Posts tagged: Department of Homeland Security

U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead

USA Today posted an article that should serve as a WAKUP CALL to Americans. U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its […]

Thursday March 31st, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Texas takes aim at getting rid of naked scanners

I’m filing this one under the “Don’t Mess with Texas” category! Kudos to Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) for filing HB 1938, with the goal of making it a civil penalty for anyone working in a locally owned airport to install or operate whole-body imaging equipment — “including a device that uses backscatter x-rays or millimeter […]

Saturday March 5th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Father of 9 year old shooting victim gives his thoughts on the tragedy

What a sad situation. I just can’t imagine what this family is going through. It’s impressive that her father, in the middle of all this, says that he doesn’t want to see more limits placed on our freedom.

Monday January 10th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Rape victim handcuffed and dragged away after refusing TSA pat down

From KVUE.com in Austin, TX Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.  She says she never broke any laws.  But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees. Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the […]

Saturday December 25th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

DHS begins seizing private domain names.

Yet another example that our Department of Homeland Security is more than slightly out of control. There used to be a day in America were the Government had checks and balances that made them at least jump through a few hoops before they could start seizing control of someones assets. The posts on the sites […]

Saturday November 27th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Article: Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner

It’s interesting to see some news outlets claiming that National Opt-Out day was a flop. Reports I’ve heard from travelers is that the TSA has chosen to opt-out of using the naked scanners today. Pretty smart move on their part. Ran across a disturbing article today on BoingBoing A self-described “rule follower” went through an […]

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Death by a Thousand Cuts: TSA pats down topless young boy.

Al Qaeda has vowed to kill America with “Death by a Thousand Cuts”. Not a big attack but slowly chipping away at our freedoms and CHANGING America through small attacks. Guess what?! It’s working! When buying an airline ticket means forfeiting your rights, the terrorists have one. This video is a bit disturbing. It shows […]

Monday November 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

TSA is out of control: TSA pat-down leaves bladder cancer survivor covered in urine

Something has to be done about the TSA goons and their attack on our freedoms. The terrorists truly have won when our government lives in such fear. A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an […]

Sunday November 21st, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

TSA pats down screaming 3 year old girl. Suggests playing touching game.

We teach our children to never allow anyone to touch them in inappropriate ways or in private areas and the TSA comes along and starts patting down children in the areas that they have been taught to protect!  In this video the TSA rep said they agents should try to turn the pat down into […]

Friday November 19th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Article: Airports consider congressman’s call to ditch TSA

The invasive search techniques that the TSA has recently implement are FORTUNATELY causing a backlash against the bloated Federal department. ATLANTA (AP) — In a climate of Internet campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and veteran pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, some airports are considering another way to show dissatisfaction: Ditching TSA agents […]

Friday November 19th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »