TSA Caving To Pat Down Pressure?

TSA manager tells Alaska Senator that agency is considering changing its policies

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Following pressure from lawmakers that resulted in the Department of Justice resorting to threats of federal blockades last week to stymie a bill in Texas that would have made TSA groping a felony, a top Transportation Security Administration official has indicated that the agency might be about to cave on its aggressive pat down procedures.
During a roundtable session in Anchorage Alaska hosted by U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, TSA Field Operations Manager Scott Johnson said the agency was “considering changes in its screening techniques,” reports the Associated Press.
Instead of groping young children and searching babies’ diapers, the TSA is looking at treating passengers differently based on their potential risk, a policy that would “rank populations of air passengers as more or less potentially dangerous.”
“There are probably people that we have to take a closer look at than others,” said Johnson.
However, subjecting individuals deemed suitable for a “closer look” by the TSA to more aggressive screening may have little to do with stopping terrorists considering the fact that the TSA apparently judges the biggest threat to be journalists who criticized the agency and were then put on a watch list as a form of punishment.
“This whole idea of risk assessment … trying to determine what’s high risk, what’s a low risk, how they manage that, I think was a good statement and a new policy that they have,” said Senator Begich, noting that body scanners which do not show intimate details of a person’s naked body are in the pipeline. However, worries about the radiation threat posed by such devices, an even bigger concern, were not addressed.
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The round table session was organized by Republican State Rep. Sharon Cissna’s United States for Travel Freedom Caucus, a group that is pushing for legislation to be enacted across the country that would ban TSA molestation.
Cissna, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who suffered molestation and abuse in her youth, made shock waves back in February when she refused to submit to a TSA grope-down and was subsequently prevented from flying from Seattle, Washington to her home in Alaska.
“It’s a paradigm shift that has gone on here, where suddenly it’s all right to teach kids that it’s all right to have strangers touching them in the most personal places,” she said.
Last week, the Department of Justice and the TSA used financial terrorism to nix HB 1937 in Texas, a bill that would have made it “A criminal act for security personnel to touch a person’s private areas without probable cause as a condition of travel or as a condition of entry into a public place,” shortly before the legislation looked to be on its way to passage in the Senate having passed the Texas House unanimously.
The DOJ and Homeland Security intimidated lawmakers into dropping the bill after they threatened to shut down all the airports in Texas and prevent any commercial flights from operating out of or entering the state.
While any change in policy by the TSA should be welcomed, let’s not forget that following the national outcry at the end of last year against intrusive airport screening that was spearheaded by the Drudge Report, John Pistole’s promise that the TSA was looking at making the process “less intrusive” was never fulfilled, and if anything the grope-downs became more aggressive, with TSA goons directly sticking their hands down people’s pants.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

 

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1. Charles Nunya Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 4:58 am NAZI Spam Alert in 3…..2…..1…..
   
   STARMAN Reply:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:30 am
   The Two EvilsOnce the pat-downs are stopped or changed … ( the perv fear )
   the TSA will whip out its other more dangerous evilincreased scanning … these cancer causing scanners will do far more damage to your body than 5 normal x-rays … it seems the little rat mind is always thinking about ways to harm the people of the US
   
   
   emus Reply:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 am
   This is another diversion to shift the blame on where it does not lie. TSA hired poor people to follow the order just like the US army would hire soldiers to do the dirty work. but the soldiers never makes the decision to go to a damn war. this f…ing TSA is a Zionist creation who are turning America into Nazi Germany. they are the people who are the root of all the mess America is in now. they are making billions in dirty money by imposing this type of crooked scheme on other people. This super cunning group of criminals only care about their own selfish agenda at the expense of the whole world. history repeats itself. people who were oppressed by the Nazis somehow became the Nazis themselves.
   

   doberman21 Reply:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 12:25 pm
   Agreed. It was called CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. The instigators were Bolsheviks & Ben Gurion was one… he was a member of the Marxist Poale in Poland, fought alongside Trotsky in the 1st (failed”) Labor Revolution in Russia (just prior to the October Revolution), was arrested 2 x’s for subversive activities, became the leader of another marxist labor party & then became the “founder” of Israel.
   According to Rabbi Antelman, who wrote the book “To Eliminate the Opiate”, atheist/marxist jews & rabbis started Reform Judaism to destroy REAL JUDAISM (True Torah observant/pious jews that kept the covenant). True Judaism was & is the enemy of marxists & had to be destroyed from within. Rabbi Antelman discovered (accidently) here in America, after his house was blown-up by a black militant, that marxist jews were always behind violence against the orthodox in the US. He then learned marxist/aetheist jews were behind the Reform movement in Europe & then here.
   After the failed ‘EUROPEAN SPRING” IN 1848, all of the defrocked communist aetheist “Reform” rabbis came to the US…to peddle their poison here (coincidently, just before the Civil War)… & look where we are now!
   Many of the jews in Israel are victims of ZIONISM just like all non-jews. They are not necessisarily “willing” participants
   steve_a Reply:
   June 3rd, 2011 at 2:14 am
   It’s an opportunity for a false flag attack. Once the TSA relaxes and another false flag attack happens on US soil, it will come back just to say, “We told you so. Now can you see why it’s important to grope your grannies?”.
   Hold on tight, the ride is going to get interesting.
2. Patriotgirl Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 5:59 am Way to go Alaska. If all states would STICK together, then we can oust these idiots. Or at the very least, tone them down.
3. O.G. Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:03 am 2nd Verse, Same as the First. They already told us they were going to revise the pat-down procedures for children. Saw how that one worked out, didn’t ya. Again, no Hope, no Change.
4. youngearthcreationist Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:15 am Yeah,
   That’s just cheap talk. Ban the Tyranny Stasi Agentur afterall. Get its foot out the door. They are illegit and have no business on state and county property.
5. stupidamerkin Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:38 am What a crock. Law makers cower down from the regime threat to shut down all air ports if bill is submitted or passed? Are these so called law makers that much of puppet cowards? Let the friggin regime shut the ports down and see how far that would goes. When are some of these drones in power going to pull up their shorts, get some balls and stand up to these nazi traitors disguised behind the color of law and respectability?
   “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
   Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. Pat Ryan Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:44 am On top of that most TSA agents are fat, sloppy, unshaven, ignorant slobs, with no people skills.
7. simpleman1776 Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:48 am THE FEDERAL GOV CONSISTS OF LESS THEN 1% OF THE POPULATION, WHEN CONFRONTED BY THE REMAINING 99%
   ABOUT 347 MILLION OF US.
   THEY WILL ALWAYS BACK DOWN. AS SOON AS EVERYONE REALIZES THIS WE CAN END THIS MADNESS.
   WE HAVE THE POWER AND THE LAW OF THE LAND TO WIPE THEM OUT AND NOT EVEN BREAK A SWEAT.
   
   AandO Reply:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 10:47 am
   I would add to your truth by saying that they would not be missed either. I’m assuming they are removed in a permanent manner.
8. jackiebe44 Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 6:50 am This is not the time to accept sops from the TSA. They have no business in our airports in the first place, so why continue to accept their physically touching and searching us in violation of the 4th Amendment? What happened recently in Texas must have scared them, and I’ll tell you why. Had the Texas state senate not backed down and an air travel blockade been imposed on the state of Texas the general outrage would have caused widespread protests, maybe even violence. In short, what had been a minor regional news item would have overnight become an international cause celebre. Everyone would be watching Texas, including the Kingdom of Duh stirred from its practiced lethargy by the ongoing MSM coverage. “Duh-uh dey let me through last time. I got zapped ‘sall. What wrong wid dat? Duh. Why can’t dey get zapped? Uh–duh–uh. Dint touch me. I got nothin to fear. I dint do nuthin. Duh. Oh, dey touch them–babies? Duh. Uh–ooo. I dint know dat. Uh– Maybe deyr diaper needed to be changed ‘sall. Duh–uh–ooo—duh…”
   The Texas legislature needs to go back and get that groping bill passed. I read somewhere that there were plans to do just that. They should keep the pressure on. Barack Obama did this, and he’s planning more of the same: bureaucratic edicts to control our water, facilitate “dream amnesty” immigration, adopt stealthy gun control measures and inaugurate cap-and-trade. What Congress won’t do he apparently will. A full court press on TSA might teach the macaque to stay out of our orchards and return to the mangrove forests where he belongs. For sure he doesn’t belong here. And it’s already too late for a green card.
9. STARMAN Says:
   June 2nd, 2011 at 7:17 am AMEN – JACKIEBE !
10. David S Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 7:32 am “…the agency was “considering changes in its screening techniques,””
    That’s double speak meaning we aint gonna change anything. The best solution is to elect Ron Paul president and ask him to make his first order of business the firing of Janet Napolitano and John Pistole.
11. VanHelsing Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 7:38 am Abolish the TSA
12. hippiedanands Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:04 am Keep saying NO! place of refuge 2012 dot com
13. jnormanton Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:15 am T.S.A. the scumbags of America had better back off before the citizens go on a rampage.
14. pro.fisher Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:24 am Heres the thing tho guys.. If you read between the lines youll see it. We stand for our rights, get TSA stopped and whats gonna happen? Our next 9/11 event. and who will be blamed? We will because we stood up and said we didnt like the pat-downs, which allowed for someone to pull something off.
    
    RealityBase Reply:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:39 am
    No need to live in fear of these bullies. The next false flag will be full of holes too. That’s why they have yet to catch any real terrorists and it’s all about Zio control of the people so they can continue to gut the place behind your back.(or now right in front of you)
15. cgcgd Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:27 am Are the political weasels of tyranny only withdrawing behind the curtains hiding the new Bin of staged terror visible through the window of opportunity for staged false flag tyranny or are they merely ready to jump out of the window of the constitutional house of the people?
    As long as the 9/11/2001 state false flag mass murder perpetrated by the government will not be publicly admitted by the wrong doers themselves and punished for the tyranny will use any tricks on the books to feign lowering its guard of neo con soldiers of the military industrial complex corporate empire of the world wide conquest as the new world order of organized crime; the tyranny plays now with the unbearable oppression of its action and the need it has created equally in the people to keep it: the risk increase of a staged false flag terrorist attack due to that same security relapse it has granted, that is no more than halting the fascistic measurement of the people’s body, as state security useful, and the necessity for anti riot police to curb the ongoing spiral of unacceptable mass violence that has spread due to economic hardship conveniently fabricated to increase such opportunity for the tyranny to assert itself as a legitimate authority against such mass common law crime against property and liberty secured constitutionally and thus use inordinate mean of unconstitutional law enforcement as pseudo efficient; once again the motto of the military industrial complex organized crime ring leader of the past, as “don’t ask what you can’t do for yourself but ask what you can do for your country”, a mere sergeant recruiting siren songs to enthrall the sense of duty embodied in all citizens and enslave them in the military industrial complex machinery of fabricated state tyranny, the great manufacture of consent and participation in the new world order organized crime scheme of victims and victimizers for the sake of elite corporate profit and government concentration of power (the war power among others), should be used against the tyranny ploy itself as a new question of “ask what the government has done to your country is ask what the government has done on 9/11/2001”; the parasite leaves on the tree of government, the own people tree of life embodied in the constitution, will fall most rapidly and the new leaves of the people life will grow anew with a tree of government merely the tree of the people life itself as the tree of liberty with its roots into the law of the land as the constitution. Thus the people need to pursue their effort to overthrow the tyranny, not by a revolution but with an election of those individual citizens who will most represent such overthrow of the tyranny of corporate owned government as a substitute to a revolution of which the founding father had forewarned the people in the declaration of independence stating that “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes” and which is the main clause of the first part of the founding father sentence remaining applicable to the present political situation, since the second part of the founding father prescription for the balance of revolutionary power vested as the fundamental right of the people to overthrow the tyranny of their government as the government abuse of their consent to the government to be governed, is now curiously made irrelevant by the government itself and the conjoined action of some of the people but a minority of them only; such second part state that: “and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed”; those constitutionally worthwhile individuals are Ron Paul eligible as president and Jesse Ventura eligible as vice president. Until then any political move from the people should remain subject to their utmost caution as always possibly used against them by tyranny and thus can only be not reversing to the fear of the lack of tyranny created by its void but advancing boldly to the next stage in the making of an ever greater void of tyranny. The government may be simply tempting the citizens’ legitimate constitutional militia movement and the whole citizens exercising their second amendment rights to come out in an open legal ambush and substitute with their own citizen legitimate sense of dutiful order , the government relapse of its fraudulent security grip on in its own false flag terrorism and false flag war of self perpetuating terrorism, and complement the anti riot police forces and the airport security agents having demonstrated their ambiguity in enforcing the law as anti constitutional as the tool of tyranny while also enforcing the law again the common law crime as enforcing the law as no crime against the constitutional rule of law of the nation, the real act of criminal terrorism as non government staged, and curiously now the government sole legitimate order out of the organized fabricated control of chaos out of tyranny, the general principle of its parasitic fraudulent order out of the constitutional disorder as its own decrease of the application of the constitutional rule of law to replace it with its own rule of unconstitutional law. Such quasi government appeal to the security good will of the people enshrined in the 2nd and 4th amendment of the constitution as the people right to self defense would then under the condition of some staged fraudulent abuse and conflicting use of force, be the pretext of some governmental crack down on these precious second and fourth amendment right of the people, a long term goal prepared by the government as the sole principal mean of securing its own tyranny not by securing liberty to the people but by pretending to secure security first and liberty last while securing liberty first to itself to secure its own liberty against the people as its tyranny. Only the states can legitimately embody the people action of overthrowing tyranny by a collective action of common legislative enactment against tyranny as a majority of states identical legislative enactment to restore the constitutional order of the law and secure all the constitutional rights of the people against the federal state tyranny. The ultimate states common action in that sense would be then to request a full independent and public inquiries into the state crime of mass murder perpetrated on 9/11/2001 and gradually undermine the tyranny of government to bring it back to its sense as its constitutional common sense of justice share among all people of the nation. Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura would then most usefully increase such pressure of the states by becoming more and more eligible as elected in the 2012 national election. This hypothetical political strategy depends on the implied answer to the question in finding out if a majority of the states have fallen under such federal states tyranny? Remain to answer the everlasting question of could such independent public investigation for the government false flag crime of 9/11/2001 be possible as objectively conclusive?
    With the summer coming we can feel that gentle breeze of the wind in the willow all around us, and will it grow into a gust of wind sufficient to carry out some rotten leaves by tyrannical parasites and the darkest cloud as the presage of a pounding and pouring tyranny all over into a deluge ruining the entire land, remains up to the gods themselves as the people own breath of life, inspiring the air of liberty in the pursuit of happiness. When the tyranny offers to secure what it has taken previously from the people one should always wonder what has the tyranny to benefit from such concession except to adapt itself to a reaction against tyranny which it has controlled as anticipated and designed in its most minute details, so that the people should apply the politically wise motto: “TU NE CEDE MALIS SED CONTRA AUDIENTOR ITO”! (You should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them) combined with the most rigorous and demanding application of the political motto of “LIBERTAS” (Liberty) to oneself and to their governments . If the government pretends to have become all of a sudden better learned in constitutional right and republican art of governing, let us then show that it can do better by answering more question on the subject of state tyranny illustrated by the 9/11/2001 state false flag mass murder against its people.
    
    cgcgd Reply:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:40 am
    erratum: instead of “..will it grow into a gust of wind sufficient to carry out some..” read “”..will it grow into a gust of wind sufficient to carry away some..”
    BGko Reply:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 9:01 am
    paragraphs, sir….. paragraphs
16. usresolve Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:31 am The federal government threatened an act of WAR against a FREE and SOVEREIGN state
17. Red Dirt Reporter Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:46 am After my experience at the airport in Corpus Christi, Texas last month, this is a good development. I hope Texas tells ‘em where to stick it.
18. MARK OF THE BEAST Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 8:50 am Two steps forward and one step back. Sol Alinsky loves TSA. They must have rechecked their communist manifesto rule book.
    Oh yes. Let us not forger to mention, THE DUMB DYKE BILDERBERG SEATWARMER, STRAP ON JANET NAPOLITANO. THE PEDIPHILIA QUEEN OF PERVESION.
    KMA JANET
19. BGko Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am Won’t be long now before the TSA starts doing mandatory “virgin checks”.
20. TrueInfo Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 10:03 am What is a Slaughter Grid?
21. polska_american Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 11:13 am I don’t think we’ll be able to stop the TSA (among others) for good until the vast majority of the American public wakes up to false-flag terrorism, because that’s their big trump card and they’ll use it every single time. Hopefully we can derail them for a while though.
22. truthistruth Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 2:14 pm i’m just curious but….look at the logo for the department of homeland security….that is not an eagle my friends…that looks like a pheonix….
23. Dragon's Eye Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 2:39 pm Sounds more like another “compromise” to me!
    WHEN are we going to STOP COMPROMISING our rights away, and start saying NO, NO, and NO ???
    I don’t care if the TSA is “thinking” of “changing” their SOP’s in response to a little “pressure”! That’s not the finality of the whole thing! I want to see it scrapped altogether along with the rest of the false-”security” apparatus!!!
    ” Freedom and Liberty DO NOT compromise the rights of the individual! “
24. Humanity_5D Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 9:04 pm See this is what us people can do, I love to see this, Dewhurst is buckling Patrick up next AND NEXT UP IS JOHN P HOLDREN
25. Andrew Jackson Says:
    June 2nd, 2011 at 9:45 pm Alex maybe unwillingly helping drive people to despair, locking themselves in, right where the Powers that be want them, at home glued to computers and T.V., too afraid to speak out in public.
    How bout it Alex, throw that big ars hammer at the magic brainwashing screens, break the spell, and lets take this Shite to the streets.
    Come on Alex, shite or get off the pot, let’s do a rally in D.C., we’ve let THEM call us “crazies” far too long, it’s time for US to show them who We the People really are……………………………………………….THE GDed BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Freakers ball in D.C., All the straights, swinging with the funkies.
    You know you want to do it brother, you know it!!!!!!!!!!!!
    You know, a bunch of everyday Joes and Janes showing up to TAKE THE MIC and say what THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ALL THIS SHITE GOING ON, rather than showing up to listen to powerful people tell US HOW THEY ARE GOING TO FIX THINGS, how bout We TELL THEM FOR AWHILE.
    We are the Boss or We are not the Boss, make up you mind.
    Your choice brother, you can lead people to LIBERTY or you can PROGRAM THEM TO DESPAIR.
    Leading people to Liberty is easy, give them the MIC on the Capitol Mall, let them say what they have to say, NO PROGRAMING, NO HORSE SHITE, AND WATCH THIER BACK, HAVE THIER BACK, say EVEN IF I DON’T AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, I’M HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.
    FOLKS IS PISSED, GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO HERE SOME TRUTH FROM PISSED OFF FOLKS, ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT, THEN SHITE WILL CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    OR IS BROTHER ALEX JONES JUST ANOTHER ROTHSCHILD’S SHILL ( J.A.R.S), JUST HERE TO MAKE MONIES OFF THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS?
    If that’s the case brother, been better you’d never been born.
    James David Lyons
    70 Sandy Valley RD.
    Slickford(Monticello), KY
    42633
26. Stanley Tweedle Says:
    June 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 am Fun to chat about how the jews are behind everything on every thread.
    Personally I’m not even buying that Scott Johnson is this liars name.
    Isn’t it crystal clear that he just telling everyone what they want to hear. Meanwhile like someone pointed out they’re the ones that create these false flag senarios. They will stage an event that involves somebody that complained about a patdown, next thing he’s got a bad of explosive urine somewhere. Well there goes that right. No more urine on planes. Everyone will then submit like the dumb media controled retards that they are and enjoy the patdowns. Prob even come out with a kids show on Nick that takes place at an airport or the kids dad works for TSA. He will be shown stopping colorfull terrorists that of course each week will be a infant or old woman. The more obviously innocent the person of course he’s the one with the explosive. It will be a running gag.
    I could see Kevin James playing a TSA dupe in his next Mall Cop sequel.
    There gonna make these clowns look like heroes you watch. :)
27. ConspiratusUbiquitus Says:
    June 3rd, 2011 at 8:38 am Just need to do away with this TSA Circus once and for all…..Completely go away
    Then the real terrorists will go away

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