Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts

TSA Admits To Allowing Illegal Aliens to Fly Without ID

by Kristin Tate. A new letter from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) admits that illegal aliens were being allowed to board planes using Notice to Appear forms they received after entering the U.S. illegally. The revelation directly contradicts a TSA statement last month denying such allegations to various media outlets,      ... MORE

Tammy Bruce: America Is Turning In To A Police State

The stench of tyranny is in the air.       With so much happening internationally and the number of scandals, crises and general screw-ups of the Obama administration here at home, it’s worth noting a disturbing development here on the domestic front: a rapidly expanding police state. On my radio program last week I had the pleasure of   ... 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

TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Luggage For Bitcoin

by Gregory Ferenstein.        Davi Baker wasn’t quite sure how to comply with the TSA’s demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screening, and they wanted an additional search of his belongings. “We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to check,”   ... 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

TSA's Mission Creep Making America A Police State

From patdowns to checkpoints and roadblocks.     Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists    ... MORE

Scott Holleran: Abolish The TSA

It does not protect and defend, it endangers.     It’s peak travel season, so it’s a good time to examine the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a government agency created by President George W. Bush supposedly to protect air passengers. As a recent government accountability report and deadly attack on Los Angeles Airport   ... MORE

Ever Vigilant, TSA Confiscates Sock Monkey's Toy Pistol

You can't make this stuff up.        "Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday. May has a small business selling unique sock      ...  MORE

TSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search

Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment.             The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport.  Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have    ... MORE

Crony Capitalism Drives Airport Security

from The Dollar Vigilante Blog.     There is yet another reason not to fly into or within the US. “Nazi-style detention pods” – that's what opponents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have called the new “exit pods” being tested at the Syracuse (NY) airport. But the pods are not primarily a rape of civil rights. Their import       ... MORE

TSA Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Detect 0 Terrorists

So much for behavior detection officers.             Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent approximately $900 million over the last 5 years for behavior detection officers to identify high-risk passengers but, so far, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO), only 0.59% of the passengers flagged were arrested and among those   ... MORE

Susan Stellin: Security Check Starts Long Before You Fly

New scrutiny for air travelers.         The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.  While the agency says that the goal is to      ... MORE

Niels Gerson Lohman: Why I Will Never Return To The U.S.

America has become an ugly place to visit.      After a year of travelling, I had planned a last, short trip. I was going to take the train from Montreal to New Orleans. The travels I had been undertaking earlier this year had brought me to places that were meant to form the background of my second novel. This trip, however was for my  ... MORE