TSA = PRIVATE PARTS MADE PUBLIC

by Jonathan Boda

Originally posted on IndependentWord.com.

On May 13^th, 2011 the Texas House of Representatives passed HB 1937 (an anti-groping bill) with a cold-cock punch and a united knockout that resonated throughout the Texas State House. It was a unanimous decision – 138-0. This would’ve become a huge step into the right, ethical direction, as well as another giant leap towards liberty and the right of privacy. Texas would’ve been the first state to hammer-down the TSA and put an end to a groping-game of foolish-gunk within this particular state.

Texas Representative David Simpson

According to a press release from the office of Texas Rep. David Simpson (the author ofHB 1937),

“HB 1937 would make it a criminal act for security personnel to touch a person’s private areas without probable cause as a condition of travel or as a condition of entry into a public place. This bill is not intended to contravene any federal statutes currently in place.”

The bill has since traveled to the Texas State Senate, but unfortunately a massive tyrannical wave of Federal corruption would immediately take place.

Is this groping nonsense a violation of the 4^th amendment?

Well, to put it to you this way, we’re being sexually harassed and molested at airports and public buildings across our entire nation. These are intrusive procedures, but the government describes these unlawful acts as a mandatory security process for “our own safety.” So, the government is telling us (the American people) that it’s for our own good and safety to experience a stranger’s hand being gently slipped into our pants, or panties? So a TSA agent is allowed, in public, to grope a 6-year-old girl and get away with it? Yessum, obviously it’s a violation of the 4^th!

On May 25^th, 2011 a dishonest act would sadly take-over the entire state Capitol of Texas. We’re talking MAJOR federal control (the elite within the collective elite). A federal letter signed by United States Attorney, John E. Murphy, was handed-out to high-ranking state officials right before the Texas Senate would’ve been given their only fair chance to vote against the high-profiled legislation.

What does this MURPHY LETTER mean?

Peril… It was meant to threaten our constitutional and civil liberties. Simply put, if the Texas State Senate voted against the HB 1937 bill then the Federal Government and the TSA would immediately shut down all airports throughout the entire state. This also meant that all inbound and outbound flights would be instantly cancelled. Terminated. Can you imagine the enormous impact of this disgusting ultimatum if it had been put into effect?

Tyrant Law?

Read it for yourself… We have the Murphy Letter right HERE.

Texas State Senator Dan Patrick

According to Senator Dan Patrick (the anti-groping bill’s sponsor) after the Murphy Letterwas released he would soon come to learn that he would not have enough support to pass the bill, and would eventually have to withdraw the bill from the floor. So he did.

Senator Patrick stated,

“I will pull HB 1937 down, but I will stand for liberty in the state of Texas.”

Nevertheless, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy (Murphy Letter author) placed fear into the hearts of Americans as well as the entire Texas State Senate. A criminal act that’s been made public and will never be forgotten.

The story gets deeper…

Who else is there to possibly blame? He’s a man by the name of David Dewhurst, Lt. Governor of Texas and former CIA agent. That’s right, a former Intelligence agent clearly stating to have “some experience with terrorists as a CIA agent in South America in the early 1970s,” a quote (tip) Lt. Governor Dewhurst gave to the Houston Chronicle.

This is what Senator Patrick said right before he was forced, by a collusive cabal, to withdraw the HB 1937 bill, “There was a time in this state, there was a time in this history, where we stood up to the federal government and did not cower to rules and policies that invaded the privacy of Texans.”

Then…

Senator Patrick also stated, interestingly enough,

“This was a case of the federal government bullying Texas, and apparently they bullied the lieutenant governor.”

In a final statement by Rep. David Simpson, the author of HB 1937 said this,

“If we do not stand up for our citizens in the face of this deprivation of their personal rights and dignity, who will?

Liberty is the independent word!

 

Jonathan Boda

Jonathan Boda is a writer and researcher currently living in Los Angeles, CA. Since 2005 he’s been feverishly working as a crew member, creative consultant, and writer for many feature films and various television shows. Boda is a Co-Founder of  Independent Word, a political website aligned with news writers and contributors from various ideologies that share the common pursuit of truth and liberty in America.

www.independentword.com

In the mood for TSA

Are Air Travelers Criminal Suspects?

by Ron Paul

Congressman Ron Paul (R)

The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the American people, and opposition to the new TSA full body scanner and groping searches is gathering momentum.

I introduced legislation last week that is based on a very simple principle: federal agents should be subject to the same laws as ordinary citizens. If you would face criminal prosecution or a lawsuit for groping someone, exposing them to unwelcome radiation, causing them emotional distress, or violating indecency laws, then TSA agents should similarly face sanctions for their actions.

This principle goes beyond TSA agents, however. As commentator Lew Rockwell recently noted, the bill “enshrines the key lesson of the freedom philosophy: the government is not above the moral law. If it is wrong for you and me, it is wrong for people in government suits… That is true of TSA crimes too.” The revolt against TSA also serves as a refreshing reminder that we should not give in to government alarmism or be afraid to question government policies.

Don't Touch My Junk

by Mike Calpino

Mike Calpino

 The controversy over new airport screening procedures has continued to grow. No doubt it will explode over the long holiday weekend, particularly is planned protests involve even a fraction of the flying public. The TSA and Homeland Security have dug in their heels and defended the new procedures as necessary to ensure our safety. If a majority of Americans begin to strenuously object or even refuse, there is the possibility of a real confrontation over these methods. Even more importantly, it is getting people to talk about government intrusion in a way they have not considered before. It is the various levels in which these procedures have struck a nerve that need to be explored.

At some airports, there are two choices given. There are the new electronic screening machines which display your naked body to some minimum wage security guard, some of whom have been getting pretty excited about their job. If you choose not to display yourself in ways only your spouse should be privy to, don’t want to be radiated in ways the government assures you are safe (we believe everything they say) or the TSA decides you need to be further investigated, then you will receive an "aggressive" patdown. This involves touching and squeezing in areas that, again, only our spouse should touch and squeeze. It is applied to the very young, the very old, the infirm, everyone.

So why does this bother us so much? After all, we don’t want another terrorist with a bomb in his shoe, underwear or anywhere else to get on an airplane, do we? Of course not. However, the way we are going about it is insulting on a variety of levels. On the surface, we know it is a waste of time and resources to treat four year olds, nuns and cancer survivors with prosthetic devices or urine bags as potential terrorists. Yet we have Janet Nepalitano refusing to answer the question as to whether or not they would use such techniques on a Muslim woman in a burka. That offends our basic sense of fairness. We also know that any terrorist who chose to do so could walk across our southern border. If we applied a fraction of the effort on our border we do in the airport, we would catch a lot more terrorists and criminals. So far the TSA has caught.....zero.

The Attack on Human Dignity

by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy




The human being is made in the image and likeness of God. He or she has the Spark of the Divine "within" him or her. He or she is the primal and primary Temple of God on earth. Each person therefore deserves from the other and gives to the other not just respect, but reverence. The destruction of a fellow human — whether it be in mind, soul, body or spirit — is therefore the desecration of the Great Temple on earth, the place in time and space where the Living God chose foremost to reside.

The sublimity, dignity and transcendental value of each human being make it a grave violation of the Presence of God and of God-given human dignity to treat a person as a thing, a widget in some one's grand illusion, a means to be used, manipulated, abused, lied to, and/or crushed to serve another's agenda. Violate is derived from the same Latin word as violence, violare. To violate a reality is to do violence to that reality. To violate a reality is to treat it in a way that is not in accordance with its nature, e.g., to treat a sentient human being as if he or she were a non-sentient rock violates the reality of the human being. To treat a human being who is the living Temple of God on earth and who is infinitely loved and valued by this same God, as a tool, as a thing, as a person of no real significance beyond my utilitarian need for him or her in some grandiose plan I have concocted, rather than with the reverence, love and value that he or she intrinsically and forever possesses, as a son or daughter of my God and his or her God, of my Father and his or her Father, of the One God, is to violate him or her, to do violence to them. And, a violation of a person's intrinsic, God bestowed human dignity and transcendent value is evil regardless of how normalized it has become, how culturally acceptable it has become, how "holy" it has become or how legal it has become.

Read the rest at Lew Rockwell