No big-government bureaucracy better embodies that reactionary principle than the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), whose utter contempt for American citizens has grown so great that they now require we submit to government agents either photographing our, to them, visibly naked bodies or groping us in molestation-style pat-downs if we ever want to fly again. Also, as if subjecting millions of Americans to x-rated x-ray scans and the humiliation of public groping sessions weren't bad enough, the agency now threatens $11,000 in fines against anyone refusing to submit to humiliation at the airport. The TSA has crossed the line on what is necessary to keep us safe and what is not.
Listen up TSA, “My wife and doctors are the only ones who are allowed to see my naked body or touch my junk!" For a sane person in a sane country, that's the ultimate in a "no shit, Sherlock" statement. But not in America, not anymore! They are trampling on Americans' fourth amendment constitutional rights which state:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
As if that weren’t enough to put a stop to this clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL act, it is also against STATE law. Here are The US and Arizona’s laws against “sexual contact”, which TSA enhanced pat-down procedure clearly falls within the definition of it.
18 U.S. Code
Section 2244, "
"sexual contact" means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade."
Arizona Revised Statute, Title 13 Criminal Code
13-1401. Definitions
2. "Sexual contact" means any direct or indirect touching, fondling or manipulating of any part of the genitals, anus or female breast by any part of the body or by any object or causing a person to engage in such contact.
13-1403. Public sexual indecency; public sexual indecency to a minor; classification
A. A person commits public sexual indecency by intentionally or knowingly engaging in any of the following acts, if another person is present, and the defendant is reckless about whether such other person, as a reasonable person, would be offended or alarmed by the act:
1. An act of sexual contact.
2. An act of oral sexual contact.
3. An act of sexual intercourse.
4. An act of bestiality.
B. A person commits public sexual indecency to a minor if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in any of the acts listed in subsection A and such person is reckless about whether a minor who is under fifteen years of age is present.
C. Public sexual indecency is a class 1 misdemeanor. Public sexual indecency to a minor is a class 5 felony.
D. A person who is convicted of a felony violation of this section and who has two or more historical prior felony convictions for a violation of this section or section 13-1402 involving indecent exposure or public sexual indecency to a minor who is under fifteen years of age shall be sentenced pursuant to section 13-709.05.
13-1403. Public sexual indecency; public sexual indecency to a minor; classification
A. A person commits public sexual indecency by intentionally or knowingly engaging in any of the following acts, if another person is present, and the defendant is reckless about whether such other person, as a reasonable person, would be offended or alarmed by the act:
1. An act of sexual contact.
2. An act of oral sexual contact.
3. An act of sexual intercourse.
4. An act of bestiality.
B. A person commits public sexual indecency to a minor if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in any of the acts listed in subsection A and such person is reckless about whether a minor who is under fifteen years of age is present.
C. Public sexual indecency is a class 1 misdemeanor. Public sexual indecency to a minor is a class 5 felony.
D. A person who is convicted of a felony violation of this section and who has two or more historical prior felony convictions for a violation of this section or section 13-1402 involving indecent exposure or public sexual indecency to a minor who is under fifteen years of age shall be sentenced pursuant to section 13-709.05.
13-1404. Sexual abuse; classification
A. A person commits sexual abuse by intentionally or knowingly engaging in sexual contact with any person who is fifteen or more years of age without consent of that person or with any person who is under fifteen years of age if the sexual contact involves only the female breast.
B. Sexual abuse is a class 5 felony unless the victim is under fifteen years of age in which case sexual abuse is a class 3 felony punishable pursuant to section 13-705.
13-1410. Molestation of a child; classification
A. A person commits molestation of a child by intentionally or knowingly engaging in or causing a person to engage in sexual contact, except sexual contact with the female breast, with a child who is under fifteen years of age.
B. Molestation of a child is a class 2 felony that is punishable pursuant to section 13-705.
You should never have to explain to your children, “Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee, then it's OK.”
In case you still can’t equate TSA’s enhanced pat-downs to “sexual contact, listen to what Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri had to say during a Senate hearing on the issue.
"I'm wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,"
Love pats…? Why the hell would she say something like that if she herself didn’t perceive the pat downs were sexual in nature?
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The TSA claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded." They lied…SHOCKING! Now it turns out that there are and over 100 images that have found their way onto the internet.
Ron Paul's has intoduced legislation to combat this intrusion of our constitutional rights, it is H.R. 6416 and is just two sentences long...not 2000 pages! It states:
"No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), X-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual's body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual's parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent."
You mark my words; In order to be “politically correct” TSA will concede and Muslim women (who believe in jihad and the reason we are in this predicament in the first place) will throw such a hissy fit that they will end up being exempt from the procedures based on their religious beliefs, but of course, Catholic nuns won’t have same exemption…even though they are not the ones TSA is supposedly protecting all of us from. It's no longer "politcally correct or expedient" to be a Christian in America anymore. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of what we have become.
