$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs

Palm Beach Sentinel ^ | 11/20/2010 | John Lantigua

[4Runner]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport.

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"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami.

Koshetz said such passengers would be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.

Palm Beach Sheriff's Office spokesperson Teri Barbera said PBSO deputies stationed at the airport would become involved when requested by the TSA.

"We will handle each incident on a case-by-case basis," she said.

No one will be forcibly searched or arrested "just because they refuse to go through the security procedures," Barbera said. "That may rise to the level of suspicious behavior for the TSA, but it wouldn't rise to the level of suspicious behavior for a deputy," she said.

But Barbera said that if a person is judged to be a possible threat, deputies are legally permitted to detain and search that individual. "The deputies will do it at the airport just as they would do it anywhere else," she said.

[4Runner]

Unholy alliance. TSA now partnering with local law enforcement to detain and fine and possibly arrest anyone refusing to be scanned or groped and then deciding to leave the airport.

[realcleanguy]

Fascism at the airport. Brown Shirt brigades now threaten the public

[EternalVigilance]

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-- Ben Franklin

[truthkeeper]

Passive resistence - DON’T FLY.

[Ezekiel]

"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami.

"Once a person submits to the will of Allah, they can not just decide to leave Islam"

[EternalVigilance]

New tagline...

[cajungirl]

This can’t end well.

[central_va]

TSA screener: “Is that a pipe bomb in your pants or are you just happy to be frisked?”

[coloradan]

If you don’t get on the plane, you aren’t a threat. Once you leave the line, TSA’s jurisdiction over you ceases, because you’re not an airline passenger any more.

[Balding_Eagle]

Passive resistence - DON’T FLY.

That won't solve the problem.

[Libloather]

...such passengers would be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.

If the perp official puts his fingers all over a five year old, the cops should make the arrest.

[Monkey Face]

I’ll strip before I’ll allow someone to molest me in public.

[mnehring]

Just another tax, you are now taxed for not using a service.

The next thing you know, the airlines will start to have problems, the government will take them over and mandate everyone fly twice a year. If you don’t fly, you are taxed the cost of two round trip tickets.

[rockinqsranch]

Democrat dominated government out of control. Who’d a thunk it!?

Keep it up TSA, and you will all be out of jobs soon. American public won’t put up with the attitude, much less the threat of ill health due radiation, nor the indignity of being felt up by strangers of dubious background.

WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.

[bboop]

They’d better get some TSA-defiants jail wards ready. We the People are NOT Marxist subjects of state, but Free Citizens.

[ladyvet]

The only thing they will understand is loss of revenue. The folks flying have to make a stand or it will only get worse. Just like health care, wait until the “waivers” start. It will just be Joe middle class, white, Christian, getting groped.

[Monkey Face]

I fly every two years to visit my son and grandson in Little Rock. My vehicle and not dependable for a trip of that length. A fixed income precludes me from renting a vehicle. Disabilities prevent me from riding a bus.

It’s fly or don’t see my grandson. No brainer.

[truthkeeper]

That won't solve the problem.

I know that. Tighten the borders, arm the cockpits and have an armed marshall on every flight (instant job creation!), substance-sniffing dogs, increased scrutiny of baggage, and profiling of fliers. Now THAT will help solve the problem.

But, until then (and don't hold your breath), I repeat...DON'T FLY.

[Ezekiel]

Are cameras and all recording devices banned yet from these areas, just like in the Soviet Bloc? Wonder what the punishment will be for using a cell phone camera to record the crimes. Maybe certain “unruly” travelers will drop off the planet, never to reach their destinations.

[FrankR]

It's time for Mr. Boehner and the new Congress to de-find Air Force One and Marine One and let the ONE go through airport security like the "little people" have to do.

Also, I'm wondering where the Tea Party Movement is now...have they "disbanded" since we won the elections? Why isn't there about 100,000 TPM members standing in front of the capitol raising hell about this onset of fascism...once the camel gets his nose in the tent, the rest of him will soon follow.

If they are allowed to get away with this, it will embolden them to try it in all other aspects of our society and then we have - poof - NAZI Germany...a DICTATORSHIP.

Americans...we do NOT know how to NOT be free...but we do know how to fight for our freedom.

Cause and uproar, it works, it has before. Burn those phone lines up.