Posted on 11/18/2010 6:19:21 AM PST by markomalley
A Connecticut man was arrested at Indianapolis International Airport Tuesday after punching a TSA screener.
John Christina, 51, Simsbury, Conn., allegedly exchanged words with and then punched a TSA screener at a security check point.
According to police, he was charged with misdemeanor battery.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
For those traveling lately, have you noticed a difference in the TSA conduct. I have traveled much over the past years, but much less in the past 12 months. I am not an advocate for the TSA, but at the same time, I have had few problems in the past.
And the screener was charged with sexual assault, right?
Yesterday there was a thread posted by a lawyer who was travelling to Atlanta and had a run in with the TSA. He ended up missing his flight. I’m sure somebody will remember the guy’s name and point you to the thread. Evidently the “new” pat down is much more “personal.”
REally...it was just a matter of time.
The other article about the poor woman humiliated by the TSA...ripping her blouse down and laughing at her breasts?
If it had been me? A proverbial polite slap in the face of the TSA Agent(s) was required. Arrest me for it. There is video of the agents ...there has to be...of them assaulting that poor woman.
Folks we’re headed into the busiest travel time of the year and the TSA is doing this kind of garbage?
The discussion around the supreme court case earlier was that corporations, as groups of people, are able to make political contributions on behalf of those people. Likewise, I want a restraining order against that group of SEIU people called the TSA.
Mike Evers
$150 bond? The judge didn’t think it was that serious.
I’ll let you know — I feel a serious punch coming on.
Perhaps they’ll set up a special wing in the jails for ‘Moms who Punch TSA Agents.’ We can join the Mothers who Beat their Teenage Sons, Christians who Dare to Pray in Schools, Those Who Refuse Funky Lightbulbs, Plastic-Bag Requesters — oh yes, and Those Who Dare to Eat Happy Meals.
They’re gonna need a gulag
More like a federal lawsuit, violation of civil rights under the guise of authority. It’s personal and the goons can’t be shielded by their cheap badges.
{It] made any Federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000. Law-enforcement officials everywhere now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave.Is that at all reminiscent of the current TSA procedures, detentions and threats against regular citizens in the course of their daily business? I think so![That duty to arrest arose] on no more evidence than a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership. The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf.
Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
Officers who captured a fugitive slave were entitled to a bonus or promotion for their work.
In 1854, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, the only state to do so. But the US Supreme Court affirmed the horrid Law and overruled the state.
As far as I can tell the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850 are still in force or force of legal precedent, the Supreme Court has never overturned them or rejected them.
See Amendment the 13th.
MUSLIM JIHADISTS are the problem not granny and the 3 yr old girl in line. This is just beyond ridiculous, more and more horror stories every day. They need to profile and actually talk to people instead of this disgusting mess the TSA has created.
Look- if we want to be politically correct and not profile, not have military tribunals for terrorists, if we want to allow immigration from places that bad actors come from, when we have people living among us that openly say “We want to kill Americans” but do nothing, if we really don't shut down the flow of money, when we restrict how, when and how we listen in and keep tabs on these creatures because we are so worried about their rights, then just shut up and accept this.......... What's the alternative? Watching another 911 unfold? Think about it!
What do we expect? We're not treating the disease localized and pinpointed, so we throw a systemic blanket over the entire population to fight this problem because we don't want to “profile and discriminate.” The only way we can create a semblance of security in a world where we lack the courage to go after the bad guys in a more pinpointed fashion, who in many cases we already have identified, is to treat everyone like a criminal, including granny.
It's what America wanted, so don't complain- enjoy the X-rays and groping.
What about the 4th ammendment regarding unreasonable search and siezure?
Since slavery was outlawed by the 13th Amendment, the Fugitive Slave Laws became moot.
make sure you also avert your eyes when speaking to TSA authorities.
OK that's when he was arrested, but why?
The lack of slavery does not moot or vacate these rulings — on the Fugitive Slave Laws, including Dred Scott — as precedent law with regard to what may be done to citizens by Federal police dicta, and to whether the states can say “NOT CONSTITUTIONAL”. This is the way of judges who follow a morally neutral philosophy of stare decisis, who subsume and vacate long established common law principles, for the sake of stultifying chains of logic based off of vulgar distempered and faddish legislation.
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