A retired special education teacher was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers.
“It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!”
Ron Paul has introduced a law (the “American Traveler Dignity Act”) that would punish TSA agents for groping and x-raying Americans.
Cathy Bossi, a U.S. Airways stewardess and cancer survivor, was forced to show her breast implants to TSA agents when her prosthetic implants triggered alarm during a pat-down.
Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.
The Denver Post’s Craig Walker has captured this image of a TSA agent performing an “enhanced pat down.”
The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ends with the Defendant being acquitted on all but one charge, and shows us why the entire process is little more than a show trial.
Terrorism risk assessment: Russia at “Extreme Risk”, Greece at “High Risk”, U. S. at “Medium Risk”, Canada and Germany at “Low Risk”.
A Florida courthouse illegally saved 35,000 images from security scanners.
So will there be an efficacious backlash against TSA policies? I am guessing no.
It appears that full body scanners, operated by leering yahoos under the cover of government authority, may finally be rousing the sheep who have meekly submitted to the absurd delays and indignities that have been piled on since 9/11 and sundry botched attempts.
We’re probably just one big scare away from mandatory full-body scans.
Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.
Another undercover sting nets a would-be terrorist.
Police in Turkey have arrested 12 people suspected of links to Islamist militant network al-Qaeda in Istanbul and Van province.
Tumblr called “Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things” shows that there’s no such thing as “Muslim garb.”
Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.
Sarah Palin and the Tea Party aren’t as clueless as their detractors think.
Who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, President Obama or those who have actually been encouraging bias against Muslims?
It’s been a decade since al Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors. The perpetrators are still at large.
The State Department’s terrorism threat warning for Europe is probably meaningless. If it isn’t, it’ll be perceived that way.
The Obama White House is asserting that the President has the authority to issue assassination orders against American citizens, and that no Court has the authority to review his decision. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.
If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.
Tracking “freedom” and American defense spending provides some interesting insights.
What’s so wrong with saying that America will survive even if al Qaeda manages to hit us again ?
Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.
Ted Koppel thinks our actions since 9/11 have helped Osama bin Laden fulfill his goals. He couldn’t be more wrong.
The Obama administration has persuaded the nation’s most liberal appellate court that the executive branch’s right to secrecy trumps the rights of people claiming they were tortured by the United States Government.
The plan by one fringe church in Gainesville, Florida to burn copies of the Koran on September 11th is igniting fires of protest across the Muslim world.
Fareed Zakaria argues that the fact al Qaeda has not launched a major attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 proves we overreacted to those attacks. I beg to differ.
The president has declared an end to combat operations in Iraq. But soldiers assigned there still draw combat pay.
Not surprisingly, Radical Islamists are taking notice of the tone of debate in the United States over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.”