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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:07 PM
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Homeland INSECURITY Declares ITSELF EXEMPT From Constitution
:smoke:

DHS: We Have the Authority to Routinely Strip-Search Air Travelers


The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court that the agency believes it has the legal authority to strip search every air traveler. The agency made the claim at oral argument in EPIC's lawsuit to suspend the airport body scanner program. The agency also stated that it believed a mandatory strip search rule could be instituted without any public comment or rulemaking. EPIC President Marc Rotenberg urged the Washington, DC appeals court to suspend the body scanner program, noting that the devices are "uniquely intrusive" and ineffective.

EPIC's opening brief
http://epic.org/EPIC_Body_Scanner_OB.pdf

in the case states that the Department of Homeland Security "has initiated the most sweeping, the most invasive, and the most unaccountable suspicionless search of American travelers in history," and that such a change in policy demands that the TSA conduct a notice-and-comment rule making process.

The case is EPIC v. DHS, No. 10-1157. For more information,

see EPIC: EPIC v. DHS

http://epic.org/privacy/body_scanners/epic_v_dhs_suspension_of_body.html


and EPIC: Whole Body Imaging Technology.

http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/




http://epic.org/2011/03/dhs-we-have-the-authority-to-r.html


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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:10 PM
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1. K&R- DHS is THE most anti American organization in the USA-they have
They have powers that are clearly unconstitutional, and they use them routinely.

One thing about Mr. Obama that I cannot stand is how much he loves the DHS.


mark
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VermeerLives Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:12 PM
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2. You're surprised by this? (n/t)
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demigoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:15 PM
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3. and we are surprised???? heck no!! can't wait until somebody
disbands them. When will we get a president or congress who will???
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:21 PM
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4. After the revolution
I'm tired of waiting for a nation of laws.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:30 PM
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5. Wnrn ordinary, hard working people start running for office.
Edited on Sat Mar-12-11 06:30 PM by truedelphi
When the electorate itself stops needing only attorneys to run for the Congress or the Senate.

When the electorate itself doesn't require a person to have a Master's degree or affiliation with Ivy League colleges.

I thought we had arrived at that point when community-activist Barack Obama ran for the Seante and then became President. (I know he had a law degree, but he played up his community activism during 2004 and 2008.)

But I fail to see a bit of community activism in him as he acts now.
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:35 PM
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6. Homeland just replaced Nazi's Fatherland. (Didn't take such a long time).
JMO Don't any lurkers go ballistic on me for writing what's in my heart and mind.:loveya:
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 08:33 PM
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9. You can hear the unison metallic clicking of their boots coming in the near distance.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:36 PM
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7. Well, gee, DHS, YOU DO NOT. Now back to Russia with you.
:grr:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 06:36 PM
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8. Who said we didn't have perverts in charge?
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 11:04 PM
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10. STOP flying if you can...take the train...drive...do whatever you can to make the
Airlines demand fair treatment of its passengers...beyond that...

Lets put perverts in charge of Homeland Security!
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 09:49 AM
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11. homeland security searches people getting on and off trains too
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 05:46 PM
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12. When did that start? They feel folks up at train depots also? n/t
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 04:23 AM
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13. there was a video on here a few weeks ago
of people being frisked down by the tsa getting off of a train in south carolina i think
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 04:29 AM
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14. This is what we've come to in America. A fucking capitalist taliban
playing with our dicks and making us enjoy the freedom of slavitude as we once were 'free to travel about the country'. 9/11 caused our govt to lose their fucking minds. NSA, CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, blah blah blah...no NOT enough departments! Must have a dept to purely waste money on and scare the living fuck out of American civilians. Of course they think they are in the right! They are going by the GWB laws that says you can 'fuck up anyone ya want to'.
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