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Texas Gov adds anti-groping bill to special session
Gov. Rick Perry announced he had added legislation that would make it illegal for TSA agents to engage in “intrusive touching” at airports security checkpoints without probable cause to the list of items for the legislature to consider during the special session. The measure had previously failed to muster enough support in the Texas Senate to come up for a vote because the Justice Department wrote a scathing memo against the bill, which threatened legal action against the state, and the measure… (blog.chron.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is a political stunt. Adequate laws are on the books to deal with 'groping' but the burden of proof is all but impossible - he said, he said - and the definition of 'groping' will never be nailed down in legal terms. The underwear bombers will laugh themselves to death. Everyone has 'junk' that they've shown to their doctor. TSA agents have enough trouble with arrogant, indignant passengers without having to deal with arbitrary laws that hamper their duty to keep us safe from the wackos. What are you hiding?
Another idiotic measure by a southern state to prove they are immune from Federal law. If I were a TSA supervisor, I would instruct my agents to simply deny boarding to anyone who objected to a search. Let them take the train to Hawaii or drive to Japan if they don't want to subject.
50% of recent job growth in the US has been in Texas. 80% of job growth has been in southern states. They are obviously doing something right, we (in the north) could all take a lesson from them.
If I wanted to live in a country where I needed to show my ID and completely surrender my property and person to Government Personnel without question or complaint in order to go to work every Monday - I would emmigrate to a totalitarian country.
If I wanted to live in a country where I needed to show my ID and completely surrender my property and person to Government Personnel without question or complaint in order to go to work every Monday - I would emmigrate to a totalitarian country.
We do not need the TSA in its present state. End of story.
I'm with Grady and Davis. The haters have no inkling of how many threats are found across the country every day by TSA. And the verbiage "intrusive touching" is too ambiguous. A political stunt indeed.
Dillion works for the TSA; she is with Grady and Davis because she is trying to preserve her salary, pension, and government appointed importance. See early postings from other TSA related articles.
The CIA, FBI, FAA, and Armed Services failed our country by allowing terrorists to gain entry, remain in the US, and take flight lessons leading up to 9/11. The TSA terrorizing Americans organization should be disbanded and airport security privitized.
(queue Dillion claiming more about 'how much we don't know about all the secret threats that they can't tell Americans about' and 'how we are lucky that TSA spends our tax dollars heckling us on our way to work.').
The CIA, FBI, FAA, and Armed Services failed our country by allowing terrorists to gain entry, remain in the US, and take flight lessons leading up to 9/11. The TSA terrorizing Americans organization should be disbanded and airport security privitized.
(queue Dillion claiming more about 'how much we don't know about all the secret threats that they can't tell Americans about' and 'how we are lucky that TSA spends our tax dollars heckling us on our way to work.').
The men, women, and jackasses in blue have gotten away with "Terrorising Society in America" for too long.