Airport rules changed after Ron Paul aide detained – Washington Times — The TSA has defended this action, now seeing it will lose in court relents. The audio is below. It’s unfortunate that people like this have no regard for the real laws of the USA. This situation was essentially false imprisonment and the TSA officials should be indicted.
An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety.
In response, the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit on behalf of Steve Bierfeldt, the man who was detained in March and who recorded the confrontation on his iPhone as TSA and local police officers spent half an hour demanding answers as to why he was carrying the money through Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.The new rules, issuedin September and October, tell officers “screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security” and that large amounts of cash don’t qualify as suspicious for purposes of safety.
“We had been hearing of so many reports of TSA screeners engaging in wide-ranging fishing expeditions for illegal activities,” said Ben Wizner, a staff lawyer for the ACLU, pointing to reports of officers scanning pill-bottle labels to see whether the passenger was the person who obtained the prescription as one example.
He said screeners get a narrow exception to the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches, strictly to keep weapons and explosives off planes, not to help police enforce other laws.
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LL, I know who Malachi Martin is from my days as a cross-country driver. I would listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. MM was a regular “guest.” I won’t try to convince you that he is a loon who makes unsubstantiated claims about Jesuit devil worship because I don’t care one bit. As far as I know, and I was educated in a rigorous atmosphere of intellectual open-mindedness and a respect for honesty, the Jesuit order makes little attempt to hide the skeletons in their closets. I know few organizations, as an ex-catholic, atheistic skeptic, who so freely admit their “jesuitical” agenda.
You can’t take Liberty hostage, either. That’s sort of ironic, ya know?
Liberty is what? I say it’s up to the individual. Read some Kant, dude. In fact, read or go on assuming you were born with all the tools you need.
Why do I waste my time though? It is passingly amusing to snark the stupids.
LL, I know who Malachi Martin is from my days as a cross-country driver. I would listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. MM was a regular “guest.” I won’t try to convince you that he is a loon who makes unsubstantiated claims about Jesuit devil worship because I don’t care one bit. As far as I know, and I was educated in a rigorous atmosphere of intellectual open-mindedness and a respect for honesty, the Jesuit order makes little attempt to hide the skeletons in their closets. I know few organizations, as an ex-catholic, atheistic skeptic, who so freely admit their “jesuitical” agenda.
You can’t take Liberty hostage, either. That’s sort of ironic, ya know?
Liberty is what? I say it’s up to the individual. Read some Kant, dude. In fact, read or go on assuming you were born with all the tools you need.
Why do I waste my time though? It is passingly amusing to snark the stupids.
The Jesuits asked me your whom would you kill question, when I was 14 years old, as an example of logical and moral pitfalls. Do you know what _they_ told me the answer should be? They said whatever leaves the world a better place. Liberty!
#61, Liberty is what? I say it’s up to the individual.
I would agree with that . . . as long as that individual accepted personal responsibility for his own actions to go along with it. Liberty doesn’t survive in a vacuum.
AFA MM and the skeletons, I think you should read the book before passing judgment. If what you say is true about historical criticism, I could say the same thing here. It’s just possible he lost his mind later in life.
#63, Loser,
I would agree with that . . . as long as
That is the exact reason Liebertarians are scorned. Liberty is conditional upon your take. News, liberty is not a conditional right!
America didn’t become such a great nation because we have a Constitution. It became great because it was built with government money. Free or extremely cheap land; subsidies for canals, then railroads, and later roads and air travel; subsidizing and encouraging growth in mechanical innovations; investing in education; going to the moon; and many many more areas.
America is a great nation in spite of your hatred for her.
#64, Um, you still haven’t answered the question.
Answer the question and you can be invited to the conversation.
Why would you let other people die in place of your wife?