The TSA in Tennessee

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Ron Paul: 'TSA thugs on the loose' - Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com

According to Ron Paul:

If you thought the “Transportation Security Administration” would limit itself to conducting unconstitutional searches at airports, think again. The agency intends to assert jurisdiction over our nation’s highways, waterways, and railroads as well. TSA launched a new campaign of random checkpoints on Tennessee highways last week, complete with a sinister military-style acronym–VIP(E)R—as a name for the program.

As with TSA’s random searches at airports, these roadside searches are not based on any actual suspicion of criminal activity or any factual evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever by those detained. They are, in effect, completely random. So first we are told by the U.S. Supreme Court that American citizens have no 4thamendment protections at border crossings, even when standing on U.S. soil. Now TSA takes the next logical step and simply detains and searches U.S. citizens at wholly internal checkpoints.
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Worse, some people are lulled into a false sense of security and are actually grateful for this added police presence! Should we really hail the expansion of the police state as an enhancement to safety? I submit that an attitude of acquiescence to TSA authority is thoroughly dangerous, un-American, and insulting to earlier freedom-loving generations who built this country.
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Disarming the highways and filling them full of jack-booted thugs demanding to see our papers is no way to make them safer

 

[gsvol]

Does your post remind you of old Nazi movies where
they use the line; "Zhour papers please?"

Casablanca comes to mind.


Everyone should read; 'Revolution, an manifesto'
by Ron Paul.

If I were a high school teacher of English, Social Studies
or History and perhaps some other subjects, I would
make the book required reading and probably have each
student read one of the many scholarly books quoted by
Paul in his brief assessment of every topic that should
be important issues in America today, all of which are
well articulated and make very much sense to anyone
with at least half a brain.

This is the sort of revolution we need in America.

Big Sis was grilled by the congressional committee
this week on 'fast and furious', she wasn't the least
bit forthcoming which means she probably won't be
fired by Obama for 'insuficient candor' as one of the
ATF agents with a 30 year carreer behind him was.

I can just see the NYSlimes looking him up to get
a statement for their expose of Obama/Holder
corruption and ineptitude in office.

Napolitano is however now on record of saying she
knew nothing of fast and furious before agent Terry
was killed last December which is most likely another
perjury by an Obama appointee.