Re: Senator Rand Paul and the TSA's little green men

he fact that the TSA hasn't a clue that they
cannot detain a United States Senator
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they can and will

interesting that you support disbanding the TSA ... the first line of
defense against another 911.

some fears are unfounded

On Jan 26, 1:12 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I salute Rand Paul for his composure and dignity during this offensive
> bureaucratic clusterfuck!   The fact that the TSA hasn't a clue that they
> cannot detain a United States Senator on his way to conduct congressional
> business speaks volumes; and the fact that the Obama Administration
> defended the TSA's actions is even more telling.
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> It's time that this agency be disbanded,  as it is broken, beyond repair.
> It is a boondoggle, for which President Bush should be ashamed.
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >  People inside the Beltway have been discussing what happened and what it
> > means that the Nashville airport TSA staff detained Senator Rand Paul,
> > making him miss a speech in DC and campaigning with his father, because he
> > refused the invasive "pat down" groping procedure that he and other people
> > have been protesting for months.
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> > I think the most likely explanation is Sen. Paul's own.  TSA is a
> > bureaucracy and its management is incompetent. They probably actually try
> > NOT to grope famous or connected people, but every once in a while they
> > slip up.
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> > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YNQHn4zHhAU/TyAGBFQqCsI/AAAAAAAABV0/18bUXDq...>
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> > What's funny about this incident is that it recalls a pre-TSA comedy about
> > government groping, Christopher Buckley's novel *Little Green Men*.  Many
> > people are familiar with Buckley's novel about lobbyists, *Thank You For
> > Not Smoking,*having seen the movie based on it.  *Little Green Men* is a
> > comic explanation of what is going on with all the people who think they
> > see, and especially those who think they are abducted by, UFOs or aliens
> > aboard them.  The plot is that a government agency actually sedates and
> > strips and probes unsuspecting unknown people, Iowa farmers and South
> > Carolina soccer moms, and then releases them, so that they will *believe* in
> > aliens.  Because as long as a certain percentage of American voters believe
> > in aliens they will vote to keep NASA funded and various top secret
> > military projects can be hidden in the NASA budget.
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> > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MC5EL4w3kSY/TyAGJuk6kfI/AAAAAAAABV8/n0n-txE...>
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> > A problem occurs when the government agents involved accidentally abduct a
> > famous person, a mainstream Sunday political talk show journalist (rather
> > obviously based on John McLaughlin of *McLaughlin Group* fame).  He
> > becomes a zealot, organizing a million march on Washington demanding the
> > release of all classified documents about UFOs.
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> > Now I don't think TSA exists to create a budget to hide secret programs
> > in, or even to irradiate Americans routinely for some nefarious purpose.
> >  If that were so it would actually catch a terrorist, or at least a fake
> > terrorist, to show what a good agency it is and how its budget should be
> > increased.   I think it exists in part for security theater, to make it
> > look like the government knows how to do something.  But the real reason
> > for it is to teach Americans to be servile.  To give up dignity and privacy
> > and accept regimentation.  To return to a feudal relationship to government
> > where one hands over one's daughter (as well as one's son, one's spouse and
> > one's self) to the feudal Lord's seignorial right to possess her virgin
> > body before anyone else.
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> > I hope Sen. Paul is able to lead something like a million man march
> > against our current return to a pre-Bill of Rights, pre-Magna Carta, feudal
> > relationship to government.
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> >http://teapartiers.blogspot.com/2012/01/senator-rand-paul-and-tsas-li...
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