TSA Freak Wants Jill Filipovic to Get Her Freak On

"GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL" Note Left by TSA
Photo: Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic of New York got a surprise in her luggage after passing thorough Newark's Liberty International Airport. While unpacking, she found a handwritten note on an official TSA notice reading, "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL." This note was presumably left in her suitcase by a TSA employee who was rummaging through her luggage and found a sex toy.

The TSA apologized to Jill Filipovic and claims they have removed--but not fired--the employee who left the inappropriate note. When the TSA employees are busy playing with people's extremely personal items and leaving flirty handwritten notes, what sort of dangerous things could they be missing during these periods of distraction?

Another TSA Agent Accepts Bribes from Drug Trafficker

Los Angles Transportation Security Administration agent, Dianna Perez has been charged with accepting bribes from a drug trafficker, Millage Peaks, Jr. Millage Peaks, Jr. allegedly paid $500 to Dianna Perez for each suitcase of illegal drugs she helped clear through TSA security.

Millage Peaks, Jr. was caught, headed from Los Angeles to Boston when baggage handlers noticed his suitcase smelled of marijuana. This was probably the tenth time Dianna Perez had helped Millage Peaks, Jr. get a suitcase through TSA security.

On the surface this may seem just like a harmless case of drug trafficking, but this is far more serious. What if there had been a bomb hidden in anyone of those ten suitcases and Dianna Perez had sneaked it through security thinking it was just full of drugs? Anyone should be able to see the potential danger. These corrupt TSA agents are a serious threat to the security of air traffic. What sort of degenerates is the TSA hiring anyway?

Police Opening Doors of Unlocked Vehicles

In another example of police overreaching into the lives of innocent civilians, police in Beverly, Massachusetts are actively looking for parked vehicles with unlocked doors. If a vehicle is unlocked, the police will open the door, lock the vehicle, then shut the door. The police are also leaving warnings for the owners informing them their vehicles are easy targets for thieves. This police action has caused some problems. Some owners left their keys in their vehicles and got locked out of their own vehicles.

This police action is just one element of a larger program in which the police are warning vehicle owners to not make their vehicles targets by leaving valuables in their vehicles in plain view, leaving doors unlocked, etc. The police are going from vehicle to vehicle and leaving written warnings on any vehicles the police feel might be attractive to thieves.

Sure, this sounds like the police are just trying to be helpful, but this is a perfect example of how governments now feel the need to get involved in even the most minute details of innocent people's lives. If people are too stupid to lock their vehicles and keep their valuables out of sight, that is too bad. Those people are taking a risk. If someone steals from the vehicle, the owner will have to face the consequences of being careless. The last thing the vehicle owner needs is some busybody cop putting a sign on the vehicle that advertises to all passers-by there are valuables in the vehicle. That is just idiotic. The cops are marking the targets for thieves.

The most troubling thing is that the cops are actually opening the doors of unlocked vehicles. These vehicles are private property, and opening a private vehicle without permission or a warrant is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. What happens if the cop opens a vehicle and notices something suspicious that might be visible only when a vehicle door is opened? Does the cop continue snooping around in the vehicle? Does the cop make an arrest or file a report if he finds something illegal?

Also, there are some good reasons to leave a vehicle unlocked. Anyone with a convertible or soft-top jeep knows to never lock the vehicle. Thieves cut through soft-tops to get in, and the cost to replace the soft-top far exceeds the value of the items inside the vehicle. Also, people know thieves will smash windows to get into vehicles. Some vehicle owners do not keep anything valuable in their vehicles, so they leave them unlocked, hoping no one will smash a window to get inside. After all, the windows are just glass and do not provide much security. They are, however, expensive to replace.

The bottom line is this. It does not matter why people leave their vehicles unlocked. If people want to do things with their private property that may seem careless, it is not the concern of the police. Here's a fresh thought. Instead of the police wasting time checking door locks, they should be out arresting thieves. The reason we have so many vehicle break-in is because the cops are not doing their jobs and putting the thieves in jail where they belong.

TSA Officer Charged with Child Pornography

Michael Scott Wilson
Image: Baltimore County Police Department

The Transportation Security Administration has done it again. This time, 41-year-old TSA officer, Michael Scott Wilson of Redwing Drive in Perry Hall, Maryland was arrested on September 27, 2011 with possession and distribution of child pornography.

Just remember, the next time the TSA agent has his hands all over your child, he may be having the time of his life. If a guy likes looking at child porn, he probably gets a real charge out of feeling up an actual child while his parents stand by and watch helplessly. These child molesters are sick, and they love, power, submission, and access.

Michael Wilson may not be a representation of all TSA agents, but there certainly must be more like him in the TSA who have not yet been caught. This is exactly why people normally do not let strangers come up and paw their children. Some strangers are good, and some strangers terrible. Since parents cannot always tell who is good and bad, parents usually just do not let any strangers touch their children. Oddly, one of the very few places were strangers get to grope children with impunity is the TSA.

TSA Manager Stabs TSA Worker to Death

Ruben Orlando Benitez

If you needed more proof the Transportation Security Administration is filled with a bunch of psychotic reprobates, here it is. Ruben Orlando Benitez the Assistant Federal Security Director for Screening for the TSA in Mississippi has been arrested on suspicion he stabbed to death, another TSA employee, Stacey Wright in her D’Iberville, Mississippi apartment.

This is the sort of guy who manages the miscreants who are supposed to be protecting you from homicidal maniacs. Maybe the TSA figures it takes one to know one. Nobody, therefore, can protect innocent travelers from violent crazy people better than other violent crazy people with badges.

TSA Allows Crazed Man with Knife on Plane

On September 18, 2011, on a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, David Alan Anderson got into a confrontation with a neighboring passenger over an arm rest. Anderson quickly became aggressive and threatened to slit the passenger's throat.

The crew noticed Anderson reaching into his bag several times, appearing to be holding something in his hand.

The Salt Lake police were called. They conducted a voluntary search of Anderson's bag and found a knife with a 3 1/2" blade. Anderson was arrested. Anderson went on to verbally threaten police and FBI agents.

The passenger who was in the confrontation with David Anderson could have been killed, and it would have been the TSA's fault. One of the TSA's primary responsibilities is to keep weapons off of planes. Why can't the TSA manage to do that?

If Your Hair Is Nappy, the TSA Is Not Happy

When commenting on various hairstyles popular in the Black community, comedian, Paul Mooney joked, "If your hair is relaxed, White people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they aren't happy."

That sentiment seems to be no joking matter at the Transportation Security Administration. In July of 2011, Laura Adiele had her "poofy" hair molested by the TSA.  Most recently, Isis Brantley of Dallas was at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on September 19, 2011. She made it through a TSA checkpoint only to be stopped again to have her afro searched. Apparently, the TSA was concerned Isis Brantley's hair might contain explosives.  The intrusive search left Brantley feeling humiliated and outraged.

We can all rest easy, because the threat of Isis Brantley's exploding afro has been eliminated. It turns out Isis Brantley was not a terrorist and did not hide any explosives in her hair. She is a hairstylist, who proudly wears her hair natural.

The TSA simply has to find a better way to handle situations like this. There is an abundance of technology that can be used to detect explosives. It is completely unnecessary for the TSA to be poking around in people's hair.  The TSA does stuff like this because they can, and they want to show you they are in charge.  Think about it this way, when a unifromed federal officer is rummaging around in your hair, is there any question about who is in control?

Pat-Downs to Be Enhanced at NFL Games

One of the worst effects of the Transportation Security Administration's practice of pat-downs is that it has conditioned innocent people to easily and willingly surrender their dignity and privacy to authority figures--even in the private sector. The private-sector invasions of personal space have become most severe at sporting events.

If you have been attending sporting events during the last few years, you may have noticed a gradual increase in the aggression from the security guards and their increasingly intrusive pat-downs. Now, the NFL is recommending all game attendees be patted-down from the ankles to the knees and the waist up. Now, if you attend a lot of games, you have probably already had more intrusive pat-downs than that. You have probably had a security guard's hands way up near your crotch. Procedures must vary from stadium to stadium or perhaps some security guards are more frisky than others.

What is bad about the NFL pushing more aggressive pat-downs is that this measure will eventually lead to future requirements that could be even more intrusive. It would not be surprising to see aggressive acts of molestation happening at sporting events in a couple of years. We're talking a stranger's hand way up in your crotch and all over your genitals just half an hour before you are in the stadium singing the National Anthem. (How ironic is that?)

What is happening here is our rights are eroding. Or sense of dignity is vanishing. Sadly, the NFL has every right to conduct whatever searches they want. They are a business, and the fans are customers. If fans do not want to be molested, they do not have to go to games.

The football fans should rebel against these insulting pat-downs and boycott the games. If people stopped paying to see the games until the pat-downs stopped, the NFL would end the pat-downs immediately.

The problem is, the football fans are not going to stand up for their dignity. For a decade, they have been conditioned to surrender their pride and privacy by the TSA's intrusive searches. Since becoming felt-up by uniformed strangers is now commonplace in America, people have little trouble bowing to the NFL and allowing their bodies to be violated.

This NFL pat-down move should be a lesson to all. If you surrender your freedoms in one place, you will eventually lose them elsewhere until, someday, you find you have no more freedoms left to lose.

Shoshana Hebshi Strip-Searched After Sitting Next to Suspicious Men on Plane

Shoshana Hebshi

Shoshana Hebshi, a half-Jewish and half-Arabic woman, was strip-searched after sitting next to two Indian men who were accused of acting suspicious on a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Detroit on September 11, 2011. The flight crew reported the two men for spending too much time in the bathroom.

Upon landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the plane was isolated and stormed by heavily armed police. The police handcuffed Hebshi and the two suspicious men and removed them from the plane. Hebshi was patted down and placed in the back of a police car. She was then taken to a holding cell and forced to remove her clothes for a strip-search.

Guess what they found on Hebshi. They found nothing. Shoshana Hebshi is not a terrorist. She is a mom who just happened to look a little too Middle-Eastern and just happened to sit next to some Indian men who went to the bathroom too often for some people to accept. By the way, the Indian men did not even know each other, and they were never in the bathroom together. One of the men was sick, and the other man probably had some other good reason to visit the bathroom. They were not terrorists either. There were no weapons. There were no bombs. There was no plot. There was nothing. All three people were innocent.

What happened here is three perfectly innocent people were bullied and harassed for looking a little too ethnic. It is ridiculous that Indian people are not allowed to visit the bathroom more than an average number of times without setting off some national security emergency. It is even more ridiculous a woman was singled out just because she was sitting in the wrong seat near such Indian men.

Shoshana Hebshi was robbed of her dignity for absolutely no good reason, and she--along with the Indian men--need to sue Frontier Airlines, the Detroit Metropolitan Airport Police, the FBI, and ever other bungling institution that was involved in this incredibly humiliating overreaction.

You can read the whole story on Shoshana Hebshi's blog.

TSA Officers Took Bribes from Drug Trafficker

The fine men and women of the Transportation Security Administration should be protecting air travelers, but they are too busy committing all sorts illegal acts. The latest exposure of criminal activity at the TSA centers around a drug smuggling.

A drug trafficker was routinely transporting large amounts of black-market oxycodone and cash back and forth between Florida and the northeastern United States. To make sure things went smoothly, the trafficker bribed TSA officers Christopher Allen of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; John Best of Port St. Lucie, FL; and Brigitte Jones of The Bronx, NY to let him through security with drugs and large amounts of cash. The trafficker also had, Florida State Trooper, Justin Kolves and NYPD officer, Michael Brady, on the payroll. So far, at least twenty people have been arrested for involvement with the drug ring as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's “Operation Blue Coast.”

If TSA agents will take bribes to let drugs through security, what else will they let through if properly bribed? For those who argue TSA agents might accept bribes to let drugs through but they would never take bribes to allow explosives through, consider this. What if a terrorist posed as a drug trafficker, gave bribes to TSA workers to let a suitcase full of drugs on a plane, and it turned out he had hidden a bomb in that suitcase?

TSA Gets D- from Its Creator

In a HUMAN EVENTS interview, Chairman of the House Transportation Committee and creator of the Transportation Security Administration, Rep. John Mica (R - FL), blasts the is the TSA for corruption, poor performance, unforgivable security breaches, wasteful spending, and a host of other problems. Mica gives the TSA a grade of D- and recommends the TSA be dismantled and privatized.

Click below to read the Audrey Hudson's article.
"TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency"

TSA Agent, Thedala Magee Threatens to Sue Passenger over Rape Accusation

Airline passenger, Amy Alkon is accusing, Transportation Security Administration Agent, Thedala Magee of what amounts to sexual assault. On March 31, 2011, Amy Alkon was passing through security at LAX in Los Angeles and wound up getting the dreaded pat-down. During the pat-down, Amy Alkon claims Thedala Magee pressed the side of her hand into Alkon's vagina, between her labia, four times. During and after the pat-down, Amy Alkon made quite a scene by crying and then accusing the TSA agent of rape.

Now, rape is a very serious word, but pressing ones hand into a vagina, even through clothing, is a very serious act. The act of pressing a hand between labia through clothing may not exactly qualify as rape under many legal definitions, but it certainly is a hostile violation of one's personal space and would absolutely be considered a crime in just about any situation. For some reason, TSA workers are allowed to commit these sexual offenses on innocent people without probable cause. They get to do it, and they do it with impunity.

Of course, people are now attacking Amy Alkon and questioning her truthfulness, but is that really fair? If Alkon's story is true, this poor woman was sexually assaulted by a government worker. It does not really matter if the sexual assault is legally sanctioned by the federal government or not. If unwanted sexual contact takes place, it is sexual assault. How can we, in good conscience, doubt Amy Alkon's story? When a person claims to have been sexually assaulted, do we not owe it to the victim to offer the benefit of the doubt?

Sure, Alkon could be exaggerating a story for publicity. It is a sensational story. Her story, however, has a lot of credibility. TSA workers are constantly jamming their hands into people's crotches and poking around in there. Is it really crazy to think Alkon's vagina may have been violated in some way during this interaction? Thedala Magee certainly had access to Alkon's vagina and had the opportunity to push her hand between Alkon's labia if she wanted to do so. Should we not assume Alkon to be the ultimate authority on whether or not her vagina was compromised?

Well, Amy Alkon decided to fight back against the TSA agent using her right to free of speech. She recounted her alleged assault on the Internet in a post titled "Don't Give the TSA an Easy Time of Violating Your Rights." She even identified the accused by name: Thedala Magee.

Thedala Magee did not like her name being published on the Internet by the alleged victim. Magee has hired attorney, Vicki Roberts, and she is now threatening to sue Alkon for defamation. She has even offered to settle out-of-court for $500,000. Is that not just adorable? A woman claims sexual assault, and even though there is likely to be a full-color video of the accused with her hand in the victim's crotch, the accused has the nerve to threaten a lawsuit and offer to make it go away for some quick cash.

Thedala Magee was probably informed by the TSA she has every right to sexually violate people, and Magee probably thought she would never have to answer for her actions. These TSA buffoons, put on their uniforms, and they feel they can go to work and do whatever they wish to people because they are acting under the authority of the government. Some people just believe that, if the government does it, it cannot be wrong. Even worse, some people think, "I was just following orders," is a completely adequate excuse for all sorts of terrible behavior.

Well, fortunately, we have the Internet for things like this. Thedala Magee may be able to force Amy Alkon to remove her accusations from the her Web site.  Magee may even be able to squeeze some money out of Alkon, but one thing Thedala Magee will never be able to do is escape the shame that is going to be associated with her name all over the Internet from now on. And, you know what? Magee deserves to be shamed.

These TSA workers may just be going around following orders, but they volunteered for the job, and they are getting paid to routinely terrorize innocent people who simply want to get on a plane and go somewhere. Yes, the federal government is instructing them to violate people, but these TSA workers do not have to take these jobs. If they choose to be willing participants in an ongoing assault on the civil liberties of innocent people, then these TSA workers deserve whatever shame comes their way, even if that means they get publicly exposed by name as the sex offenders they are.

If there were more gutsy people like Amy Alkon who would have the courage to stand up to these sanctioned sexual assaults, fewer people would want to become TSA agents and those who continue to do the job might be more likely to be a little more respectful of people's privacy, rights, and human dignity. We should sympathize with Amy Alkon in her pain and applaud her for her bravery.

TSA Employee Arrested for Off-Duty Child Molestation

David Ralph Anderson
Photo: Elko County Sheriff’s Office

Given the Transportation Security Administration provides hands-on dream careers for child molesters who wish to go pro, it should not be surprising a TSA worker has been arrested on suspicions of multiple acts of off-duty lewdness with a girl younger than fourteen.

The precise age of the alleged victim is not yet known, but David Ralph Anderson of Spring Creek, Nevada has been accused of teaching sexual acts to a girl, touching her genitals, having her touch his genitals, rubbing lotion on her, touching her chest, giving her alcohol, showing her pornographic movies, etc. At the time of the arrest, David Anderson was working for the TSA at the Elko Area Regional Airport in Elko, Nevada.

TSA Confiscates Pregnant Diabetic Woman's Insulin

The Transportation Security Administration should be protecting innocent people from the most dangerous people; however, the TSA seems to be preying on the weakest among us. The latest event in a never-ending series of abuses against people with handicaps and special medical needs, is the TSA's confiscation of a pregnant diabetic woman's insulin. The TSA at the Denver International Airport in Colorado, felt the woman's insulin was a threat to public safety, so they took it.

Fortunately for the woman, the TSA did their usual inadequate job, and they did not properly search her lunchbox. In their typical carelessness, the TSA searched only the top of the woman's lunchbox and missed half of a vial of insulin at the bottom of the lunchbox.

The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, claims she had a note from her doctor and the insulin bottles were labeled correctly. She does not understand why the TSA decided to take some of her medicine.

Transgender Security Administration: Sexuality and Gender Issues Cause Confusion at TSA

Ashley Yang is a confused man/woman. He began life as a male, but has chosen to live life as a female. Ashley Yang takes female hormones, dresses like a woman, behaves like a woman, uses women's restrooms, etc. Yang, however, has not yet undergone gender reassignment, so Ashley is technically a male in the eyes of the Transportation Security Administration.

Ashley Yang's gender bending ways caused her problems in her job as a security checkpoint screener with the TSA at LAX. She applied for the job as a woman and was hired as a woman, but she informed the TSA of her gender history prior to a background check. (Yes, surprisingly, it appears the TSA actually does conduct background checks on at least some of the power-tripping, bumbling freaks they hire.)

The TSA offered Yang a chance to work with baggage, but Yang did not seem to be interested in the pirate's life of theft and freebooting that so many TSA baggage inspectors enjoy. Yang was interested in a different kind of booty and is more of a hands-on person. He/she probably joined the TSA with dreams of getting up close and personal with the endless stream of submissive airline passengers TSA victimizes on a daily basis.

Since the TSA considers Yang a male, they made him (an aspiring her) perform his/her job as a man. TSA management originally ordered Yang to dress as a man, wear a male hairstyle, use the men's restroom, etc. This man/woman was also ordered to pat-down only male passengers, and this is when the absurdities of TSA's intrusive pat-downs begin with regard to sexuality and gender issues.

Now, if you are a man, would you rather receive a pat-down from straight man or male who has made some rather serious and obvious commitments to live life like a woman? When that hand is sliding around your testicles and anus, do you want that to be the hand of a straight guy or someone who may have some unconventional and flexible ideas about sexuality and gender roles? Really, it is your genitals, so who do you want touching them? If you are a man, do you suppose you would be more comfortable being touched by a cross-dressing, hormone-altered man or a straight woman? Would you prefer to receive a pat-down from a gender-switching male or a lesbian? Forgive the assumption here, but if given options, being touched by a man who longs to be a woman would probably be very far down on most straight men's lists of pat-down preferences.

On the surface, it seems like the issues here are sexual preference and gender, but these are only minor complications caused by a much more serious problem. The TSA's pat-downs themselves are too sexual. When it matters whether a pat-down is being performed by a male or female, then the pat-down is too intrusive and sexually charged. It should not matter whether the hand in your crotch is a male or a female hand, because that hand should not be in your crotch in the first place.

By the way, if you are a man, and you actually do want a personal pat-down from Ashley Yang, you will not enjoy the pleasure of getting a federally sanctioned groping for free at LAX. You will have to track down Ashley Yang and ask him directly for a freelance pat-down. Ashley Yang was fired from the TSA for using the women's restroom at work, making him perhaps the most harmless person ever to be fired by the TSA. Normally, to get fired by the TSA, an agent has to do something big like steal from passengers, beat up a coworker, commit rape, kidnap someone, etc. Failure to stop bombs, weapons, and terrorists from getting onto airplanes are not always grounds for dismissal at the TSA. Competence and public safety is a lesser concern there. If a person wants to get fired by the TSA he/she had better be prepared to do something either really nasty or just use the wrong restroom.

Kelly Thomas Beaten to Death by Fullerton, CA Police

On July 5, 2011, Fullerton, California police responded to a call about possible car burglaries in progress around the Fullerton Transportation Center. When the police arrived, they confronted a homeless, 37-year-old schizophrenic man: Kelly J. Thomas.

The Fullerton police are claiming they wanted to search Kelly Thomas' backpack, but Thomas ran from them and resisted arrest. Perhaps Kelly Thomas did resist the police, but what we do know for sure is that Kelly Thomas received a severe beating from a gang of up to six police officers. According to eyewitnesses, Kelly Thomas was tasered five times and was being beaten even though he did not appear to continue resisting police.  Witnesses say Thomas was begging for the officers to stop beating him, and he was calling out for his father, a retired Orange County law enforcement officer, to come and help him.  (Note: Kelly Thomas' father, Ron Thomas, was not present at the scene of the attack and had no way to stop the beating.)

If there is any doubt about whether Fullerton police used excessive force in the Kelly Thomas arrest, we can only look at the result. Kelly Thomas was beaten so badly, he went into a coma and died five days later in a hospital when he was taken off of life support.

Why can't six police officers subdue a homeless man without using brutal force? Why did they taser the man five times? How could a man possibly be so severely injured and still continue to fight six policemen? Why will the police not release the surveillance video from the bus station?

Kelly Thomas may have been guilty of burglary. He may have even been guilty of resisting police at some point during the confrontation. The fact remains, however, that a mentally ill man was beaten so badly, he died. This could very well be a murder. If it is, these Fullerton cops need to spend life in prison or perhaps even face the death penalty.

If you want to see the face of police brutality, click on the thumbnail below. This is an image of Kelly Thomas after his beating. This image is graphic and disturbing. If you are squeamish, do not look at the full-sized image.



Kelly Thomas After Fullerton Police Beating
Image: fullertonsfuture.org



Internet Tracking Bill Passes House Judiciary Committee

The members of Congress are currently working on a law that will significantly reduce the privacy of average innocent Americans. Sponsored by Lamar Smith of Texas, H.R.1981 passed the House Judiciary Committee on July 29, 2011 with supporting votes from the following Representatives.

Rep Adams, Sandy [FL-24] - Republican
Rep Berman, Howard [CA-28] - Democrat
Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1] - Republican
Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] - Republican
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] - Republican
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] - Republican
Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] - Republican
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] - Republican
Rep Gowdy, Trey [SC-4] - Republican
Rep Griffin, Tim [AK-2] - Republican
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] - Republican
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] - Republican
Rep Marino, Tom [PA-10] - Republican
Rep Ross, Dennis [FL-12] - Republican
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] - Republican


This bill, mostly supported by Republicans, has a very deceptive name. It has been called the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, but the law will do little to stop child pornographers. What the law actually does is cast a broad net of data retention for every American who uses the Internet. This law will require all internet service providers in the United States to keep extensive records on the online activity of their subscribers. Some of the information to be tracked is customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.

If you use the Internet, regardless of whether your actions are legal or not, detailed records of who you are and what you do online will be stored for at least one year. These records may be used by law enforcement to investigate virtually any sort of crime. Do not be surprised if the reach of the law expands even further into civil uses in the future.

Here is a list of the sponsor and co-sponsors of H.R.1981

Sponsor
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21]

Co-Sponsors
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44]
Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1]
Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6]
Rep Critz, Mark S. [PA-12]
Rep Deutch, Theodore E. [FL-19]
Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8]
Rep Flores, Bill [TX-17]
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4]
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2]
Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24]
Rep Gowdy, Trey [SC-4]
Rep Jackson Lee, Sheila [TX-18]
Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14]
Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY]
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3]
Rep Marino, Tom [PA-10]
Rep Pierluisi, Pedro R. [PR]
Rep Quigley, Mike [IL-5]
Rep Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [MD-2]
Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29]
Rep Shuler, Heath [NC-11]
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13]
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6]
Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [FL-20]

Breakdown of Posse Comitatus As Military Arrests Civilians

Kurt Nimmo's article on InfoWars, "Busting Posse Comitatus: Military Cops Arrest Civilians in Florida City," explores the breakdown of posse comitatus as military personnel are being used to enforce laws on civilians.  Click on the title to read the article.

TSA Refuses to Hire Handicapped Man Born with One Hand

If you need another example of the Transportation Security Administration's coarse treatment of handicapped people, look at the case of Michael Constantino. Constantino wants to work for the TSA as a Transportation Security Officer, but the TSA will not hire him for that particular job because he is missing his right hand. The TSA never gave Constantino a chance to prove he could actually do the job, they just informed him he could not work as Transportation Security Officer. Constantino is now suing the TSA.

The TSA left open the possibility that Constantino could apply for other positions within the TSA, but they have dashed Constantino dreams of being a powerful airport overlord who gets to intimidate, humiliate, and harass innocent people all day. Michael Constantino, like all TSA applicants and employees, should be ashamed of himself for wanting to join a disgustingly abusive and incompetent crew of voyeurs, bullies, thieves, and gropers, but he wants the job, and if he can prove he can do the job, he should get it.

Really, how hard could it be to work for the TSA? How many hands does it take to rub a passenger's buttcrack and fiddle with his testicles? The TSA will probably defend themselves by explaining that it takes one-handed TSA agents twice as long to grope people, but since when has the TSA been so obsessed with speed? Given the TSA's poor record for dealing with disabled people, the TSA probably does not want to hire Michael Constantino because he will be one less handicapped guy they will get to molest.

The TSA should hire Michael Constantino and let him get right to grabbing men's junk, power-tripping with business travelers, stealing from passengers, poking old people's diapers, taking naked scans of hot girls, molesting small children, patting down babies, and inconveniencing handicapped people on their way to Disney World. For some people, this is their dream, and Michael Constantino deserves a shot at that dream like anyone else.

TSA Worker Stole from LAX Passengers

If you come back from a flight and find that valuables are missing from your luggage, do not automatically blame yourself for being absentminded or careless. It is very possible a Transportation Security Administration agent stole items from you.

Paul Yashou of Torrance, California is the latest TSA employee to be caught stealing from passengers. Paul Yashou got caught stealing things such as luxury watches and a pre-paid debit card from airline passengers at the Los Angeles International Airport.

It should be noted that the TSA did not catch the thief. One of the theft victims broke the case upon noticing one of the stolen watches was listed on eBay. Paul Yashou was arrested on July 22, 2011. So, not only does the TSA hire criminals, they do such a poor job of watching them, that independent citizens have to be the ones catching the federally employed thieves.

These TSA workers are supposed to be looking for bombs and terrorists, but they are simply too busy stealing, groping, harassing, humiliating innocent people to be bothered with such burdens and formalities. The people are who supposed to be protecting you are much more likely to be the ones victimizing you.

Grover Norquist Quote of the Day

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."


                    -- Grover Norquist

Children Strip-Searched at Ohio Summer Camp

Ibrahim Y. Haroon is upset because his child was strip-searched on July 19, 2011 as part of a group of around sixty-five children attending summer camp at the Robert K. Fox Family Y in Lancaster, Ohio.

Some feces was found in the pool. The staff asked for kids to confess to defecating in the pool, but no child would confess. If the staff had any sort of wisdom, they would have just suspended pool privileges, but that solution did not seem to be oppressive and sexy enough for them.

The staff took all of the swimmers into the locker rooms, two-by-two, had them face the wall, and had them pull down their bathing suits or bathing suit bottoms. The staff members then inspected the bathing suits.

Just because one person may have pooped in the pool, why does that mean dozens of innocent children have to be humiliated? Also, since when did it become okay for an adult to demand a child disrobe? This strip-search of children is not only a gross violation of basic civil liberties, it is a sex crime. Adults cannot force children to undress. A teacher does not have the right to take children into a classroom and make them undress. The ranger at the park does not have the right to take children behind the bushes and make them undress. What the staff at the Robert K. Fox Family Y did is no different. Every staff member who participated in this strip-search needs to be fired, arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct, and never be allowed to work with children again.

Massachusetts Wants to Scan and Track License Plates

Massachusetts has plans to assemble a statewide database that will store records from automatic license plate recognition devices in the state. Automatic license plate recognition devices can be installed virtually anywhere, but they are commonly mounted on patrol cars. These devices rapidly scan and capture license plate numbers of the vehicles within their proximity. The license plate numbers automatically get processed through a database of numbers associated with violations. For example, if a fugitive's license plate number is in the database, and an automatic license plate recognition device scans that plate number, a police officer will be alerted to the presence of the fugitive's vehicle.

This system has a very creepy Big Brother vibe to it, and it creates huge opportunities for abuse. Massachusetts, however, is taking things to the next level. Massachusetts wants to store the data collected by the automatic license plate recognition devices in a big database that the multiple agencies can access. This database would allow the state of Massachusetts to keep virtual tabs on anyone who owns a vehicle and happens to ever get within the proximity of a automatic license plate recognition device. This system amounts to tracking, and innocent citizens who are not suspected of any crime should not be tracked under any circumstances.

Florida Made $63 Million Selling Personal Information

If you have a Florida driver license, you might want to know that the state is selling your information to private companies for a profit. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles made $63 million last year selling names, addresses, birth dates, and vehicle ownership information to companies like Lexus Nexus and Shadow Soft.

Who knows what other information about you the state is selling and where it is going? The potential for abuse and identity theft is massive. One thing is for certain. This is a huge assault on privacy, and it is happening so the state of Florida can make some easy cash. By the way, Floridians, if you are wondering exactly what your information is worth, the state sells it for one cent per file.

TSA Security Breaches Hit 25,000 Mark

Under the Transportation Security Administration's watch, 25,000 security breaches have occurred since November 2011.

Read the story by Frances Romero at the link below.
"Report: 25,000 Security Breaches at U.S. Airports Since November 2001"

Tit-for-Tat As Passenger Gropes TSA Agent

On July 14, 2011, Yukari Mihamae, a sixty-one-year-old Longmont, Colorado woman, contacted the left breast of a female TSA agent at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Yukari Mihamae grabbed and squeezed the TSA agent's breast. Mihamae has been charged with a felony count of sexual abuse.

Ironically, if the TSA agent had grabbed and squeezed Yukari Mihamae's breast, the TSA agent would have faced not much more than having a meaningless complaint filed against her. It is quite possible nothing would have happened to the TSA agent. To keep out of trouble when you go to the airport, remember the TSA has the same policy as strippers: You can't touch them, but they can touch you.

Oak Park Retaliates Against Front Yard Garden

Probably due to intense media pressure, Oak Park City, Michigan has temporarily backed off of its effort to fine and/or jail Julie Bass for her front yard vegetable garden.

Oak Park has, however, reinstated an old charge against Julie Bass for unlicensed dogs. The dogs were eventually licensed to bring them into compliance, and the charges were dropped. Now, Oak Park is bringing the charges back so they can have a shot at jailing her again.

Clearly, Oak Park is retaliating against Julie Bass for embarrassing the city over their ridiculous harassment of her and their capricious enforcement of an ambiguous ordinance.

ATF Operation Castaway Could Be Florida's Fast and Furious Scandal

When Barack Obama promised Sarah Brady he was pursuing gun control "under the radar," maybe he really meant it. The new controversy surrounds the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' Operation Castaway.

Operation Castaway is the program that led to the arrest of, gun dealer, Hugh Crumpler III. He has been charged for his part in a weapons smuggling operation from Florida to Central America. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R) is asking, Attorney General, Eric Holder and, ATF Acting Director, Kenneth Melson questions about the full nature of the ATF's Operation Castaway, specifically about the involvement of the ATF's Tampa Field Division.

The ATF is already denying any wrongdoing in the program. The ATF is claiming Operation Castaway was nothing like the botched Fast and Furious program that had ATF personnel allowing and encouraging weapons to flow from gun stores in the United States and into the hands of Mexican gangs. The problem is how do we trust the ATF? We already caught them allowing the smuggling of weapons to Mexico. How can we now be expected to believe the ATF would not also allow weapons to be smuggled into Central America?

How many more programs like this have been going on? Has our federal government had a secret policy of allowing weapons to illegally fall into the hands of dangerous criminals? If so, what is the motivation? The only obvious answer is that ATF is attempting to build a case for more gun laws in the United States, especially with regard to the sale of assault weapons.

Rumsfeld's TSA Pat-Down Displays More TSA Stupidity

Transportation Security Administration has managed to save the skies from another dangerous senior citizen. On July 13, 2011, TSA screeners at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport stopped, former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Apparently, Rumsfeld's titanium hips and a titanium shoulder set off the metal detectors, and this is when the TSA saw a chance to get frisky with a powerful older gentleman. The got out the gloves and gave Rumsfeld the friendly TSA treatment. (Ironically, his former boss, George W Bush, is largely responsible for the TSA we know and love today.)

This TSA pat-down on Rumsfeld demonstrates how stupid TSA procedures are. Donald Rumsfeld is seventy-nine years-old. He is an old man with artificial joints. He also happens to be one of the most recognizable old men in the nation.

Certainly, Rumsfeld should be subject to the same laws as everyone else, but why could the TSA not manage to recognize that an old man who was recently one of the highest ranking people in the Executive Branch might not pose a significant threat to a commercial jetliner? While these TSA goons were feeling up the former Secretary of Defense, who knows what sort of threatening people and weapons could have slipped through the checkpoint. At least the guy who got to pat-down Rumsfeld got to go back to the break room and brag to his buddies about how he got to touch the former Secretary of Defense's junk.

TSA Makes Life Harder for Handicapped

TSA Handicapped Groping Zone Sign

Jason and Jennifer Steitler of New Port Richey, Florida are the latest people to fall victim to the Transportation Security Administration's heavy handed and intrusive screening methods. They are also a perfect example of how the TSA is grossly unfair in its treatment of disabled people.

On July 6, 2011, Jason Steitler and, his wife, Jennifer were going through TSA screening at the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York. Both Jason and Jennifer Steitler are in wheelchairs. The sharks at the TSA must have sensed weakness, so they pounced on the Steitlers and subjected them to a humiliating and intrusive search.

In what Jennifer Steitler calls "search rape," the TSA had their hands all over the handicapped couple's bodies and even managed to get their hands uncomfortably close to Jennifer Steitler's crotch. They had Jason Steitler push against his wheelchair's arm rests with his arms, so they could get up under his backside. The couple felt embarrassed and violated. Oh, and by the way, neither Jason Steitler nor Jennifer Steitler turned out to be terrorists planning to blow up or forcibly take over a commercial jetliner.

Mother Arrested After Confrontation with TSA over Pat-Down of Daughter

Andrea Fornella Abbott of Clarksville, Tennessee got angry on July 9, 2011 when the Transportation Security Administration wanted to pat-down her daughter when they were preparing to fly to Baltimore from the Nashville International Airport.

Abott insisted she did not want her daughter to be “touched inappropriately" or have her “crotch grabbed,” by the TSA. Of course the TSA cannot let innocent young flesh pass through its domain without copping a feel or at least capturing some naked body scans, so the TSA insisted.

According to, TSA goon, Sabrina Birge, the anger elevated, and Abott become irate. When Abott yelled and cursed at the sensitive TSA workers, she was arrested for disorderly conduct and hauled off to jail. Abott was later released on bond.

Not only did this woman's daughter nearly become a victim of a federally sanctioned sex crime, she missed her flight, and had to watch her mother go to jail. We will never know what sort of horrible terrorist attack was thwarted by the TSA when this angry mother was arrested and taken to jail. Hmm, if someone insisted on molesting your daughter, do you think you might get just a little upset?

Obama Using ATF to Pass Gun Control Under the Radar

When Barack Obama told Sarah Brady he was pursuing gun control "under the radar," people began to wonder exactly what he meant. Now, we have a specific example of how a President can abuse his power, overstep his authority, and circumvent the system to enact his own special gun laws.

Under the Obama administration, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, commonly known as the ATF, has unilaterally passed a new rule that requires firearms dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to report to the ATF sales to an individual of multiple semiautomatic rifles, greater than .22 caliber, with detachable magazines during any five-day period. The stated purpose of this new law is to limit the flow of firearms from the Untied States to Mexico.

This new rule essentially amounts to a new federal gun-control law; however, it was passed without a single vote in Congress. Barack Obama knew he could never get this sort of gun-control law through both houses of Congress, so he just created the law through executive authority and got in through the backdoor.

One of the most problematic features of this new gun law is that is does not apply equally to all states. American citizens who live in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas are now subject to more federal gun restrictions than those citizens in other states. Since the federal government cannot impose federal laws on specific groups of people, this law is unconstitutional.

We may not have to spend a lot of time worrying about the uneven application of this law on the southern border states, however. If the ATF gets away with this law, they are bound to expand it to more states. Eventually, the Obama administration will argue the law was so effective in curbing illegal gun sales in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas that the gun smugglers have started using buyers in states like Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, etc. Then the ATF will expand the law to other states. Eventually, the law will probably apply to Alaska too. Do not be surprised if Barack Obama and the ATF start claiming people are buying guns in Alaska, putting them on boats, and sailing them down the Pacific coast to Mexico.

A ridiculous part of this new rule is the "greater than .22 caliber" clause. Nearly all firearms, except .22s themselves, are greater than .22 caliber. The ATF probably threw in this clause to give the illusion the ATF is concerned only with high-powered rifles. In reality, this law going after just about any rifle caliber. For example, the ATF has always been very aggressive about targeting, AR-15s, the civilian version of the M16. Standard AR-15s fire .223 (similar to 5.56 NATO). Even though the .223 round is only moderately powerful, when compared to most rifle rounds, the ATF probably set the power threshold so low for this law so they could include AR-15s.

Also note that the ATF is specifically mentioning "detachable magazines" and "semiautomatic" rifles in the rule. This is just code for "assault weapons." The ATF simply does not like people have assault weapons, and those are the first weapons they would abolish if given the chance. That is what they are pursuing with this rule. This rule is what will set the stage for eventually placing stricter controls on the types of guns the ATF does not like.

The most egregious element to all of this ATF reporting business is the hypocrisy. The Obama administration is claiming that too many firearms are ending up in Mexico, but the ATF's "Fast and Furious" program was deliberately allowing actual working firearms to be transferred to Mexican gangs. Obama and the ATF are out panicking everyone about how many US weapons are ending up in the hands of gangs in Mexico when our government was just caught intentionally allowing--and even encouraging--those weapons to flow into Mexico as part of a organized effort. You just can't make this stuff up.

The National Sheriffs' Association Wants Internet Data Retention Rules

The National Sheriffs' Association wants more control over Internet service providers by requiring ISPs keep records of Internet usage for a minimum of eighteen months. This is all being done under the guise of fighting child pornography, but it could affect anyone who uses the Internet.  This further invasion of privacy, which is to be imposed on private companies and presumably at their own expense, is going to make it much easier for all sorts of government agencies to spy on you. 

Hey, here's an idea.  If child pornography is such a big problem, maybe we should stop constantly letting the sex offenders out of prison.  If we keep more perverts in jail and away from kids and computers, maybe a lot the child pornography problems will go away.

Click below to read Declan McCullagh's full article on CNET News.
"Police: Internet Providers Must Keep User Logs"

TSA Fails to Stop Stun Gun from Getting onto Plane

The latest event to be added to the growing list of Transportation Security Administration's failures involves a stun gun. A cleaning crew (not the TSA) found a stun gun onboard JetBlue Flight 1179 from Boston to Newark. This is alarming, because a stun gun could conceivably be used to hijack a plane. The stun gun's ability to intimidate and incapacitate people could be very desirable to someone wishing to take over a plane. The 9/11 hijackers even considered trying to use stun guns in their attack but later decided box cutters would be more practical.

Given the dangers stun guns could pose in the wrong hands on an airplane, it seems the TSA's primary function would be to keep weapons like stun guns off of planes, but they do not seem to be performing that function very well. The TSA, however, has shown incredible skill at molesting small children, harassing wounded veterans, humiliating handicapped people, and running hot chicks through full-body scanners.

On the topic of stun guns, why are the flight crews not armed with stun guns? A stun gun could be a very effective weapon against a hijacker. If the pilots and some flight attendants had stun guns on 9/11, all or most of the hijackers could have been stopped. Given the morbid incompetence of the TSA these days, the flight crews definitely need to be armed to fight against all of the terrorists and weapons the TSA allows on the planes.

Woman Faces Jail for Vegetable Garden in Front Yard

Jason and Julie Bass Housein Oak Park Michigan
Photo: WJBK

With all of the economic troubles and urban blight in Michigan, you would think a worthless city planner in Oak Park would have something better to do than harass people for growing vegetables in their front yard, but you would be wrong. Oak Park City Planner, Kevin Rulkowski, is demanding Jason and Julie Bass remove the vegetable garden they planted in their front yard after a pipe repair project left their yard is disarray.

Kevin Rulkowski, Oak Park City Planner
Photo: My Fox Detroit

Sure, the vegetable garden is not terribly attractive, and it is out of the ordinary, but Kevin Rulkowski has yet to present an ordinance that specifically bans vegetables from front yards. Rulkowski is claiming the vegetables are not "suitable" under the law, because they are not "common" in the community. The ordinance specifically uses the phrase "all unpaved portions of the site shall be planted with grass or ground cover or shrubbery or other suitable live plant material." This where the deception begins. Rulkowski is trying to play word games by claiming Webster's dictionary states "suitable" means "common." Actually, that is false. Webster's dictionary has the following definition.


suitable

adj.
1. [OBSOLETE]: similar, matching
2. a : adapted to a use or purpose
b : satisfying propriety : proper
c : able, qualified


Even if Rulkowski is attempting to use the obsolete definition for "suitable," he is still on shaky ground. If he wants all yards to be "similar" or "matching," he is opening a huge can of worms. "Similar" or "matching" could mean all sort of things. Maybe all homeowners could be required to plant matching oak trees. Maybe homeowners could be required to plant the same kind of grass. The interpretations could go on and on. Rulkowski might even be able to bend the ordinance to a point where everyone in Oak Park has to have a yard similar to his.

This mindless conformity is ridiculous. Why does Rulkowski have enough time to worry about some lady's vegetable garden? Maybe the garden does not look nice, but is it hurting anyone? So what if it hurts the property values a little. Is a slightly higher selling price worth selling personal freedoms? Is it so terrible people are making good use of their land to grow food in a world where millions of people are starving? This is just another example of an abusive government with too much power.

Well, Julie Bass has been charged with a misdemeanor over her garden, and she is going to court on July 26, 2011 to stand trial for the heinous crime of planting vegetables in her front yard. She could go to jail for ninety-three days.

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Oak Park Hates Veggies

Racial Quotas for Dolls in Colorado Daycares

The Colorado Department of Human Services is apparently concerned that there is not enough racial diversity among the dolls in daycares. A ninety-eight page document contains many proposed regulations in Colorado like requiring the daycare to obtain a note from a doctor to give a child whole milk. Even more ridiculous, the Colorado Department of Human Services wants daycares to have dolls that represent three races.

There is nothing wrong with dolls that represent different races. In fact, it is probably a good thing for children to see racial diversity among toys. The problem here is that the government of Colorado wants to demand private businesses purchase dolls of different ethnicities. How can these government officials possibly have time to worry about such petty things? This sort of decision be up to the privately owned daycare and the parents.

If you are living in Colorado and you are wondering why your taxes are so high, it is partly because you are paying a bunch of government officials to sit around a table a discuss racial quotas for dolls. Think about that next you pay your taxes.

TSA Agent Stealing Electronics from Passengers

Nelson Santiago
Photo: Broward County Sheriff's Office

TSA Agent, Nelson Santiago, was arrested on July 4, 2011 after he was caught taking an iPad from a passenger's luggage and stuffing it into his pants. It turns out that Nelson Santiago had made stealing from passengers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport into a lucrative side business to supplement the money he normally made from his TSA job.

Santiago would steal iPads, computers, GPS devices, cameras, etc. from the luggage he was supposed to be screening, and he would sell the stolen items over the Internet. He would sometimes manage to sell the items before his shift was over. Police say Santiago managed to steal around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months. Of course, the TSA did not catch Santiago. The TSA does not care about your valuables and theft. It took an observant Continental Airlines employee to catch the thieving federal employee.

So, when you take your valuables on a flight, please know that they may be stolen by federal employees who have been granted nearly unlimited access to your personal possessions. That smart phone that contains loads of important personal information, that camera that holds your vacation photos, the computer that contains sensitive business information, and that GPS that can provide your home address to a thief who happens to know you just left for a vacation could just vanish from your luggage and be sold over the Internet before your plane lands. These TSA employees should be looking for explosives and weapons, but how can we possibly expect them to focus on that task when they are busy digging for treasure in your luggage?

TSA Searches Black Woman's "Poofy" Hair

Now the Transportation Security Administration is concerned with your hair, especially if it "poofs from the body." Actually, the TSA's official policy is apparently now to "examine anything that poofs from the body."

When Laura Adiele, a Black woman, attempted to board a flight at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington, she went through the TSA's full-body scanner. After accepting that dose of radiation, Laura Adiele was pulled aside for a pat-down. The TSA was not comfortable with her hairstyle (or perhaps they found it arousing) and they wanted to run their fingers through it.

Laura Adiele objected at first, but the TSA was not going to let her on her flight until they got to feel-up her hair, so she eventually complied. The TSA then spent some time rifling through the woman's hair. Of course, they found absolutely nothing, and Adiele got to board the flight and arrive at her destination with tussled hair.

So, even with all of their metal detectors, cameras, full-body scanners, explosive sniffers etc., the TSA cannot determine if a woman's hair is a threat to public safety or not without actually running their fingers through it. In reality, the TSA could have easily used their devices to rule out the woman's hair as a threat. When the TSA does stuff like this, they do not do it because they have to. The TSA does this because they can.

While the TSA was busy messing around in this unfortunate Black woman's threatening poofy hair, how many foreign nationals do you suppose walked right through TSA security wearing Muslim head-coverings?

Surgically Implanted Body Bomb Threat Should Not Be News

This big news today was the Department of Homeland Security's announcement that terrorists are considering surgically implanting bombs to evade airport security measures imposed by the United States. It is good that Homeland Security is thinking ahead and anticipating potential threats, but why are they just now waking up to this very real threat?

In 2006, Colombian smugglers were caught smuggling surgically implanted heroin inside of live puppies. If the drug smugglers thought of implanting drugs inside of animals, is it not completely logical that suicide bombers would think to implant bombs inside of their own bodies? After all, if the bomber is going to blow up himself anyway, why should we think he would have any reservations about having the bomb implanted? People routinely get breast implants, butt implants, pectoral implants, etc. just to look good. A bomb could easily be implanted and concealed with similar surgeries. If a terrorist is dedicated enough to die just for a chance to kill others, having a bomb implanted is a relatively small sacrifice to make.

Also, what is the big concern with surgically implanted bombs all of a sudden? Smugglers have been swallowing and smuggling drugs for decades. The terrorists could use the "swallow and smuggle" method as well. Of course, there are other body cavities such as rectums and vaginas that could be used to conceal bombs.  Body bombs are a threat, and they have been since criminals figured out the human body is a pretty effective place to hide contraband.

Here is the alarming part. If a suicide bomber chooses to place a bomb inside of his (or her) body, the TSA's current security procedures are unlikely to detect the bomb. So, what does this mean? We will either continue along with the TSA's current methods of performing security theater to appease the public, or the TSA will become even more invasive in its searches of innocent citizens.

Right now, the TSA is just looking under our clothes. Next, they are going to want to look under our skin. Do not be surprised if, in the near future, the TSA wants to X-ray people before each flight. Sure, that will involve very unhealthy doses of radiation, but we will not have to worry about it long, because the TSA will convince us they came up with a way to make the radiation safe. If that sounds hard to believe, just look at all of the airline passengers marching through those radiation-based full-body scanners. A logical person would assume all of those repeated exposures to radiation might pose some considerable health risks, but the TSA tells us there is no reason to worry, and most of us believe them.

Bob Novak Quote

"Always love your country, but never trust your government!"

- Bob Novak (1931-2009)

TSA Lets Nigerian Man with Invalid Boarding Pass Fly Across United States

Well, the Transportation Security Administration has failed again. While the TSA was busy molesting elementary school kids, harassing wounded war veterans, and worrying about elderly cancer patients with wet diapers, they neglected to stop a Nigerian man from flying across the United States with an invalid boarding pass on June 24, 2011.

Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi boarded Virgin America Flight 415 at New York's JFK airport and flew to LAX in Los Angeles. After the flight was airborne, a flight attendant noticed the Nigerian man was sitting in a seat that should have been vacant. Noibi was allowed to get off of the plane in Los Angeles and leave.

Going untouched for days, Noibi returned to LAX. He said he spent the night in LAX Gate 51B and attempted to board a flight to Atlanta on Delta Airlines the next day. In this incident, Noibi was searched and found to have ten more boarding passes. All of the boarding passes belonged to other people.

This is a perfect example of how extraordinarily incompetent the TSA is. They never noticed Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi. An flight attendant had to do the TSA's job for them.

Maybe Noibi was just trying to fly for free, but he is from Nigeria, a country that is a massive hotbed of terrorism. The TSA is defending itself by stating Noibi was screened, but that is a silly defense. The 9/ll hijackers made test runs before the actual attack. Al-Qaeda is known for probing defenses just to see what they can do without getting caught. You cannot have people from hostile countries flying across the country without proper documents.

What if Noibi was not just flying for free? What if he was up to something more dangerous? The TSA should be looking at people from dangerous countries flying with fake credentials instead of harassing innocent US citizens all day.

Woman Arrested in Own Yard for Recording Police; Supporters Ticketed

The Rochester, New York police arrested Emily Good for shooting video of police while standing on her own property. The charges were dismissed, but in retaliation, the police showed up on Clarissa Street with rulers and ticketed the cars of people from IndyMedia who showed up to support Emily Good but parked more than twelve inches from the curb.

Click here to see the videos on Infowars.

TSA Little Penis Rage Assault Settled

Rolando Negrin

Rolando Negrin is back in the news. This is the Transportation Security Administration worker who went through one of those full-body scanners during a TSA back in 2010. When fellow TSA employees at Miami International Airport noticed Rolando Negrin's small penis, he became the subject of constant ridicule. Finally, he Rolando Negrin lost his mind and beat Hugo Osorno, one of his coworkers, with a police baton.

Rolando Negrin is back in the public eye now because he just struck a plea deal to avoid prosecution for the assault. Of course, it will be a slap-on-the-wrist punishment. Negrin is going to have write a letter of apology to Hugo Osorno, make a $100 donation, do fifty hours of community service, and not much else. That seems kind of easy for assault with a deadly weapon, even if Hugo Osorno probably deserved a good beating.

This story come to you not so you can laugh at the tiny penis of Rolando Negrin all over again. Most likely, many TSA employees have small penises or similar inadequacies. These shortcomings are probably what led to them wanting to become TSA workers in the first place. The purpose of the return to the topic of Rolando Negrin is to remind you of just what sort of people are working for the TSA.

The people who are rummaging around in your pants and rubbing the inner thighs of your children are not necessarily good people. Some of them are violent, unstable, immature, delusional, etc. These people are basically mall cops with federal permission to molest people. The TSA workers have been entrusted with a great deal. It is quite possible there are many people in their ranks who are not mentally equipped to handle such power and authority.

TSA Ignored Potential Full-Body Scanner Cancer Cluster

TSA staff raised concerns about incidences of employees developing cancer, strokes, and heart disease. The TSA officially dismissed the concerns by stating, "Because TSA systems comply with federal regulations, the increased risk of developing radiation-induced cancer in later life is extremely small, no greater than other risks people routinely accept in their daily lives".

This statement essentially says, "Regardless of the health problems you are seeing, the federal government says the machines are safe, so they are safe."

What if it turns out that for the first time in history, the federal government is wrong about something? What if thousands of TSA workers begin developing cancer in the next few years and millions of frequent flyers eventually develop similar problems?

Read the article at the following link.
"TSA 'ignored warnings' on Cancer Cluster"

ATF Fast and Furious Whistleblower Fired in Retaliation

After twenty-four years of service, ATF agent, Vince Cefalu has been fired after being one of the leading forces in the exposure of one of the stupidest and most ill-conceived sting operations in the history of America. The ATF claims its "Fast and Furious" program was supposed to track weapons flowing from the United States to Mexico by encouraging gun dealers to sell weapons to suspicious gun buyers who might smuggle the weapons to Mexico. The real intent, however, was most likely to set the stage for tougher gun laws in the United States by building a case that American weapons end up in the hands of violent drug cartels.

Read the whole story at the link below.
"Project Gunrunner Whistleblower Says ATF Sent Him Termination Notice"

TSA Misleading Public About Adult Diaper Incident

Feeling the heat from the public backlash against the embarrassingly invasive search on June 18, 2011 of a 95-year-old leukemia patient who has to wear a diaper and can barely get around without a wheelchair, the Transportation Security Administration is now attempting to spin the story by saying they never ordered the leukemia patient to remove her diaper.

The official statement from the TSA is, "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper."

While that statement may be technically accurate, it is deliberately misleading. The TSA may have not actually demanded the woman remove the diaper, but Jean Weber, the daughter of the woman, said the TSA agents made it clear the woman was not getting on the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper (or perhaps have it discarded). Jean Weber decided to remove the diaper.

This is all semantics. The old woman was trying to get on a flight. The TSA would not let her get on the flight until someone removed the diaper. There is not much of a difference here. The TSA can say, "Take off that diaper or else you are not getting on your flight."

Alternatively, the TSA can say, "You are not getting on your flight with that diaper."

There is a difference in those two positions, but the effect is essentially the same. This poor old woman was going to have to take off her diaper or miss her flight.

This is how the TSA operates. The TSA knows they have a tremendous advantage over you at the airport, because they have the power to make you miss the flight for which you paid hundreds of dollars and cause an extraordinary amount of inconvenience as you attempt to arrive in time to make connecting flights, check into hotels, pick up rental cars, etc. The TSA knows they have the ability to dramatically inconvenience you and effectively take away your right to travel freely about the country by air, and they will hold it over your head to get you to comply with all of their disgusting invasions of your privacy.

The TSA can say, "Let us squeeze your testicles and let us rub our hands around your anus, or we will not let you on your flight."

Alternatively, the TSA can say, "You cannot get on that flight unless you voluntarily let us squeeze your testicles and rub our hands around your anus."

The nuances of the differing statements do not really matter much. Essentially, the TSA wants to molest you, and they are going to use the ability to restrict your right to travel to make that happen.

The most ridiculous aspect of this whole adult diaper situation is how we are now engaged in a big public discussion over whether the old woman's diaper was removed by order or voluntarily as a condition of boarding a flight. The real problem here is the federal government is now in our pants. One of the last free places we had in this country was our pants, and now the government feels the need to look around in there too. When the federal government is looking around in the pants and up the dresses of innocent citizens, things have gone terribly wrong.

By the way, if you are taking solace in thinking, if the government is in your pants, at least there is nowhere else for them to invade, do not be so sure. Terrorist, Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri, has already successfully detonated a bomb concealed in his rectum. Do not be so sure the federal government will not want to peek in there someday too. Sure, it sounds like a crazy thought now, but ten years ago, did you ever imagine the federal government would be touching your genitals and taking naked images of you at the airport? You never thought that would happen, but it has been going on the entire time you have been reading this article. We should be absolutely ashamed of ourselves for letting the terrorists win like this. We have played right into their hands by choosing to live in a constant state of fear where privacy, dignity, and freedom mean nothing.

TSA Mischaracterizing Safety of Full-Body Scanners

Don't act surprised. The TSA has not been forthcoming about the safety of their radiation-emitting full-body scanners. Steve Watson of Inforwars is reporting on newly released documents that prove the TSA has been mischaracterizing the safety of the full-body scanners.

"New Documents Prove TSA “Mischaracterized” Safety Aspects of Full-Body Scanners"

One of the most interesting aspects of the article relates to the cancer risk of the full-body scanners. Some TSA workers are developing cancers and questioning whether the scanners are the cause. There is also a quote from Michael Love at Johns Hopkins where he stated “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.” Even more troubling is the apparent effort to hide from the public that no one really knows how dangerous these full-body scanners may actually be.

Anyone with any sense can see that these full-body scanners have the potential for causing cancer. What we do not know at this point is just how high the risk actually is. Unfortunately, we will not know the actual risk until some credible organization actually conducts a proper safety study of these devises. It is too bad the TSA is overwhelmed with searches of the handicapped ladies' diapers, taking toy hammers from mentally disabled people, grabbing breasts of actresses, patting-down babies, and poking around in the crotches of elementary school kids. The TSA just seems to be too busy to worry about whether or not people are going to get cancer from their scanners.

TSA Makes 95-Year-Old Leukemia Patient Remove Soiled Diaper for Search

Jean Weber of Destin, Florida is angry with the TSA. Her 95-year-old, 105-pound mother, who is battling with leukemia can barely walk. When the elderly leukemia patient went through a TSA checkpoint at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport on June 18, 2011 in a wheelchair, she was selected for an extensive search.

During the search, the TSA told Jean Weber to change her mother's diaper because it was soiled and impeding their search. Jean Weber did remove her mother's diaper, but did not have a fresh one to replace it. Presumably the elderly leukemia patient had to go without out a diaper until someone was able to locate a new one for her.

In all, the elderly, diaper-wearing leukemia patient was detained forty-five minutes. This is disgusting for so many reasons. This poor old woman is battling for her life. She can barely walk and probably has little life left in her. All she wanted to do was get on an airplane, but in order to exercise her right to travel, she had to be treated like a criminal, detained for an excessive amount of time, and humiliated by federal agents in front of her family.

This is the TSA. This is what they do. Do you feel safer?

Jacket Required: King County Requires Life Vests for Swimmers

If you plan to swim in a King County, Washington river, make sure to bring a life vest. The King County council made it illegal to swim in area rivers without a life vest. Council members Bob Ferguson, Larry Gossett, Joe McDermott, Julia Patterson, and Larry Phillips voted for the law. The only council members who had enough sense to vote against the law are Reagan Dunn, Jane Hague, Kathy Lambert, and Pete von Reichbauer.

So now, we have government telling us how to swim. How much longer before we are required to wear life vests at the beach? Maybe the next step will be to require swimmers to wear life vests while swimming in public pools. Since people can fall into swimming pools and natural bodies of water, maybe we need a law that dictates anyone within twenty feet of water has to wear a life vest.

Anyone who has ever tried to swim while wearing a life vest knows that is is a terribly uncomfortable challenge. This is an incredibly stupid law and just another ridiculous intrusion of government into the private lives of innocent people.

ATF-Mexico Fast and Furious Sting Was About Gun Control

Under the direction of the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly known as the ATF) has greatly embarrassed itself with an ill-conceived program that allowed weapons to flow illegally from the United States and into the hands of violent drug cartels in Mexico. The program was named Fast and Furious and ran from 2009 to 2011. The ATF claims they were trying to track the weapons in an effort to expose drug cartel networks, but all they really did is arrest some criminal nobodies and allowed the drug cartels to acquire arms illegally.

Some innocent people were killed by criminals using the illegally smuggled weapons. Most notably, US citizen and border patrol agent, Brian Terry was killed in an Arizona border shoot-out involving these weapons.

This whole operation was truly a debacle, a massive failure, and a disgraceful incident that has resulted in needless deaths of innocent people. The ATF is trying to defend itself by stating they were trying to take some short-term losses to gain greater ground in the international drug war, but there are some problems with that position.

Why should the ATF care so much about tracking weapons flowing out of America? Certainly, the ATF has an interest in gun smuggling, even when the weapons are leaving, but why would they run such a risky program that actually placed working weapons in the hands of violent criminals? Furthermore, why is the ATF worrying about the operations of drug cartels in a foreign country? Fast and Furious accomplished very little, and anyone who looks at the program objectively can easily see that there could have been no reasonable expectation that anything could have been accomplished. The operation and its goals just do not make sense.

The reality is the ATF's Fast and Furious program was about providing concrete evidence that guns are being purchased in the United States and going directly into the hands of the cartels in Mexico. If the ATF can provide overwhelming evidence that substantial quantities of weapons are being purchased in the United States for sale to Mexican cartel thugs who are using those weapons to commit murder, the evidence can be used to push for stronger gun laws in the United States.

Imagine what an effective argument the ATF could make in favor of greater intrusions on the Second Amendment if they could demonstrate gun sales in American are ultimately aiding violent criminals in other countries. The ATF could use the data to call for an all-out ban on assault rifles and greater regulations of handguns. They could also make a very effective argument to place limits on the quantities of weapons US citizens can buy.

Fast and Furious was not about exposing Mexican drug cartels. Fast and Furious was about the ATF collecting evidence to erode your Second Amendments rights. Fortunately, the ATF failed in their mission, and this botched operation has been exposed. Unfortunately, this cruel and aggressive attempt to build up ammunition against the Second Amendment has resulted in the spilling of innocent blood on the soil of America and Mexico.

Mother Convicted of Felony for Spanking Her Own Child

Corpus Christi, Texas Judge Jose Longoria convicted Rosalina Gonzales of a felony for spanking her own child. Click below to read the story.

"Judge Has Harsh Words for Mom Before Sentencing Her for Spanking Her Kid"

With No Other Concerns in America, Senators Target Lip-Synchers

We have wars going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. The housing market is in shambles. Gas prices are soaring. Unemployment is breaking records.

You would think The United States Senators would be occupied fixing these problems, but, apparently, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) of Minnesota, Sen. John Cornyn (R) of Texas and Sen. Christopher Coons (D) of Delaware have decided to address more pressing concerns. They are pushing Senate Bill 978, which targets people who lip-synch to copyrighted works and publish the videos online. Violators can go to prison for up to five years.

What is wrong with the priorities of our Senators? With all of the problems going on in America right now, how do they possibly have enough time to worry about people lip-synching on the Internet?

If you live in Minnesota, Texas, or Delaware, maybe you should reach out to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. John Cornyn, or Sen. Christopher Coons and make them aware of the more serious problems we are facing as a nation.

TSA Harasses Severely Retarded Person in a Diaper over Plastic Hammer

The national disgrace we have come to know as the Transportation Security Administration has sunk to a new low. Not only did TSA screeners feel-up Drew Mandy, a person who is so mentally retarded he has to wear a diaper, they refused to allow him to take his treasured plastic hammer with him on a flight to Disneyland.

Well, you can go ahead and relax, the brave men and women of the TSA have diligently protected us from the greatest threat the skies have ever seen: mentally retarded people armed with plastic hammers. Wow, that was a close one.

"Dr. David Mandy: Special Needs Son Harassed by TSA at Detroit Metropolitan Airport"

TSA Harasses Wounded Veterans over Embedded Shrapnel

Prison Planet is running a story about how some wounded veterans whose imbedded shrapnel set off metal detectors and led to harsh TSA bullying and crotch grabbing.

Read the story here.
"TSA Thug Grabs Crotch of Wounded Vet"

How can we possibly ask these troops to put their lives and health on the line to defend our freedom and then treat them like common terrorists in their own country? We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing our wounded veterans to be mistreated, especially when they have so much metal left in their bodies that they set off metal detectors. This is simply disgraceful.

Okay, Go Ahead and Mess with Texas

Apparently, the Texas Senate has an abundance of cowards. Already passed by the Texas House of Representatives, HB 1937 was going to make it a crime for a government worker to inappropriately touch a person without probable cause. HB 1937 would essentially bring an end to the most invasive aspects of TSA pat-downs.

In a clear demonstration that the Transportation Security Administration's power has reached much too far, John Murphy, the U.S. District Attorney for Western Texas, essentially warned the Texas Senate that Texas' ban on TSA groping could lead to a ban on flights in the state. Of course, this spooked the wimps in the Texas Senate, and HB 1937 has been effectively blocked.

What's wrong with these sissy Texas Senators? Texas had a real opportunity to exert its state's rights here. The TSA probably could have grounded all flights out of Texas. If they had done that, it would have created a spectacular setting for Texas to stand for her freedom. This could have been a watershed moment for American freedom. Instead, it is just another example of how governments disregard the people for the sake of ease.

Two parties need to be ashamed in this confrontation. The United States federal government should be ashamed for bullying a state. The Senators in Texas should be ashamed for allowing themselves to be bullied so easily. When Texans start backing down from a fight, times have truly gotten bad.

Department of Homeland Security Seizes More Domains

As part of the ongoing program, "Operation in Our Sites," the wildly out-of-control Department of Homeland Security has seized more domains it has decided are facilitating copyright and trademark infringement. Keep in mind these companies were not found guilty of anything in a court of law. The DHS just decided the businesses were doing something wrong, and they seized the domains.

Imagine if you owned a business and the DHS just decided to take your domain without even allowing you a chance to defend your business in court. You could go bankrupt before you could get the problem corrected.

By the way, do you remember when the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to be protecting us from terrorists? At what point did counterfeit merchandise and pirated movies become a threat to national security? Would the DHS not be serving us better if they would use their resources to control the borders and watch terrorist groups?

Here are the latest domains seized by the DHS. Certainly, there will be more.

Re1ease.net
Watchnewfilms.com
Dvdcollectionsale.com
Dvdscollection.com
Dvdsetsonline.com
Newstylerolex.com
Mygolfaccessory.com
Overbestmall.com

TSA Causes Dangerous Police Situation with Bomb Drill

It never ends. On May 12, 2011, the bungling dolts at the Transportation Security Administration were conducting a drill at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with a fake bomb to test the TSA screeners. For some reason, the TSA did not think it would be necessary to alert the police to this drill.

These fake bomb tests are fairly routine. Often, the fake bombs make it past the TSA screeners without incident. This is probably because the TSA screeners are generally just too busy hassling senior citizens who have artificial hips, feeling up little children, and gawking at the naked pictures their buddies are emailing from the full-body scanner observation center. Surprisingly, on this particular occasion, the normally inept TSA screeners were actually able to identify an object that looked like a bomb in an undercover agent's carry-on bag. The resulting TSA actions caused confusion and led to police drawing guns and evacuating the screening area.

Someone could have been killed during all of this confusion. The undercover agent with the fake bomb could have been shot by police or--even worse--a panicked bystander who could have been acting oddly due to the stressful situation could have been mistaken for an accomplice and shot.

This is another example of just how utterly incompetent the TSA is. This ridiculous agency of glorified mall cops cannot be trusted with the safety of the American people.