ACLU Upset with President Obama for his TSA Pat-Downs Joke During SOTU … “Violations of the Constitution are NO JOKE!”

It does not appear that all were amused with President Barack Obama’s SOTU speech. The ACLU is expressing their ire over Obama’s TSA pat-down joke. While talking about spending more tax payer dollars on high-speed rail, Obama joked that “you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car and for some trips, it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down.” Needless to say, the ACLU was not amused.

“… for some trips, it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down”

During his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama cracked a joke about TSA pat-downs – and earned an immediate rebuke from the ACLU.

Awkward laughter and a scattered applause followed as Obama smiled and chuckled.

Moments after the president made the remark, the American Civil Liberties Union fired out a Tweet that read: “President Obama makes funny about TSA pat-downs, but the violations of the Constitution are NO JOKE!”

It was accompanied by a link to a scathing report on the ACLU’s Web site, which noted complaints “from men, women and children who reported feeling humiliated and traumatized by these searches, and, in some cases, comparing their psychological impact to sexual assaults.”

As Weasel Zippers stated, isn’t it great when Progressives attack each other.

More Insanity from Joy Behar … Wonders if ‘Constitution-Loving is Getting Out of Hand’

What exactly does Joy Bahar have against the United States Constitution? As we can see from her first comment, what is this Constitution loving stuff, “is it a nod to the Tea Party?” The the Leftist MSM insanity begin. Conveniently the loony Left talked about the right of privacy, hmm, what about that 4th Amendment and the illegal search and seizure, can you say airport screening? More privacy issues from Protein Wisdom that liberal Mr. Press seems to have left out.

Joy Behar has a burning question: “Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?”

That’s the question she posed to a panel of guests on her show Tuesday night, centered around the GOP’s plan to read the Constitution before the 112th Congress opens. Liberal talk show host Bill Press was more than willing to answer that it’s a “Hollywood” stunt and Republicans might actually benefit from such a reading since they have no idea what’s in it:

 The liberal MSM hate has just begun

I wonder how Behar feels about the First Amendment to the US Constitution. I would tend to bet that she has a Constitutional love-fest with that one.

56 Year Old Claire Hirschkind, Alledged Rape Victim & Pacemaker Device in Chest Arrested by TSA for Refusing Pat Down

56 year old Claire Hirschkind, rape victim and pacemaker-like device implant airline passenger pushed to the floor, handcuffed and arrested for refusing to be patted down.   The TSA continuing their ridiculous, non-profiling ways as they treat no passengers with dignity and respect.

Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.  The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights.  One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.

Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.  She says she never broke any laws.  But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.

Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the security checkpoint.

“I can’t go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me,” she said.

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TSA Head John Pistole Says No Body Cavity Searches …Yet

There is a big loop hole with the body scan machines; however, the head of the TSA does not want to really discuss that reality. All about security, eh? The TSA claims they will not do any body cavity searches. At least not any time soon.

We have been told by Obama and the TSA that the invasive pat downs and intrusions on our civil rights and privacy are for our own good. The justification behind the questionable searches of innocent Americans merely trying to board a plane is because of the Christmas Day, underwear bomber. Really?

Does that justify the over-the-top retroactive response from this White House to terrorism? They claim that the metal detectors would not have discovered the bomb carried aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 by radical Muslim terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

What if a terrorist chooses to have a pat-down and opts out of the full body scan? What if the terrorists decide to use a page from drug traffickers and smuggle the explosives in a body cavity? TSA … do not insult our intelligence that this is not a topic of discussion among terrorists. They have been willing to do anything to kill the Infidels and meet up with the virgins.

TSA chief John Pistole today met with reporters from the Christian Science Monitor. Pistole discussed why his agency’s aggressive screening techniques don’t include body-cavity searches …

Video Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

TSA chief John Pistole stated:

“We’re in the risk management business, being a risk-based intelligence organization. The information that I’ve seen out in public about body cavities for bombs I think is perhaps not accurate. There’s been reporting of one incident involving the Saudi Deputy Administrator of Interior. The forensics on that are not dis-positive and there is stronger indication that it was actually an underwear type bomb strapped to his upper thigh rather than a body cavity. That being, said even if it is a body cavity you still have to be an initiator. You have to have some external vice that cause that initiation such as having the TAPT that is closer to the PA10 that had a modified syringe. There has to be something external that initiates the device. That’s what the advanced imaging technology machine will pick up. Any anomaly outside the body. So we’re not going to get in the business of doing body cavity (searches) that’s just not where we are.”

 I think Pistole forgot to say the word, YET. Who is to say why this is not next on the list? There was a shoe bomber and we had to removeor shoes, there is an underwear bomber and that gives the TSA a right to a free nude show or a feel-up pat down without being offered a dinner and movie first. So what will an over intrusivegovernment do when a terrorist explodes a bomb in a body cavity? This is what happens when you give up your rights.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Rips Obama Administration … Calls TSA Searches Excessive

From the man who brought us leadership in the BP oil spill, provides us with sanity and common sense with the TSA and their excessive searches. Hint: It ain’t Barack Obama.

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal ripped the Obama administration and the TSA for their complete mishandling of the TSA naked scans of pre-teen girls, fondling, strip searches, oh that’s right pat-downs. Jindal questioned the policy and the lack of communication to the American people in telling them ahead of the busiest air travel holiday what they would be doing.  Jindal accused the Obama administration of being on the defensive in the war on terror … “The bottom line is yes we need to secure our country, but simply playing defense isn’t enough.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) blasted the Obama administration’s handling suspected terrorist and called the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial search procedures excessive during NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

“I think the American people are worried when they see an administration worried about reading Miranda rights to the underwear bomber,” Jindal said. “[They're] so worried about rights of the terrorists, what about the rights of innocent American travelers?”

Jindal said he understands the need to safeguard the country but is concerned the administration is not employing common sense or intelligence when it allows TSA to deploy full-body scanners and implement aggressive pat-downs as part of airport security. He said there is no reason to search young girls or grandmothers en route to visit family members.

“I’m concerned out of political correctness we’re screening people that don’t need it,” Jindal said, adding that TSA should look at passengers’ travel patterns, how they purchased their ticket and other information to screen which passengers pose a threat. 

Jindal said the TSA failed to effectively communicate to the public why it was ramping up security procedures ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Barack Obama just like every thing else he has put his hands on since he has become president is clueless. Obama stands by the lack of common sense approach by the TSA. What else would we expect from a President who was wrong on stimulus, health care, jobs, unemployment and illegal immigration.  From the people’s backlash, the TSA appears to be back tracking on their original statement on their search polices. Now it appears that the TSA might be revising it.

Little Boy Strip Searched by TSA … Way to Keep America Safe from Terrorism

Little Boy Strip Searched by TSA … Way to Keep America Safe from Terrorism

So this is how the TSA protects Americans against terrorist … by strip searching little boys. Are you serious? What the hell is the mandate of Obama’s TSA and the war on terror? We must Mirandize terrorists and have their trials held in civilian court so to protect their rights, but instead we should strip search an 8 year old boy. We can’t waterboard terrorists, but we can take away the civil rights of Americans.

Don’t worry, the TSA are equal opportunity screw ups and harass little girls as well. Check out this VIDEO and the TSA’s Gestapo tactics as the little girl screams, “STOP TOUCHING ME.” 

The stories just go on, and on and on and we have yet to even reach the most traveled gay of the Thanksgiving holiday. Obviously we must keep America safe from terrorism, however, this is not the way.

Hillary Clinton Says, TSA Pat Down’s for Thee, Not For Me … she would not want to submit to an airport security pat-down”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to be at odds with President Obama and the TSA when it comes to the invasive security sexual touching pat-downs. Hillary Clinton stated she would not want to submit to an airport security pat-down. However, for “WE THE PEOPLE” we do not have such options.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would not want to submit to an airport security pat-down, one of the new “enhanced” measures instituted by the Transportation Safety Administration ahead of the holiday season to screen airline passengers.

“I understand how difficult it is, and how offensive it must be for the people who are going through it.”

 ”Not if I could avoid it. No, I mean, who would?” Clinton said during an interview aired on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.”

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San Diego TSA Airport Screeners Out of Control … Passenger Arrested For Refusing TSA Screening, Parade Him Thru Airport in Underwear

TSA, the Audacity of Grope, San Diego Edition Part Deux:

The TSA is nothing more than a microcosm of Barack Obama and his Administration … a bunch of unqualified screw ups given power and abusing it. WTF AMERICA … THIS IS STILL AMERICA, ISN’T IT? The TSA and this government have totally lost focus on what airport security is supposed to do. IDIOTS, YOU FOOLS ARE TO CATCH TERRORISTS, NOT ARREST INNOCENT AMERICANS!!!

This time the TSA has overreacted and arrested  Sam Wolanyk, a San Diego resident, this weekend after he refused to complete the TSA screening process. Wolanyk then suffered the indignity at the hands of the TSA by being paraded through the airport in his underwear. Is this how the Obama/Napolitano TSA saves face for their screw up in letting the “underwear” bomber on a place last Christmas?

The TSA is out of control and some thing must be done before the Thanksgiving Day travel rush. If this continues, there is going to be mayhem this week. As stated at the Left Coast Rebel, from the airport that brought us, “Don’t Touch my Junk” comes the sequel … “Don’t Show us, We’d Rather Feel For Ourselves”.

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Obama Says the Hell with the 4th Amendment, Calls Airport pat-downs Frustrating but Necessary

Barack Obama … The Audacity of Grope.

President Barack Hussein Obama says the trashing of the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution frustrating but necessary. So why does Obama think that it is necessary to feel up children, cancer survivor women with breast prosthesis, nuns and any one who does not look like a Islamic radical Muslim terrorist. After all, Obama can’t even mention the word “war on terror” or radical Islam, so why does he think it is necessary to trash America’s civil rights?

President Obama said today he sympathizes with passenger complaints about aggressive body pat-downs at airports, but his counter-terrorism aides say they are necessary to guard against hidden explosives.

Balancing privacy and security is a “tough situation,” Obama told reporters at a news conference following the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal.

“One of the most frustrating aspects of this fight against terrorism is that it has created a whole security apparatus around us that causes a huge inconvenience for all of us,” Obama said.

The Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution specifically guards against unreasonable searches and seizures and also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.

Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure
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.

Who thinks that Obama would let a TSA agent touch his “JUNK”? Sorry, but this same president said we needed Obamacare and a ridiculous stimulus package when we did not. Most likely, Obama has been such a failure when it has come to domestic policy like health care, the economy, jobs and unemployment that he knows if there was one slight sucessful terrorist act on his watch that his approval ratings would go to the 20′s. Because of that he is willing to take away all rights and forget that we have a US Constitution.

Think Barack Obama would let hos wife or daughters get felt up by the TSA … NEVER!

Um, what would Obama know about any kind of inconvenience caused by the TSA. Is Obama groped (sexually assaulted) or forced to have naked pics of “The One” before he gets on Air Force One? Is Obama’s wife Michelle, or his two young daughters, Malia and Sasha, forced to be felt up by TSA officials or have naked body scans? Hardly.

Why is President Obama against the torture of radical Muslim terrorist but for the shredding of innocent Americans Fourth Amendment rights? Why is Obama against profiling terrorists, but for the humiliation and assaults on women and children?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PRESIDENT?

They claim it is in the name of safety, yet Obama and Democrats are against going specifically after and targeting Muslim terrorists.