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Congressman Canseco says TSA agent assaulted him during a pat-down
kens5.com ^ | April 24, 2012 | Brian New

Posted on 04/24/2012 4:20:15 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

U.S. Rep. Francisco Canseco said he was assaulted by a TSA agent at the San Antonio International Airport.

The Texas Congressman said the security agent went too far during a pat-down earlier this month.

"The agent was very aggressive in his pat-down, and he was patting me down where no one is supposed to go,” said Canseco. “It got very uncomfortable so I moved his hand away. That stopped everything and brought in supervisors and everyone else."

Canseco told the KENS 5 I-Team the agent said he too was assaulted when Canseco pushed his hand away.

According to TSA, neither man was cited.

A week later when going through the San Antonio International Airport, Canseco was once again selected for a pat-down.

"I did not see it as a coincidence,” he said. “I asked them why are you going to pat me down again, so we discussed it further and after discussing it further, they patted me down."

However, before the discussion was over San Antonio Police Department officers were called to the security check point area.

Again, no one was cited.

TSA issued the I-Team the following statement about the incident:

"TSA incorporates random and unpredictable security measures throughout the airport. Once a passenger enters the screening process, they must complete it prior to continuing to a flight or secure area."

(Excerpt) Read more at kens5.com ...


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KEYWORDS: canseco; franciscocanseco; tsaoutofcontrol; tsapervs
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Congressman Canseco says TSA agent assaulted him during a pat-down

He's lucky. The TSA monkeys at San Antonio Airport are a bunch of low-life turds.

21 posted on 04/24/2012 7:54:12 PM PDT by Sarajevo ( Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Someone should get the tapes and see if Obama is quota racially profiling white Americans and by age.

I have not seen any of Holder’s people’s children sexually molested.

We can all play the race bait game.


22 posted on 04/24/2012 9:13:52 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: tomkat
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?  Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?  The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

  Solzhenitsyn

Everyone needs to read this once a week. Maybe it will sink in. I dream of the day those bastards start quaking in their jackboots at the thought of attempting to molest a citizen.


23 posted on 04/24/2012 10:08:35 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The TSA should have taken him into a room stripped him, photographed him, given him an anal exam, and then said: “OK, get dressed and get back in line.”


24 posted on 04/25/2012 1:02:10 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: Ken H

Your digging that vote out is just another example of why F/R is the best place to get real information. Great job,
thanks much
Coach


25 posted on 04/25/2012 5:24:18 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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