Please like, share, subscribe & comment! www.RonPaul.com The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers this encroachment is quite literally physical, but a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the American people and opposition to the TSA full-body scanner and groping searches is gathering momentum. I introduced legislation last week that is based on a very simple principle Federal agents should be subject to the same laws as ordinary citizens. If you would face criminal prosecution or lawsuit for groping someone, exposing them to unwelcome radiation, causing them emotional distress or violating indecency laws, then TSA agents should similarly face sanctions for their actions. The revolt against TSA also serves as a refreshing reminder that we should not give in to government alarmism or be afraid to question government policy. Certainly those who choose to refuse to the humiliating and potentially harmful new full-body scanner machines, may suffer delays, inconveniences or worse. But I still believe peaceful resistance is the most effective tool against the federal encroachment on our Constitutional rights, which leads me to be supportive of any kind of opt-out or similar popular movements. After all, what price can we place on our dignity, personal privacy and physical integrity? We have a right not to be treated like criminals …
I appreciate the legislation you are bringing forth. I also appreciate your leadership. Please don’t use this occasion for promoting other things on your polticial group’s agenda though. We are in the midst of something very important. People are standing against the violations to American civil liberties and standing against violations against human dignity. Let everyone own it, regardless of what political party they are affiliated with.
After hearing the whole video, I have to say the worry about partisanship expressed in my immediately preceding comment is misplaced.
You articulate so beautifully what is at issue. Yes, Let us not lose steam, nor be satisfied by some cosmetic fix. I have already written my congresswoman a few days ago about the general issues, and will also write about this particular legislation. I have not heard anyone express any reservations about it nor do I see anything in it that could backfire
Why not have state I.D.s for Americans, where a security clearance is gained by showing no history of any connection to known active terrorists, who attacked the airlines, then with that one security check, Americans can board without being scanned or searched, by bearing a driver’s licence that includes a security clearance check that one is not a serious criminal, or associated to known active terrorist groups. Only those who cannot pass a State check and pass, would be searched.
Fully privatizing airlines that people must already be a member and have been profiled and checked, as to any past crimes and terror associations, can fly freely without delays of long lines and searches. Airlines then can compete for granting fast and safe service to normal people, and the people who do not pre qualify by prior screening and licensing but want to travel via government managed airways, can stand in lines and be subject to searches. Most people will voluntarily join clubs.
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@CarmineFragione Interesting idea, Needs to be built upon though.
Youtube is blocking my polite, but informative posts (about what good arguments consist in, about calls for public accountability) on other sites
@CarmineFragione The terrorists targeting innocents on the ground is the bigger issue.
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We can’t forget that the real enemy here is the Naked Biometric Body Scanners. As we object to the molestation the Body Scanners embed themselves as a norm or the prefered option.
If you must fly, here’s how to protest. Load up on Taco Bell an hour before. Opt out of the scan. When they begin violating you, you unleash a gas attack right in their fat, slack jawed faces. Make them think twice before they violate their next little piggy.
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College Girl Fights TSA Pat Downs
@LovehammerMedia A good idea given to the free market can build and develop a security system that eliminates all delays at the time one needs to travel, and the free market has never failed in the marketplace of ideas. A secure system begins with each person willing to join a travel club that secures their safety and identity and leaves only those with severe criminal backgrounds and those with known links to terrorists, to follow a government controlled security system. Two Systems.
Before we lose our nation to a new Fascist National Socialist (NAZI) central controlled and failing government, we need to force the Feds out of our private affairs and bring in free market solutions on a rapid deployment schedule. People who want to travel freely, need to join a system of travel clubs that prescreens & provides all needed safety clearances, long before the time comes to get on board an aircraft. An ID like a drivers licence and the computer speed to approve air travelers.
Random “patdowns” get exactly 0% return on catching terrorists, period. Not one old man in a wheelchair getting his testicles groped, or old woman having her vagina felt up, or one young mother having her lactating breast squeezed will make the United States of America SAFER! It makes us LESS SAFE! Having the government declare that we don’t have 4th amendment rights to be “safe in our person and effects” have made us LESS SAFE! See what happens when our rights are declared null and void?
@CarmineFragione Yes, the $300 million used to pay for the naked body scanners could have been used to create a safe systems of prescreens etc. But then, that is not what the Federal Government is trying to do….slavery of the American people is their goal.
@CarmineFragione I don’t like the Idea of 2 systems. Something like Pre-911 would be good or a airport provide there own security sort of deals.
@philais At least they can’t you snoozin’ !!!
@LovehammerMedia What needs to be done is not profiling by race or age or gender, but by “behavior” and the way to whittle the whole lot down is to have people get a secure ID in their home state, even from private firms, that proof your own background and give you a clearance, so, those who get their pre-screening can just to to any airport and get on the plane, without anyone needing to search them. It goes to a behavioral profile, and a records check, no different than permits for guns
If they do the pre-screening, you get the same clearances as one who wants to buy a gun or carry, with a permit. They check your background, your profile and your business, and so everyone who is quite normal, can avoid any delays boarding airplanes, and those pesky terrorists who cannot pass a security background check will have to wait in line for a search. With a pass, you check in and they have your picture and references on the computer, you get cleared right away, and you board.
If they can search everyone getting on a plane, they can search anyone getting on a train or bus, and what do you know, it’s the Nazis and the Commies, two sides of the same old coin, Totalitarianism. So the answer is, ordinary people get a licence from their own state or a private security firm, they are issued a photo ID that checks with what shows up on the Airlines’ computers, they see you are not a criminal, nor associated with terrorists and you are cleared for boarding in a jiffy