[eXpat]

BTW is not clip, is a magazine
Cop leaves loaded ammo clip on plane
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') Southwest Airlines passenger found the loaded ammunition clip in a back-seat pocket of the commercial plane
PHOENIX — A passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight found a full ammunition clip from a law enforcement officer's service weapon during a flight Tuesday from Burbank, Calif., to Phoenix, an airline spokesman said.

However, the owner of the clip remained a mystery.

TSA Administrator John Pistole said he was confident the clip didn't belong to a federal air marshal. He wouldn't speculate about who might have brought the clip onto the aircraft.

Passengers weren't in danger because nobody else on the plane had a gun that could use the bullets, Pistole added.

The passenger who found the ammunition handed it to the flight crew after finding it in flight, Southwest Airlines spokesman Paul Flaningan said.

The plane landed safely in Phoenix, and passengers on Flight 1297 were taken off and rescreened. The plane was also searched and no weapons were found.

The passenger who found the clip was met and questioned by TSA and Phoenix police at Sky Harbor International Airport.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'B')TW is not clip, is a magazine
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[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I')ts a crying fricking shame for situations like the above you can't dial up a flash militia group to number several thousand armed citizens to storm the airport by force and do a citizen's arrest of the abusive TSA people, and put them on trial by a citizen's court.

Americans are f'in sheep. I can't wait for things to degenerate into a police state and I hope all the morons who approve of current measures enjoy their cavity searches when they occur in the future.

I wonder what 20 TSA officers would do if 4-5,000 citizens armed with AR15's arrived to perform a citizens arrest?

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'B')TW is not clip, is a magazine
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[rangerone314]

Another good question would be why are Americans such scared sheep that are afraid of the .00001% chance of being killed by terrorist that they will put up with almost any indignity and invasion. How long until body cavity searches?

When this country was founded, you stood a much larger chance being killed or abducted by Native Americans than you do today from Islamic terrorists.

That and the larger piece of the economic pie the 3rd world is getting is being taken mostly from the American middle class and poor, and not from the American upper 10%.

In view of these changes to the spirit of the country (and how it has basically sold its soul to the devil and taken a leak on the Constitution and what the Founding Father's advised), I think they should re-write the Star Spangled Banner:

O! say does that dollar-sign-spangled Banner yet wave,
O'er the Land of the serfs, and the home of cowards.

[eXpat]

Dept Homeland Security SEIZING Laptops/Cellphones from Ameicans Entering the US
Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it's sometimes easy to lose perspective of just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are. One becomes inured to them, and even severe incursions start to seem ordinary. Such was the case, at least for me, with Homeland Security's practice of detaining American citizens upon their re-entry into the country, and as part of that detention, literally seizing their electronic products -- laptops, cellphones, Blackberries and the like -- copying and storing the data, and keeping that property for months on end, sometimes never returning it. Worse, all of this is done not only without a warrant, probable cause or any oversight, but even without reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in any crime. It's completely standard-less, arbitrary, and unconstrained. There's no law authorizing this power nor any judicial or Congressional body overseeing or regulating what DHS is doing. And the citizens to whom this is done have no recourse -- not even to have their property returned to them.

When you really think about it, it's simply inconceivable that the U.S. Government gets away with doing this. Seizing someone's laptop, digging through it, recording it all, storing the data somewhere, and then distributing it to various agencies is about the most invasive, privacy-destroying measure imaginable. A laptop and its equivalents reveal whom you talk to, what you say, what you read, what you write, what you view, what you think, and virtually everything else about your life. It can -- and often does -- contain not only the most private and intimate information about you, but also information which the government is legally barred from accessing (attorney/client or clergy/penitent communications, private medical and psychiatric information and the like). But these border seizures result in all of that being limitlessly invaded. This is infinitely more invasive than the TSA patdowns that caused so much controversy just two months ago. What kind of society allows government agents -- without any cause -- to seize all of that whenever they want, without limits on whom they can do this to, what they access, how they can use it: even without anyone knowing what they're doing?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'D')ept Homeland Security SEIZING Laptops/Cellphones from Ameicans Entering the US
Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/15/laptops

[eXpat]

From across the pond, stupidity is not the sole province of the TSA seems to be , I wonder how that people is recruited, maybe they don´t have to cross the threshold of two digits in a IQ test?
The Very Tiny Terrorist
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ritish airport officials have apparently received intelligence that Al Qaeda is recruiting an army of nine-inch terrorists.

Airport officials ordered a holidaymaker carrying a toy soldier onto a plane to remove its three-inch gun – because it was a safety threat.

Ken Lloyd was stunned when he was told he could not go on the plane with the nine-inch model soldier because it was carrying a ‘firearm’.

The Canadian tourist and his wife had bought the toy, which holds a replica SA80 rifle, during a visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp in Dorset.

But when he tried to take the £135 keepsake through Gatwick Airport in his hand luggage it triggered a security alert at the scanners…

Officials declared the moulded gun could not go on the plane and Mr Lloyd had to snap off the model weapon and then post it back to his home in Ontario.

He said: ‘As the figurine’s SA80 rifle was pulled from the box, the security search officer contacted her supervisor. The moulded SA80 could not pass.

‘My wife asked for a “reality check”, explaining how this offending piece of sculptured moulding is a 9 inch painted model with a moulded and painted rifle that is part of the figure.

‘The supervisor was confident within the surety of the regulations and said a “firearm” is a firearm and cannot pass.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eXpat', 'F')rom across the pond, stupidity is not the sole province of the TSA seems to be , I wonder how that people is recruited, maybe they don´t have to cross the threshold of two digits in a IQ test?
The Very Tiny Terrorist
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ritish airport officials have apparently received intelligence that Al Qaeda is recruiting an army of nine-inch terrorists.

Airport officials ordered a holidaymaker carrying a toy soldier onto a plane to remove its three-inch gun – because it was a safety threat.

Ken Lloyd was stunned when he was told he could not go on the plane with the nine-inch model soldier because it was carrying a ‘firearm’.

The Canadian tourist and his wife had bought the toy, which holds a replica SA80 rifle, during a visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp in Dorset.

But when he tried to take the £135 keepsake through Gatwick Airport in his hand luggage it triggered a security alert at the scanners…

Officials declared the moulded gun could not go on the plane and Mr Lloyd had to snap off the model weapon and then post it back to his home in Ontario.

He said: ‘As the figurine’s SA80 rifle was pulled from the box, the security search officer contacted her supervisor. The moulded SA80 could not pass.

‘My wife asked for a “reality check”, explaining how this offending piece of sculptured moulding is a 9 inch painted model with a moulded and painted rifle that is part of the figure.

‘The supervisor was confident within the surety of the regulations and said a “firearm” is a firearm and cannot pass.

[eXpat]

TSA comes under fire again as employees admit to repeatedly stealing money from passengers
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') TSA supervisor stole money from passengers who went through his security checkpoint and accepted bribes and kickbacks from a colleague.

Michael Arato, a supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport, admitted on Monday that he regularly took money from passengers during security screenings and deliberately targeted foreigners who could not speak much English.

The 41-year-old, from Ewing, admitted in federal court that he permitted a worker he supervised to steal $10,000 to $30,000 in cash from traveller's bags over a 13-month period.
He admitted to collecting $3,100 over one week to 'look the other way' while his colleague carried out the thefts from travellers.

In return the colleague would give some of the money to Arato, who also admitted to stealing some himself at his security checkpoint in Terminal B.

The colleague, who was not named, cooperated with investigators leading them to the arrest of Arato.

Arato faces a maximum potential sentence of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, though the actual penalty may be less under sentencing guidelines. He will be sentenced on May 24.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been trying to crackdown on theft by workers at Newark Liberty International Airport and the TSA said that any time it becomes aware of an employee who might be engaged in illegal activity, it works closely with other agencies to investigate.
The exchanges were caught on videotape over a three-week period, the government said, from September 13 to October 5 last year.

It was believed that as the passengers - mostly foreigners heading home - came through the checkpoint at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport, the supervisor and another TSA agent would subject them to secondary searches and take the cash from their carry-on bags.

When Arato was arrested, ABC reported that the pair allegedly targeted predominately non-English speaking victims, including women of Indian descent and nationality who were returning home after visiting the United States.

On a given shift, Arato would pocket approximately $400 to $700 from passengers, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.

He said in a statement: 'Arato literally made a game of stealing hundreds of dollars a day from individuals standing in the security lane. That he targeted them based on their inability to speak English is especially offensive.'

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')eattle-Area Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')SA Harasses 9-yo Boy and Other Train Passengers After Their Trip

[rangerone314]

I still think Americans need to form rapid-reaction militia groups around the country that can be mobilized when TSA & such get out of hand, so like you got 14 TSA agents harassing a harmless family of 5, a hundred militia members armed with AK47's and baseball bats (for knee-capping fascists) show up to perform a rescue.

I consider the TSA and other fascist organizations to be conducting searches and seizures that are unreasonable searches, that are in violation of the 4th amendment. In my opinion, not only would it be not illegal to resist an unconstitutional search, but it is a duty to do so.

If the government is no longer the guarantor of our constitutional rights, then maybe it is time to take Thomas Jefferson's words to heart and "water the tree of liberty".

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')arole A. Smith does not fly around on a broom, wear a black pointy hat or cast spells. But the misperceptions of what constitutes a witch—someone who practices Wicca—was more than enough to get her fired from her job with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') Kansas woman said she is scheduled for a court date in Philadelphia after she opened a confetti-filled plastic egg over an airport security agent's head.

Val Baul, a former radio DJ and traveling clown known locally in Roeland Park, Kan., as the "Bunny Lady," said a Transportation Security Administration agent confronted her about her confetti-filled eggs after she had already been through security at Philadelphia International Airport during Valentine's Day weekend in February, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Mo., reported Thursday.

"She wasn't investigating my eggs, I had already been through the X-ray machine (with no problems)," said Baul, who commonly dresses in a pink bunny suit and performs for special events. "She said, 'What are those?' and I said, 'Well, they're eggs filled with confetti.'"

Baul said she proved her point by opening one of the eggs over the agent's head, causing confetti to rain down on the other woman. Baul said she "didn't think anything of it," but the TSA agent took her to the airport's jail, where she was held for 3 hours.

[rangerone314]

Rumor has it that Janet Napolitano can trace her ancestry back to Benito Mussolini.

[Keith_McClary]

Police State 6-Year-Old-Girl Searched and Groped by TSA

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')on't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.
Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.
CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports.
Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.
But one addresses passengers' attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.
It reads: "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures."

[mattduke]

Here is the frisking of the 6 year old suspected potential terrorist that everyone is talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 3sH1GaO_nw

[rangerone314]

Anyone ready to move to Galt's Gulch yet?