TSA Chief John Pistole: If Passengers Don’t Undergo Naked Scans or Gropings, “They Don’t Have a Right to Fly”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 22, 2010, 12:27 PM
More hope and change…
TSA chief John Pistole told reporters this morning that if American passengers decide they don’t want to have screening, they don’t have a right to get on the plane.
ABC’s The Note reported:
ABC News’ Huma Khan reports: Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole today defended controversial new security procedures and argued that if passengers want to get on a plane, they have to undergo new screening procedures.
“I see flying as a privilege. That is public safety issue so the government has a role in providing public safety and we need to do everything we can in partnership with the public to inform them about what their options are,” Pistole said at a breakfast with reporters organized by the Christian Science Monitor. “Passengers have a number of options as you go through screening. Bottom line is if someone decides they don’t want to have screening, they don’t have a right to get on the plane.”
Some passengers have complained that the pat-downs, implemented Nov. 1, are too invasive. One ABC News employee said the security officer put her hand inside her underwear and felt her way around. Thomas Sawyer, a bladder cancer survivor, said he was left covered in his own urine after a pat-down broke his urostomy bag.
TSA Chief Pistole is a staunch defender of terrorist rights.
More… Pistole also admitted that he withheld information on the pat-downs.
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BuddyG commented:
Bad Air Day
Ginger commented:
Well make darn sure that you do the same thing to the terrorist! Hey jerk they are called MUSLIMS. btw …. search the cargo too, the cargo won’t mind being screened and sexually handled! He (pi** hole) is such a ?@#*(%#@
gastorgrab commented:
Driving is a privilege……….for licensed drivers.
Imagine if the TSA claimed the authority to grope all passengers in your personal vehicle.
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Chris commented:
Flying is privilege, subject to adjucation by the Gubmint.
Driving a car, however, is a “right” — especially access to a license, for which our Anointed Betters in the Ruling Class have declared that zero, zip, zilch, nada, ABSOLUTELY NO personal identification/documentation can be required.
It’s your right, dadgummit, darned straight! How utterly racially/enthnically profiling of you to dare to imply otherwise.
Now, just spread your legs, bend over, and enjoy your latest taxpayer-paid government “service”….(remember, “service” is what they say the bull does to the cow!).
Smile for the camera!
StrangernFiction commented:
“Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration promises,” the newspaper reported on July 17.
I guess taking the subway, bus, etc. is a privelege as well. Looks like those crazy rightwingers warning about martial law weren’t so crazy after all.
Granny commented:
Here’s my post from the previous thread –
And it just keeps getting better and better. Remember that Civilian Security Force every bit as well trained and well equipped as the US Military TheWon talked about. Here it is -
Soon after taking over the TSA earlier this year, the former FBI deputy director Pistole told USA Today that he will work to expand airport Gestapo zones. “Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration promises,” the newspaper reported on July 17.
“Given the list of threats on subways and rails over the last six years going on seven years, we know that some terrorist groups see rail and subways as being more vulnerable because there’s not the type of screening that you find in aviation,” Pistole said. “From my perspective, that is an equally important threat area.”
In addition, Pistole said he would like to see TSA workers, including 47,000 screeners at 450 airports, to operate as a “national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts.” He wants to “take TSA to the next level.”
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-searches-are-trains-and-subways-next/
Keep your eyes open for that Reichstag Fire event.
PatriotFan commented:
Unfortunately, we can’t do much about him at the moment, but wait until January when the Republicans take over Congress. I smell change-a-coming….
wanumba commented:
Flying has made America very efficient and mobile, a huge contributor to the growth of our economy. Restrictiing it in any measure, from artifical gauntlets to jacking fuel prices and slapping on more and more regulations will cripple our economy.
Obama said it’s all working “as planned.” Aviation is America’s forte, an enormous comparative advantage over other nations in faciliating human endeavors and force projection of our military. Wreck that and we’re ruined.
gastorgrab commented:
Remember when only convicted criminals could be forced to do something?
The government now assumes that we’re all ‘potential criminals’ and interferes with our rights before we ever get a chance to commit a crime.
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dwd commented:
How does one become TSA chief? Is this an appointment? This guy needs canned and fast. He’s a jackass, and he’s terrible at PR. Another thing on the to-do list for the incoming House Republicans, hopefully.
Chip Bennett commented:
Memo to Fascist-wannabe Pistole:
Dear Assha… er, I mean, Sir,
Your job is a privilege. That privilege will be revoked in due course.
Regards,
Americans Who Cherish Our Constitutional Rights
Granny commented:
dwd – head of TSA is a political appointment. Agency heads are supposed to be approved by Congress, but TheWon has deliberately taken advantage of Congressional vacations to make appointments without Congressional approval at least 3 or 4 times. Some of the creeps he has put in place this way wouldn’t pass a security check for a crossing guard.
knldgskr commented:
As someone who was sexually abused as a child I truly fear that if I were abused by a TSA pervert I might go berserk. I cannot allow myself to be put in that position so I am now a prisoner in my own country and not free to travel.
Granny commented:
BREAKING Ground Zero Mosque Developers Apply for $5 Million Grant from the 911 Redevelopment Fund!!!
WTH??!!!
RSweeney commented:
I wonder if TSA still has rules limiting the number of Moslems who can be searched?
bertogem commented:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government . . . WHEN?
Neo commented:
“I see flying as a privilege.
By this reasoning, New Jersey State Troopers should have every right to “profile” drivers on New Jersey highways because it is a privilege to drive a motor vehicle in New Jersey.
Granny commented:
#17 November 22, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Neo commented:
“I see flying as a privilege.
By this reasoning, New Jersey State Troopers should have every right to “profile” drivers on New Jersey highways because it is a privilege to drive a motor vehicle in New Jersey.
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Massachusetts too. By this reasoning, police have the right to stop any driver for anything and physically search him and his possessions with no warrant and no cause. The courts have overturned that time and time again.
Gini commented:
I am considering taking the train to Montreal and flying to England from there. More costly, but at least I will not be groped or radiated.
laddy commented:
What amazes me is how many of these incompetents get high paying government jobs.
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