TSA stretching the truth
TSA said Rand Paul was “irate” in TSA dust up. But then video came out.
18 Responses to “TSA stretching the truth”
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January 26th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
If by stretching you mean lying?
January 26th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Waterloo.
January 26th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
They lied about strip-searching old ladies too. For weeks. They need to be abolished.
January 26th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Actually, it was the local cops who said he was “irate”, not the TSA. Of course, to our superiors (TSA, Feds, cops, etc.), anyone who is not 110% meek & compliant is usually “irate” or “belligerent” or something like that.
January 26th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
@4
Great point about their description of “irate”. Yet–as can be seen in today’s other post about road rage–when the out-of uniform cops are, flipping birds, driving recklessly, and brandishing their weapons at civvies, they are being “reasonable”.
January 26th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
This reminds me of those movie lines featuring corrupt cops saying “Looks to me like somebody is resisting arrest”.
They picked the wrong dude to fuck with.
January 26th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
What a crock of crap, yeah, I”m with Hartley, basically unless you are just mute you will be looked at as almost an enemy combatant!
January 26th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Josh,
And if you are mute you will be found uncooperative.
January 26th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
That’s the most laid back irate I have ever seen this side of southern California.
Senator dude, chill out. It’s like totally cool to be cavity searched.
January 26th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
I’m tired of people lumping the police and TSA into quasi-military groups and the rest of us as “civvies”. Unless I woke up in an episode of the Twilight Zone, the police are civvies too, only they have an exaggerated sense of importance because we allow them authority to push us around. The military has their own legal system outside the jurisdiction of state courts unless agreed upon by the Feds. We have only ourselves to blame for this fustercluck.
January 26th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
I would be irate… I would be snarky, sarcastic, pissy, perturbed, and probably insulting…
But then when I did nothing wrong and you treat me like I did, I tend to get a bit “irate”…
Now that does not mean I would be threatening, menacing, dangerous, physical or violent in any way.
January 26th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Not to defend the TSA, but this is a one minute video from a one-hour detention. Plenty of opportunity for off-camera irateness.
January 26th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
I think that Sen. Paul is smart enough to not make a scene and take a chance of making himself look bad.
January 26th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
MrSartyre, I can’t see how it’s our fault. The D.A.’s won’t prosecute and the cops never really police their own, so outside of vigilante justice, what can we do?
January 27th, 2012 at 2:05 am
@ MrSatyre
That boat sailed a /long/ time ago. Police are not civilians in any meaningful way anymore. They have exemptions carved out for them in arms laws and many other laws. They are the standing army that Jefferson warned us about.
January 27th, 2012 at 9:55 am
“You people just don’t understand Satyre!”
MrSat, you need to append a “\s” to your sig-ignature.
Otherwise you are doomed to having readers repeat to you what you just said. It’s a burden, I know.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:00 am
This video shows the need to find security cameras and make sure you are in sight of them at all times. The fact that the pen in which this airport keeps enemies of the state is obscured is not accident in my mind.
January 30th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
It’s all part of their plan to avoid the bill that keeps them from wearing badges. They have to act as much like cops as they can, including testilying.