Rage Against TSA - Protesters Storm Texas Capitol - Intimidated Texas Senate Caves In To Federal Threats Of A No Fly Zone For Texas
Obama's TSA and Department of Justice resorted to financial terrorism by threatening a federal blockade that would have closed down Texas airports if the Texas Senate had followed the House in unanimously passing a bill that would have made TSA groping in the state a felony. Despite the fact that the intimidation tactics of the federal government, which will surely backfire as a massive shot in the arm for the states’ rights movement, scuttled the anti-grope bill in Texas. The feds cannot keep relying on mafia-like behavior to preserve the ability of their criminal army of minimum wage perverts to molest children, at some point down the line lawmakers will have the guts to stand up and say no, and at that point a wave of TSA resistance will sweep legislatures across the country.
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FEDs Using Mobile X-Ray Vans To Do Drive-By Scannings
Privacy Group Sues Homeland Security Over Secretive Mobile Body Scanners To Be Used On 'Crowds Of Moving People'



Previously released Federal documents show that the Department of Homeland Security is actively moving to install radiation firing naked body scanners in all manner of public places, beyond the nation’s airports. However, the agency is refusing to release further details on the program. Privacy watchdog EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed a lawsuit this week against the Department of Homeland Security for attempting to keep the program secret. EPIC’s suit asks a federal court to order disclosure of nearly 1,000 pages of additional records detailing the controversial program – records the agency has repeatedly refused to make public, despite freedom of information requests and appeals over the last seven months. The lawsuit points to an agency under the DHS umbrella, the Science and Technology Directorate, which has released only 15 full pages of documents on the mobile scanners, whilst heavily redacting another 158 pages and withholding 983 pages of documents. In February, EPIC discovered (PDF) that the DHS had paid contractors “millions of dollars on mobile body scanner technology that could be used at railways, stadiums, and elsewhere” on crowds of moving people. According to the documents obtained by EPIC, the Transport Security Agency plans to expand the use of these systems to peer through clothes and inside bags away from airports.
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FOURTH AMENDMENT TRASHED COUNTLESS PEOPLE UNKNOWINGLY XRAYED AND NOT ONE SINGLE TERRORIST APPREHENDED

DHS, the U.S. military, and even local law enforcement agencies are buying and deploying mobile X-ray vans that can see into the interior of vehicles, through clothing and even buildings. The Z Backscatter Van (ZBV), manufactured by American Science and Engineering (AS&E) The van looks like a standard delivery van, and it takes less than fifteen seconds to scan passing vehicles. The vans are raising privacy concerns as well as questions about health risks -- and what might happen if the technology gets into the wrong hands. Like airport scanners, the ZBVs use Z Backscatter technology to detect materials that contain low atomic numbers. This allows them to detect organic matter that doesn’t show up well in traditional X-ray images — including explosives and plastic weapons — in addition to metal and other materials. The technology also works in such a way that the X-Ray mechanism has no need for a detector on the far side of an object, allowing it to be extremely mobile, versatile, and capable of being built into a commercially available van. The Z Backscatter vans range in cost from $729,000 to $825,000. DHS says they have been a huge asset at the nation’s ports and borders, and at major crowd events like the Super bowl. “Using the ZBV vans over the past couple of years, we’ve gotten over a thousand seizures and 89,000 pounds worth of narcotics, approximately $4 million worth of currency, and we’ve also uncovered 10 or 11 undeclared aliens within vehicles,” said Patrick Simmons, Director of Non-Intrusive Inspection at Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “Again, we don’t
purposely scan for people, but if they’re in there hiding, the ZBV will be able to spot them.” Macedo writes, though, that according to the AS&E Web site, ZBVs also can peer through clothing and into “lightly constructed” buildings, raising serious concerns among privacy advocates. “A van that can drive down the street and look through people’s clothes, look into vehicles and even peer into your home? I think that’s an invasion of privacy and not what we should be doing,” Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz told FoxNews.com. It is hard to know exactly who owns ZBVs, because AS&E has never fully disclosed its buyers. “Due to the highly sensitive nature of the markets that our products serve, AS&E respects the individual requests of our customers to be confidential,” the company says on its Web site. In a June 2009 press release the company said it sold 400 ZBVs to 85 customers in 46 countries. The company has since raised that number to 500, saying some of those purchases are now going to local U.S. law enforcement agencies (“More orders for AS&E’s cargo screening vans bring in $4.7 million,” 5 May 2009 HSNW). Privacy: Attorney Noel Francisco says most, if not all, state privacy laws would prohibit individuals or private companies from abusing the vans, while the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement agencies from doing the same. “If you take this thing and point it at somebody’s house or point it at somebody’s car, you’re engaging in a search of that individual,” Francisco said. “You can’t do that without a warrant or probable cause.” Rez says one of his students reported using a ZBV at the UN while he was serving in the military. “It was a secondary screening mechanism for trucks going into a loading dock, but it was on a public street and they were just scanning people and nobody was being told this was going on,” Rez told Macedo. “That kind of shocked me. …I think they’re being used in a more widespread manner than people would have one believe.
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