New TSA Checkpoint Sign
By Mary Theroux • Thursday November 18, 2010 11:52 AM PDT • 9 Comments
Tags: Civil Liberties, Corruption, Disaster Management, Fascism, Humor, Liberty, Morality, Nanny State, Peace, Personal Liberty, Police, Power, Presidential Power, Privacy, Propaganda, Surveillance, Terrorism, Transportation, War 
Great sign, Mary! Now, we need to make a bunch of copies, and as we stroll through airports, tape them up faster than the TSA can take them down.
Randall Holcombe | Nov 18, 2010 | Reply
LOL!
Speedmaster | Nov 19, 2010 | Reply
Nice. However, credit where credit is due, please. This is from Oleg Volk, a professional photographer. He has done some excellent work on Second Amendment rights.
Charles Curley | Nov 22, 2010 | Reply
Thank-you Oleg, and thank-you Mary for posting it. And Randall, your idea is the best of all...
joe4liberty | Nov 24, 2010 | Reply
Thanks, Charles.
Not always easy to find the original source for these things that get passed around, and I appreciate having the proper credit source!
Best wishes,
Mary
Mary Theroux | Nov 24, 2010 | Reply
TSA Forced Invasive Air Passenger Body Searches—Prelude To Locking Down America?
It is problematic TSA for reasons of national security will at some point, Force Citizens boarding trains and buses, to submit to invasive body scans and searches; routinely search Americans and their vehicles at highway checkpoints, before allowing passage.
TSA announced it will arrest air passengers as suspected terrorists that refuse both invasive pat-downs and body scans? Passengers no longer—will not be free to leave. How long before TSA’s invasive body searches/scans; threats of arrest and $11,000 fines are extended to Citizens boarding buses, trains and cruse ships? What choices will Americans have that are stopped at a TSA roadway vehicle checkpoint—problematic in the future? Will Citizens be allowed to turn their vehicle around or like air passengers, be forced to submit to invasive body searches/scans or be arrested as a suspected terrorist? Could Americans soon lose their right to travel freely in their own Country?
Another problem with TSA strip-searching and scanning Citizens, is that it can be used by the government in power to selectively target individuals that lawfully speak out or write against U.S. Government, harassing targeted Citizens at every mode of transportation with relentless body searches, pat-downs and X-ray scans. At some point many Americans would be reluctant or afraid to travel anywhere by plane, bus or drive their vehicle on the street because of TSA Check Points.
In Northern Ireland, not many years ago, Irish Catholics traveling, were intentionally harassed by British troops and police at highway check points, forced to submit to humiliating searches; political activists were delayed or taken away so they could not drive to a political meeting or speak at an event that opposed British polices. Could U.S. Citizens be similarly targeted e.g., Tea Party Members, Anti-War Activists and others should TSA extend its body searches and scans to passengers boarding trains, buses and at vehicle check points? While U.S. Government might state otherwise, that would effectively Lock Down America.
Rwolf | Nov 24, 2010 | Reply
This entire thing is like a scenario from some cheesy Hollywood movie in which the government uses mass hysteria to create a police state. Except that is happening, for real. The TSA has set itself up as an internal KGB.
The question is, what kind of resistance are we going to see? Will the usual civil rights groups on the left take to the streets in protest? Will the NRA see this as a chance to prove its assertion that gun ownership can be used to counter tyranny? Or will the TSA’s unconstitutional policies be accepted as one more case of business as usual?
Joseph_M | Nov 27, 2010 | Reply