Rand Paul in Pat-Down Standoff With TSA in Nashville

ABC News ^ | 1/23/12 | Sunlen Miller

[Kartographer]

Sen. Rand Paul told his communications director this morning he was being detained by TSA in Nashville. @moirabagley, the Twitter account associated with Paul staffer Moira Bagley tweeted around 10 a.m., ET, “Just got a call from @senrandpaul. He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville.” A spokesman for TSA said the agency was looking into the matter but could not immediately comment. Paul apparently set off an airport security full-body scanner, “on a glitch,” a spokesman in Paul’s office told ABC News. The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding, according to the staffer, a full body pat-down.

[piroque]

The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their
Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the
United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and
Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance
at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning
from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall
not be questioned in any other Place

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[Raycpa]

In a free country why should any one get that kind of treatment? is,nt that for cows.

Frankly, I am a bit sick of our politicians creating two classes of citizens. One that has to have SS and one that can have private retirement accounts. One that has to have Obama care and one that can have private insurance. One that has to abide by normal market conditions and one that is able to use insider information.

[Lazamataz]

I did apologize to the guy doing the patting for the wood.

Hell, I whipped my lumber out.

Told him, if we are doing a pat down, let's do it right.

And mind the dentures.

[pgyanke]

Profiling. We used to call this good police work...

[ravenwolf]

I do not fly so i do not know about it but is it T.S.A or are they just doing what our big brother orders them to do? i am convinced that t.s.a. has a lot more to fear from the government than they do terror threats.

[Arcy]

This would not happen to a democrat like Nancy Pelosi, because she will only fly on PRIVATE jets. Republicans, however, will fly with the common man.

[cuban leaf]

—And mind the dentures.—

OK, I split a gut over that one!

[ravenwolf]

How would you propose we stop them?

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Every time the Government wants to take a little freedom away from the people in the quest for global tyranny that same question is out there.

Ben Franklin said
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

[Ohioan]

Cheers!

Bill Flax

[Hodar]

100% agree.
Political Correctness is going to get us all killed.

[raybbr]

[joe fonebone]

"How would you propose we stop them?"
Ask Israel??? They have a better track record than we do, and these terrorists LIVE there... It would be called profiling, and it makes far too much sense for the libs...

[raybbr]

Ask Israel??? They have a better track record than we do, and these terrorists LIVE there..

Oh yeah, I forgot. Israel has the same number of airports and flights a day that we do in the U.S.

[for-q-clinton]

You should read the constitution. If he was traveling to the Senate this is clearly an illegal act which violates the constitution.

[Defiant]

You’re a good comrade.

[opentalk]

Rand is one of the good guys,
this incident highlights how the the TSA procedures are not effective .....checking babies, elderly, Senators

Rand Paul spoke out against the TSA policies during a hearing back in June 2011.

He was one of the 13 Senators that voted against NDAA, which among other things will add funding to expand TSA searches beyond the airports.

[Lazamataz]

It's amazing how naughty one can get, and still follow posting guidelines.

Just gotta choose your words. :)

[Defiant]

How would you propose we stop them?

Seriously? By profiling Muslims and limiting their access to US airlines. Not by groping my Grandma or subjecting me to microwaves.

[JerseyHighlander]

Love or hate the man, the country can not fall back into the hell that was during the last decades of the 18th century, where Senators and Representatives were being summarily arrested by partisan LEOs along the Route 1 corridor on the Eastern Seaboard while they pliticians were in transit to and from Congress.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=293&invol=76

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=207&invol=425#446

[ravenwolf]

Frankly, I am a bit sick of our politicians creating two classes of citizens. One that has to have SS and one that can have private retirement accounts. One that has to have Obama care and one that can have private insurance. One that has to abide by normal market conditions and one that is able to use insider information

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I agree, and i believe the law makers should have to abide by the same laws that they make and then maybe they would not be so quick to turn the rule making over to some government agency that is not even elected by the people.

My only argument is this.
Treat every one just like they would treat the one that is special, rather than treating the special one like they would treat any one else, it may seem backwards but i believe in the long run it would do wonders for this Country.