CaptainAmerica
10-25-2011, 02:39 PM
Not content with scanning and groping passengers at airline terminals, the TSA has expanded its operations to America's highways.
Last week, Tennessee teamed up with the TSA to implement checkpoints on that state's highways, ostensibly looking for terrorists.
"Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane - more likely on the interstate," said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul, however, called the move an "infringement" on American's liberties by "jack-booted thugs".
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-tsa-thugs-on-the-loose:cool:
If you thought the “Transportation Security Administration” would limit itself to conducting unconstitutional searches at airports, think again. The agency intends to assert jurisdiction over our nation’s highways, waterways, and railroads as well. TSA launched a new campaign of random checkpoints on Tennessee highways last week, complete with a sinister military-style acronym–VIP(E)R—as a name for the program.
As with TSA’s random searches at airports, these roadside searches are not based on any actual suspicion of criminal activity or any factual evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever by those detained. They are, in effect, completely random. So first we are told by the U.S. Supreme Court that American citizens have no 4thamendment protections at border crossings, even when standing on U.S. soil. Now TSA takes the next logical step and simply detains and searches U.S. citizens at wholly internal checkpoints.-ron paul
Ron Paul is the man.
Last week, Tennessee teamed up with the TSA to implement checkpoints on that state's highways, ostensibly looking for terrorists.
"Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane - more likely on the interstate," said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul, however, called the move an "infringement" on American's liberties by "jack-booted thugs".
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-tsa-thugs-on-the-loose:cool:
If you thought the “Transportation Security Administration” would limit itself to conducting unconstitutional searches at airports, think again. The agency intends to assert jurisdiction over our nation’s highways, waterways, and railroads as well. TSA launched a new campaign of random checkpoints on Tennessee highways last week, complete with a sinister military-style acronym–VIP(E)R—as a name for the program.
As with TSA’s random searches at airports, these roadside searches are not based on any actual suspicion of criminal activity or any factual evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever by those detained. They are, in effect, completely random. So first we are told by the U.S. Supreme Court that American citizens have no 4thamendment protections at border crossings, even when standing on U.S. soil. Now TSA takes the next logical step and simply detains and searches U.S. citizens at wholly internal checkpoints.-ron paul
Ron Paul is the man.