Showing posts with label groping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label groping. Show all posts

TSA Screens Holiday Travelers Once Again, With Feeling

by James Bovard.    Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from   ... MORE

Lawrence M. Ludlow: TSA = Thousands Of Sexual Assailants

The degradation of travel.     Ever since the blowback retaliation of 9/11, the government has subjected people trapped in the United States with a constant stream of propaganda, war-making tax-theft, police-state spying, and outright physical and sexual molestation at airports. Although oodles of self-deceived parrots (my apologies to that noble bird  ... MORE

Brittany Varner-Miller: TSA Introducing Police State

Acclimating Americans to an inevitable fate?     Ever since the attack on September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems to be introducing Americans to what a police state feels like. After the terrorist attack on the twin towers, the TSA has been strengthening the security of the nation’s transportation       ... MORE

Christopher Elliott: TSA Gives Fliers A Bad Feeling

Are they starting to sense the government is not us?         If airport security is so good, why do passengers feel so bad? That's a valid question, considering how the Transportation Security Administration seems to be spinning its performance lately. The agency wants you to believe the dark days of body scans and pat-downs, of liquids,   ... MORE

TSA Pat-Down Leads To Sex Assault Investigation

What if sexual assault by government is legal?         Denver police have initiated a sexual assault investigation focused on Transportation Security Administration officers at a checkpoint at Denver International Airport. It comes after a Colorado woman filed a complaint saying the frisking she received amounted to a sexual assault.    ... MORE

Drew Zahn: Big Brother Tells Kids: TSA 'Isn't Scary'

Coloring books, cartoons to placate terrified tots.       Four-year-old Isabella Brademeyer had just learned about “stranger danger” at school, her family said. Perhaps that’s why the little girl was terrified when Transportation Security Administration officers at a Kansas airport separated her from her mother, told her to spread her arms and   ... MORE

Women Sue Drug Warriors Over Roadside Cavity Searches

Public servants just protecting the citizens?  The two women who are suing after they were subjected to a humiliating and invasive cavity search on a Texas roadside on Memorial Day last year have spoken out about their ordeal. Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, told reporters how they were ordered out of their vehicle, not      ... MORE

David Bittle: TSA = Thousands Standing Around

The enormous apparatus isn’t making us safer.    Not long ago while walking through the airport, the following announcement caught my attention: “Will the person who forgot their hearing aids please return to the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint to reclaim them.” It took me a moment to absorb entirely the irony of the   ... MORE

Female Senator Gets 'Very Uncomfortable' TSA Screening

by Keith Laing.   Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). McCaskill tweeted about the experience before boarding a flight on Monday.  The senator, who has complained about the TSA's security techniques in the past, tweeted that  ... MORE

Rand Paul To Take On TSA Once Again

Privatize security.    We’ve complained long and hard about the TSA and it’s terrible “security” practices for years. It’s a horrible agency that should have never been instituted. Fortunately, Rand Paul is on the case: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will very likely re-introduce legislation to drastically scale back the Transportation Securities        ... MORE

3 Troubling Ways TSA Punishes Passengers Who Opt Out

Intimidation, harassment and retaliatory wait time.   If you don't want to walk through a poorly tested full-body scanner or have a TSA agent belittle your anatomy before your next flight, then you still have the right to opt out and submit to an "enhanced" pat-down. That's exactly what I did on a recent trip from Orlando to Atlanta.   ... MORE

TSA-Style Gropings Coming Soon To Public Schools

Children to be treated like cattle.      Anytime I hear leftists look for solutions I am skeptical. Speaking in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama stated with absolute resolution, "These tragedies must end, and to end them we must change."  We have heard that word "change" before.  We must change.  OK.  How exactly?  A madman goes on a rampage and the ... MORE 

Christopher Elliott: 3 Reasons Terrorists Laugh At Us

Thanks, TSA. Nothing will wipe a grin off your face faster than a squad of Navy SEALs rappelling into your anonymous compound from a Black Hawk. But while Osama Bin Laden is dead and gone, and unable to mock America's clumsy efforts to protect its planes from our Homeland-fueled fantasies, his disciples are more than capable of laughing at us. And laugh they  ... MORE

Mark Mitchell: Is The TSA Killing Us?

More take to the dangerous roads to avoid TSA hassle.  As we enter into the busiest travel time of the year, long lines at airport security are among the many peeves travelers will encounter. Some who seek to avoid the inconvenience of air travel will pack up their cars and hit the road. According to AAA, more Americans will be traveling  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Eliminate The TSA

What if we wanted to return to the Constitution?  I’m reading the Constitution and I do not see a “Grope or Scan” clause. The TSA is unconstitutional. Let’s eliminate the TSA. If you read my columns regularly, you know that I consider the TSA to be a carcinogenic petting zoo. I nearly always opt out. I object to the scanners on principle of their      ... MORE

Zack Fulkerson: Privacy Under Attack

TSA and police drag 4th Amendment through the mud.    The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,  ... MORE