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$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs
SunSentinel.com ^
| 11/20/10
| John Lantigua
Posted on 11/20/2010 7:31:28 AM PST by chickadee
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To: magellan
Well, you wrote a lot, much of it very interesting, but you never addressed my central question. Does the federal government have the "right" to interrogate passengers about their domestic travel plans? Certainly, US immigration uses a similar script for incoming foreigners, but that's hardly analogous to the interrogation of US citizens traveling domestically.
So, I'll restate my question - how is an intrusive interrogation any less a violation of someone's 4A (and perhaps 5A) rights, than is an aggressive pat down or electronic screener a violation of someone's constitutional rights?
Personally, I don't think it is, but I certainly here a chorus of voices who are advocating that we "defund the TSA and start doing it just like the Israelis". Seems to me that the Israeli method isn't any less constitutionally questionable, at all.
I'm make my point more directly than I did in my original post. The people who say that, haven't a clue what they're talking about.
To: ExtremeUnction
If you don't comply then you can't fly. All this talk is silly. Would have you given the same advice to Rosa Parks?
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:38:48 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top 5 worries of the American Farmer for decades.)
To: Cardhu
Jim DeMint was kissing Pistole’s butt? My God, that’s disappointing. I’d to see Michelle Bachman ask questions of Pistole in a house hearing...I don’t believe she will swoon over him.
On the frequent flyer web site, flyertalk.com, they call Pistole “Pissy.”
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:39:29 AM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
("This is our moment, this is our movement, this is our morning in America!" Sarah Palin)
To: Batrachian
I'm talking about hearings in the next Congress, run by Republicans See my post #72. Both sides are complicit as long as they are shielded from the effects of their actions.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:39:29 AM PST
by
Cardhu
To: FrankR
I checked out DU last night and they are as pissed about this as we are. So Obongo and his thugs don’t have anyone on their side on this matter.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:40:13 AM PST
by
mojitojoe
(In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
To: donhunt
...stuff a big salami in my undies... Don't do that. Not only will you give the TSA goons an excuse to put you in jail...
...you will have bought them lunch.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:40:44 AM PST
by
moovova
(Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
To: chickadee
I wouldn’t want to be a TSA employee. They can’t stay at the airport forever and they are GOING to piss someone off who will be waiting outside their home.
To: ex 98C MI Dude
"I am aware of who usually owns airport facilities, and that has no bearing on the discussion." Is what someone would say who hasn't a freakin clue how multi-jurisdictional policing is accomplished in this country, and has been for decades. Local police help federal authorities ALL THE TIME, and vice versa. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that if you act a fool in an airport screening line that you're going to be arrested by the local police, and not an FBI tacteam.
To: BigBobber
If a Muslim wants to kill a lot of people all they have to do is rent one of those baggage thingys and load it up with giant suitcases full of explosives. Then they roll it up to where HUNDREDS of people are forced to stand close together waiting for the electronic strip search. There is absolutely no way the TSA or HSA can stop that from happening right now. And it won't change until we start screening people instead of things they are carrying.I've been anticipating that very thing for quite some time.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:42:24 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 669 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Girlene
......."A senior Homeland Security official (who would not allow his name to be used) told CNN this week that "the mood at DHS and TSA is anger." The official griped to CNN that the real outrage was how TSA agents were being treated. In San Diego, one such agent "was accosted and verbally abused by a member of the traveling public," said the official. "The fact that some in the media would hail the traveler as some kind of folk hero is shameful.""........... Clueless. Totally clueless.
Well, I have news for him. The American traveling public is angry, too.
I for one am proud of anyone who stands up the the government goons.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:42:54 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: kaylar
Why is this still discussed hypothetically? Surely there are muslim women in deep hijab flying every day. What is happening there? Are they being rape-scanned or not? Are they being groped, or not?
To: chickadee
Looks like a lot of people will be driving from now on.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:45:40 AM PST
by
ohioWfan
(Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
To: ExtremeUnction
Then don’t fly! Its not like we’re forced to submit to these outrageous checks at gunpoint.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:45:49 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: chickadee
I’ve been reading articles about these TSA patdowns and wondering if they are changing rubber gloves between patdowns. If they are touching people’s genitals and not changing gloves, can you imagine the potential of disease spreading going on? Ick.
To: metmom
If they get a stealth voter block in, our Thanksgiving goose is cooked. We can solve almost any other problem, but not if we become balkanized. Dream Act would probably finish us.
toll free number to Capitol Hill:
(866) 338-1015
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:46:31 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Economic reform? Great. But without education reform -- history will repeat itself.)
To: chickadee
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:46:39 AM PST
by
markomalley
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: StolarStorm
There are some physical cues that can’t be faked and generally aren’t effected by medical anxiety (which I also experience). Talking to people becomes quite fascinating when you can spot them.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:46:43 AM PST
by
FourPeas
(Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
To: Wings-n-Wind
They have their kangaroo courts stuffed with Bolshevik idiots and hair splitting fools. You won’t get satisfaction there either.
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:47:16 AM PST
by
Luke21
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Perhaps every guy should take a couple of viagras an hour before heading out to the airport. Might make it difficult to put the seat-back tray down when the flight attendants are passing out drinks...
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:49:27 AM PST
by
moovova
(Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
To: Luke21
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posted on
11/20/2010 8:50:09 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 669 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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