US SENATOR DETAINED BY TSA
“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." - Congressman Ron Paul - (R-Texas)
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained 'indefinitely' after refusing a full body grop-down in Nashville. Paul told the AP in a telephone interview that he asked for another scan after setting the scanner off but refused a pat-down, after which he was “detained” in a small cubicle and missed his flight to Washington.The U.S.Constitution actually protects federal lawmakers from detention while they’re on the way to the Capital. “The Senators and Representatives…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….” according to Article 1 Section 6.
The incident started after the scanner Paul walked through sounded its alarm. Current TSA rules would require Paul to undergo a mandatory pat-down before proceeding to his plane. But Paul said that the TSA agents caved in after a two-hour battle and allowed him to go through the scanner again without additional physical screening. “For an hour and a half, they said ‘absolutely, I would have to [accept a pat-down],’” Paul said. “And, because I used my cell phone, they told me I would have to do a full body pat down because you’re not allowed to use your cell phone when you’re being detained.” “It’s like, well, I can’t call my attorney? I can’t call my office to tell them I’m going to miss a speech to 200,000 people?” “In the end, after two hours of this quarreling,” Sen. Paul explained, “they did let me walk through the screener [machine] and it didn’t go off. So what the TSA is not telling you is the screeners are being used as random devices as well. The [mechanical] screeners will go off randomly, and the [agent] screeners don’t know that it’s a random call but it has nothing to do with what you’ve done.
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained 'indefinitely' after refusing a full body grop-down in Nashville. Paul told the AP in a telephone interview that he asked for another scan after setting the scanner off but refused a pat-down, after which he was “detained” in a small cubicle and missed his flight to Washington.The U.S.Constitution actually protects federal lawmakers from detention while they’re on the way to the Capital. “The Senators and Representatives…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….” according to Article 1 Section 6. The incident started after the scanner Paul walked through sounded its alarm. Current TSA rules would require Paul to undergo a mandatory pat-down before proceeding to his plane. But Paul said that the TSA agents caved in after a two-hour battle and allowed him to go through the scanner again without additional physical screening. “For an hour and a half, they said ‘absolutely, I would have to [accept a pat-down],’” Paul said. “And, because I used my cell phone, they told me I would have to do a full body pat down because you’re not allowed to use your cell phone when you’re being detained.” “It’s like, well, I can’t call my attorney? I can’t call my office to tell them I’m going to miss a speech to 200,000 people?” “In the end, after two hours of this quarreling,” Sen. Paul explained, “they did let me walk through the screener [machine] and it didn’t go off. So what the TSA is not telling you is the screeners are being used as random devices as well. The [mechanical] screeners will go off randomly, and the [agent] screeners don’t know that it’s a random call but it has nothing to do with what you’ve done.
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