Airline Passenger Found Not Guilty of All Charges From TSA Arrest

Finally, we have a case marking the first time anyone has ever challenged TSA's authority to question and detain a traveler. The final result ended giving airline passengers the upper hand over TSA. It is apparent that these TSA workers have "chip on their shoulders," and are egotistical. It is a power trip using intimidation to unsuspected travelers. The reality is not base on exaggeration. The reality is base on experience.

(Seattle Weekly) After an hour of deliberation Friday evening, a Bernalillo County, New Mexico jury found Phil Mocek not guilty of all four charges he faced after refusing to show his ID and using a video recorder at a TSA checkpoint in 2009. If you're keeping score at home, that's Mocek: 1, TSA: 0.

According to Edward Hasbrouck of the Identity Project, Mocek did not testify, and the defense rested on Friday without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence. Hasbrouck attended the trial; he writes:

The jury found that even without rebuttal, the TSA and Albuquerque police had failed to satisfy their burden of proving any of the four charges: concealing his identity, refusing to obey a lawful order (it was never entirely clear whether this was supposed to have been an order to turn off his camera, an order to leave the airport despite having a valid ticket, or an order to show ID, none of which would have been lawful orders), trespassing, and disorderly conduct.

Obama defends U.S. airport security measures - ABC

The president don't realize that there is a better way. Instead of violating the 4th Amendment and our civil liberties, there is a humane way to inspect passengers before boarding a plane. The president must stop pandering to the American people because many politicians, including himself, are exempt from obtrusive pat-downs and body scanners.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended controversial new security measures at U.S. airports in an interview released on Friday, saying the methods were necessary to prevent a potential terrorist attack.

Some Americans have objected in recent weeks to the use of revealing full-body scanners and extra-thorough patdowns at airport security checkpoints.

Obama says, "I understand people's frustrations with it but I also know that if there was an explosion in the air that killed a couple of hundred people ... and it turned out that we could have prevented it possibly ... that would be something that would be pretty upsetting to most of us -- including me."

TSA Worker Accused Of Assault Had Prior Record

This is the same TSA who enjoys rigorous passenger pat-downs at airports. It shows that TSA does employ rapist, pedophiles, and other types of criminals. Therefore, if you are a deviant, you can work for the TSA.

(WBSTV.com) Channel 2 Action News has learned a TSA security worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a woman had previously been convicted of misdemeanor harassment and stalking.

Randall King remains hospitalized following a suicide attempt. Police said last Wednesday, King agreed to drive a woman home from the airport. Instead, investigators said King took her to a MARTA station parking lot and placed novelty handcuffs on her.

Investigators said he drove her 50 miles away to his home in Troup County and sexually assaulted her. The woman told police that King gave her a suicide note, his car and let her go, investigators said.

Newark Airport controversial scanners are barely used on busiest travel day

NEWARK — The choice between a "virtual strip search" and a "grope" was strictly academic Wednesday for most holiday travelers flying out of Newark Liberty International Airport.

The majority of Newark’s full-body scanners were idle throughout much of the day, depriving most passengers of the chance to opt out of the controversial screening procedure even if they had wanted to.

All in all, Thanksgiving eve was a non-event at Newark Liberty, reflecting the relative calm reported at airports around the country.

This just shows the absurdity of using body scanners. It is useless. There hasn't been any issue during Thanksgiving regarding to terrorist activity. Since most of the body scanners were idle, travelers went from point A to point B without a plane blowing up. It seems the status quo before body scanners became the mainstream was just fine. It proves how the government went a tad overboard with airport security.

TSA doesnt know the origin or how a Fake bomb got on a German passenger jet

Another huge blunder for TSA because they still haven't determine the origin of the fake bomb and how it got onto the plane. TSA is more concern groping guy's junk and female breast. Also, TSA has a major chip on their shoulders by touching little boys and girls, making people remove their prosthetics, making old men strip down to their underwear and making a cripple boy remove his braces and force him to walk through the metal detector unsupervised.

(Daily Mail) A German government minister has today revealed that a fake bomb found on an Air Berlin flight in Namibia was manufactured in the U.S. to test airport security.

It was not yet clear who had planted 'test suitcase', said German interior minister Thomas de Maziere, but the one fact they had established was that the device had been manufactured by a U.S. company that specialises in alarm systems.


The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed today that it was working with the German and Namibian authorities 'to determine the origin of the device and the reason it was being transported on the plane'.

The suitcase, which contained batteries connected to a detonator and a ticking clock, was intercepted by authorities at Windhoek airport on Wednesday night and sparked an international terror alert.

Woman Told To Remove Prosthetic Breast by TSA

Again, TSA are not qualified to inspect passengers with special medical conditions. Passengers should not allow themselves to remove any prosthetic devices for TSA. This is a huge violation of privacy rights and very humiliating for the passenger to endure.

3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA

A post from a Youtube member StopvotingTandL: This was before the T&A-now the official name of the TSA- started their sexual molestation mandate. The poor little girl kept screaming, "Quit touching me!" And, this actually occurred in the United States. TSA screeners accosted a little 3 year-old coming through the airport. Did they really think this little girl was packing a bomb?

(There is another choice to prevent a molestation of a child by TSA. Leave the child home with the baby sitter or take another form of transportation. TSA has hired former child molesters and rapist to their payroll. I wouldn't ever let a TSA agent do this to my child)

Hillary Clinton Wont Go Through Any Pat Down nor Should You

(Fox News)Hillary Clinton made this comments in an interview today on CBS' "Face the Nation" and NBC's "Meet the Press."

Hillary Clinton was asked if she would accept a pat down by TSA. She said,

"Not if I could avoid it. No! I mean, who would?"

It seems hypocritical that Obama and the Secretary of State are not obligate to go through a body scanner or pat down. It seems the enemy is the citizens of the United States. Why should we be inconvenience when the people who should get a pat down is Washington.

I Will Let TSA Fondle My Junk If They Do The Same to Obama and His Family

A great opinion editorial from the Washington Examiner by a columnist whose family was recently fondled by TSA agents. Mark Hemingway said, "Since the TSA molested my family, why doesn’t Obama volunteer to subject his family to the same security procedures?"

Let's go one step further. Give the same treatment to Janet Napolitano, the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. Have each of them endure the humiliation and grief the American people have to go through. It only seems fair.

Read story: Since the TSA molested my family, why doesn’t Obama volunteer to subject his family to the same security procedures?

Homeland Security Lied to Us About Storage of Images, Health Safety, and High Resolution Revealing Everything

(Prison Planet.com) The Drudge Report today linked to a story by Gizmodo.com which highlights the fact that the TSA and Janet Napolitano’s assertion that the imaging machines cannot store, transmit or print images is not true.

The footage of images taken and stored by a full body imaging machine that have leaked online only tell part of the story as to why the machines constitute such a threat to privacy.

So clearly this story proves that the aforementioned claims of the TSA and Napolitano are outright lies, and that the American public therefore cannot trust the government’s pledge of privacy protection.

However, proponents of the technology may seize upon the fact that the leaked images show only fuzzy outlines of the people walking through the machines, thus bolstering an already debunked notion that the full body scanners do not show crisp detailed images of naked bodies.

“What’s the big deal here?” the wider public may be inclined to think after seeing the images.

It therefore should be reiterated that the leaked images are taken from a millimeter wave machine and not one of the x-ray backscatter machines. The two have roughly the same capabilities, but the majority of machines being implemented now in airports all over the country, and the world for that matter, are the more sophisticated backscatter devices, which produce images of a much higher resolution, revealing much more detail. As scientists have pointed out, these machines are also more of a health threat.

The group points to a further document (PDF) it has obtained from DHS showing that the machines used by the department’s TSA are not only able to record and store naked body images, but that they are mandated to do so.

It is impossible to believe anything coming from Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security. In order not to cause a public panic, Napolitano lied to the American pulblic. In reality, TSA do store the body scan images, the picture is of higher resolution, revealing more detail, and the machines are a health threat.

TSA Will Put Their Hand Down Your Pants

(Prison Planet.com) The TSA’s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people’s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-busting airport security measures.

The level of abuse appears to be getting worse on an almost daily basis. First TSA agents use the back of their hands, then they outright grope you with the front, and now they are being trained to put their hands down traveler’s pants. What’s next? Mandatory bodily probes?

Even as the resistance to airport oppression grows, Big Sis and the TSA are responding by making the pat down procedures more invasive. Napolitano has figuratively said to the American people ‘let them eat cake’ as she slaps them in the face.

If this is not an obvious violation of privacy rights, I don't know what is. If a TSA put their hand down your pants and feel your "junk", you have the right of slugging them square on the mouth. Just say the TSA employee squeeze your testicles or they rubbed the clitoris. I can see trial lawyers salivating over potential law suits against TSA.

Get Rid of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

(Forbes) In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I’m talking about the Transportation Security Administration.

The odds of dying from a terrorist attack are much lower than the odds of dying from doing any of a number of incredibly mundane things we do every day. You are almost certainly more likely to die or be injured driving to the airport than you are to be injured by a terrorist once you’re in the air, even without a TSA.

The airlines have enormous sums of money riding on passenger safety, and the notion that a government bureaucracy has better incentives to provide safe travels than airlines with billions of dollars worth of capital and goodwill on the line strains credibility.

And finally, most screening devices are ineffective because anyone who is serious about getting contraband on an airplane can smuggle it in a body cavity or a surgical implant. The scanners the TSA uses aren’t going to stop them.

What Really Occurs If You Refuse a Pat-Down from TSA

Whether federal officials threaten to arrest you or bring a civil suit against you, do not back down from the interrogating tactics by TSA. Allowing these intrusive pat-downs to continue, our civil liberties are being violated. This blog is from someone documenting events during a pat-down fiasco at the San Diego International Airport. It is important to learn from it because you may encounter it one day. Knowledge is power! End the stupid pat-downs by saying your Muslim and it is against the teachings of the Koran. Tell them you will call CAIR and every Muslim organization for your defense. If that doesn't work, during the pat-down, I suggest to scream and moan in ecstasy to embarrass the TSA employee. If they are trying to humiliate you, it is best to bring them along for the enjoyment!

Read story: TSA encounter at San Diego International Airport

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Don't Let TSA Touch Your Crotch or Your Breast

(Chicago Tribune) When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself; the federal government responds with new rules that erode privacy, treat innocent people as suspicious and blur the distinction between life in a free society and life in a correctional facility; and we all tamely accept the new intrusions, like sheep being shorn.

The war on terrorism is going to get personal. Very personal. Americans have long resented the hassles that go with air travel ever since 9/11 — long security lines, limits on liquids, forced removal of footwear and so on. But if the Transportation Security Administration has its way, we will look back to 2009 as the good old days.

The agency is rolling out new full-body scanners, which eventually will replace metal detectors at all checkpoints. These machines replicate the experience of taking off your clothes, but without the fun. They enable agents to get a view of your body that leaves nothing to the imagination.

The new policy is being challenged in court by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which says it violates the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. But don't expect judges to save us. Says Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg, with resignation in his voice, "Airports are pretty much a Fourth Amendment-free zone."

The federal Government Accountability Office has said it "remains unclear" if the scanners would have detected the explosives carried by the would-be Christmas Day bomber.

They would also be useless against a terrorist who inserts a bomb in his rectum — like the al-Qaida operative who blew himself up last year in an attempt to kill a Saudi prince. Full-body scanning will sorely chafe many innocent travelers, while creating only a minor inconvenience to bloodthirsty fanatics.

Liberals really don't care to find out if there is a limit to the sacrifices of personal freedom in the name of fighting terrorism. They understand the harm to privacy is certain, but the benefit to public safety is not. But once we disregard the Constitution, we are no longer Americans. Liberal extremism leads toward a Marxist Regime.

Obama Ordered Body Scanners to Screen Passenger

The terrorist may have won the war giving Liberals a chance to take away a piece of our freedom and personal rights. Whether they overregulate our lives or violate our freedom, Liberals believe in sacrificing some liberty for some security. In regards to body scanners and pat-downs, it is a direct violation of the Fourth-Amendment, which states:

the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

If this country is founded by the Constitution, the American people expect it to be followed. If by the court of law we are innocent untill proven guilty, we shouldn't be sujected to pat-down or body scanner. If we follow rule of law in Europe, the government would reverse the burden of proof so that we have to prove our innocence. If that is the nature, we might as well give up on the Constitution altogether and be a Marxist state.

Because of the "underwear" bomber and "shoe" bomber were able to board a plane, Liberals went into panic mode. Using irrational logic, Obama ordered the Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano to acquire body scanners to screen passengers. Honestly, I'm certain Obama deliberately used the terrorist plot as an excuse to take away our basic rights that are endowed by the Creator.

Read Story: Guess who ordered nude body scanners

Opt Out of a Body Scanner and Embarrass the TSA workers

There are reports of malicious activities with TSA workers using the body scanners at various airports. From poking fun at the passengers body parts to printing out the x-rays for personal use, the use a body scanner violates our privacy rights. I would rather get a full pat down than go through a body scanner. TSA is using an obtrusive way to make the passenger think twice before asking a pat down, and use the body scanner instead. It is likely that TSA is making the rigorous pat down as a deterrent.

If these TSA employees continue to belittle or embarrass these passengers, I would personally make it a point to embarrass them back. If they want to cup my private parts, I would moan to put the inspector in an embarrassing moment. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Read story: Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself