Ron Paul Unleashes On TSA: ?Enough Is Enough?
Congressman introduces legislation to block immunity for federal goons who ?treat Americans like cattle?
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com <SUP>[1]</SUP>
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
In perhaps his most impassioned and irate speech to date, Congressman Ron Paul unleashed a tirade of vilification at the TSA and their security procedures that have stoked nationwide outrage, stating ?enough is enough? as he introduced new legislation to that would open the way for TSA employees to be sued for groping Americans or putting them through dangerous naked body scanners, preventing travelers ?from being treated like cattle?.
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During a speech on the House floor last night, Paul said that the treatment Americans were being subjected to at airports proved that the country as a whole needs to stand up and tell the federal government, ?enough is enough?.
?Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries,? roared the Congressman.
?Something has to be done,? Paul implored. ?Everybody?s fed up. The people are fed up. The pilots are fed up. I?m fed up.?
Visibly infuriated, Paul said the traveling public were being treated like farmyard animals.
?If this doesn?t change, I see what has happened to the American people is we have accepted the notion that we should be treated like cattle. Make us safe, make us secure, put us in the barbed wire, feed us, fatten us up, and then they?ll eat us. And we are a bunch of cattle and we have to wake up and say we?ve had it?. It?s time for the American people to stand up and shrug off the shackles of our government at TSA at the airport,? he raged, encouraging people to support the national opt out day <SUP>[2]</SUP> planned for November 24.
Paul?s legislation, the ?American Traveler Dignity Act,? is expertly crafted because it gives the feds no room to maneuver. If he had merely called for an end to certain pat down techniques, the government could have weasled out of it by invoking terror threats or changing semantics. However, once it is established that TSA employees are not immune to assault and harassment lawsuits, they will avoid groping Americans for fear of being sued. Numerous lawsuits of this nature <SUP>[5]</SUP> are already in motion.
Paul also addresses the use of naked body scanners, similarly opening the way for the TSA to be directly sued for producing images that are tantamount to pornography, and pedophilia in the case of children.
The bill is brief and gets straight to the point.
?If it is skin to skin, if someone were to take their hand and put it underneath somebody?s blouse and touch someone inappropriately and go skin to skin, that?s a felony, and if it?s done simply over the clothing, according to California law, that?s a misdemeanor,? said DA Steve Wagstaffe.
As we documented <SUP>[7]</SUP>in the case of radio host Owen JJ Stone, the TSA is now ordering its workers to stick their hands down people?s pants and touch genitalia.
In another case, TSA agents pulled down a 21-year-old woman?s blouse and started laughing and joking about her exposed breasts <SUP>[8]</SUP> while other TSA workers expressed their wish to obtain video of the incident, presumably so they could masturbate over the naked woman.
TSA abuse is now so wildly out of control that new cases are emerging on a daily basis. In the latest example, a woman from Ohio had her breasts and vagina aggressively groped by a TSA worker at Dayton International Airport last week. Read about her experience here <SUP>[9]</SUP>and watch the video below.
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Napolitano, Pistole, and the rest of the feds hoped that they could lie and deceive the American people <SUP>[10]</SUP> into backing down on this issue. Now the revolt against the TSA is growing bigger every day and shows no signs of abating. Indeed, some are even speculating that we could be witnessing the embryonic stages of a new rebellion that will lead to a fundamental shift in America?s political landscape, just as the end the fed rallies in 2007 and the town hall fury we witnessed in 2009 led to the creation of the Tea Party and the wider move against big government.
We need to throw all our support behind Ron Paul?s bill and hold lawmakers? feet to the fire on this issue until the TSA?s power is completely rolled back if not the organization abolished altogether and airport security handed back to professional and credible organizations whose main concern is rational and successful security and not the ritual humiliation and degradation of the American people.
Congressman introduces legislation to block immunity for federal goons who ?treat Americans like cattle?
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com <SUP>[1]</SUP>
<SUP></SUP>
Thursday, November 18, 2010
In perhaps his most impassioned and irate speech to date, Congressman Ron Paul unleashed a tirade of vilification at the TSA and their security procedures that have stoked nationwide outrage, stating ?enough is enough? as he introduced new legislation to that would open the way for TSA employees to be sued for groping Americans or putting them through dangerous naked body scanners, preventing travelers ?from being treated like cattle?.
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During a speech on the House floor last night, Paul said that the treatment Americans were being subjected to at airports proved that the country as a whole needs to stand up and tell the federal government, ?enough is enough?.
?Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries,? roared the Congressman.
?Something has to be done,? Paul implored. ?Everybody?s fed up. The people are fed up. The pilots are fed up. I?m fed up.?
Visibly infuriated, Paul said the traveling public were being treated like farmyard animals.
?If this doesn?t change, I see what has happened to the American people is we have accepted the notion that we should be treated like cattle. Make us safe, make us secure, put us in the barbed wire, feed us, fatten us up, and then they?ll eat us. And we are a bunch of cattle and we have to wake up and say we?ve had it?. It?s time for the American people to stand up and shrug off the shackles of our government at TSA at the airport,? he raged, encouraging people to support the national opt out day <SUP>[2]</SUP> planned for November 24.
Paul?s legislation, the ?American Traveler Dignity Act,? is expertly crafted because it gives the feds no room to maneuver. If he had merely called for an end to certain pat down techniques, the government could have weasled out of it by invoking terror threats or changing semantics. However, once it is established that TSA employees are not immune to assault and harassment lawsuits, they will avoid groping Americans for fear of being sued. Numerous lawsuits of this nature <SUP>[5]</SUP> are already in motion.
Paul also addresses the use of naked body scanners, similarly opening the way for the TSA to be directly sued for producing images that are tantamount to pornography, and pedophilia in the case of children.
The bill is brief and gets straight to the point.
A BILL
To ensure that certain Federal employees cannot hide behind immunity.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NO IMMUNITY FOR CERTAIN AIRPORT SCREENING METHODS.
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual?s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual?s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.
Indeed, the district attorney?s office in San Mateo County, California has already promised to pursue charges against TSA employees <SUP>[6]</SUP> whose behavior equates to sexual battery.To ensure that certain Federal employees cannot hide behind immunity.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. NO IMMUNITY FOR CERTAIN AIRPORT SCREENING METHODS.
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual?s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual?s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.
?If it is skin to skin, if someone were to take their hand and put it underneath somebody?s blouse and touch someone inappropriately and go skin to skin, that?s a felony, and if it?s done simply over the clothing, according to California law, that?s a misdemeanor,? said DA Steve Wagstaffe.
As we documented <SUP>[7]</SUP>in the case of radio host Owen JJ Stone, the TSA is now ordering its workers to stick their hands down people?s pants and touch genitalia.
In another case, TSA agents pulled down a 21-year-old woman?s blouse and started laughing and joking about her exposed breasts <SUP>[8]</SUP> while other TSA workers expressed their wish to obtain video of the incident, presumably so they could masturbate over the naked woman.
TSA abuse is now so wildly out of control that new cases are emerging on a daily basis. In the latest example, a woman from Ohio had her breasts and vagina aggressively groped by a TSA worker at Dayton International Airport last week. Read about her experience here <SUP>[9]</SUP>and watch the video below.
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Napolitano, Pistole, and the rest of the feds hoped that they could lie and deceive the American people <SUP>[10]</SUP> into backing down on this issue. Now the revolt against the TSA is growing bigger every day and shows no signs of abating. Indeed, some are even speculating that we could be witnessing the embryonic stages of a new rebellion that will lead to a fundamental shift in America?s political landscape, just as the end the fed rallies in 2007 and the town hall fury we witnessed in 2009 led to the creation of the Tea Party and the wider move against big government.
We need to throw all our support behind Ron Paul?s bill and hold lawmakers? feet to the fire on this issue until the TSA?s power is completely rolled back if not the organization abolished altogether and airport security handed back to professional and credible organizations whose main concern is rational and successful security and not the ritual humiliation and degradation of the American people.
