TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast

[Dennis Hultman]

Former Miss America on TSA at Dallas Airport.

 

[Southern Wolf]

Just one more reason why I am boycotting the airlines and wont fly. There is no call for this in order to use public transportation. If I did that to her out on a public street... I'd be cooling my heals in jail, and when I got out... I'd have to register as a sex offender.

Until our gov pulls their had out of their ass and their hands out of our crotch... then flying is off limits. I just wish more americans would feel the same as I do. If everyone would stand up for their rights as US citizens... then either they would have to change, or look at an avaition bailout... and maybe that would open their eyes.

 

[Southern Wolf]

Selena Drexel, Mother of Groped 6 yr old Girl: TSA Sexual Abuse Must STOP

 

[Southern Wolf]

What the F

This summer the Department of Homeland Security may test a new device that will allow them to test passengers DNA at the security line.

As if porno scanners and sexual assualt wasn't enough

 

[Southern Wolf]

More info on the proposed DNA scanners

http://www.naturalnews.com/031530_DNA_scanners_TSA.html

 

[Southern Wolf]

Gun Hidden in Panties Slips Past 5 TSA Body Scanners

 

[Southern Wolf]

TSA Gropes 8-Year Old Boy As Possible Terrorist, Mother Outraged

 

[Southern Wolf]

TSA Pedophile BUSTED!

Another reason not to have these crazy scanners! A pedophile was caught uploading onto the internet the pics he took of little girls at work with the naked scanners!

 

[spoonersgirl]

Add me to the list of NEVER flying ! : / I had NO idea it was this BAD!!!

 

[Dennis Hultman]

TSA playing in the diapers.

 

[Southern Wolf]

Its a shame the American people have turned into sheep willing to follow the leader to their doom.

If more folks would open their eyes and stand up for themselves and put their foot down we wouldn't be subjected to this kind of harrassment. If enough people stop flying then the airlines will be forced to either get rid of the governmental BS or go under.

Unless you happen to book a ticket several months in advance it's no cheaper to fly than it is to drive. The only advantage air travel has is time.... depending on where your going you can save a lot of time.

But in order to save this time.... you're giving up your constitutional rights as an American Citizen. Why would you do that?

Me.... I wont. I refuse to fly because I will not be subjected to this kind of harrassment.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

The state of Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to officially make it a misdemeanor to pat-down breasts, buttocks, or genitals by the TSA.

TSA responds.

http://www.gcnlive.com/wp/2011/05/17/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is-futile/

http://soundofcannons.blogspot.com/2011/05/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is.html

 

[spoonersgirl]

Its a shame the American people have turned into sheep willing to follow the leader to their doom.

If more folks would open their eyes and stand up for themselves and put their foot down we wouldn't be subjected to this kind of harrassment. If enough people stop flying then the airlines will be forced to either get rid of the governmental BS or go under.

Unless you happen to book a ticket several months in advance it's no cheaper to fly than it is to drive. The only advantage air travel has is time.... depending on where your going you can save a lot of time.

But in order to save this time.... you're giving up your constitutional rights as an American Citizen. Why would you do that?

Me.... I wont. I refuse to fly because I will not be subjected to this kind of harrassment.

Double AMEN to that !

*We must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men*

(One of my all time favorite quotes ever..... From BDS 1999)

People that look the other way, are in MY mind, more guilty.... they know it is wrong & CHOOSE to do *nothing* .....

All I am saying, is that I will be ****** if I'm gonna let some *stranger*, TSA or not, feel my children or myself up.... It just won't happen in this lifetime!

 

[Southern Wolf]

The state of Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to officially make it a misdemeanor to pat-down breasts, buttocks, or genitals by the TSA.

TSA responds.

http://www.gcnlive.com/wp/2011/05/17/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is-futile/

http://soundofcannons.blogspot.com/2011/05/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is.html

Maybe this is the first step into bringing the gov back down to size. I hope like hell more states adopt this.... then kick the gov out of the state. They dont need to be regulating every aspect of our lives. If they are then we are not free and might as well be in another country.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

The state of Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to officially make it a misdemeanor to pat-down breasts, buttocks, or genitals by the TSA.

TSA responds.

http://www.gcnlive.com/wp/2011/05/17/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is-futile/

http://soundofcannons.blogspot.com/2011/05/tsa-responds-to-texas-resistance-is.html

TSA Holds Texas Flights Hostage
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An astounding Department of Justice threat to cancel airline flights to and from Texas, in addition to underhanded lobbying by TSA representatives, has killed efforts in the state to pass HB 1937, a bill that would have made invasive pat downs by TSA agents a felony.

HB 1937, a bill that would have made it “A criminal act for security personnel to touch a person’s private areas without probable cause as a condition of travel or as a condition of entry into a public place,” was headed for an imminent Senate vote in Texas having already passed the House unanimously 138-0, before the federal government stepped in to nix the legislation.

In a letter sent to Texas lawmakers, including to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Speaker Joe Straus, the House Clerk, and the Senate Secretary, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy threatened to cripple the airline industry in the state if legislators did not back down.

“If HR [sic] 1937 were enacted, the federal government would likely seek an emergency stay of the statute,” Murphy wrote. “Unless or until such a stay were granted, TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”

“We urge that you consider the ramifications of this bill before casting your vote,” Murphy added.

The fact that Murphy can’t even get the name of the bill correct is almost as disconcerting as the rampant mafia-like attitude of the DOJ in using de facto economic terrorism to shoot down the legislation.

Following a fiery debate in the Texas House last night, Senate sponsor Dan Patrick (R-Houston) pulled the bill, remarking that TSA representatives had been “lobbying” the Texas Senate in an effort to mothball the legislation.

“I will pull HB 1937 down, but I will stand for Liberty in the state of Texas,” Patrick said.

Patrick added that TSA officials had warned him passing the bill “could close down all the airports in Texas,” which he regarded as a ‘heavy handed threat’ by the federal government.

The staff of Rep. David Simpson said the DOJ had “thrown down the gauntlet” in using such stark language to oppose the bill.

“Either Texas backs off and continues to let government employees fondle innocent women, children and men as a condition of travel,” the staff wrote, “or the TSA [Transportation Safety Administration] has the authority to cancel flights or series of flights.”

“… 97 percent of people who go though the nation’s airports do not go through these offensive searches. And yet, a United States Attorney warns that flights to Texas could be shut down because TSA would not be able to ensure the safety of passengers and crew if agents could not touch genitals. Someone must make a stand against the atrocities of our government agents …”

In a point by point refutation of the DOJ letter, Simpson compared the battle against the TSA to the Texas revolutionary war against Mexico, writing, “Gentlemen, we find ourselves at such a watershed moment today. The federal government is attempting to deprive the citizens of Texas of their constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 9, of the Texas Constitution. If we do not stand up for our citizens in the face of this depravation of their personal rights and dignity, who will?”

The fact that the Department of Justice and the TSA have resorted to threats of economic terrorism in addition to underhanded lobbying techniques again illustrates the fact that the federal government is increasingly behaving like a criminal enterprise with total disregard for the Constitution.

The TSA’s initial response to HB 1937 was to claim that it could not become law because it violated Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2), a law that the TSA claimed “prevents states from regulating the federal government.”

In reality, this was a complete fabrication.

“The statement is false. Ignorance from the TSA is unlikely, so I’ll call a spade a spade. They’re lying. The supremacy clause says nothing of the sort,” reported Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center.

Here’s the full text:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

“So, in simple terms, what does the supremacy clause mean? Just what it says. The constitution is supreme. And any federal laws made in line with the constitution is supreme. Nothing more, nothing less,” writes Boldin.

As we have documented, TSA grope downs and body scans are now being rolled out on highways, street corners, public buildings, at sports events, and even at local prom nights.

Despite the fact that the federal government has resorted to thuggish intimidation tactics to kill the anti-grope down bill in Texas, this only marks the latest chapter in an epic states’ rights battle that has centered on the agenda of the TSA to become a literal occupying force in America, manning internal checkpoints that will litter the entire country.

via: Financial Terrorism: TSA Holds Texas Flights Hostage

 

[Dennis Hultman]

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2116447.shtml

Looks like some TSA agents found a part time job.

Santa Fe public schools sued over prom searches

Posted at: 05/17/2011 7:57 PM | Updated at: 05/17/2011 9:02 PM
By: Gadi Schwartz, KOB Eyewitness News 4

Two sisters are taking the Santa Fe school district to federal court over the way they were patted down and searched on their way prom.

One senior tells Eyewitness News 4 the pat down was so invasive she felt like she was being molested.

Capital High School senior Candice Herrera says while waiting in line to enter the prom she watched other students patted down by private security guards while faculty checked bags and purses for contraband.

When Herrera was up to be searched she says the female security guard made her extremely uncomfortable.

"She grabbed my breast and grabbed the inner part of my bra and shook it and then picked up the front of my dress to like mid thigh." Herrera said. "She was patting down my bare legs which kind of didn't make sense."

Herrera says she saw similar pat downs happen to other students as they entered the prom. "

I felt really awkward, I felt like I was being molested in some sort of way," Herrera explained. "It's not right to be touched in that many ways." T

he class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday also alleges that school administrators confiscated nail clippers, a small bottle of lotion and prescription pills from the sisters as they passed through security.

According to the lawsuit, neither Herrera or her younger sister had ever been in trouble at school and the younger sister, who is a minor, is ranked first in her class with a perfect G.P.A.

In an interview with KOB, the principal of Capitol High School, Melanie Romero said she had trouble understanding the allegations because she was there the night of the prom supervising the area where security was searching students.

Romero said they did confiscate items and pat both male and female students down for contraband and described the searches as similar to those at airport security.

But Romero says she didn't remember seeing any guard cup a students breast and explained that in accordance with district protocol, the searches were done with the back of a closed hand in the shape of a blade and only some female students are asked to move the under wire of their bras or dresses to see if contraband is tucked inside.

"I was right there with every female student, no one came to me to say 'Mrs. Romero did you just see what happened or Mrs. Romero I really feel uncomfortable'," said Romero.

Herrera insists that was not her experience. "Definitely not what happened to me," Herrera responded when asked about how she was searched. "I have been through other searches before and I know that they are only supposed to use the outside of the hand and this woman used the cup of her hand and checked me in that way."

Herrera and her sister are seeking a temporary restraining order against similar screenings at school functions saying that their constitutional right to be free of unreasonable search and seizures was violated.

The lawsuit also alleges that the district violated its own policy that allows for searches only when there is a reasonable suspicion that the student may be violating the law or school rules.

The district maintains that blanket searches are legal, citing safety concerns. Romero said they conduct searches because in the past some students have tried to sneak in drugs or alcohol.

"They walk in sober and within two hours they are very inebriated," said Romero referring to past incidents in which ambulances had to be called.

Romero said during Capital's prom they confiscated cigarettes and lighters from some students.

KOB checked with the states largest school district, APS, on their search policy.

Officials there say they don't pat down students going into dances.

The Santa Fe school district says that is because APS has its own police force. District officials tell KOB they plan on patting down students at Santa Fe High schools prom this upcoming Saturday. That prom is scheduled to be held at the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino. Herrera says she has been invited to attend that prom as well and plans to attend but hopes she isn't searched as thoroughly as before. "At least in the airport they have had past experiences with terrorists," Herrera said. "The public school hasn't had anything that bad happen they need to be searching everything like that."

 

[Southern Wolf]

TSA Holds Texas Flights Hostage
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And here I thought someone was gonna stand up to the government thugs. I was glad to see that the vote was everyone for and no one against.... then the gov wants to threaten with closing down the airports. I wish TX would have said... go ahead. We wont subject our citizens to this kind of abuse. Then maybe other states would have followed suit. Eventually the TSA would be responsible for the airlines demise... and the airlines would then be pushing for the ban of the TSA

 

[Southern Wolf]

More info on TX

Feds to Texas: We'll make you a 'no-fly' zone
Fight over Obama-led TSA decision to grope sex organs ratchets up

The Department of Justice under Barack Obama's direction has threatened to make the state of Texas a "no-fly" zone if state lawmakers pursue legislation that would protect airline passengers from having their sex organs groped by Transportation Security Administration officials without probable cause.

The threat came yesterday from U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy, who warned state lawmakers, "Texas has no authority to regulate federal agents and employees in the performance of their federal duties or to pass a statute that conflicts with federal law."

He said if state lawmakers would move forward with their plans to protect airline passengers from what critics have termed sexual assault in airport security lines, "TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights."

The letter's impact was immediate, as one state senator told the Tenth Amendment Center he would not pursue his bill. But just as immediate was the outcry over the "tyranny" being imposed by the federal government and warnings that if this year's bill isn't successful, there certainly will be more to follow.

State Rep. David Simpson, who sponsored the state plan in the House and notes that it protects federal agents doing constitutional searches, suggested the federal government review the U.S. Constitution, under which its agents are supposed to be acting.

"Instead of threatening to shut down flights in Texas, why doesn't the TSA just show us their statutory authority to grope or ogle our private parts?" he asked. "All that HB 1937 does is require that the TSA abide by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We aren't even prohibiting the pat-downs, per se. We're just saying you can't go straight to third base. You have to have a reason – you have to have probable cause – before groping someone's sexual organs."

Simpson called on the spirit of President Reagan for people to continue the fight over what he called the "brazen show of disregard for the dignity and the constitutional rights of American citizens," saying, "If not us, who? And if not now, when?"

Simpson previously has accused the Obama administration of turning the nation into a police state with its invasive pat-down procedures at airports.

The Republican lawmaker criticized airport procedures that require travelers to either pass through a scanner that images the entire body or submit to an intrusive pat-down.

He said metal detectors are far more effective, noting instances in which the detectors caught banned objects while the body screeners missed them.

The Texas plan would classify any airport inspection that "touches the anus, sexual organ, buttocks or breast of another person including through the clothing, or touches the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person" as an offense of sexual harassment under official oppression.

Transportation Security Administration agents could be charged with a misdemeanor crime, face a $4,000 fine and one year in jail under the measure.

Murphy said that's unacceptable, and federal agents have to be able to touch sex organs as they please.

"The proposed legislation would make it unlawful for a federal agent such as a TSO to perform certain specified searches for the purpose of granting access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation," he demanded. "That provision would thus criminalize searches that are required under federal regulations in order to ensure the safety of the American public."

"If the Administrator [of the TSA] determines that 'a particular threat cannot be addressed in a away adequate to ensure … the safety of passengers and crew of a particular flight,' he 'shall cancel the flight or series of flights,'" he threatened.

Citizens who organized the TsaTyranny.com website in reaction to the invasive federal procedures immediately alerted their constituents.

"What I am telling you is not a fable, a bad dream, or Hollywood fiction. It didn't happen in Communist China or the former Soviet Union. It wasn't declared by the former President of Egypt or Tunisia or Generalissimo Antonio de Santa Anna. And it didn't happen in 1770 or 1835," said spokesman Wesley Strackbein. "It happened yesterday; it happened in America; and it was declared by officials representing the United States government.

"On Tuesday, agents of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) bullied Texas senators in person, and a DOJ letter was sent to Speaker of the Texas House Joe Straus and President of the Texas Senate David Dewhurst which told Texas to bow in submission to despotism or pay the consequences. Members of the Texas legislature were informed that if they criminalize the touching of travelers' genitals by TSA officers, Washington will likely declare a no-fly zone and disallow commercial air traffic in the Lone Star State."

He said the DOJ letter from Murphy was rife with inaccuracies, too.

"There is no federal law that exists or that is consistent with the Constitution that sanctions the touching of private parts without probable cause. To the contrary – the Fourth Amendment forbids them. Further, the Supremacy Clause only protects federal action that is otherwise constitutional. A search without probable cause is an unconstitutional violation of the 4th Amendment. The Supremacy Clause is thus on our side, not theirs, as Texas is seeking to uphold the Constitution while the TSA is insisting on violating it," he said.

In a commentary at the Tenth Amendment Center, by Connor Boyack with Brian Roberts and Michael Boldin, the organization said, "It was less than a month ago at the Dallas, Texas, airport where former Miss USA Susie Castillo tearfully produced a viral video describing the molestation she had just then endured at the hands of a TSA agent.

"I mean, she actually… touched my vagina," Castillo said through her tears. "They're making me… choose to either get molested… or go through this machine that's completely unhealthy and dangerous. I don't want to go through it, and here I am crying."

Continued the commentary, "Castillo isn't the only person who would be protected under this Texas legislation. All other innocent travelers would likewise be shielded. That includes the six year old girl who made the headlines last month for being groped by a TSA agent (an action which the TSA defended as being alright since it 'followed the current standard operating procedures'), as well as the eight-month-old infant subjected to a pat down while cradled in the arms of her mother.

"These are but a few of the myriad confrontations that occur daily where TSA agents detain, invasively search, and seize items from innocent individuals who are not suspected of any crime whatsoever. Texas' bill would correct this horrific perversion of the law within its state, but the federal government is clearly interested in justifying and maintaining its statist status quo," the organization said.

It also suggested that the Texas proposal might be just the tip of the iceberg that TSA is steaming toward.

"Already, four other states are considering similar 'travel freedom' legislation. And, sources close to the Tenth Amendment Center tell us to expect at least 10 others in 2012. Taken together, it becomes evident that many other states will soon be picking up the baton, together having the courage needed to put the federal government back in its rightful place – which isn't inside the waistline of innocent passengers.



Read more: Feds to Texas: We'll make you a 'no-fly' zone http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303129#ixzz1NONITvxP

 

[Southern Wolf]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=251041

 

[Dennis Hultman]