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Ron Paul slams ‘police state’ after son refuses patdown
Photo: Rand Paul (left) and his father Ron are favourites of the Tea Party movement.
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has accused airport security officials of being part of a “police state” after his son, senator Rand Paul, was stopped for triggering an alarm and refusing a patdown.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which handles security at US airports, has sparked an outcry in recent years with its policies, including full-body imaging and patdowns that have been called invasive.
Rand Paul says he was detained after objecting to the physical search on privacy grounds.
The TSA denied he had been detained, but said he had been escorted out of the airport security area in Nashville, Tennessee, after refusing the patdown.
In a harshly worded attack on the TSA, Ron Paul said the agency “gropes and grabs our kids and our seniors and does nothing to keep us safe”.
“The police state in this country is growing out of control,” the Republican US representative from Texas said in a statement.
Senator Paul and his father, favourites of the anti-Washington Tea Party movement, have helped lead the charge against what critics call excessive federal intrusion, from healthcare to body searches.
Senator Paul, a strong critic of the TSA, said officials told him his knee had triggered an alarm in a walk-in scanner and rebuffed his request to be rescreened.
He said he then refused a physical search, and added: “I wasn’t allowed to leave until they got tired of me.”
The TSA said after senator Paul refused the patdown, he was escorted out of the airport security area in Nashville, Tennessee.
Senator Paul missed his flight to Washington but was later rebooked and rescreened without incident.
The TSA was created following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At a Senate hearing last June, senator Paul challenged TSA administrator John Pistole over his agency’s random patdowns of travellers at airports, including the case of a six-year-old girl from his home state of Kentucky.
“This isn’t to say that we don’t believe in safety procedures,” he said.
“But I think I feel less safe because you’re doing these invasive exams on a six-year-old. It makes me think you’re clueless that you think she’s going to attack our country and that you’re not doing your research on the people who would attack our country.”
On the campaign trail, Ron Paul has called for the abolition of the TSA on the grounds it wastes taxpayer money and violates personal liberties.
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Ron Paul’s 2002 Predictions All Come True - Incredible Prophetic Congress Speech
Personally I don’t believe in supporting the current two party system at all, but it’s hard not to feel that Ron Paul is the most logical choice for those who want true “hope and change”. Watch this amazing video.
Famous CNN/Ron Paul ‘Censorship’ Video: Was It Really ‘Interference’?
You can see that they have the technology to make the feed “go bad ” whenever they want. Please Re-post. This should END CNN as a network. Advertisers should boycott them and shut them down. … ‘Make note of this.’ CNN says the reason for this was a failed satellite feed. When they come back to the newsroom if you look behind him on the left side there is another caucus feed that is likely using the same sat. uplink that is? grooving along just fine. This is bull–it. – From YouTube User solarpowerhome
Dominant Social Theme: Oops! That interference is tricky stuff.
Free-Market Analysis: So a handsome US vet – several tours in Afghanistan – starts to say on a CNN broadcast that he doesn’t believe in an aggressive military stance abroad. He starts to say, in fact, that Israel is capable of taking care of itself when it comes to Iran.
He doesn’t finish the statement, though. Instead, static interrupts his points and the interview is cut off. Wolf Blitzer explains that technical interference had prematurely ended the interview. You can see the video below.
Later on, Anderson Cooper circles back around to the incident, saying bluntly that “a lot of people online” probably believed that the incident was manufactured, followed by nervous laughter from all the analysts gathered round.
