Phil Mocek knows he isn’t required to show ID to fly, and that it’s perfectly legal to record video in publicly accessible areas of an airport. A jury agreed with him earlier this week, acquitting him of trumped-up charges brought against him by TSA and police officers who demanded obedience. He didn’t need to call any witnesses or testify himself; he was acquitted based on the evidence entered against him.
What’s pathetic were the Police lackeys who did not know the law and who were obedient wimps kow-towing to the TSA’s every whim. Too bad the local cops cannot follow the law and instead follow guys who make it up as they go along. They should be called out. The TSA apparently do not know their own rules or know what they are doing. And we trust them to run X-ray machines?
I think it wrong to blame the cops…blame the Administration that put these useless checkpoints at airports…
Until they actually check everything going onto an airplane, its all phony.
Bullies of any police state authority will always ignore the rule of law, and/or pretend to be ignorant of it. And ignorance of the law is no excuse. Unless your job is to uphold it. Then, apparently incompetence of your job, IS an excuse.
#39 and #41
Please tell me you’ve had a job before. Some guy, say 3-4 levels up, gets replaced. Your day to day isn’t going to change much. A prez is 20-30 levels up from the guy on the ground.
Bush’s message of ‘no rules’ could easily be disseminated. Putting controls back in place is an in depth operation.
The no-rules thing is bogus. You have to have smart rules. Obama is “for sale” rules. I’m not an apologist.
Crap on your neat delineations.
And we trust them to run X-ray machines?
Well, they’re there all day so we know at least they won’t breed.
Our exposure will be occasional and short.
These poor schmucks are going to be exposed all friggin’ day, frying their scrotums until they look like hanging bags of kung po chicken…
The TSA will be part of the (radio-)active reserves.
#26 I see you couldn’t go to sleep until you found that excuse about Obama. Not even with that can you hide the truth about your savior. You might have gotten a restless sleep tonight (at best), but you’ll have to keep creating those stories forever.
Just keep them to yourself, would ya? We don’t care about your pursuit of reality detachment.
#27 And so is gitmo, I see. Say, were you then so naive to believe his campaign promises? My condolences to you.
#30 You’re becoming the new conFusion. Have meds?
#45 Pedro,
Pretty sure you were referring to my #33, not #27, post.
The ideal opening move for any Democratic President in ’08, meaning any President, would have been to simultaneously close Gitmo, promise to give back the land it is built on, and move to normalize relations with Cuba.
I never expected anyone to have the balls to do it, or for Obama to have the balls to do much of anything.
Unless TSA & police involved were punished in some way, this is NOT a win for Mocek or anyone who had to go through a similar situation. It is laughable people think of this as some kind of win simply b/c the court dismissed the case. If I am the TSA or police, I will send a guy like Mocek to jail, charge him with a crime, or take away his possession any day. What do I care if the case gets dismissed when I know I won’t be personally effected in any way? But I know the trouble maker will have to go through all sorts of hassles.
Come to Canada – where the fascist Canadian border people now are testing “spot checks” of travelers leaving the country on vacation
How polite
How helpful
Its the beginnings of the new world order
Whats next ?
If you are impolite you can bet you will be flagged on the way back to Canada
#46 I agree. It’s time to normalize relations with Cuba. After all, the US is still governed by the same tyrant that is bent over backwards to impose communism whereas cuba is the lighthouse of freedom, with several different presidents ruling the country over the years, ever evolving policies, etc.
Did I got that one right?
So next time you take a flight, are you going to show ID?
Pedro – What has the embargo done except give the Castro regime a whipping boy? “You’re poor and hungry and your dog has 3 legs all because of the evil Americans.”
Why aren’t we following the same policy of “influence” we’re using with China? It may not have been a silver bullet, but its having an effect. Hell, in many ways they’re more capitalist than we are.
Even if the China policy is wrong, we could at least be consistent.
Also, Americans need fine cigars and rum. =)
#51 Because the regime in that island is not interested in improving its own country or its citizens. cuba is just a banana republic and the castros are wealthy enough not to care about anyone else (check the forbes ranking).
Only someone stupid can think that being softer with some banana republic thugs will make them change. They will only take advantage of that.
And if the US takes away the Embargo, they’ll just take their mask off and close the island. You really know nothing about those characters.
You can change policies towards a hostile bunch if the one you currently have is not effective, but not with a stupid change like “let’s treat them as if their cool and nothing’s wrong”
You know pedro, you can disagree without being an asshole.
Or given your post history, maybe you can’t. I’ll have to learn to be more sensitive to your obvious disability.
Just heard Jesse Ventura is suing TSA for violation of his privacy rights. His persona is in this lawsuit, I hope his money is too.
Pedro for brains: how many hours have you talked with the Castro Brothers? Why is one policy towards them and a different one for China, Korea, USSR, Algeria etc justified?
Isn’t the theory behind “trade” that both parties benefit? Why are we cutting off the benefit we could receive?
Your thinking on the subject isn’t just simple minded==its just unimaginative, singular and dull witted.
Good job.
#54 It’s not thinking, it’s experience. That’s your problem: you think but know nothing.
You had me at: “Its not thinking…….”
Gawd, I love this blog.
He doesn’t need to think! Truthyness comes from the gut.
The US doesn’t trade with North Korea, it maintains a sanctions policy. However it is less effective than one with Cuba.
China was opened up as a strategic move to split it from the USSR.
The basic logic exists for all of these countries, why trade with them when it is slave labor?
# 57 tcc3,
“He (# 55 pedro) doesn’t need to think! Truthyness comes from the gut.”
Your so right. I know what my gut makes, and it’s the same stinky thing that comes out of pedros mind.
This is just a jerk with a camera disrupting the flow of traffic at an airport. What’s the deal with him showing us his vidiot video while
being escorted out of the airport?