Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 17, 2010

Upside-down world of Team Obama:
Arizona is being sued by the federal government for implementing an illegal immigration law that mirrors federal law but is barely acknowledged, and a former TSA honcho admits in the interview video below that the Homeland Security pat-downs and full body scans do violate American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights as provided in the Constitution.

But he says, essentially, so what?

They’re doing it FOR THE CHILDREN.

Didn’t they use that same phony emotional ruse when pushing ObamaCare?

Similar dismantling of the Constitution in the name of “security” could be just around the corner.

Neuter or ignore one amendment and the statist weasels in Washington have set a precedent. Unconstitutional, yes, but that’s how gradualism takes root.

And how freedom-robbing by a government escalates. Which is PRECISELY what our Founding Fathers wanted to prevent.

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Adams, and that whole crew of incredibly wicked-smart, anti-tyranny, pro-self-governing Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves with anguish so often these days, it’s surprising we haven’t had a noted increase in earthquakes.

Former Asst TSA Admin – Airport Checkpoints Violate 4th Amendment | November 2010

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

Old Ben must have had a crystal ball…

Additional reading:
Chuck DeVore, Big Government: TSA Needs to “Get a Grip”… of a Different Sort
Michelle Malkin: TSA: Touching sensitive areas
Nice Deb: Don’t Touch My Junk Demotivator
The Powers That Be: The TSA: Life Imitates Airplane II
The Lonely Conservative: TSA Gone Wild – Pats Down Screaming 3 Year Old
Gateway Pundit: Former Top TSA Official: “Nobody Likes Having Their 4th Amendment Rights Violated… We’re Going to Have to Do It” (Video) and Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video)
Another Black Conservative: From groping to probing, TSA to investigate John Tyner (The Don’t Touch My Junk dude)
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Background Info on Crying 3-Year-Old Girl Who Wouldn’t Let TSA Pat Her Down, Plus the “Don’t Touch My Junk” Man & Napolitano Says “More to Come” for Muslim Women (video) and Thanksgiving Crisis: Backlash Growing Against TSA’s Invasive Pat-Downs & Body Scanners at Airports, “Opt-Out Day” Looming, Muslim Women Exempt? (video) and DHS on the Hot Seat: Invasive Groping at Airports by TSA Employees Escalating, Pilots Revolt Against Being Scanned Because of Radiation (video)
Right Network: Citizen to TSAndroid: “If you touch my junk I’ll have you arrested.”
DBKP – Death By 1000 Papercuts: Angry Over Airport Full Body Scans? On the Horizon, Red Flag Tests
Pundit & Pundette: Airline searches, as ineffective as they are invasive
AFP: ‘Naked’ scanners at US airports may be dangerous: scientists
The Jawa Report: CAIR Pushes To Exempt Muslims From Airport Body Scans AND Pat Downs
CNN, Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs:
Washington Post: Revolt against TSA: Ban the body scanner?
Death and Taxes: Revolt Against TSA: Airline Industry Spawns New Folk Hero
Sign On San Diego: Commercial airline pilot refuses full body scan
CNS News: Muslim Group Advises Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow TSA ‘Enhanced Pat Downs’ Only on Head and Neck Area

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