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TSA and METRO: The Denials Begin">TSA and METRO: The Denials Begin

METRO press release 13 April:

random bag checks(Source.)

METRO blog post 16 April:
Law officials performed random bag checks

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METRO twit­ter account 18 April:

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I’m guess­ing some­one talked to a lawyer and real­ized that ran­dom bag checks aren’t such a hot idea, Con­sti­tu­tion­ally speak­ing. So we agree on that. Now, METRO, let’s get together and send TSA packing.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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7 Responses to “TSA and METRO: The Denials Begin”

  1. Murray Newman says:
    19 April 2012 at 8:43 am

    Be care­ful. Franklin said that they blocked him on Twit­ter. Noth­ing like your gov­ern­ment tak­ing the posi­tion that they are no longer required to even mar­gin­ally lis­ten to your input. Thank good­ness for hashtags.

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  2. Bill Poser says:
    21 April 2012 at 12:56 pm

    Why is the TSA check­ing buses? Do they think that ter­ror­ists might hijack a bus and fly it into a building?

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  3. John Gormley says:
    22 April 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Just a ques­tion. If a gov­ern­men­tal agency was to block you on twit­ter, would they be vio­lat­ing your right to free speech? Just some­thing that popped into my head.

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  4. discarted says:
    23 April 2012 at 2:33 pm

    I think by “con­sent”, Hous­ton METRO means coer­cion and arrest if you don’t “con­sent” to a vio­la­tion of your 4th Amend­ment rights.

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  5. Lisa Simeone says:
    23 April 2012 at 3:01 pm

    But but but … Any­thing For Safety!

    Oh, well. Take my civil lib­er­ties. I wasn’t using them anyway.

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  6. Lisa Simpson says:
    27 April 2012 at 9:29 am

    So some armed goon in a police uni­form says “I want to search your bag”. If you don’t agree then you must obvi­ously have some­thing hide which means (in their minds) they now have prob­a­ble cause to search.

    Just what I wanted for my birth­day — some mouth breather who only has to have 2.0 GPA (straight off the Hous­ton, TX PD web­site) for an incom­plete degree (only 48 credit hours are required and most under­grad degrees are 120+) decid­ing they need to search me.

    And the “train­ing” was con­ducted by another bunch of mouth breathers who’s “key qual­i­fi­ca­tions” (accord­ing to the job post­ing) is that they not be crim­i­nals, not be delin­quent on more than $7500 of debt, not be delin­quent on their taxes, not be behind in child sup­port pay­ments, and they reg­is­tered for the draft when they were sup­posed to. At least the Hous­ton PD requires SOME college.….

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