Contrast this story with this one from 2004:
Gun found in congressman's carry-on bag The congressman said he did not know the gun was in his bag and apologized, the official said.
"He was pulled aside and questioned," and then was allowed to take a different flight, Jahr said, adding that he didn't know if the gun was confiscated.
There seem to be two sets of laws in this country -- one for the well-connected and one for the rest of us.
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To: FreedomCalls
Agreed. A hide-bound bureaucracy goes after a grandmother for an inadvertant offense. The TSA sucks.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
2 posted on
06/19/2007 8:26:48 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: FreedomCalls
TSA should be passing out knives to passengers as they board. An armed flight is a peaceful flight. Let’s Roll!
3 posted on
06/19/2007 8:26:59 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
To: FreedomCalls
"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."Oh, they're getting along just fine, thanks to the lobbying of their victim-rights groups.
4 posted on
06/19/2007 8:29:35 PM PDT by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: FreedomCalls
There seem to be two sets of laws in this country -- one for the well-connected and one for the rest of us. The real two Americas.
5 posted on
06/19/2007 8:29:40 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(MSM's dumped inner city unemployment stories - Immigration bill conflicts and all....)
To: FreedomCalls
A friend of mine flew out of LAX a year ago and ran into trouble. His buddy had borrowed his leatherman and had put it in his rucksack instead of his A3 bag.
All the screener did was confiscate it. They let him keep the case...
6 posted on
06/19/2007 8:30:14 PM PDT by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: FreedomCalls
It’s time to get rid of the dept. of homeland securiity and the tsa. We aren’t any safer because these clowns are working at the airports, but we do have another Federal Bureaucracy draining our wallets.
7 posted on
06/19/2007 8:30:36 PM PDT by
Old_Mil
(Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: FreedomCalls
She says screeners refused to give her paperwork or documentation of her violation, documentation of the pending fine, or a copy of the photograph of the knife.
"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'."
Yep, this is what it's all about. Nothing but scoundrels and charlatans running all three branches of government these days. The Kings and Queens don't want the subjects to have any constitutional rights and made sure of it with the un-patriot act. Yet illegals and mullahs preaching hate get a free pass. I think the pattern is anyone that will destroy the Republic is fine, and anyone else with "Constitutional" ideas or reasoning must be thrown into a hole somewhere on secret charges.
10 posted on
06/19/2007 8:31:47 PM PDT by
Wolfhound777
(It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
To: FreedomCalls
She had better pray that Johnny Sutton ,Fitzgerald or Nifong isnt the prosecutor. This could turn into a capitol crime.
12 posted on
06/19/2007 8:36:14 PM PDT by
sgtbono2002
(http://www.imwithfred.com/index.aspx)
To: FreedomCalls
"..There seem to be two sets of laws in this country -- one for the well-connected and one for the rest of us."
That has always been the case.
It is a shame there is no common sense applied in these matters.
To: FreedomCalls
Disband the TSA. Its all security theater anyway.
14 posted on
06/19/2007 8:36:49 PM PDT by
RKV
To: traviskicks
17 posted on
06/19/2007 8:39:11 PM PDT by
KoRn
(Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republicans - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
To: FreedomCalls
To: FreedomCalls
She should have just told them she was a muslim...and they would have relented and not put her on a terrorist list.
21 posted on
06/19/2007 8:42:28 PM PDT by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: FreedomCalls
Someone should sit these bozos down and explain to them the difference between protection and harassment.
22 posted on
06/19/2007 8:45:08 PM PDT by
Duke Nukum
(I've been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts...)
To: FreedomCalls
Dear Abbey
On my present business trip, I mistakenly put my 6 oz. tube of hair gel in my carry on rather than in the little zip lock bag
How will I be able to return home with it?
Signed
Gel Boy
26 posted on
06/19/2007 8:51:10 PM PDT by
llevrok
(I voted for George Bush - not Jorge Bushjoles!)
To: FreedomCalls
Sounds to me like they just consfiscated the knife and gave her a ration of $hit. Maybe her explanation was good enough.
To: FreedomCalls
*shrug* they just let me forfeit my 6” plastic dagger. No muss, no fuss.
31 posted on
06/19/2007 9:46:15 PM PDT by
null and void
(Tired of living in the shadows? Move to Sunny Mexico!)
To: FreedomCalls
you don't have any'Finally, an honest apparatchik!.
The ragheads will have no trouble getting around the geniuses at the TSA when they launch their next attack.
34 posted on
06/19/2007 9:57:23 PM PDT by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: FreedomCalls
I agree and understand it is a small price to pay, yet, on the other hand I want it to be a fair price. When they are taking granny’s butter knife and overlooking the obvious, the price is too high. Why must we insist on pretending we don’t know things we know in this PC bassackwards society? What some would call racial profiling, I would simply call applying a modicum of common sense. I felt more secure just after 911 when there were m-16’s and soldiers around. I think the TSA, Homeland Security and Chertoff are all jokes and I sometimes wonder how many of them are legal citizens, as we have all seen the illegals in there, saw them terminated at different locations and times. Homeland Security only ever needed to be a clearing house for information not this inflated bureaucracy it has become.
43 posted on
06/19/2007 10:57:59 PM PDT by
WildcatClan
(Duncan Hunter '08 'Doing the jobs Americans aren't willing to do.')
To: FreedomCalls
A congressman or his relative had this same mistake last year, and had to plead guilty to a crime and pay a fine and was put on probation.
As to the story, everybody knows you can't bring knives on board. If every time someone is CAUGHT doing so they get to argue that "it was a mistake", then the screening is meaningless. We have to be able to punish people objectively for objectively breaking the rules.
On the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler.
The Cooler was a "carry-on", which means it was a SMALL cooler. How "deep" could the outside pocket be? 4 inches? 6 inches? Maybe a full 10 inches "deep"?
It would have taken her a minute to empty the entire contents of the cooler, and repack it. EVERY person should completely empty their carry-on luggage RIGHT before they leave for their flight, and re-pack it carefully, to ensure there's nothing hiding in the bags that would get you in trouble.
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