Sen. Rand Paul Detained By Airport Security; Says Glitch With Full-Body Scanner To Blame.Kentucky's junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, was arrested at the Nashville Airport this morning by agents of the Administration of Transportation Safety, and was all over the news. Many described him as a show-down between a liberal senator and the Obama police state.
He was on his way back to the country's capital, when a scanner sounds an alarm and Paul refused to allow a security officer and later pat down. Local police escorted the senator, but he was allowed to board a later flight. The scanner was set up in some way outside of the knee of Paul, but Paul said he has no screws or hardware physicians around the set.
Rand Paul at the airport 2.jpgSenator Paul rolled up his pants and showed the TSA agents that he had nothing in his pants, and asked for another test. The officers refused to allow it to go through the scanner a second time, and asked the senator to undergo a manual body search. Senator Paul refused. "There is no problem. It was a problem with your machine. But this is increasingly common, and because everyone has to have a pat is a problem," said Paul.
The senator told the Bowling Green Daily News he was "detained" in a small cubicle and could not make his flight to Washington for a Senate vote expected later in the day. Paul said that the situation is a reflection of its long-standing concern that the TSA should not "spend so much time with people we do not attack."
Paul went through a millimeter wave machine that uses a generic outline of a body to all passengers, according to a TSA official, who spoke to the Bowling Green Daily News on condition of anonymity to discuss the selection procedures of the agency. When an alarm, TSA agents identify the area of the body that activated the alarm and touch the passenger.
After turning the caching on the basis that it was a violation of their rights and "private property", the senator was ordered by a TSA official to wait in the security area without giving an indication of when he would leave. Security then escorted him out of the area, but let it stay at the airport. As a result, Senator Paul missed his scheduled flight to Washington for a Senate hearing. He was also due to speak at the March for Life Monday afternoon in Washington DC. The TSA said that Paul was allowed to board another flight after a different projection. The second test is not an alarm.
The U.S. Constitution is very clear on the protection of federal lawmakers arrested while on the road to the capital. "The Senators and Representatives ... in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and going ... and return of them. "According to Article I Section 6. Because of this, the TSA and the Obama administration stood firm in insisting that the senator was not "stopped".
In a telephone interview with El Diario call, Senator Paul said he was "detained" by the Administration of the Transportation Security at the airport in Nashville on Monday was an important test highlights flaws in TSA procedures affecting tens of millions of passengers each year. "It was a big headache. I missed my speech. I was supposed to talk to the right to life in March, probably the biggest audience I will speak, and I missed it."
The press secretary Jay Carney White House denied Monday that the TSA agents had "detained" the senator from Kentucky. "I think it is absolutely essential that we take steps to ensure that air travel is safe," said Carney. "To be clear," said Carney. "The passenger was not arrested. He was escorted out of the local area law enforcement."
But Senator Paul told The Journal that certainly calls it felt like he was detained. "If you say they cannot go, does that count as the detention," said Paul. "I tried to leave the cabin to speak to one of the TSA and barked at me:" Do not leave the cabin! "So, I think I'm being asked not to leave the cubicle. Sounds a bit like I'm being detained."
Ron-and-Rand Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul issued the following statement on his campaign website this afternoon, after his son Rand treatment at the hands of the TSA in Nashville:
"The police state in this country is growing out of control. One of the embodiments of this is, the TSA gropes and grabs our children, our elderly and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities. The TSA does all this without doing anything to keep us safe.
"That's why my" plan of restoring the United States, others to cut $ 1 billion in federal spending in a year, eliminating the TSA.
"We must restore respect for liberty and freedom that once made America the greatest nation in human history. I am deeply committed to do that as President of the United States."
He was on his way back to the country's capital, when a scanner sounds an alarm and Paul refused to allow a security officer and later pat down. Local police escorted the senator, but he was allowed to board a later flight. The scanner was set up in some way outside of the knee of Paul, but Paul said he has no screws or hardware physicians around the set.
Rand Paul at the airport 2.jpgSenator Paul rolled up his pants and showed the TSA agents that he had nothing in his pants, and asked for another test. The officers refused to allow it to go through the scanner a second time, and asked the senator to undergo a manual body search. Senator Paul refused. "There is no problem. It was a problem with your machine. But this is increasingly common, and because everyone has to have a pat is a problem," said Paul.
The senator told the Bowling Green Daily News he was "detained" in a small cubicle and could not make his flight to Washington for a Senate vote expected later in the day. Paul said that the situation is a reflection of its long-standing concern that the TSA should not "spend so much time with people we do not attack."
Paul went through a millimeter wave machine that uses a generic outline of a body to all passengers, according to a TSA official, who spoke to the Bowling Green Daily News on condition of anonymity to discuss the selection procedures of the agency. When an alarm, TSA agents identify the area of the body that activated the alarm and touch the passenger.
After turning the caching on the basis that it was a violation of their rights and "private property", the senator was ordered by a TSA official to wait in the security area without giving an indication of when he would leave. Security then escorted him out of the area, but let it stay at the airport. As a result, Senator Paul missed his scheduled flight to Washington for a Senate hearing. He was also due to speak at the March for Life Monday afternoon in Washington DC. The TSA said that Paul was allowed to board another flight after a different projection. The second test is not an alarm.
The U.S. Constitution is very clear on the protection of federal lawmakers arrested while on the road to the capital. "The Senators and Representatives ... in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and going ... and return of them. "According to Article I Section 6. Because of this, the TSA and the Obama administration stood firm in insisting that the senator was not "stopped".
In a telephone interview with El Diario call, Senator Paul said he was "detained" by the Administration of the Transportation Security at the airport in Nashville on Monday was an important test highlights flaws in TSA procedures affecting tens of millions of passengers each year. "It was a big headache. I missed my speech. I was supposed to talk to the right to life in March, probably the biggest audience I will speak, and I missed it."
The press secretary Jay Carney White House denied Monday that the TSA agents had "detained" the senator from Kentucky. "I think it is absolutely essential that we take steps to ensure that air travel is safe," said Carney. "To be clear," said Carney. "The passenger was not arrested. He was escorted out of the local area law enforcement."
But Senator Paul told The Journal that certainly calls it felt like he was detained. "If you say they cannot go, does that count as the detention," said Paul. "I tried to leave the cabin to speak to one of the TSA and barked at me:" Do not leave the cabin! "So, I think I'm being asked not to leave the cubicle. Sounds a bit like I'm being detained."
Ron-and-Rand Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul issued the following statement on his campaign website this afternoon, after his son Rand treatment at the hands of the TSA in Nashville:
"The police state in this country is growing out of control. One of the embodiments of this is, the TSA gropes and grabs our children, our elderly and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities. The TSA does all this without doing anything to keep us safe.
"That's why my" plan of restoring the United States, others to cut $ 1 billion in federal spending in a year, eliminating the TSA.
"We must restore respect for liberty and freedom that once made America the greatest nation in human history. I am deeply committed to do that as President of the United States."
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