“Just got a call from @senrandpaul,” Bagley tweeted at about 10 a.m. on Monday. “He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville.”
Texas Congressman and current Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul – Sen. Rand Paul’s father – placed a post on Facebook about the news as well. “My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport,” Ron Paul posted. “I’ll share more details as the situation unfolds.”
Ron Paul adds, via Twitter, that the TSA detained his son “for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner.”
Sen. Rand Paul’s Facebook page has a post about the incident too. “Senator Paul is being detained at the Nashville Airport by the TSA,” Sen. Rand Paul’s Facebook post reads. “We will update you as the situation develops.”
Sen. Rand Paul’s chief of staff Doug Stafford told The Daily Caller the Senator “was detained by the TSA after their scanner had an ‘anomaly’ on the first scan.”
“He offered to go through again,” Stafford said in an email. “The TSA said he could only have a full body pat down. He would not consent to it. He offered to go through the scanner again. The situation is ongoing.”
Sen. Rand Paul has previously referred to the TSA’s use of full body pat downs as the “universality of insult,” and he called on the agency to end the tactic.
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And shall we add this to the story just for grins?
The U.S. Constitution actually protects federal lawmakers from detention while they’re on the way to the Capital.
“The Senators and Representatives…shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same….” according to Article I, Section 6.
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But what the fuck does the federal government know or care about the Constitution?
Subtleties again....
ReplyDeleteHe's merely "detained", not arrested..... nothing to see, move along now....
To me, this is verbal weaseling on the same moral level as "I did not have sex with that woman....".
You U.S. readers will know the law better than I do; do TSA have advise a "detainee" of their rights, as a police officer would have to?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
ReplyDeleteThose who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Damn, WC, you nailed it and blow Fox, CBS, MSNBC and all the others away.
ReplyDeleteBut Kenny, they care a great deal about that document... why it's their "get out of jail free" card! Works first time, every time!!! Just one more perk of the "elite", a.k.a. our "leaders"...
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