Ignorance and humiliation "public servant-style." Some days are worse than others. I've talked a lot on my blog
about what I experience as a butch lesbian, specifically how people
interact with me when they see that I don't conform to the gender
identities that they expect. I feel all lined up on the inside -- I am a
woman physically, and I feel like ... MORE
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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
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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
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Heritage Foundation: The 10 Worst Regulations Of 2012
by Diane Katz and James Gattuso. During 2012, virtually every aspect of American life was subjected to
government meddling, ranging from how many calories you consume to how
efficient your dishwasher is. These rules affect us in a
variety of ways. Most increase the cost of living, others hinder job
creation, and many erode our freedom. ... MORE
Naked Passenger Images Provide Laughs For TSA Officers
by Paul Joseph Watson. A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms. In a blog entitled Taking Sense Away,
the anonymous ex-TSA worker reveals how he, “Witnessed light ... MORE
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spying,
transportation,
travel,
TSA,
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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
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transportation,
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David Rosen: The Police Know Where You're Driving
Cameras focused on collecting license plate data. Departments have already begun deploying Orwellian license-plate reading technologies across the country. A building at 55 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, is home to the Lower
Manhattan Security Coordination Center, the locus of the New York Police
Department’s massive intelligence-gathering ... MORE
Becky Akers: Gutsy Granny Stumps The TSA
How to treat the government groppers. A reader who wished me to identify her by name and location until I talked her out of it offered this advice for Women of a Certain Age who must endure aviation’s gulag: …I never go through the back scatter machine -- and in [the airport closest to her home], there are no options, the regular metal detectors ... MORE
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surveillance,
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Becky Akers: The TSA Gives Us The Finger Again
New ways to monitor the human livestock. The Thieves and Sexual Assailants are playing musical chairs with their porno-scanners. They’re shuffling carcinogenic backscatter X-ray machines out of larger airports, such as New York’s LaGuardia and JFK International, into smaller ones — but that doesn’t mean they’ve renounced their ... MORE
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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
TSA Pat-Down Horror Stories Prompt Private-Screener Plan
One way to reign in an out-of-control bureaucracy. The congressman who held 22 hearings over a year and a half that tracked public backlash against the Transportation Security Administration says he's ready to offer legislation to save the agency from itself. "The truth is this is a very dangerous world," Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House ... MORE
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regulation,
search and seizure,
transportation,
travel,
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Paul J. Watson: Questioning Authority Is Suspicious Activity
Man kicked off flight for anti-TSA shirt. A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”. Writing on his blog, Arijit Guha describes how he was flying out of Buffalo-Niagara Airport after attending his wife’s ... MORE
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individual liberty,
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Tom Vellner: The TSA Needs To Be Put In Check
Security measures or offensive power trips? What do you get when you mix racial profiling and sexual assault? The Transportation Security Administration, apparently. After more than 30 TSA agents claimed that coworkers were targeting Hispanics, blacks, and those of Middle Eastern descent during security checks at Logan International ... MORE
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profiling,
racism,
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Christopher Elliott: Who Are The Real TSA Dissidents?
Liberty-lovers are losing their country. See the footage of Julio Rausseo, an activist and journalist, at Chicago's Union Station the day after the Fourth of July. Why is he so upset? Because there are TSA agents at the train station, and they're about to set up a screening area. This audio recording was taken a week later, after Rausseo posted the first ... MORE
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checkpoints,
protest,
regulation,
safety,
search and seizure,
security,
travel,
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Christopher Elliott: The TSA Has A Little Penis Problem
Not a tyrannical agency? Please watch the video. We could be talking about meaningful things today, like the "not guilty" verdict for TSA protester John Brennan. We could be discussing the latest screening outrage, which involves a passenger's feeding tube. We might even debate why the agency assigned to protect America's transportation ... MORE
VIDEO: In Transition To A Police State, America 2012
Public servants or the agents of an increasingly tyrannical state? This video displays a troubling dynamic in America. It chronicles a driver detained at three different police roadblock during a commute westbound on I-8 in southern California, a highway that NEVER intersects the international border. Probable cause is not a prerequisite for arbitrary interventions or checkpoint searches.
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