It Begins… US Passenger Arrested For Refusing TSA Screening Process Then Paraded Through Airport in His Underwear
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 21, 2010, 9:43 AM
A San Diego man was arrested this weekend after he refused to complete the TSA screening process. The passenger was then paraded through the airport in his underwear.
Sam Wolanyk is a San Diego gun rights activist.
The Examiner reported:
In what can only be described as TSA handlers gone wild, the San Diego Harbor Police arrested an area resident for refusal to complete the screening/security process yesterday. This is the same airport that created the TSA security catch phrase “don’t touch my junk.” John Kliner of San Diego started the airport screening firestorm last week as Americans head into the busiest travel week of the year in the United States.
This time the defendant, Sam Wolanyk says he was asked to pass through the 3-D x-ray machine. When Wolanyk refused, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel told him he would have to be patted down before he could pass through and board his airplane.
Wolanyk said he knew what was coming and took off his pants and shirt, leaving him in Calvin Klein bike undergarments.
“It was obvious that my underwear left nothing to the imagination,” he explained. “But that wasn’t enough for the TSA supervisor who was called to the scene and asked me to put my clothes on so I could be properly patted down.”
It was clear to Wolanyk that TSA only wanted him to submit to a pat-down and if they were interested in ensuring the safety of all passengers they would have rifled through his clothes, carryon baggage and acknowledged that he was not carrying any illegal paraphernalia on his person.
Once Harbor Police arrested Wolanyk, he was handcuffed and paraded through two separate airport terminals in his underwear to the Harbor Police office located inside a different terminal at the airport than Wolanyk had originally gone through during his TSA security process.
Another woman was arrested for filming the TSA screening process.
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jorgen commented:
Looks like obama has achieved his goal of reducing the United States of America to a banana republic.
Patman commented:
Modern day Rosa Parks!!!!
Thank God we’re staying at home this holiday.
StrangernFiction commented:
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?
The lyric is from a leftist, but it is starting to look very right.
Kenny Solomon commented:
My friend, Lt. Col. Allen West was on Meet The Press today.
He said – rightfully so – that we should be dealing with this as a threat assessment.
I need to call my friend The Col. and inform him that the administration is doing this as a threat assessment.
The ‘threat’ to the administration are us – typical bitter God-clingers, no matter their age or physicality – and that’s how the administration is assessing people.
Real terrorists don’t have to worry about a thing…… Nice bomb vest, enjoy your flight.
billypaintbrush commented:
The time grows short. When this resolves itself, it won’t be pretty.
Melvin commented:
Remember what Van Jones said: “Top down, bottom up, inside out.”
It’s happening.
tarpon commented:
There are now three common points where the average legal American citizen contacts the federal government … the IRS, the Post Office and now TSA. What is there in common here.
How tryrants work — poke, poke, poke, nudge, shove, shoot.
Remember FDR was able to get a lot more of his Fascism accomplished after the unions used violence and riots to provoke the people.
The original 1773 Tea Party was peaceful, it was until three years later in 1776 when the British had had enough and started shooting. The shot heard round the world. The the war was lost for the Brits.
Gandhi was right!!!
Admiral Josh Painter commented:
This business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it!
PJ commented:
Arrested for filming??? How in hell is that illegal?
Lindsey Lohan commented:
The sad part is that we have to keep the heat on the TSA. The TSA are doing this precisely because the heat is on them and they don’t like it. So they’re digging in.
Granny commented:
Maybe that is what we ALL need to do. Deliberately wear biking garment to the airport & take along with a camera. Then insist on your day in court for filming the event. Guaranteed if enough of us do that they will stop confiscating cameras. Or you can buy a Vivitar camcorder for under $50 – this one at CVS is ~$35, about the same on Amazon, which has another dozen models of this under $50
http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/catalog/shop_product_detail.jsp?filterBy=&skuId=796843&productId=796843&navAction=jump&navCount=3
Ted50 commented:
I smell a lawsuit out of this one…the woman filming too. Hope they both soak the TSA for all its worth!
Granny commented:
#10 November 21, 2010 at 10:10 am
PJ commented:
Arrested for filming??? How in hell is that illegal?
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In some states it is illegal. Three states have passed specific laws that prohibit citizens from filming the police at work. A call for deliberate civil disobedience if I ever saw one. The remainder of the states are relying on the wiretap laws that make it illegal to record a conversation without the knowledge/consent of both parties.
Mary H Love commented:
Has anyone else begun to think that perhaps all this TSA “enhanced pat-downs” sexual assaults of everyone, including children, has been DELIBERATE and for an AGENDA that we are too busy being enraged re:pat downs to see: I believe it is ANOTHER SECTOR of American Economy that Obama has decided to either TAKE OVER OR TAKE DOWN, and in the process, LIMIT THE TRAVEL OF AMERICANS, put a self-imposed halt to the freedom we have so taken for granted for generations. What better way to control the populace? Banking, finance, manufacturing, compensation, FOOD =S510 & HR875, immunizations, and now these Naziesque “patdowns” that are so offensive that many Americans are vowing NOT TO FLY until they stop these invasive procedures. What EASIER way to get AMERICANS TO Voluntarily GIVE UP IMPORTANT RIGHTS? once the economic crunch hits the airline industry, they will be ripe for Obama Takeover, thereby another sector lost to the public.
chemman commented:
So it really isn’t about safety but only about control. He didn’t need his clothes on to be patted down. Hopefully this TSA supervisor loses his job. I won’t hold my breath though.
StrangernFiction commented:
Soon the Republicans will have real power — the power to defund this nonsense and demand profiling, bomb-sniffing dogs, and other common sense procedures that do not pit innocent Americans against each other (sorry, but Mohammedans are in no way innocent). Will they do this? Do pigs fly?
chemman commented:
Admiral Josh, truer words have never been spoken. Those food control bills will get some modern day revenue agents buried as fertilizer in the outback area I live in. There are more backhoes per capita than cars.
bill commented:
After reading through so many incidents this week regarding TSA, here’s a question for the legal folks. Is it a violation for TSA to disclose private medical information? There are medical privacy laws with stiff fines for “failure to protect information.” Take for example a woman who is a cancer survivor and has a fake breast. This data would be protected in her medical records. If the data was leaked then the “leaker” would be fined under current law. If the TSA is essentially stripping people down to obtain their medical facts then are they not now handling private medical information? Is it a stretch? Suppose you have a medical condition and you’re about to fly. What if you prepare a written statement inside a envelope describing your medical condition. On the outside of the envelope it would be marked “Private Medical Information. Handle according to the Medical Privacy Laws–”cite the legal code sections.”" Then you obtain the name of the TSA agent and ID number of person or people you’re giving it to. That makes them responsible under the law. Comments?
d commented:
Arrested for filming?!
So they’re going after not only the 4th; but the 1st Amendment as well?
bigmike commented:
This is already out of control. Can you say Supreme Court Case Issue. Someone is going to pursue the TSA overreach to the Supremes.
Robert commented:
One course of action to take is to pressure your senator
and representative to issue calls for profiling.
You could ask them if they would rather see our rights
and freedoms taken away while they did nothing.
bill commented:
more on #19
“The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that six California hospitals and one nursing home have been assessed administrative penalties and fines totaling $792,500 after a determination that the facilities failed to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient medical information. Medical privacy is a fundamental right and a critical component of quality medical care in California, said Dr. Mark Horton, director of CDPH. We are very concerned with violations of patient confidentiality and their potential harm to the residents of California….”
Political Lobotomy commented:
I’m really starting to think Janet Na-pervert-ano is really starting to like this.
http://political-lobotomy.blogspot.com/
Granny commented:
#15 Mary H. – Of course we are thinking that this is really just an excuse. If we go along with this then we have essentially abandoned our Fourth Amendment Rights.
If we do not go along with this and refuse to fly en masse, then the airlines will go broke and DC will insist that we have to spend billions to bail them out to “save our economy.” And then, of course, they will “bail them out” the same way they did GM, by stiffing everyone except the Unions in bankruptcy court and then nationalizing the airlines.
gus commented:
Can anyone name a SINGLE PERSON hired by Obama that is competant and not a clown or Marxist hack??
ONE SINGLE NAME PLEASE
Simon commented:
WHERE IS THE ACLU?
Granny commented:
Bill @ #19 & #23 -
That is one issue. I am also concerned about the possible contamination of that elderly gentleman who was left soaked in his own urine. (thread here yesterday) There is a huge risk that they introduced MRSA when they (seemingly deliberately) ripped his catheter bag away from the seal.
I am also concerned about the operation of those scanners. State and Federal laws in every state in the country require specific education (minimum two years), training, certification and licensure to operate any kind of X-ray machine used on humans. The TSA does not. The machines have not been properly tested and there is great concern about them in the medical community. Not to mention that no law allowing their use at all has been passed. It is still tied up in Congress!
d commented:
I’m all for profiling, but under this group of clowns, their definition of what a terrorist is looks for people like my lawn chair toting, tea parting mother, not “Irish woman with middle eastern boyfriend…who happened to put a bomb in her luggage” or a guy who just bought a one way ticket here from Yemen.
Perhaps we can contract El Al’s security guys to work for us instead of the idiots we have now.
As of now, I see the passengers as the only line of defense that’s worked. (ex: shoe and underpants bomber)
Barbara commented:
I wondered how long it would be before the SS, er TSA, stopped allowing filming of the security process. Everyone in the TSA–the Goons– is Somebody with a Name. I bet they don’t even wear name tags on the job. But these “camp guards” should be ID’d by name if possible. If Individual Camp Guards started getting friendly postcards from their “grateful” fellow citizens at their home addresses…”Thanking them for their Service.” and What Kind of a Loser does someone have be to make their Living doing this Assignment?
Granny commented:
Here is the ACLU form -
https://secure.aclu.org/site/SSurvey?JServSessionIdr004=tvijkr0fb1.app224a&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=1440
Introductory information for the form says -
Many people are concerned about abuses during the passenger screening process in U. S. airports. Travelers have expressed concern about:
• Being forced to go through the AIT machines also known as full-body scanners or “naked scanner” machines
• Unnecessary groping of passengers’ breast or genital areas
• Humiliating experiences including for disabled or transgendered passengers
• Lack of privacy during pat-downs
• Lack of respect for religious requirements.
The ACLU is collecting individuals’ stories in order to determine the scope of this problem and evaluate future action. If you have had such an experience, please help us by filling out the following questionnaire. The information you provide in this questionnaire will be kept confidential unless we contact you and obtain your permission to share it with others. Please provide detailed responses where necessary. Your input is very important! Thank you!
Betsy Ross commented:
Since when is it illegal to take pictures in a public place?
The hammer is coming down hard on all our heads…
Come on, TSA agents, revolt!
Martin commented:
An American human rights dissident.
StrangernFiction commented:
Who’d a thunk we’d have gotten here with this guy in charge:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/obama%20chin%20up.jpg
Who’d a thunk it?
Granny commented:
#30 November 21, 2010 at 10:33 am
Barbara commented:
I wondered how long it would be before the SS, er TSA, stopped allowing filming of the security process. Everyone in the TSA–the Goons– is Somebody with a Name. I bet they don’t even wear name tags on the job. But these “camp guards” should be ID’d by name if possible. If Individual Camp Guards started getting friendly postcards from their “grateful” fellow citizens at their home addresses…”Thanking them for their Service.” and What Kind of a Loser does someone have be to make their Living doing this Assignment?
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You need to remember that low paid as these thugs are, they are still Federal Officers in the same way that an FBI Agent is. You are taking your life in your hand if you touch one, assault one verbally or – heaven forbid – contact one at home, which would instantly be interpreted as a threat.
If you assault one verbally you are going to spend a year in jail. TOUCH one and you will spend the next eight years of your life there. Don’t know off the top of my head what the penalty for making terroristic threats to a Federal Officer is, but I suspect that it would be just shy of Gitmo.
oldguy commented:
Consider: TSA agents jobs are men feeling-up men and women feeling-up women. Who designed this system, homosexual elites?
bg commented:
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since no one has been killed at an
airport, well, not as yet anyways..
and due to the Prog-Lib-Dems closing of
thegap that distinguishes good vs evil..
this is perhaps a stretch..
but it reminded me of Islamists parading
American Soldiers through the streets..
bottom line:
there may not have been a literal killing
of an individuals flesh at that airport..
however, there most certainly was
a killing of an individuals FREEDOM..
SYMBOLISM MEANS EVERYTHING TO
ISLAMARXISTS ala UTOPIANISTS
BY ANY OTHER NAME..
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Andreas K. commented:
Wait… he dropped his stuff down to his underwear, making it clear that he was not carrying anything “dangerous”, but they told him to get dressed so that they can pat him down? What. The. Heck???
Where’s the logic in this?
Oh wait…
gus commented:
Old Guy. You are aware of who is in charge of Homeland Security aren’t you??
http://images.politico.com/global/081120_napolitano_allen.jpg
shibumi commented:
Has anyone come across a video of a Muslim being violated by the TSA? How about someone who is “African American” or “Hispanic American?”
I didn’t think so.
No problem profiling white Americans who occasionally have disabilities.
Rock commented:
Expecting any useful action from the ACLU is nothing but a dream. I’ve become increasingly convinced that ACLU actually stands for American Columnist Litigation Union. I most defiantly would not share any personal or private information with them. I suspect they are noting but a collection agency for the Left.
Next I and others have noted, just what is going on in the other hand. These type events have almost always been followed by some new enacted travesty.
During the unknown contrail incident in California a lot of suggested scenarios where put forward, not one mentioned N. Korea who also operate missile launching subs. Today we learn of their advances in Nuclear enrichment, that has stunned our experts. I feel so safe, not even.
Barbara commented:
Actually, in the “old days”…a few months ago…I thought of TSA screener with some respect.
I haven’t flown since all this nonsense started, but never had a bad experience with screeners. Law enforcers should be protected. No harm should come to anyone. As it is now, harm is coming to those you are vulnerable–the lady with the breast prosthesis, the gentleman with the urine bag, the little girl who was groped, the boy who was strip-searched–and Innocent! Plus, I’m sure the Terrorists are quite amused by the furor this has created. But what I hope will result from this–soon–is the aggressive Profiling of everyone who fits into the logical catagories; we all know who they are, generally.
Granny, I enjoy your comments and thank you!
proof commented:
“asked me to put my clothes on so I could be properly patted down.” Excuse me, but isn’t the purpose of the pat down to ascertain that nothing harmful to the flight is hidden under a person’s clothes? If virtually everything were in full view, the pat down should go a lot quicker. This is security kabuki and this passenger was improvising on his part.
gus commented:
proof. These morons have NO IDEA what they are doing. I remind you that the SAME LIBTARDS who are groping 15 year old girls are the same LIBTARDS who screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeched for 8 years about listening in to TERRORIST int’l phone conversations. The same conversations that Clintons’ admin listened to.
Liberals are retarded. Literally.
bg commented:
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shibumi #40
Napolitano May Exempt Muslims From Airport Pat-Downs
[The demand came last week from the politically-connected Muslim rights organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Calling the searches “invasive” and “humiliating,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advises Muslim women wearing religious head covers known as hijabs to reject full-body checks before boarding planes.
Those who are selected for the secondary screenings should remind Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers that they are only supposed to pat down the head and neck and that they should not subject Muslim women to a full-body or partial body pat-down, according to CAIR’s advisory. It further says that, instead of a body search, Muslim women can request to check their own hijab and have officers perform a chemical swipe of their hands.]
and there are millions upon millions of people who haven’t got a clue as to
what is going on.. that is what scares me more than the enemy within,
as they are the enemy within’s future civilian armies..
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silentcal_rox commented:
il douche’s administration is getting desperate! we’re going to see even more personal abuse to our citizenry. obama is dictator in waiting!
bg commented:
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re: 45
make that THE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP COALITION..
“citizens in uniform”
[The armed forces, therefore, according to the decree issued by Chávez last July 22nd, in the practice will be responsible for enforcing by means of arms the failed socialist constitutional reform. To that end, in order to dilute the country into its militia-like organization, will "prepare and organize the people for integral defense." In addition, it will "forge alliances or coalitions with the armed forces of foreign countries." The ongoing military revolution will have not borders. At the end, there is one single purpose -retired military officer Chávez Frías will boast his five-sun insignia appropriate for his new rank of commander in chief, awarded by himself, and not by the grace of God.]
Obama’s ‘Civilian Security Force’
[Advocates of limited government are concerned about comments by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) regarding his national service plans and views on the "burden of global citizenship."]
Senator Obama, Citizen of the World
[European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen of the world who, like all liberal- progressive- socialists, aims for world government.
American liberal- progressive- socialism, in the person of Senator Obama, is a carbon copy of European socialism, and Islamic jihadists recognize that socialism offers no opposition to their ruthless jihad to enslave the entire world.
For historical perspective, let's look to one of France's leading socialist theoreticians, the late Jean- François Revel. As I wrote at the time of M. Revel's death in May, 2006:
Jean- François Revel, who died last week at the age of 82, was that exceedingly rare person: a French intellectual who didn't despise the United States, an intellectual who understood the cancerous prognosis of liberalism.
Revel's 1983 "How Democracies Perish" described liberalism's debilitating effect on confronting the threat of domination by the Soviet Union. His observations apply equally today in our long-term struggle against Islamic jihad.]
RTWT!!
Global Socialism
[We think Obama has bought into the United Nations nightmare scheme called The United Nations Millennium Declaration in which the UN calls for: "the eradication of poverty by redistribution of wealth and land," wiping the slate clean of "the debts of developing countries," and, it continues… a fair distribution of Earth's resources."]
[I am convinced the change Mr. Obama touts is, in fact, a thorough trashing of the US Constitution, changing America from a democratic republic to a socialist country under a socialist government, giving up the miracle of capitalism for the nightmare of socialism, giving up the idea of private property, you know, so the wealth can be "redistributed", reducing the size and strength of our military and giving that money away in the form of "social" programs, again to redistribute the wealth, and finally, placing the US firmly in the grasp of the United Nations, which is, in my opinion, one of the most corrupt organizations ever designed by the mind of man.]
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ID commented:
I long for the days of a strong President whose input in the airline industry was firing striking air traffic controllers for wanting 4 day work weeks at $100K+/year.
Speak up, Mr. President. Your silence on this issue is deafening.
NorthernX commented:
…and the world continues to laugh at the USA.
Sad. Very sad.
Tom commented:
I’m no fan of Obama, but where were all the current protesters when Bush, Clinton and Father Bush were also busy destroying the American dream, courtesy of special interest groups? Americans are going to have to learn to bark up EVERY tree, not just selective ones. Political parties are meant to divide Americans, not serve them, and they are both controlled by Big Money. Educate yourself or GET OVER IT! America’s greatest enemy is the ignorance of its masses.
bg commented:
++
Tom #51
re: Educate yourself or GET OVER IT!
take your own advise, and stop bashing others out of context
in an attempt to bring them up to Obama’s level of destruction..
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Josh commented:
What happens when a Muslim comes through with a turban or a burqa? I am going to guess that ‘political correctness’ will take over and they will just wave them through without having to remove those items of clothing. But Joe Smith from Pennsylvania wearing a baseball cap will have to remove it, his coat, his shoes, and so on.
But for those of us who live here and have no intention of hurting anyone, we can be profiled as a ‘domestic terrorist’ who is uncooperative. A Muslim who cries whatever he/she wants will be hailed as a hero by the ACLU.
succotash commented:
Home of the free….land of the groped
ID commented:
“I’m no fan of Obama, but where were all the current protesters when Bush, Clinton and Father Bush were also busy destroying the American dream, courtesy of special interest groups?”
Oh these evil special groups destroying America! If only we had just listened to Tom, the UAW, teacher’s unions, and Al Gore’s greens, America could be saved from these evil special interest groups!
cb commented:
“#8 tarpon commented: The original 1773 Tea Party was peaceful, it was until three years later in 1776 when the British had had enough and started shooting”
Shot Heard Round the World: April 19, 1775. BTW, David Hackett Fischer’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” is a GREAT book about Lexington and Concord, and the path that Americans took to open resistance to tyranny.
Buddy commented:
Fly naked, or don’t fly at all.
Vox commented:
Read your Holyhoax books! It is required reading now! You’re living in the Talmudic era. All bow before the jewish master race or die!
Sandy commented:
ID — As I recall we didn’t have a single terror attack after 9/11 during Bush’s reign. And I don’t remember Bush bowing to terrorist leaders either. Now in addition to making the USA look like a Paper Tiger to the rest of the world Obama makes American’s look like fools.
Are Muslims going to be patted down? Nah that would create an International Incident and Obama wants to play nicey nicey with our enemies.
Sandy commented:
Sorry ID I should have attributed that comment to Tom.
Sandy commented:
silentcal_rox — Obama may be a Dictator in Waiting but he will be waiting a long time. When SNL makes you a laughing stock every week you are done.
Wasn’t the mantra for Obama that he was Cool under pressure and even handed in running this country? Seems that he is moaning more than the toddlers he humiliates.
What can the media continue to tell us about Obama that makes him palatable to any American?
Linda K commented:
This is crazy, the Terrorist will just put bombs in their butts! The pat downs will not find internal stuff. The Muslims have been warned they can object on religous grounds. This is so stupid. Even saturday night live had a hilarious sketch regarding the TSA. They need to hire better screeners. Do like Israel and only hire ex military. I heard some older gentleman on the radio and he said he is gonna take a viagra before he gets his pat down. That’s so funny!
Vinnie Bartilucci commented:
I’m sorry, this guy didn’t get arrested for refusing to be scanned, but for stripping to his scivvies in protest.
There have been PLENTY of cases of TSA agents being rude, insensitive, poorly trained or just plain stupid. We don’t need people like this doing nothing but making things more slow and confusing. You hear these stories, and you almost feel for the TSA guys for having to deal with these pillocks. They run the risk of poking their eye out on the chip on the guy’s sholder.
Eric commented:
WHAT ABOUT THE CARGO
US MAIL?
any one can simply send something thru the US MAIL SERVICE EASILY
and IT GOES ON THE PLANES you think are safe
its a real joke at the post office
when they ask
” any liquids or explosives”
you say no and it goes thru and on the plane
================================
what about that?
what about CARGO CONTAINERS sitting at ports.
easily one can explode big time
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its to make us FEEL SAFE
when really we are not
every look up at the sky.
THOSE LONG STRAIGHT WHITE TRAILS IN THE SKY
then X and other designs that make the sky WHITE OUT?
know what that is?
google CHEMTRAILS
or EVERGREEN AVIATION the cia run firm that is doing this to us
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think we landed on the moon?
what about NO PLANE PARTS at the pentagon.
vaporized is the claim, and shanksville NO BODIES OR PLANE PARTS?
and what about bld 7?
3 buildings came down with 2 planes?
common idiots WAKE UP AND TAKE ACTION
that is what the CHEMTRAILS is doing to you
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to lower your immune system for the NEW VIRUS COMING SOON
and your folks are worried about tsa touching your balls or breasts?
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remember martha stewart was in jail while bernie was in business
TO TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL
see the clues?
yet
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more to come
apodoca commented:
We’re living in a police state run by communists who trample the Constitution like so much filthy toilet paper. Mary Love, you’re right. It’s all about destroying the U.S. economy. We don’t fly, millions of Americans wind up losing jobs and being dependent on the government. Thank George Soros and his puppet Barack Obama for all of this.
Terry in GA commented:
Someone with legal expertise needs to research the violations to individuals who are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In addition, the gentleman with the urine bag and the blatant disrespect to his dignity — not to mention the potential TOXIC HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, along with its environmental hazard, unleashed and unreported by the TSA agent.
Another issue which appears to be blatantly in violation is the unreasonable search of portions of the population without any suspicion of threat (much less a reasonable suspicion). An example would be a police roadblock searching for a foreign terrorists enroute to Atlanta from the San Diego border with Mexico. There would be no reasonable cause to strip search two little old ladies traveling from Seattle to Portland in order to justify doing so in order to protect Atlanta residents from the risks of the dangerous drug lords. Equally as ridiculous would be stopping every tenth car and disregarding all others going through a roadblock within the legitimate targeted areas.
These reports of tragic violations all over the country are extremely distressing. Imagine if Elizabeth Smartt, God bless her soul, just happened to be #10 through the security line. Don’t we still have some reasonable expectation of privacy?? Or what if #10 were an elderly man wheelchair bound and with a pacemaker who could not pass through the scanner? Must he, by default, submit to the strip search because he has a pacemaker?
Quit with the political correctness already — PROFILE THE SUSPICIOUS and leave the rest of us alone.
tommy mc donnell commented:
are the people who work for the TSA morons? they have to know that most americans don’t want these searches. what is the need to act so belligerently. does anyone think that the people at the top are doing this on purpose to cause more conflict in the country. most of obama’s people are leftists and that’s a leftist’s job. according to the manifesto you have to cause chaos.
Hank commented:
TSA: Creating motivated Republicans by the thousands on a daily basis. Good job, Barry Soetero!!
AndrewEdB commented:
It is now undeniable; IT IS ALL ABOUT CONTROL and making once free Americans feel SUBJUGATED; Just like what Obama is accustomed to and what he learned at the Madrassa in Indonesia; Sharia Law with a Western pretext. Disgusting TSA PERVERTS are not screening for contraband; They are engaging in their perverted ritual to denigrate Americans.
Riquin commented:
Of course TSA does not care that we object due to moral and religious ground. NAZIs never cared. This is more than FASCISM it is Nazism/Satanic.
Well I have news for them GOD is watching and we are already starting to pray. Let me remind everybody several months ago there were 33 miners in a Chilean mine 700 meters (not feet but meters) a rescue like that was unique never done before. Well a lot of people in Chile and around the world started to pray and they came out all alive. The head of the operations André Sougarret was interviewed after the rescue and he did mentioned how the drilling equipment took and unexplainable turn that made it hit the mine tunnel right in the middle.
Evil forces always start making their move around special dates like Thanksgivings and Christmas. They are so predictable. They usually target old and disable people, women and children. I saw in the internet people in wheelchair getting pad-downed, I saw in the internet a lady with a prosthetic leg asking her to remove her leg. The scan machines are not suitable for disable people, they do not meet the standard (one more reason to make them illegal, I think they target disable people because they probably have a special place in havens and they are envious of them.
The Chilean rescuers did not just pray they took action and work day and night until they got them all out, with a little help redirecting the drill; we need to do the same. We are lucky, my wife has a titanium hip she will be a perfect target and we will not travel to see our daughter and grandson, but they decided to drive down and stay with us for a week.
But if you read this comment and you see an old couple that will be lonely during thanksgivings invite them over that day, you can always add some extra plates at the family table.
God Bless us all during this attack to our values.
Riquin commented:
If you are an Airline executive read this:
The Airline business has a broken model where they let a fascist government take over part of their operations (security) now they will pay the consequences. Take our family as reference; we are not going to accept radiation and nude picture taking of our members nor sick PAD-DOWNS. The current procedures targets disable persons for sexual harassment my wife has a titanium hip. So the whole family is not flying any more. Members of the family are now buying motor homes, new cars, etc. We are re-adjusting our recreation activities. Even if they fix this mess in the future, the monies for flying are not there anymore the money went into buying new cars (we just bought new car yesterday cash) and motor homes.
If you own airline stock sell them as soon as you can, there is no future in a business like that.
The airlines knew that the TSA was going to implement those machines and start humiliating your customers and you did nothing about it. Where your lobbyists in Washington are, fire them all, you needed someone at the helm of the TSA that understands the airline business. But you accepted the current administration of the TSA and you are now going to suffer the consequences.
Read this, not only you are humiliating your customers you may be killing them.:
Scientists with the University of California at San Francisco were so worried that they wrote a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology in April, 2010 raising “a number of red flags” on the scanners’ safety.
http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
Riquin commented:
How can the Democratic Party be so clueless? The Full scan body machines are new as well as the latest procedures designated to denigrate the voters. The voter will remember this and will never vote for the Democratic Party again. What are the Party members worry about? Some stupid position rather than stop the TSA and the molestation of the flying population. We had a great opportunity by having majority all over and we mess-up BIG TIME. Did I vote for the Democrats in this last election? NNNOOO!!!! Will I vote again for the Democratic? Only if the party comes back to its origins and stops the fascist association with big business.
Penny Crosson commented:
If we complain loudly and long enough, this harassment will stop, but that will then be playing into the progressive’s hands. If they stop these ridiculous searches and we are attacked or a bomb successfully goes off on a flight, it will give Obama et al a reason to say, “Well, we tried to protect you, but you didn’t like our methods, so now look what YOU’ve done! We’ve been attacked and it’s all YOUR fault.” Then, they can crack down and take away even more of our freedoms. It’s a ploy and we’d better fundamentally change it soon or things will most assuredly get worse.
ken commented:
It’s very simple, DO NOT FLY !
AndrewEdB commented:
We cannot simply complain loudly, although that is a component. We must each of us BOYCOTT and encourage a BOYCOTT of all airlines that fly from U. S. Airports until they correct the perversion of the TSA. Unless and until that grievous abomination is corrected the airlines all deserve to go BANKRUPT; NO EXCUSES!!!!
Riquin commented:
After seen these web pages:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4029185…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40278427/ns/travel-news/?GT1=43001
1 – Feel very secure and TSA is doing a fine JOB.
2 – Why are disable people flying? Just submit to be “SOYLENT GREEN”
3 – If you agree with 1 & 2 let us know where we can send you a nice brown shirt.
Qauntum Disrupter commented:
Funny how the local media outlets here in Canada are handed video segments from U.S. broadcasts which mostly show single, creepy people talking about how much they love the scans and say how the TSA is keeping everybody safe. It’s probably the only time those nerds will ever get any kind of action in their lifetime.
idiots commented:
To anyone who thinks the republicans will change any of this, YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. There is no difference between the parties, its a 100% false paradigm. the dumbocrats didn’t create the TSA dub the shrub and his rethuglican cronies did. If we boycott the airlines then the gubbermint will just bail them out and leave us with the bill at gunpoint as usual. I don’t know the solution, but getting sucked back into the “partisan” theatre that is our government is another run around waste of time.
kc commented:
There is only one who can keep me safe. I report to him daily…. Of course they have kicked him out in this country!
BJ commented:
How can this Father allow this to his boy? I could never tolerate this and would take my child and leave. Is there no limit to what the American people will submit?
I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
kc commented:
Amen BJ….. I refuse , and anyone who touches my daughter will have me to deal with! Screw this….. Its time for a revolution in this country!
Of course we should be watching for another false flag simce all the sheep are bleeting about this! Expect another underwear bomber (*Sarcasm*) So they can implement body cavity searches!
Jackthesmilingblack commented:
TSA has shot international tourism in the foot. Who in their right senses would willingly set foot in the United States of Torture? Boycott UST.
And I say this with all due respect, because no respect is due.
Rachael Williams commented:
USA is a Police State. This surprises you?
The USA has been subverted and governed by a foreign, hostile, anti-white, nation wrecking elite for some time now.
Solutions commented:
so with all this, if you read all the above posts,
I SEE NO OTHER SOLUTIONS OR IDEAS?
why is that.
no-one has a better idea than what it is.?
other than ” dont fly then ”
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we already know the dude wearing A TURBIN WHO STINKS
goes right on thru, while the average WHITE AMERICAN FAMILY does not
why is that?
cause he got the money to pay the 11,000 dollar fine maybe?
or wants to get out of jail perhaps
this holiday season will be different
Life is going to be different
what if i was to say most of what you think is not true and false?
if you get your NEWS FROM TV OR NEWSPAPER this applies to you!
cause you dont know much then
this is not how you learn the truth
cause the People on the News are ACTORS
thats right, they read a script just before they go on the air
a script from who?
J-E-W-S
thats who
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to get the truth you NEED TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
and do it soon before internet 2 comes our way
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so getting back to the TSA touching your balls and breasts?
and letting the turbin dude go thru
does the j-e-w- come to play here?
sure does
it makes you MADE AT THE TURBIN HEAD PEOPLE
which is what they want
if they let others thru no problem and molest you and your kids
this makes you angry
so they can arrest you and get the 11,000 fine
FOLKS CAN YOU SEE REASONS YET
its nothing to do with the shoe bomber
which was a hoax anyways
and the latest PRINTER CARTRIDGE BOMB?
another hoax
the cia do these to scare you so you accept the crazy ideas they have to
help you feel safer
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what about the BORDERS
let them thru to, come on one illegals
we pay for FOOD-SHELTER-HOUSING-HEALTHCARE-EDUCATIONS
come on over and rob our honest citizens
no money no problem,
cars are easy to steal, and people easy to shoot
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isnt that where the problems come from 1st?
and what about pissing off the other countries?
with the amercian imperialism?
another word for democracy?
nonsense
this is where the trouble comes from
not a 4 year old little white boy with his family
what has this country come to?
IT NUTS
just look at the current situation and policy?
WHO DOES IT FAVOR THE MOST?
answer: you or the other guy.
the turbin heads and illegals or yourself?
what happened to the founding fathers dream?
get used to these turbin heads
why?
FORECLOSURE GATE WILL TRANSFER HOMES IN BULK TO THEM SOON
that is what it is all about folks
why
cause this will make you mad again
and long term
the j-e-w-s see AMERICANS KILLING ONE ANOTHER
in another civil war to reduce the populations
that is why they want to angry and mad
that is what that mosque thing was all about
that is what 911 was all about
that is what TSA GROPING is all about
to get you mad and angry
so they can help you later with your anger management
IN A FEMA CAMP.
what?
thats right, about 800 already empty waiting for your anger problem
next door is a gas chamber
and next are the Plastic Coffins that hold 3 each
google fema camps plastic coffins you doubt what i say
that is what its about folks
to GET YOU MAD SO YOU END UP HERE
there are so many plans for you folks. there is not enough room to let you know
please do your own research and share the truth with others
Stock Market Crashing, Bank Runs, Food Shortages, NEW LAB VIRUS COMING
TSA TOUCHING YOUR TITS
should be least of your concerns.
Christian Munz commented:
Gov, you just don’t get it. Personal security is my problem, not yours. Just put a sign in the airport that reads: “Terrorism exists, Fly at your own risk”. Nothing wrong with personal responsability.
commoncents commented:
Just what BO & Soros has wanted: SOPHIE’S CHOICE !!
Stop Rodents commented:
Airport are now the breeding ground of a new kind of rodents/pest: TSA. To take them out, we shouldn’t use airports for a while, at least as long as this pest is still breeding there.
So, don’t be a breeding ground stay out of US airports.
fightinggranny commented:
Tyranny is out in the open for all to see. The question is, what do we do about it?
Fionnagh commented:
A number of posters – and, disappointingly, Michael Medved as well on his Friday show – emphasize that flying is a privilege, not a right, so…if you choose to fly, knowing in advance what the TSA procedures are, then in essence you’ve given permission for the scanner/pat-down routines, or both. What I would ask these posters (and Medved) is – is it now ALSO a privilege to LEAVE an airport, if one decides to forego the radiation and groping? What about that $11,000 fine?? What about possibly being arrested if you decide not to fly? At what point “may” you opt out of flying, once having arrived at the airport? Who makes the decision? What if you were only dropping a loved one off and, at the scanning point, kissed him/her goodbye to walk out of the terminal? Will some as—le TSA employee then tackled you to the ground? My point is this – at the point where we have given in on ONE freedom, we may as well have surrendered them ALL!! Because one by one by one, those freedoms will be rescinded, ARE being rescinded. And so long as travelers allow themselves to be irradiated, or groped, they are surrendering to police state tactics. These are the people who will complain on blogs when those taser bracelets are suddenly implemented, but they WILL permit that bracelet to be attached because they absolutely must get to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Where do they draw the line? When the taser accidentally goes off? When someone goes into cardiac arrest and dies from a taser stun?
I realize I’m rambling here. Not good to post when one is frustrated. Just fed up with all those who are flying for the holidays. If you do not protest, then you are contributing HUGELY to the ongoing problem. If you allow yourself to be scanned or groped, then you are as much of a problem as the TSA employees. Your acquiescence is feeding the beast, when in fact that beast should be starved. And the only way to starve it is DON’T FLY.
Fionnagh commented:
A number of posters – and, disappointingly, Michael Medved as well on his Friday show – emphasize that flying is a privilege, not a right, so…if you choose to fly, knowing in advance what the TSA procedures are, then in essence you’ve given permission for the scanner/pat-down routines, or both. What I would ask these posters (and Medved) is – is it now ALSO a privilege to LEAVE an airport, if one decides to forego the radiation and groping? What about that $11,000 fine?? What about possibly being arrested if you decide not to fly? At what point “may” you opt out of flying, once having arrived at the airport? Who makes the decision? What if you were only dropping a loved one off and, at the scanning point, kissed him/her goodbye to walk out of the terminal? Will some as—le TSA employee then tackled you to the ground? My point is this – at the point where we have given in on ONE freedom, we may as well have surrendered them ALL!! Because one by one by one, those freedoms will be rescinded, ARE being rescinded. And so long as travelers allow themselves to be irradiated, or groped, they are surrendering to police state tactics. These are the people who will complain on blogs when those taser bracelets are suddenly implemented, but they WILL permit that bracelet to be attached because they absolutely must get to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Where do they draw the line? When the taser accidentally goes off? When someone goes into cardiac arrest and dies from a taser stun?
I realize I’m rambling here. Not good to post when one is frustrated. Just fed up with all those who are flying for the holidays. If you do not protest, then you are contributing HUGELY to the ongoing problem. If you allow yourself to be scanned or groped, then you are as much of a problem as the TSA employees. Your acquiescence is feeding the beast, when in fact that beast should be starved. And the only way to starve it is DON’T FLY.
Fionnagh commented:
A number of posters – and, disappointingly, Michael Medved as well on his Friday show – emphasize that flying is a privilege, not a right, so…if you choose to fly, knowing in advance what the TSA procedures are, then in essence you’ve given permission for the scanner/pat-down routines, or both. What I would ask these posters (and Medved) is – is it now ALSO a privilege to LEAVE an airport, if one decides to forego the radiation and groping? What about that $11,000 fine?? What about possibly being arrested if you decide not to fly? At what point “may” you opt out of flying, once having arrived at the airport? Who makes the decision? What if you were only dropping a loved one off and, at the scanning point, kissed him/her goodbye to walk out of the terminal? Will some as—le TSA employee then tackled you to the ground? My point is this – at the point where we have given in on ONE freedom, we may as well have surrendered them ALL!! Because one by one by one, those freedoms will be rescinded, ARE being rescinded. And so long as travelers allow themselves to be irradiated, or groped, they are surrendering to police state tactics. These are the people who will complain on blogs when those taser bracelets are suddenly implemented, but they WILL permit that bracelet to be attached because they absolutely must get to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Where do they draw the line? When the taser accidentally goes off? When someone goes into cardiac arrest and dies from a taser stun?
I realize I’m rambling here. Not good to post when one is frustrated. Just fed up with all those who are flying for the holidays. If you do not protest, then you are contributing HUGELY to the ongoing problem. If you allow yourself to be scanned or groped, then you are as much of a problem as the TSA employees. Your acquiescence is feeding the beast, when in fact that beast should be starved. And the only way to starve it is DON’T FLY.
bg commented:
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Solutions #88
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bg commented:
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can’t believe the college kids aren’t going
to hold mass naked sit-ins nationwide..
and where is Code Pink, maybe they’ll do something
like paint themselves with pink grease or whatever..
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Mr. Anderson commented:
Think about this…These measures where put into place as a proactive deterrent.
Guess what America…you just gave the enemy the edge.
Suck it up…if you want to fly in or out of our sovereign airspace, you follow the rules.
It’s just like paying your taxes, if you don’t, the judicial system will seek remittance of funds or time, maybe even both. How would any of you like to have your flying rights revoked for your actions. I hope this message helps all the wimps sleep easy…really, what do you have to hide.
Maybe while your antics are being displayed, your distraction allows the bad guy through.
Chisum commented:
Maybe while your antics are being displayed, your distraction allows the bad guy through.
Mr. Anderson,
Are you referring to all those bad guys that are slipping through our porous borders while Team Obama engages in their antics?
bg commented:
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btw Solutions #88
you just had to go & blame the J-E-W-S didn’t you, which tells me you’re working for the NWO crowd.. else you would have just linked this.. of which i’m believing more & more of every week.. however, i stress discernment & advocate research on info provided, because they too kind roll off the tracks & stray from the facts so to speak..
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bg commented:
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Mr. Anderson #101
problem is, the rules aren’t “equally” distributed..
The demand came last week from the politically-connected Muslim rights organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Calling the searches “invasive” and “humiliating,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advises Muslim women wearing religious head covers known as hijabs to reject full-body checks before boarding planes.
Those who are selected for the secondary screenings should remind Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers that they are only supposed to pat down the head and neck and that they should not subject Muslim women to a full-body or partial body pat-down, according to CAIR’s advisory. It further says that, instead of a body search, Muslim women can request to check their own hijab and have officers perform a chemical swipe of their hands.
wonder how many are going to be tossed to the floor &/or fined??
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pink commented:
I think everyone should be screened before getting on a plane. I don’t think I should sacrifice my presumption of safety because someone else is Muslim or because they think they are above being scanned or patted down. I think the way the TSA has handled the introduction of the new processes has been very poorly done but I think new procedures are necessary. Freedom makes this country great and I don’t want the government to have any more control than they should(and they have their hands in too much definitely). But why shouldn’t every honest American citizen want to make sure that the guy/gal behind them in line at the airport isn’t smuggling explosives or weapons. Shouldn’t we all stand together and say “we are going to root the evil out, we will find you and we will dispose of you because you cannot destroy us and our country”. The government wants this to turn into a media nightmare so the average American citizen looks stupid and belligerent and out of control.
Tania commented:
Just a reminder, Bush created the TSA. Congress voted down these machines, the TSA bought them anyways. The man who made the purchase order now works for the company that makes the machines.
I’m really not clear on how this is Obama’s fault. I get that people are angry, but unless we start placing the blame where it actually belongs, that is directly on the TSA, we are missing the point. It is the agency that must go. I think we can all be smarter than this knee jerk conspiracy theory crap.
Ahsheet Oundehm commented:
What my suggestion is that we all, ( men included ) wear burqas to the airport. It could double as a snuggie on the flight.
Seriously though, what is happening to us is terrifying. It is a many front attack, we are in big trouble,.. so many battles going on, they are attempting to overwhelm and ultimately, and diabolically, ( in my opinion, none of this is by chance ) control us. It’s like a Twilight Zone episode that never ends.
Ha”Shem’s protection be with us…
Dave commented:
Tania, it isn’t Obama’s fault. Just ignore the TP crazies blaiming it on Obama who can’t remember anything before ’08. As they have sown the whirlwind by ignoring the GOP’s institutionalized constitution shredding so shall they reap it. Let’s just hope enough people wake up to the big lie being perpetrated by Faux News and the GOP beforwe we wake up in Christofacist Amerikkka.
Jason commented:
Regarding the TSA porn scans and sex grope pat downs at US airports the late Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007 RIP) just before his death wrote: “The shoe thing at the airports and Code Orange and so on are world-class practical jokes, all right,” Vonnegut reflected. “But my all-time favorite is one the holy, antiwar clown Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989 RIP) pulled off during the Vietnam War. He announced that the new high was banana peels but they had to be taken rectally. So then FBI scientists and CIA agents had to stuff bananas up their asses to find out if it was true or not.”
Robert in Detroit commented:
This country is so F ked up I dont know why anybody fights for it anymore.
shutdowntheairports commented:
Be a part of the solution…join the protests and let your voices be heard!
Nov 24th – National Opt Out day (http://www.wewontfly.com)
Dec 1st – Shut Down the Airports protest (http://www.shutdowntheairports.com)
ScoJo77 commented:
Wait wait wait wait…how is this “Obama’s” fault? We’re still just reacting to 9/11. How about: Not EVERYTHING is “left” or “right”. Some things are just annoying.
Tate Tater commented:
@jorgen
How is it people place the sole blame on Obama for this, when Bush was in charge when we started the TSA and the Patriot Act was enacted?
John Smith commented:
#98, Fionnagh: You consider yourself a “protester?” What have you done to “protest?” GET OFF THE ‘NET AND OFF YOUR BUTT!! Americans need to be on the STREETS, not ONLINE. That’s why I’m getting off of here right now…
Patrick commented:
Good thing my known family is within driving distance. I couldn’t go without some sort of joke if a TSA groper touches me
Kent K commented:
Sick, perverted God-complex TSA, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
Bryan commented:
Google the thought crime blog
Private commented:
Isn’t the disclosure of a medical condition already covered by the Medical Privacy Act? Isn’t a matter of doctor-patient confidentiality? If so, do we have a requirement to explain to a government employee what our condition is or requires us to wear? In the case of a business traveler who travels twice a week every week, how many government employees would be privy to that confidential medical information by the end of a single year?