Not news here, of course, either the unreliability or the TSA not wanting to be embarrassed and going the intimidation route. Or not realizing that their complaining simply makes it a bigger story.

I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida reporter told me that he had been “strongly cautioned” by the TSA not to cover my viral YouTube video showing TSA nude body scanners to be completely worthless.

The TSA is clearly no fan of the 4th Amendment, nor of 5th Amendment due process rights, and now this blatant attempt to manipulate the free press with “strong caution” hits at Amendment the First. Why strong caution? Are there repercussions for journalists that fail to heed this “advice?” Because, you know, if I were a member of the free press and the federal government asked me to censor myself, I’d happily comply . . . . . . . . . riiight.

I have news for the federal government: Americans will not take censorship in any form. We thought we made this clear when you tried to force SOPA on us.



  1. dcphill says:

    What can I say? If the foo shits………wear it.

  2. sargasso_c says:

    Where is a modestly competent lawyer, when you need one?

  3. msbpodcast says:

    Wanna try a radical idea?

    Read the US constitution to them, hand them wallet-sized cards with the constitution printed on them, make them say it (read one line, make them repeat it until you’ve gone through the whole constitution.)

    I bet none of them will let you get any further than Abby Hoffman did trying to read the US Constitution to the Chicago police.

  4. Jeanne says:

    MsPodCast: 1) They wouldn’t wait until you read through the U.S. constitution to become physical. 2) They wouldn’t read it out loud, even if they could, because that would be not be a dominating type of behavior.

  5. Holdfast says:

    I have said it before and I repeat…

    I’ll see your constitution and I’ll raise you a Queen.

    • msbpodcast says:

      Raise me a Queen? I wasn’t born that way and I don’t wanna be gay.

      But seriously the only reason I’m not interested in living anywhere else is because of the First Amendment.

      Once that goes, I might as wel go back to Québec. (Not Canada which is turning into Stephen Harper’s little Fascist* paradise.)

      Before you get too full of rhetoric, fascism is an economic system where capital goods are owned by private owners and controlled by the state, unlike the United States which is a free enterprise system where capital goods are owned by private owners and controlled by private owners.

      I am not calling him a Nazi.
      I am calling him an overbearing, paternalistic, self-justifying asshole.

  6. busdriver says:

    Shoot, if you really want to get something into the secure area of an airport, just get hired as a plane cleaner or bag handler. All you got to do is swipe a card and walk into the secure area with whatever you want. I watch people do it everyday at JFK.

    TSA has set up this giant steel door in the front and a screen door in the back.

  7. nunyac says:

    Another of those notable humans that was just following orders.
    Hmm, is tsa English for gestapo? You never know-

    http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/revamp-tsa-critics-insist-after-drug-arrests-at-1863172.html?viewAsSinglePage=true

  8. Me2 says:

    The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  9. I read this as the TSA is totally worthless…

  10. NewfornatSux says:

    When these scanners were in the test phase, this site was very supportive of the new technology, with the comment that prudes can insist on a same-sex screener.


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