There haven’t been any massive terrorist attacks on major cities in the U.S. since the TSA and USA PATRIOT ACT has been around. Correlation is not causation. There’s no way to visit the parallel universe where our politicians remained calm and level-headed so the post-9/11 TSA and USA PATRIOT ACT don’t exist and we could see if there were terror attacks on major U.S. cities or not.

We’re required to take it on faith that the TSA is protecting us. Faith is fine if you like church and gambling but faith is worthless when facts are available.

Cut to: http://carlosmiller.com/. The blog is called “Photography is not a crime”. It will kill you. Carlos Miller actively antagonizes people to test laws. He’s trying to find out where the line is. He is a hero.

If you watch some of the videos, you realize that many of the people enforcing the laws, be they real cops or rent-a-cops, sometimes don’t even know the laws. Watch videos or read stories of other photographers who have been harassed and jailed by the overzealous will get your blood boiling.

And much of it is being done in the name of “fighting terrorism”: You can’t photograph a building because of terrorism. We are living in a world where the phrase “If you’ve got nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t mind if we search you…” is gaining ground. You and I know that it’s wrong, but our kids are going to think it’s weird if they’re not searched in public.

Whenever I hear friends or talking heads on t.v. discuss terrorism, I enjoy seeing how long it takes before they begin playing the “If I Were A Terrorist” game. The folks who don’t want you photographing buildings are masters at playing the “If I Were A Terrorist” game. “A terrorist wants photographs of buildings and subway stations and malls and other public and private places so they can study the place and then blow it up!!!!” and then we join them in the game by thinking… or saying… “A terrorist wouldn’t take pictures in the middle of the day…” the reply to that being: “See, that’s why I’m in law enforcement, because you never know what a terrorist looks like and looking like a regular guy and taking a photo in the middle of the day is exactly what a terrorist would do. THAT’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY!!!” and we are then playing this un-winnable game where privacy, rational thought and liberty lose.

Sometimes, Carlos is sort of a jerk. But that’s okay. He’s pissed off and those of us who are pissed off ALL OF THE TIME get a bit jerky now and again. Give him a break. Visit his site. He has a legal defense fund. He needs your money. Give him 10 bucks.

He must be doing something right.

Today and tomorrow (august 19 y august 20, 2010) Rand Paul is trying to set an internet moneybomb record.

http://www.randpaul2010.org

That’s all.

A Miami International Airport federal security screener has been arrested for allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker.

The source of their conflict, police say: daily ribbing about the size of the screener’s genitalia.

Screener Rolando Negrin’s private body parts were observed by his Transportation Security Administration colleagues conducting training on the airport’s full-body imaging machines.

Months of joking culminated on Tuesday night, when Negrin attacked co-worker Hugo Osorno in an employee parking lot…

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/06/1617423/miami-airport-screener-beats-co.html#ixzz0nH28cMbE

Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became “uncooperative,” an airline official said Wednesday.

thanks again to facebook group: f*** the tsa

Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.

Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.

“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”

thanks again to facebook group: f*** the tsa

Special thanks to the group on Facebook: F*** The TSA

http://www.mybottlesup.com/tsa-agents-took-my-son/

The female TSA agent stood in front of me while I sat with Jackson and she continued to watch luggage come through the conveyor belt.

“Ma’am, can someone please just search me so we can be on our way? We are going to miss our flight,” I said.

The female agent then called an older gentleman, also a TSA agent over. The male TSA agent stood in front of me and said “I’m going to have to pat down your son.”

With Jackson still sitting in my lap (he was being so good despite all of this chaos) I said ok and continued to hold on to my son, expecting the male TSA agent to start touching Jackson.

He then told me, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”

I rolled my eyes and sternly told him “It’s his pacifier clip that went off, can’t you just run that back through the belt and let us go. We are going to miss our flight.”

The female TSA agent, who had been standing there the entire time said to me, “You need to adjust your attitude and do as you are told.”

The male TSA agent repeated, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”

I handed him my son.

I handed him my son and he walked away with my child.

My eyes welled up with tears, I stood up from my chair and I asked the female TSA agent, “Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?”

Jackson, while being whisked away looked at the male TSA agent awkwardly and repeated “no no no no.”

I started crying.

The female TSA agent did not answer me.

Panic set in. My hands began to shake. My body was sweating. My breath was short and my heart was racing.

They had taken my child and not told me.

The good news is that some parts of the PATRIOT Act could expire at the end of the year. This provides an opportunity to roll back many of these dangerous provisions. Toward this end Senator Russ Feingold introduced the JUSTICE Act (S. 1686) on September 17, Constitution Day. JUSTICE stands for the Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts.

Won’t you visit them?

from http://www4.infoweb.net/l/news.php.

In addition to wrassling this obvious enemy of the state to the ground, the good folks at the TSA use an elbow to the head to push her face down, twist her arms to the breaking point to handcuff her and finally lead her away.

Reason?

A spokesman from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says that Kassner, “was interfering with the screening process and refusing to follow security procedures.”

dean cameron, steve bierfeldt, matt holdridge

I’m on the left, Steve’s in the center and another Campaign For Liberty hero, Matt Holdridge, is on the right. This is us backstage at the Penn & Teller Theater at the Penn & Teller show at the beautiful Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He is so nice, soft-spoken and modest. If you haven’t listened to the audio of the incident, you might want to. Goodness gracious.