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Sadly, I’m with #15. Great point made by Paul but no solutions given.
#12 You’re correct. That’s the ACLU’s position and why they’re so mum now. FUACLU! One can only hope they get groped hard.
#19 Yup. Pretty much.
speech was a lot rambling on common knowledge and little on solution.
agree with everything he says except the part of being cattle. I’d go with sheeple – frightened sheeple.
I think I am in love with this man.
This cartoon about the idiots at TSA is perfect.
http://tinyurl.com/2cyr928
If other people feel the same way about the obtrusive activities of TSA, they too will drive to any location within 1500 miles (2 day drive). I, for one, do not like being treated like a criminal and that was before they pulled this rediculous xray / grouping exercise. When the excessive TSA activity causes the airlines to fly near empty planes so it attacks their bottom line, that is what will stop this insanity.
Think about it – every action TSA has taken (shoes off, checking the underwear, etc.) has been a reaction to a happening. What other insane notions will TSA come up with when the bad guys come up with other bad activities?
This overaggressive screening may well put the domestic airlines out of business. Everyone will be driving or taking Greyhound or Amtrak instead.
Is the next false flag attack before, or after ‘Opt Out Day’ ?
Thank you for agreeing with me #21, but I think the ACLU’s postion on profiling is that they are against racial profiling. The Israeli model uses behavior profiling. They don’t judge you based on your race, but on how you act. Are you excessively fidgety, sweaty, do you have a one way ticket for an event that usually has a round trip fare? That sort of thing. I doubt the ACLU would object to that.
@#21,28 Part of the solution. True solution would incorporate racial and religious profiling. ACLU can sue as much as they want. While individual privacy is indeed protected under Constitution (and hence naked scanners and intrusive pat-downs can be defeated by lawful challenge) profiling is not. It is PC construction by the likes of ACLU with no Constitutional basis. If previous attackers are 100% Muslims and 100% foreign nationals those two groups need to be particularly investigated for real safety. Not random people as attackers were not random people. Even for them, though no naked body scanners or intrusive pat downs should be allowed without specific individual Court order.
Ron Paul is THA MAN!
While we are all occupied with TSA molestation, the Senate is voting on Codex Alimentarius. S.510. Go check it out and contact your senators!
How can I contribute to Ron Paul?
I love his idea that all members of Congress should be required to go through the full-body-scanner and look at the results.
Is there any kind of oversight for the TSA? (Other than congress?) The police have internal affairs depts that go after bad cops. And the FBI will investigate the police if internal affairs won’t.
There should be a TSA “internal affairs” with at least one officer at every airport. And his/her only job is to make sure the TSA guards do not abuse the public. He would have the authority to fire a TSA guard if necessary, and also be required to video all disputes between the TSA and the public.
Right now the only TSA “internal affairs” seem to be in charge of defending every TSA idiot who decides to “pat-down” a 3-year-old. Or prosecute a passenger who doesn’t want his junk touched.
Mr President, have you ever gone through a full-body scanner?
Mr President, how would you feel about your kids going through a full-body scanner?
If people want to stop all the stupid ACLU law suits call your representatives and tell them to change the law that pays the ACLU to sue the govt whether they win or lose and these frivolous ACLU law suits will disappear.
Yes people the govt pays all the lawyer fees for any suit filed by the ACLU against a govt entity (can any one say cash cow for for lawyers )
If the suit is good private individuals would help pay for it, and if it is won in court the lawyer can then ask for his fees as part of the settlement. But that is not how it works now Joe Schmuck lawyer files on the govt then tells the govt to pay him for filing suit and all his supposed hours spent on the suit.( can any one see a possible scam here )
Now you know why all the dumbass law suits are brought by the ACLU its about the money not the law
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So you suggest that they ask everyone if they are muslim and if they say yes then you interrogate them? Or do you think that your assumption that they’re all going to be ‘noticeably musim’ is sound.
The ‘American Traveller Dignity Act’ is a great start, Two things I’d like to see, though:
1) it should not specify airports. Americans should have the right to travel anywhere by any means without these losses of rights. What if Arizona set up body scanners and groping stations at border crossings with California?
2) I would love to see some language that makes it nearly impossible to add amendments to bills. Any necessary changes should be made prior to voting on it. So many amendments are riders designed to accomplish something completely unrelated to the original intent of the bill. I’d hate to see this bill passed with an amendment authorizing full funding of ObamaCare!
#7 egp : there may very well have been almost nobody listening to Paul. Special times are set aside for members to make short speeches that will then be entered into the Congressional Record. I believe there is some sort of rule that states these things have to be spoken in the House or they will not be published in the Record. He can’t just submit a prepared text for inclusion. When (if) the bill comes up for a vote, he will make another speech, as will other members of the House pro and con.
#29, #34 – there’s a simpler form of profiling. Law enforcement do it all the time — try looking for someone who matches the description and actions of the previous attackers.
If you get mugged, the police ask you what the person looks like – and they ask the public to look out for a “short, white male, approx 20-24, scar on left hand.” There’s nothing in this description which is illegal or wrong. It was the crime that was wrong.
This is not racial profiling. It’s just sensible. Otherwise all police reports would simply be “be on the look out for someone who has recently committed a crime.”
At airports, the TSA should check any male, aged 20-30, who has paid cash for their ticket, or is booked one-way, or bought their ticket in the last 3-days, and has little or no checked luggage. Recent international travelers (male 20-30) should also be checked.
That’s it.
None of that is illegal or wrong. But we can simply ask that person to go through secondary screening and answer a few questions. Without unnecessary delay or threatening them in any way.
The solution is to stop focusing on the “tools” of the terrorist’s trade. Stop groping everyone in hopes of finding a bomb, or gun or knife. Instead, interview them and ask them what the hell they are doing on the flight. Where are they going? What are they doing there? When are they coming back? Why don’t they have luggage?
Catch the bastards while they are doing their “dry runs”. The 9/11 hijackers did dry runs all over the country before their attack. Nobody took notice of what the hell they were up to, but they sure got through all the security screening in place up until that point.
Don’t let a terrorist on the plane whether he has a weapon or not. Right now, they can fly all they want to look for weakness in the system, and nobody seems care, as long as they pass this stupid security screening.
Secondly, leave the damn pilot alone. Whether he is groped or not, he can still fly the plane into the ground. If you want to protect the passengers, ask the pilot how he’s doing today. Did he get enough sleep? Hows the marriage? Had any drinks today? Gone to Mecca lately? Its ludicrous.
Go forward Americans, hate your government, make it smaller, or much better: destroy it, come back to the good wild-west times … this is what the terrorists have been looking for in the first place …
#33 PMitchell:
Citation please
Profiling works sometimes but it still allows for a terrorist to get through. The terrorist that attempted the Christmas day bombing on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit was Nigerian. The fact of the matter is that Islam is a rapidly growing religion, and a few who spread the religion also spread hate for other countries. There are whites and latinos joining Islam right now in the USA. Any one of them could be brainwashed into attempting a terrorist act. I have a coworker who is Latino and he has become a full-fledged muslim and even has a full beard now.
Not only that, but 94% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil were done by non-Muslims. http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005/terror02_05#terror_05sum
According to the FBI list, the most terrorist attacks on U.S. soil were by Latinos, 42% of all attacks. 6% by Islamic extremists, 7% by Jewish extremists, 24% by extreme left wing groups, 5% by communists, and 16% that were unaffiliated.