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From Prison Planet: Illustrating once again how the TSA is handing out arbitrary punishments for people who exercise their right to opt out of radiation-firing body scanners, frequent flier Steven deForest described how he had his testicles “smacked” by a TSA screener for refusing to go through the scanner. While traveling through Las Vegas, deForest chose to opt out of a naked body scanner and was told to wait in a glass [...] Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted. Since the TSA deleted most of the video footage, this clip shows only the end of the incident. Tom McCormack explains how he was repeatedly harassed by TSA officers and [...] Homeland Security claimed it had “dropped the plans at an early stage” Steve Watson Newly released documents clearly show that the The Homeland Security Department continued to pursue a mobile surveillance program, moving radiation firing body scanners out of airports and into streets and shopping malls, despite claiming it has dropped the plans altogether. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) yesterday released the documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, showing [...] Federal agency looking to develop new wanding-style device for searches Paul Joseph Watson Following a massive nationwide backlash, the TSA looks set to move away from invasive pat downs and return to wanding-style searches of travelers. Although the change will initially apply only to travelers who pass through a body scanner, the fact that the federal agency is actively attempting to reduce the number of physical pat downs, [...] SALT L AKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive. Savannah Barry is mad and on a mission. She wants travelers to be warned before they walk through TSA security. “They need to get [...] New legislation would abolish government involvement in airport security Paul Joseph Watson Senator Rand Paul has issued a press release in which he vows to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers. Earlier this year, Paul was detained by the TSA after refusing to submit to an invasive pat down after already having passed through a [...] Patrick Henningsen Seeing is believing. If this reporter had any doubts regarding the validity of all those outrageous tales of the TSA groping and abusing everyday American travellers, those doubts were crushed this past weekend. Whilst entering security at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport, I opted out of the TSA’s naked body scanner, requesting instead to have an ‘enhanced pat-down’ at which time I was summarily escorted to a side area where one other traveller was sitting, both of us [...] Patrick Henningsen Seeing is believing. If this reporter had any doubts regarding the validity of all those outrageous tales of the TSA groping and abusing everyday American travellers, those doubts were crushed this past weekend. Whilst entering security at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport, I opted out of the TSA’s naked body scanner, requesting instead to have an ‘enhanced pat-down’ where I was summarily escorted to a side area where one other traveller was sitting, both of [...] Refusing to be irradiated treated as suspicious behaviour Steve Watson Instances of TSA agents demanding to know why travelers are “opting out” of walking through x-ray firing body scanners, and treating the action as suspicious, continue to be reported. Traveler Ryan Alford told Lew Rockwell.com “I travel weekly for work and always choose to opt out of the naked body scanners. (I don’t know what’s worse, the pat down or radiation exposure, but [...] Rep. Sharon Cissna’s legislation would also ban body scanners that produce naked images Paul Joseph Watson A bill introduced by Alaska lawmaker and TSA grope victim Rep. Sharon Cissna would criminalize both invasive pat downs and body scans that produce naked images conducted by the federal agency, setting the stage for another states’ rights battle with the government. When Texas lawmakers tried to pass a similar law last [...] New legislation will force TSA to install “passenger advocates” at every airport Paul Joseph Watson Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times so chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure.
The incident occurred at DFW International Airport earlier [...] Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., wrote a dramatic account of his Monday “detention” at the Nashville airport in a Washington Times op-ed on Tuesday. After the Senator set off a body scanner, he refused to undergo a pat-down and airport security guards made him sit in a cubicle—a delay that resulted in the Senator missing his flight. (CAMPAIGN 2012: Palin: Christie Got His ‘Panties in a Wad’ Over Gingrich) “My detention was real,” Paul wrote. “Despite removing my belt, glasses, [...] The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance Have you wondered what $1.2 billion in airport security gets you? The TSA has compiled its own “Top 10 Good Catches of 2011“: 10) Snakes, turtles, and birds were found at Miami (MIA) and Los Angeles (LAX). I’m just happy there weren’t any lions, tigers, and bears… [...] 3) Over 1,200 firearms were discovered at TSA checkpoints across the nation in 2011. Many guns are found loaded with rounds in [...] Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) No matter how many times the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims the machines are safe and pose no threat to travelers or personnel, naked body scanners that emit ionizing radiation are, indeed, a very serious health threat. And Dr. Edward Dauer, head of radiology at Florida Medical Center, agrees, having recently come forward to explain that naked body scanners can cause cancer, particularly in [...] (NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called “the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America.” It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public’s right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people [...] Lori Dorn/Twitter NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Although October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, it seems some TSA agents aren’t very aware when it comes to compassion. Breast cancer survivor Lori Dorn says she was subjected to a humiliating public patdown at John F. Kennedy airport even though she offered to produce documentation about her medical implants. Dorn wrote in her blog that the patdown at JFK added “insult to injury [...] Sweaty armpits confuse radiation firing machines Steve Watson Radiation firing body scanners have been yet again proven ineffective and unpractical after alarms were set off repeatedly at an Australian airport by passengers with sweaty armpits. As Australian Transport Minister Anthony Albanese described the scanners as the “most advanced passenger screening technology available in the world”, one of the machines set off an alarm [...] Forbes.com Last weekend, a Tennessee woman was arrested at the Nashville airport for disorderly conduct after she refused TSA security measures for her children. The woman didn’t want her two children to have to go through a whole-body-imaging scanner. When a Transportation Security Administration officer told her the machines were safe, she said, “I still don’t want someone to see our bodies naked.” She won’t be pleased [...] RALEIGH (WTVD) — A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far. Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA security checkpoint before boarding a flight home. Peterson said she was selected for extra screening. First, security officers lifted her out of her wheelchair and helped her stand in a full body scanner. Then, she was given a [...] JUNE 28–The Transportation Security Administration employee charged with assaulting a coworker who taunted him about the size of his penis after his genitalia was exposed by a full-body scanner has agreed to attend anger management classes and write a letter of apology as part of a settlement of his criminal case, records show. TSA screener Rolando Negrin, 46, will also perform 50 hours of community [...] Video of an incident recorded over the memorial weekend at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ, documents how the TSA deal with people who are traumatized by grossly invasive enhanced pat downs. After a woman refused to go through a full body scanner she was pulled aside and made to undergo the pat down procedure. When the TSA agent touched the woman’s breasts, she broke down into tears and screamed for [...] Michael Chertoff, Former Department of Homeland Security, is the head of the Chertoff Group, the lead cheerleader for what is being called the Full Body Scanner Lobby, reports the Washington Post and the Washington Examiner. Ever since the Christmas Day Bomb Scare, Chertoff has been making the rounds championing the Full Body Scanners as a way to detect hidden explosive devices. Quote: Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed [...] |
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TSA Launches 18 New Twitter Accounts In PR Drive
Federal agency denies accounts will be used to monitor public
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Transportation Security Administration has launched a staggering eighteen new Twitter accounts as part of a PR drive presumably in response to the overwhelming amount of negative publicity the federal agency receives on a routine basis.
“As part of what looks to be a massive information campaign by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), TSA [...]