We have all been humiliated at the hands of TSA, but this time the TSA may have to pay a price for over stepping the line.
According to press reports, such as this one on Officialwire.com, Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he was stopped briefly by security at the Nashville airport when a scanner found an “anomaly” on his knee.
The Republican who frequently uses the airport about an hour from his Bowling Green, Ky., home told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he asked for another scan but refused a pat down by airport security. He said he was “detained” at a small cubicle and couldn’t make his flight to Washington for a Senate session.
Paul, the son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, said the situation reflects his long-standing concern that the TSA shouldn’t be “spending so much time with people who wouldn’t attack us.”
According to this statement released by the Ron Paul for President Campaign, Rand’s detention is another reason why the TSA should be abolished.
The TSA “gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities…while doing nothing to keep us safe.”
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign released the following statement concerning TSA abuses like the ones that resulted in U.S. Sen. Rand Paul being inconvenienced at the Nashville, Kentucky airport. Below please find comments from Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX):
“The police state in this country is growing out of control. One of the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities. The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to keep us safe.
“That is why my ‘Plan to Restore America,’ in additional to cutting $1 trillion dollars in federal spending in one year, eliminates the TSA.
“We must restore the freedom and respect for liberty that once made American the greatest nation in human history. I am deeply committed to doing that as President of the United States.”
Rand Paul’s detention provokes an important constitutional question because the US Constitution says in Article One Section Six (speaking of federal elected officials):
They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
Americans have suffered enough humiliation at the hands of TSA. It is time to repeal these laws that make us subject to UnConstitutional searches just for the privilege of flying on an airplane.
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Rand Paul was one of only 3 Republican senators to vote AGAINST the National Defense Authorization bill last year. That was yet another gross federal power grab and unconstitutional piece of legislation authorizing the president to ignore the 6th Amendment. He has full credibility to speak against the TSA.
TSA violates the Constitution as often as it can…like Obozo, ourt Liar in Chief… In the Southwest, they set up roadblocks and search EVERY car, without just cause, totally un constitutional!! They are the harbingers of the Police State that is rapidly coming upon us!! They want to set up X-ray equip at every sporting event, at courthouses, even on the street, and are doing it…Judges were told they need not regard the constitution in their deliberations, by the Supreme Court!! Hell is coming upon us, and I doubt that it can be stopped…possibly Ron Paul could stop it, if elected, even though I don’t like him at all…I would vote for him!
IF he uses that airport frequently, it seems that some of the TSA people would recogtnize him, so maybe this is a power play or some type of retaliation. However, with Eric Holder as head of the DOJ, the TSA will be exonerated even though they violated the Constitution by holding up a Senator on his way to a session of Congress. The Obama administration and all the federal agencies are OK with violating the Constitution or any federal law they don’t like.