California Committee Passes Measure to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance, Establish More Local Control
WASHINGTON (June 22, 2011) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unmasked the inane nature of the standards guiding TSA checkpoint procedures during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee meeting Wednesday. (FULL VIDEO BELOW)
“Currently the inv
asive pat-down searches are random and not based on risk assessment?” Paul asked John Pistole.
Speaking typical bureaucratic gobbledygook, the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security indicated that they were, but they weren’t.
Or something.
“No, actually they are based on intelligence that we know specifically from Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the way he concealed that device. There are some random pat-downs if that’s what you’re referring to, but it is based on intelligence.”
The ridiculous nature of the response apparently wasn’t lost on Paul.
“I guess this little girl would be part of the random pat-downs, this little girl from Bowling Green Kentucky, one of my constituents. They’re still quite unhappy with you guys, as well myself and a lot of other Americans, who think you’ve gone overboard. You’re missing the boat on terrorism because you’re doing these invasive searches on 6-year old girls.”
Paul went on to relate another incident at a TSA checkpoint involving a Kentucky child on crutches and defended the right of American citizens to travel, countering an earlier Pistole statement on air travel.
“This kind of gets back to this whole idea of what are willing to do, what are we willing to give up as a country. In your interview with ABC News, you said, ‘I see flying as a privilege.’ There are those of us who see otherwise.
Paul emphasized he wasn’t opposed to security in general.
“ But I think I feel less safe when you’re doing these invasive exams on a 6-year old,” Paul said. “It makes me think you’re clueless, if you think she’s going to attack our country and you’re not doing your research on the people who want to attack our country. It absolutely must involve a risk assessment of those who are traveling. And the fact that she’s being patted down and I don’t feel comfortable really with your response that we are no longer doing random pat-downs. I think you ought to get rid of the random pat-downs. The American public is unhappy with them. They’re unhappy with the invasiveness of them.”
Pistole defended the TSA actions, insisting the searches were based on intelligence, countering that terrorists have used children in other settings.
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Congressman Paul SHOULD rag on this fool. Pistole the breather is a damned miolester and nothing more.
Pisshole is a traitor to the Republic.
His reasoning has all the markings of false flag planning.
Public safety at the expense of my freedom, is too high a price to pay.
I don't trust bureaucrats that say they are working hard to protect me!
Who the hell are these idiots?
I didn't elect them and I didn't hire them….so, we don't need them!
Ron Paul has the best solution to all of America,s problems.
Please listen to him and give him your support.
Thank you
North of the border
Gord
What would happen if everyone quit flying? I have. Cutting down the Rain Forests and this is what is causing global warming: http://www.slideshare.net/apurvakdesai/world-air-…
The zionists are not semites. neither are the so called jews who stole Palestine and created that little toilet called israhell.
The real semites are : Palestinians, some Arab tribes and those jews who are from that area of the world.
The Ashkanazi jew is not a true jew but a Talmudic zionist little bastard, who is responsible for 9/11, the housing bubble and its collapse, the multi-trillion dollar bailouts and the destruction of the middleclass. They are the ones responsible for America’s wars including WWI and WWII. They are the ones namely Pearle, Wolfowitz, Kristol and the rest of that slime ridden sewer dwellers who are responsible for America’s expensive debacle in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and soon Pakistan and Iran.
The TSA is an outgrowth of the zionist regime now in charge in D.C.Pistole is their little stooge. He is nothing but another bureaucratic careerist with absolutely no sense of what is right or wrong and has no respect for either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. This man by every sense of the word is another of Obomber’s communist jews.
I will tell you this: If it had been my daughter..that TSA agent would have been drop-kicked into next week and I would have continued to kick the shit out of her until they would have to gun me down!
To hell with TSA!!
The people mentioning Zionists are almost there. Zionist is a word jews love because it confuses the issue. A jew banker/media syndicate has usurped the gov't of the USA. Until all Americans are ready to admit it and demand their ouster nothing will change. This jew syndicate has been around a lot longer than the word Zionist so calling them Zionists is stupid.
I have no problem with a jew dentist or plumber but it is long past time to stop trusting jews in our media, banks, and politics. If you think I am an anti-semite you are correct. I can clearly see these people hate everyone who is not one of them and I do not see many jews speaking out about this jew syndicate.
Both the republican and the democrat politicians are owned by the jew mob so voting for either party is a vote for the status quo.
If you comment on stories like this but simply refuse to even consider that jews are behind most everything you are pissed about you are stupid and should just STFU.
The terrorists are the fed govt. black op. Have you seen building 7?
…the Govt. hates us for our FREEDOMS !!!!
Now we ARE THE percieved enemy??
The Govt. is supposed to do the bidding of the Public… NOT the reverse!!
Enf is Enuf!
Who is Pistole listening to regarding this matter? – and Why is he not doing the bidding of US PEOPLE ?
PIstole – A physically ugly, dumb government employee and a friend of those who hate America
Brother-inlaw is patted down every three weeks as he heads from Kansas City to Wisconsin for his cancer treatments, which by the way due to his insurance he has to fly for his cancer treatments. He has had his colon removed due to cancer and now has cancer in his lungs. Is this selective checking? I don't think so.
More and more people are learning what really happened on 9-11. It was created to pass laws to take rights away which should never have been allowed by honest men and women who represent the people.
Now can we shoot that son of a bitch?
The Hegelian Dialectic at work. Zionists were behind the "false flag" attack on 9/11 and the attack on the USS Liberty which was covered up. We will be attacked again and the stupid sheep will give up more liberty for a false sense of security. It is not about safety and it never has been. If it were about security why does the TSA not do body cavity searches? The Zionists have carefully calculated how to go about incremental fascism. YouTube "The Collapse of WTC building 7" and tell me 911 wasn't an inside job.
I think we all know that 911 was certainly an inside job. Bush knew, WTC security knew, Cheney knew. The only one that DIDN'T know was that osama binladen guy.
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Pistole never commented on the right vrs privilage of travel. It's a right and we should not turn into a pioluice state cuase we are affraid 9/11 would happen again.
Too late
We won't be free until we storm the airports enmass, drag the terrorists out and met justice upon them.
I watched an interview with a women in her late 60s/early 70s. she commented on the TSA and how they have pulled her aside (she looked like a white haired little ol' lady) to do more in depth searches/pat downs. She also mentioned that she has traveled with her son in law on multiple occasions. She mentioned that he has an appearance of middle eastern decent that would suggest that he could be from a country that "breeds" terrorism (though see added that he was not). She went on to say that he had never been pulled aside for enhanced screening while she had been many times. So my question is: why does TSA pull aside the handicapped, infirm and old while allowing the ones that more fit a terrorist profile (appearance) through?
Because the handicapped, infirm and old are far less likely to defend their rights and plant a fist in the TSA Stooges' faces. It is NOT about fighting "terrorism", it is about conditioning us to accept abuse.
Terrorists? Look to DC, that's where most of them work.
I think Rand Paul should have put Pistole on the hot seat a bit more by making him respond to some direct questions and then lambasting him for being the stupid idiot that he is because we know he could not possibly have come up with an intelligent response.
I also think it's a disgrace that American citizens feel they have to resort to giving up air travel just because of these TSA assaults….yet nothing is done about that. We, the innocent, are being punished for what some terrorists have done, yet it appears the TSA is incapable of catching a terrorist because they'd rather treat us like terrorists than focus on the real ones.
Like a lot that cross the open borders?
THESE TSA GOONS ARE THE START OF OBAMA'S PRIVATE ARMY.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THEIR AVERAGE IQ IS?
A UNIFORM AND A METAL BADGE CONVERTS ANY IMBECIL INTO AN AUTHORITY FIGURE.
BUT LETS NOT FORGET THE TRUE REASON BEHIND IT ALL THE COMING NEW WORLD ORDER.
DOWN WITH THE ROTHSCHILDS.
TSA, doing the terrorists' job for them — terrorizing the American traveling public — does not constitute winning against terrorism.
If what the TSA does is worthwhile, how many terists have they nabbed? I bet 0. They must think by terrorizing kids and grandparents they will scare all the boogeymen back to where ever they come from. TSA = Terrorist State Agency – they are the ones terrorizing Americans, they have outdone the A-rabs who are all out of work now drinking beer on the French Riveria, remembering how they used to get all the publicity, now these pesty TSA guys are getting all the publicity.
Rand Paul forgot to mention the mother of the son with the hammer got another hammer through in her back pack. Great security TSA (Tits and Ass).
These dumb ass TSAs shut down an entire airport over two jars of honey…they thought??? Ignorant dipsticks! thinking it was explosives. Damn we in real trouble we have honey bees depositing bomb material in their hives so when we eat it …it blows us up. They like to get their fingers in peopls private parts but don't think??? to just open the jar and just smell it or even stick their finger into the honey and taste it??? "stupid is what stupid does"…nooooo the idiots close an airport. Bring on the sniffer dogs who know the difference….and they call animals dumb-comparing them to the TA morons they got that backwards.
If one of those filthy blue gloves stuck his/her finger in my honey I'd consider it highly contaminated and would have to treat it like poison. All that hard work by hundreds of bees would be all for naught.
TSA Recruitment Office : We are a government organization that ensures a job for the dumb and clueless. We put unemployable people to work. How can that be a bad thing? New positions are always opening up, so grab your future with your own hands, and APPLY NOW! Together, united in our incompetence we will make a difference!
The terrorists also win when we allow ourselves to be so tied up in inane tasks (such as searching this six year old) that we don't have time or energy for the actual tasks. That is what many liberals, including this one, forget. We cannot do everything, and trying to do one thing we can't do a different one.
I would like Paul to have actually stopped his speech and said, "I believe this search (of the six year old) was stupid, and so do the American people. Do you agree?" Then "I believe that taking away that autistic boy's toy hammer was cruel, and insane, and so do the American people. Do you agree?" Force these people to defend individual actions, don't let them take refuge in broad generalities.
Thank you, Vaughan. As a conservative-conservative, I feel so much relief to hear that people from the "other" side have the same amount of common sense that we expect from "our" side. Unfortunately, we have become so focused on the "other" side as being the enemy that we don't take the time to shut mouth and open brains and ears. Talk on, brother! We just may muddle through this mess in spite of ourselves.
sometimes they become one in the same….