Front page of reddit: Ron Paul warned us about the TSA

[jct74]

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Ron Paul Warned About This: TSA Removes Opt-Out From Full Body Scanners

By Daniel McAdams
12/24/2015

Never let a crisis go to waste. That is the motto of every government agency and every bureaucrat. Citing "heightened tensions over terrorism," the Transportation Safety Administration has unilaterally decided that fliers can no longer "opt-out" of the potentially cancer-causing and completely useless full body scanners in favor of a pat-down from a TSA agent. There was no debate in Congress. Not even an executive order. It was just a rule made by an unelected and unaccountable body, as one might expect in a dictatorship.

The TSA decision is a psychological defeat for liberty as well. Removing the option to "defy" the agency's demand that travelers submit to the scanners takes away that little bit of what America once was, the independent spirit of a free people. Now, head down, we must march through like cattle as our rude overlords bark out orders. It didn't have to be this way. Ron Paul saw this coming and introduced in several Congresses the American Traveler Dignity Act, which would have curtailed TSA powers and made TSA agents subject to the same assault laws as the rest of us. Here is a clip to remember while being corralled through the TSA cancer machines this Christmas season:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwsdq69AHnw

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/ron-paul-warned-about-this-tsa-removes-opt-out-from-full-body-scanners

[Origanalist]

Does this mean redditers? will now support Rand? joke

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lol... so if the US govt. starts using a border fence to keep Americans in then I suppose we won't be able to post Ron Paul warning about this years earlier in congress?

[GunnyFreedom]

lol... so if the US govt. starts using a border fence to keep Americans in then I suppose we won't be able to post Ron Paul warning about this years earlier in congress?
LMAO I'd say no, not with that band of mods; but I imagine you could probably post Barack Obama quoting Ron Paul about a border fence keeping Americans, in and that would be just fine.

[Brian4Liberty]

Front page on RPF too! ;)

[TheNewYorker]

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[Anti Federalist]

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[Anti Federalist]

And AmeriKunts from sea to shining sea, bow their heads and shuffle along.

[Spikender]

And my friends wonder why I refuse to fly. Even when I explain it they don't seem to be on the level.

[jmdrake]

LOL. Ummmm......I hate to say this but....

A choice between an offensive pat down and a naked body scanner was never a choice to begin with!

That's like saying you're going to give me a choice between being garrotted or being hung.

[Origanalist]

LOL. Ummmm......I hate to say this but....

A choice between an offensive pat down and a naked body scanner was never a choice to begin with!

That's like saying you're going to give me a choice between being garrotted or being hung.

I'm not going to submit to it, I'll just drive. :(

[jmdrake]

I'm not going to submit to it, I'll just drive. :(

Yeah....but eventually they're going to put TSA checkpoints on the freeway. The only way gubmit "security" can protect us from terrorism (much of it false flag anyway) is a complete and total police state. The Paris and San Diego shootings just drive home a point most of us realized over a decade ago. If terrorists really wanted to kill as many Americans as possible they wouldn't need to hijack an airplane to do it. The Virginia Tech shooter by himself killed more people with handguns than the S.D. shooters did with assault rifles. And he killed more people per capita with handguns than the Paris shooters. Banning assault rifles doesn't cure the problem. Neither does airline "security." There is always a "soft target."

[Origanalist]

Yeah....but eventually they're going to put TSA checkpoints on the freeway. The only way gubmit "security" can protect us from terrorism (much of it false flag anyway) is a complete and total police state. The Paris and San Diego shootings just drive home a point most of us realized over a decade ago. If terrorists really wanted to kill as many Americans as possible they wouldn't need to hijack an airplane to do it. The Virginia Tech shooter by himself killed more people with handguns than the S.D. shooters did with assault rifles. And he killed more people per capita with handguns than the Paris shooters. Banning assault rifles doesn't cure the problem. Neither does airline "security." There is always a "soft target."

I know, my only consolation is I'm getting older. I'll probably be a hermit in some backwater hole in the middle of nowhere and even that won't be enough. The "liberty" people are rallying around these days is a joke.

[GunnyFreedom]

I'm not going to submit to it, I'll just drive. :(

Yep. That was me until someone paid me $1800 to do a one night job in Idaho. :(