The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The TSA’s nonsense has reached new heights. It is bad enough that government employees are doing the oogle and grope without warrants, but when they refuse to follow their own damn rules and treat American citizens like terrorist out of spite, it is time to take them down. Hard.
The TSA’S own guidelines:
TSA is also modifying the rules associated with carrying breast milk through security checkpoints. Mothers flying with, and now without, their child will be permitted to bring breast milk in quantities greater than three ounces as long as it is declared for inspection at the security checkpoint.
Breast milk is in the same category as liquid medications.
- Separate these items from the liquids, gels, and aerosols in your quart-size and zip-top bag.
- Declare you have the items to one of our Security Officers at the security checkpoint.
- Present these items for additional inspection once reaching the X-ray. These items are subject to additional screening.
It has passed time to use this:
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
-42 U.S.C. section 1983
I hope she got names and badge numbers.
H/T DPUD
I guess profiling makes too much sense. Better to harass everyone. BTW Surprise you didnt mention the porno scanners and that they will be going everywhere where citizens use transportation.
And remember when that POS wanted a civilian force just as strong and funded as the military? This is the blueprint right here. Just wait til these thugs get unionized.
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.
This has turned into a farce. Very real abuses of freedoms and liberties are taking place, and now a porn star made a you tube video about it.
Then, on top of it all? Does the interstate compact apply to D.C? Or will we, the people, have to become creative and use Second Amendment solutions to bureaucratic belligerence and official oppression?
Brest milk as an explosive? For the love of God…
Patrick,
Part of the reason for the breast milk is because a husband and wife jihadist team tried boarding an airliner with chemicals smuggled in baby bottles. And of course they used their infant to help sell the plan. All for allah
BIW.
I wrote a short take on this and referenced Terry V Ohio as the 4th Amendment exception for warrantless, non custodial exterior searches and US v Davis (482 F.2d 893, 908) as the case law TSA is relying on as justification for what they’re doing.
It seems to me that TSA is exceeding their moral and legal authority and that a set aside or modification of Davis and a strict interpretation of Terry is necessary (perhaps vis new case law) to reign in the abuses (and where is the ACLU??).
The US Government uses the TSA as Hitler used the SS. Shots will eventually be fired at these assclowns and I wonder who will take the first ones.
Sorry to go O.T., but I predicted that Barack Obama would be Jimmy Carter Redux in Nov. 2008.
I apologize for so underestimating the man’s degree of incompetence.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/11/wikileaks-completes-obamas.html
Anybody found leaking this information should be put in front of a firing squad, because we obviously can’t depend on our government to protect secrets. Perhaps we should Harvard’s Registrar’s office in charge – they seem damn capable of hiding Mr. Magna Cum Laude’s grades….
Tex,
You always assume he is incompetent. He knows what he is doing. Dont get me wrong, he isnt the sharpest knife in the drawer but this is all intentional. But dont worry, he has almost outlived his use-fullness. Soros has already made that clear.
Elric,
Oh sure. We know Obama is a hack and shill, neo-pagan, liar, and American hater. That much is indisputable anymore. And there is now no doubt that Obama is also a Soros puppet aimed at taking America down several notches, primed for the Presidency from a young age. Serendipity made that possible in 2008.
But come on! Even you and I couldn’t dream the man could be this incapable on the public stage. Did you really think the man couldn’t finish a sentence without aid of a teleprompter? Or have such a void of history? Be so dumb to fly his feckless wife for pictures over ground zero, putting the city into mass panic? Be this incompetent in negotiation? Beg and fail for the Olympics? I figured at least Iran would be kissing his ass by now for military secrets – hell, they are even laughing at him now.
This administration is falling apart in less than 24 months.
Forget being sharp. He’s not even a butter knife. I’m convinced the average schmuck on the road is more capable at managing the country. I never dreamed Obama could be this inept and so transparently shallow.
I thought he at least might play figurehead.
You know BIC how Rutherford is always accusing me of misogyny over at his blog? Beating up on the flake Fake and Dingbat Sensico? Two rabid, man hating libs yearning for a sissy to marry and browbeat.
This Ms. Deb? I really like her. She’s like the antithesis of that whiny Fake. She’s funny, nice writer, sensible, and she has some the most interesting stuff on the net.
I don’t know anything about her, but I would appreciate you passing that on…
Tex,
I dont think he is bright. I just think the destruction he is inflicting is intentional, not due to incompetence.
If we get to the point where someone with an ounce of common sense is appointed to run the circus that the TSA has evolved into, they should check with the Israel security folks who have been dealing with these problems with great success for many years. They run security checks prior to any flights that are based upon background checks of passengers before the individuals even reach the airport, sorting out and identifying potential problems. Profiling, you say? Hell, yes! It ain’t Yon Yonson from Visconsin who is trying to blow airplanes out of the air.
TSA has fallen prey to the bureaucratic tendency to get wound around the axle with their ever-burgeoning regulations that are based upon an infantile obsession with political correctness.