedom.” Paraphrased.

I’m afraid of our government right now.


31 posted on 09/13/2014 6:36:19 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: posterchild

Europe, some in South America. Asia is appealing...but getting through someone touching my genitals and butt just to fly there...no.


32 posted on 09/13/2014 6:37:14 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: posterchild
Wow! You’re really old:)

Yeah, me and the Wright Bros. were like this. /s

33 posted on 09/13/2014 6:37:48 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: KingLudd

Apologies to the forum. I regret using profanity.


35 posted on 09/13/2014 6:39:04 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: BulletBobCo

I fly about 75 flights per year. I have never seen this before.


36 posted on 09/13/2014 6:40:21 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: BulletBobCo

TSA agents claimed that he would be arrested if he did not comply

We call this FELONY EXTORTION in every State, the Nazi belongs in PRISON.


37 posted on 09/13/2014 6:43:04 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: cornfedcowboy

Something similar to this happened at an Amtrak station in Savannah some years back, to passengers who had just gotten OFF the train and weren’t travelling any farther.


38 posted on 09/13/2014 6:49:16 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: BulletBobCo; All

Although the TSA official was fairly diplomatic given the circumstances, there seemed to be a serious lack of police(?) training on the part of the TSA official as evidenced by his side-stepping of the questions of the suspect. And what’s worse is that the official was evidently trying to follow the orders of some likewise poorly trained supervisor.

Do TSA officials swear to protect and defend the Constitution? If so, then whether they were actually taught about constitutional rights before they took the oath is another question.

Also, the fact that the suspect lost his boarding pass didn’t help his situation.


39 posted on 09/13/2014 6:49:36 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: BulletBobCo
I've never posted on an anti government website. However, I do think Obama, Holder, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, and this administration are all pricks.

If this action by the TSA were justified, then Van Jones would have a TSA agent attached to him every flight and he'd be groped before, during and after every flight.

40 posted on 09/13/2014 6:49:47 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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