Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts

Police State America: TSA To Arrest Any Citizen Charged With Any Crime Trying To Come Or Leave The Country

Including taxes.     The border is closing rapidly. First it was FATCA hunting Americans with any assets overseas whatsoever. Now just two days after taking charge of the committee chairing the House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, U.S. Rep. John Katko introduced two bills. He is looking to effectively close the borders using terrorism as   ... MORE

An Innocent Frequent Flyer Detained 23 Hours By TSA

by Ronnie Polaneczky.      Apparently, working as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Philadelphia International Airport comes with a perk:   You get to throw people in jail for no good reason and still keep your job. If that's not the case, why is Charles Kieser still employed by the TSA?  Vanderklok, 57, is a Philly architect   ... MORE

James Bovard: America's Fading Love Of Freedom

A very docile populace.   Tea Party protesters, some Republicans, and many libertarians perceive the federal government as a vast engine of oppression. But are anti-Obama activists mistaken in presuming that most Americans still care about freedom? A Gallup poll released in July asked a thousand Americans, “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your  ... MORE

VIDEO: How To Thwart Dishonest Baggage Handlers


Warning: following advice in this video could result in you being placed on a terrorist list.

TSA Admits To Allowing Illegal Aliens to Fly Without ID

by Kristin Tate. A new letter from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) admits that illegal aliens were being allowed to board planes using Notice to Appear forms they received after entering the U.S. illegally. The revelation directly contradicts a TSA statement last month denying such allegations to various media outlets,      ... MORE

Tammy Bruce: America Is Turning In To A Police State

The stench of tyranny is in the air.       With so much happening internationally and the number of scandals, crises and general screw-ups of the Obama administration here at home, it’s worth noting a disturbing development here on the domestic front: a rapidly expanding police state. On my radio program last week I had the pleasure of   ... MORE

Lawrence M. Ludlow: TSA = Thousands Of Sexual Assailants

The degradation of travel.     Ever since the blowback retaliation of 9/11, the government has subjected people trapped in the United States with a constant stream of propaganda, war-making tax-theft, police-state spying, and outright physical and sexual molestation at airports. Although oodles of self-deceived parrots (my apologies to that noble bird  ... MORE

TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Luggage For Bitcoin

by Gregory Ferenstein.        Davi Baker wasn’t quite sure how to comply with the TSA’s demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screening, and they wanted an additional search of his belongings. “We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to check,”   ... MORE

Brittany Varner-Miller: TSA Introducing Police State

Acclimating Americans to an inevitable fate?     Ever since the attack on September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems to be introducing Americans to what a police state feels like. After the terrorist attack on the twin towers, the TSA has been strengthening the security of the nation’s transportation       ... MORE

Christopher Elliott: TSA Gives Fliers A Bad Feeling

Are they starting to sense the government is not us?         If airport security is so good, why do passengers feel so bad? That's a valid question, considering how the Transportation Security Administration seems to be spinning its performance lately. The agency wants you to believe the dark days of body scans and pat-downs, of liquids,   ... MORE

TSA Pat-Down Leads To Sex Assault Investigation

What if sexual assault by government is legal?         Denver police have initiated a sexual assault investigation focused on Transportation Security Administration officers at a checkpoint at Denver International Airport. It comes after a Colorado woman filed a complaint saying the frisking she received amounted to a sexual assault.    ... MORE

Drew Zahn: Big Brother Tells Kids: TSA 'Isn't Scary'

Coloring books, cartoons to placate terrified tots.       Four-year-old Isabella Brademeyer had just learned about “stranger danger” at school, her family said. Perhaps that’s why the little girl was terrified when Transportation Security Administration officers at a Kansas airport separated her from her mother, told her to spread her arms and   ... MORE

TSA's Mission Creep Making America A Police State

From patdowns to checkpoints and roadblocks.     Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists    ... MORE

Scott Holleran: Abolish The TSA

It does not protect and defend, it endangers.     It’s peak travel season, so it’s a good time to examine the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a government agency created by President George W. Bush supposedly to protect air passengers. As a recent government accountability report and deadly attack on Los Angeles Airport   ... MORE

Ever Vigilant, TSA Confiscates Sock Monkey's Toy Pistol

You can't make this stuff up.        "Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis. Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday. May has a small business selling unique sock      ...  MORE

TSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search

Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment.             The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport.  Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have    ... MORE

Crony Capitalism Drives Airport Security

from The Dollar Vigilante Blog.     There is yet another reason not to fly into or within the US. “Nazi-style detention pods” – that's what opponents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have called the new “exit pods” being tested at the Syracuse (NY) airport. But the pods are not primarily a rape of civil rights. Their import       ... MORE