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New Airport Security Vid Shows Calm Rand Paul Despite Cops‘ Claim He Was ’Irate’

Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) spat with TSA captured headlines on Monday after he was “detained” (the TSA claims he was merely “stopped”) at the Nashville airport. The drama unfolded after the senator refused to undergo a full-body pat-down after something on his person triggered a millimeter-wave machine. While at least one police report described Paul as “irate” during the standoff, security footage obtained from the incident appears to show him cool, calm and collected.

(Related: Rand Paul Reveals TSA Theory to Beck: Scanners Go Off to Justify ‘Random’ Patdowns)

One of the videos, released by the Metro Airport Authority, has been published on The Nashville Tennessean‘s web site. Rather than exposing a “passenger being irate,” as a police incident report claimed, Paul is seen in the videos sitting, talking on his cell phone and standing. The Tennessean has more:

…videos released by the Metro Airport Authority late Wednesday show Paul entering the security line at 7:57 a.m. and then alternately sitting and standing in a glass cubicle while being watched by authorities. Paul appears to make a few phone calls as well.

Paul is shown being escorted by an airport official at 9:04 a.m. Paul rebooked his flight and later went through security without incident.

Following the incident, the TSA reiterated that it is protocol for them to refer to law enforcement officers when a passenger refuses to go through the proper screen process. While this is the case, the alleged discrepancy between Paul’s reported behavior and what the video shows has not addressed.

As the Blaze reported, the senator’s father, U.S. Rep Ron Paul, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination, issued a statement following the incident in which he lamented the “police state.”

(H/T: POLITICO)

 

 

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  • DividedWeFail
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:48pm

    There is a uniformed policeman right outside the cubicle door. When he went to leave, that cop prevented his leaving.

    THAT IS CALLED A DETENTION.

    Of course invading libya was not called a war either.

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  • thriceconcussed
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:46pm

    You are a sheep, and should move to communist China.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:02pm

      Just wait till the muslims start cramming bombs up their butts…. Only Barney Frank and his new husband will want to fly…..

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    • db321
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:05pm

      Rand Paul is fighting for Individual Rights, while TSA are fighting for Union Supremacy. Who do you want Governing you the Constitution or the Unions?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:05pm

      And for this Homeland Security Nazi brown shirt apparatus…. I actually DO blame BUSH……we shoulda never went down this road… PERIOD !!!!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:11pm

      like i have said on here before: cops lie, all the time. It doesn’t matter what they are doing, but lying is part of their code. Radar, work, traffic work, criminal investigation- they lie and most times try to incite people into making bad decisions. watch any investigative show and see how pissed the cops get when suspects ask for a lawyer. Read your local newspaper police blotter section and you will see a bunch of people charged with 10 crimes from 1 traffic stop.

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:39pm

      communist china has more freedom then america it dont search chinese…it does search any outsider

      same goes for russia!

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    • JohnnyMidknight
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:07pm

      @ db321

      You make a really good point!

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:28pm

      @Detroit paperboy

      On this one topic, yes, it’s entirely acceptable to blame Bush for signing the bill, but let‘s not forget that the original idea for the Police State TSA was with the Dems in the last ’90′s.

      Moral to the story: never trust the Progressives, Left or Right.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Police will lie, even on a Senator!

      If they’ll lie on a prominent Senator, what ELSE will they do?

      ***I WARNED YOU***

      ***RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!***

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    • Phantom II
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:39pm

      You haven’t come out of your 3rd concussion. You aught to visit China. There are plenty freedom loving capitalist Americans that live there permanently.

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    • Johnny Cocheroo
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:16pm

      V-MAN MACE said:
      Police will lie, even on a Senator!

      If they’ll lie on a prominent Senator, what ELSE will they do?

      ***I WARNED YOU***

      ***RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!***

      +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

      Not gonna happen friend – we’re going to stroll right in with a smile.

      I’ve spoken to many different people. Often hear “people will get their guns and take out anybody who tries to take over our lives”. Problem is (as you know) its not going to be as clear cut as Obama saying “all of you are now slaves and have no rights”. Its more simple like a drop on a bar of soap. A steady drip eating all the way through.

      One drip example.
      When the TSA began its x-rays & patdowns. I was in class and argued against EVERYBODY including the professor. I said they are taking away our right of privacy in order to try and catch the terrorists which actually amount to about .01% of total passengers. If TSA actually wanted to catch terrorists, there are better ways to go about it. Entire class agreed with “invasive searches for safety”.

      They will get their guns and fight like the Wolverines if someone tries to take away our rights overnight. However, slowly suffocate them into submission, nobody cares.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:11pm

      @Detroit paperboy

      You should blame Bush for this. He’s as big a Progressive as Obama.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:20pm

      Johnny Cocheroo

      You severely underestimate those of us who has gigantic titanium balls who won’t wait until they smile their way up to the door.

      It only takes a few good men.

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    • jeffersonian1776
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 12:12am

      Rand obviously does not know what is best for him. There’s nothing immoral about a benevolent leviathan making sure you are safe.
      I’m sure that many people think that way, including many of you all who visit this site. The truth of the matter is, however, Obama, Gingrich, Romney, or Santorum the “Jesus candidate,” will do absolutely nothing to curb the TSA, let alone demolish it. Do you know why? Because it’s not unions, or your privacy, or even your security, they give a ratt’s behind about. They WILL KEEP the TSA alive and well because they only care about their own power ultimately. If a terrorist happens to get thru and cause some damage in lives and property, the only thing that will be of concern for whoever holds the office of the president, is–oh my God! This has ruined my chances at reelection, it’s over. And that is why the TSA will never be abolished, EVER, and to think that it really has nothing to do with you; you mean nothing when there is power to gain. I only know of one candidate who will cut the damn thing out right away and leave it up to the individual airlines and airports, and the PRIVATE SECTOR. You all know which one I’m talking about. I forgot you can‘t mention his name on here cuz he’s just a big ol’ buzzkill.
      Question: After the intensifyed vigilance that we as a nation share, not the government, since 9/11. Do you really think that we are about to let another 9/11 happen? Do you think that an airline wants to go out of business?

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    • bringiton
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:35am

      @ V-MAN: Although I’m not always with you, on this, I’m there 110% Bro.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:07am

      the constitution allows senators and congressmen the right to travel to and from washington unmolested and never detained by any lawenforcement agency as long as they are not breaking the law. the tsa screening is not part of the law the constitution lists.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:45pm

    The government shouldn’t be in the business of airline security in the first place,the airlines should handle it.The TSA violates our fourth amendment right daily and we allow it,maybe the judge was right last night on his show when he said some civil disobedience might be in order to get rid of the brown shirts at TSA.

    The government is giving us an illusion of security and that’s all it is,nothing more nothing less.Profiling should be used and for you libs it’s profiling based on actions and reactions to questions. It’s not based on ethnicity so you can relax.

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    • DividedWeFail
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:50pm

      The government shouldn’t be in the business of airline security in the first place,the airlines should handle it.
      ____
      True.
      But the RINOs and liberals trash liberties to get safety.
      And NOW that the TSA is up and running and GROWING, they are NOW UNIONIZED government workers paying money into the campaign coffers of liberals who will NEVER vote to get rid of another cash cow.

      Thanks RINOs.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:58pm

      TSA = “Tough Sh– America!”

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:03pm

      The Obama Gestapo is at it again.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:04pm

      Walmart should screen people that go into their stores and see the reaction these liberals and rhinos give.
      See, in reality private companies can do this but government can not break from the Constitution…legally.

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    • CIAtroll
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Thank God Newt will shut the TSA down for us…..

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Don’t kid yourself. Newt was for the antiPatriot Act and has so many ties to the new world order you can’t imagine! Watch this video by the John Birch society, then tell me what you think about Newt.

      The John Birch Society reveals the real Newt Gingrich

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=jWPz1Qdq1uI#t=319s

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  • mattmo79
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Not that she would slum with the rest of us at the airport, can you imaging the raging fit queen pelosi would have if she were detained! She would threaten every TSA agent’s family and first born!!

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    • DividedWeFail
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:53pm

      She flies only in private jets.

      Either her own, one owned by some lobbyist given to her as perk OR when speaker she soaked taxpayers taking large military jets back and forth to California every weekend.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:54pm

      The only thing that scares Nancy is the expression “paper or plastic?”

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  • consrv
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:43pm

    I flew commercial for over 43 years to almost every continent and major city in the world to where I enjoyed Continental Platinum status. Before that I flew about 7 years with the US Navy. I have seen the most lax of airport security in Africa and the most secure in Israel. I have never seen a more punitive organization than the present TSA under John S. Pistole, Janet Napolitano and bho. These people take “by the book” to an extreme that borders on abuse. They do not factor in common sense, September 11, 2001 made us aware of some changes that needed to be made. Big Sis, Pistole and bho think the “feel up” TSA pat down is OK for regular Americans. So do the muslim terrorists who are laughing at these catch up fools so hard they are falling out of their caves. Pistole, Big Sis led by the “molester in chief” have reacted to every threat and have not been the least bit proactive. Andy and Barney of Mayberry were much more effective than these fools just by being aware of their surroundings. The TSA has yet to catch a bad guy, but have a million pocket knives, fingernail clippers, traumatized children and embarrassed violated grandmothers. They are untouchable gov thugs similar to acorn and seiu thugs. If they are not feeling up the latest victim, they are on break or just standing around talking. So far the victims are old men and women, good looking women and kids. I have not seen them take on a 6’ 2” muscular white guy or a tall black panther type. They must

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:43pm

    Oh man, he’s out of control! Taze him!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:42pm

    .
    I feel safer already……….

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:44pm

      LOL .. the TSA LIED? … I am shocked …. (sarcasm)

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:41pm

    If Rand Paul cant show who these sonsa bit ches are who can ?

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  • last frontier
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:38pm

    I wonder if Maxine Waters would have been calm?

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    • JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:44pm

      Would you put your hands on that gorilla?………..

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Rontflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:47pm

      “Do you know who I am!”

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    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:50pm

      She would have gotten sloppy ghetto loud and making a huge seen.

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    • skitrees
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:02pm

      I can hear her now:

      “You know what this liberal would do?! This liberal would be for social….uh, uh, uh, this liberal would be for taking over all your companies….wait, what? You mean we already DID take this over?! Oh *$%@”

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:10pm

      @USPATRIOT101
      Do you mean more so or just normal ghetto.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:10pm

      If i had to pat down Maxine Waters…. I would taze myself !!!

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  • bernbart
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:36pm

    I find it incredible this is even a story.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:47pm

      I am glad it is a story on The Blaze.

      There have been others, about people getting kicked off airlines (middle aged professional Jewish women from Florida), people publicly humiliated because of their clothing (Muslims), just awful treatment.

      The Blazers for the most part stand on the side of Authority and brute Power, and are happy to see others singled out and punished. This is especially true when the victims are members of an already disadvantaged minority: women, Jews, gays, blacks, teenage college students, poor people, etc.

      But this story, this story has Rand Paul as its centerpiece, and now the Blazers will have a conflict of interest. They like Rand Paul.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:52pm

      Bernbart…
      Incredible? That a person was picked at random for questioning/search, as opposed to profiling those who likely may do harm?
      After pulling his pantleg up to show there was nothing hidden underneath, Paul was told by two TSA’s that it was a random stop.
      The thing many don’t realize is that besides the class warfare that our government is promoting, incidents like this (not profiling those likely to commit terrorism) will divide us further. Americans will, at some point, act out against this unreasonable invasion of privacy. Americans will be pitted against Americans.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:09pm

      @Baikonur…..”This is especially true when the victims are members of an already disadvantaged minority: women, Jews, gays, blacks, teenage college students, poor people, etc.”

      You forgot Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Asians, Haitians, Cubans, Salvadorians, goose hunters from Alberta, deer hunters from Montana, and, of course, White men.
      You do care about us Whities, don’t you?
      Curious you mentioned the groups you did.
      Why, exactly, are those groups disadvantaged?
      How are they disadvantaged? Show me examples. Then, you can prove that Whites have never been discriminated against.
      I’m sure you have all the proof ready.
      You did, I’m sure, become enraged when Black students at S Philly HS were terrorizing Asian students while Black security ‘guards’ stood by and watched, didn’t you?

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:36pm

    They must be all Demedopes –
    Lying is part of their culture

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  • Zcat
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:33pm

    TSA also claimed to two elderly ladies they striped search lied, only to issue statement saying TSA had striped search the little old ladies.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:31pm

    And they finally had to admit these pigs at TSA were strip searching granny…whats next for Obama and his band of Brown Shirts…. Virginity tests ??? We need to de fund the Criminal Federal Govt.. NOW…

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  • Fitzzz
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:27pm

    I think TSA did signal Rand Paul out , just to show who was really in charge
    It looks to me he was a perfect gentleman
    The mistake they made was they picked on the wrong guy, this story now has some legs
    The thousands and thousand of people who have been molested, mistreated at the hands of TSA agents will rally behind him, and the bill he will shortly be offering

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  • TeaBill
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:26pm

    Rand Paul, taking after his father, has been provided a first hand experience on what so many of us deal with in the bureaucratic realm. It doesn’t matter what governmental office you become involved with, they are all set up the same. They all take advantage of the power they believe they have, and then make a determination that you, the tax payer, is causing them a distraction and therefore you need to simply go away. They fail to understand the very nature of how they are able to wear their uniform or occupy their position.

    Simply put, the stupidity of the TSA to not be certain that their random checks don’t occur with the very elected body that oversees them is a great example of the value of such agency.

    TSA, Go Away!

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:23pm

    Rand is a perfect example of a person with lots of self control. He would have every right to rail on these idiots. He is a US Senator. That doesn’t put him above the law but it does imply that he has at least a “secret” security clearance which is lots higher than those who detained him. If we are going to allow ourselves to slip into some form of police state we at least need to slip into one not dominated by ANARCHY!!! Do the fools really get the keys to the asylum? GOD help us.

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:21pm

    I am all pro anyone who has been treated like potential terrorists and cattle rather than human beings with dignity and rights by the airlines and airport security.

    In Geneva, the airport security is nice and polite.

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  • omgfolks
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:21pm

    Don’t be alarmed. The terminology use by the police are trained phrases to justify their action. Phrase like “fear of my life”, “fear of others life”, ‘irate’ failed to comply, felt threatened, these and many more phrases are used to secure convictions on people despte whether they actually happened in a particualr way. Is called ‘Verbal Manipulation” say in a a way thats sounds bad and stick to the use of those phrases and before long people will start believing it that way…..

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:03pm

      Yeah but isn’t limited to them.This is a classic approach of abuse of power.Claiming you were afraid for your safety can be used by manipulators for all sorts of criminal actions.It usually is used to justify the unjustifiable.Think spotlight and deflection.Government offical abuses citizen knows it wrong claims it was the citizens fault.Its nothing new its just that normal everyday americans are seeing it in the open.Workers and their families in the military and supporting agencies are much more familiar with this tactic.Many have been the target of it.

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  • HKS
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:19pm

    Would appear to be a planed political attack, probably under the direction of da furor-er.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:50pm

      Makes one wonder how many dimocRat senators have been treated this way. You can bet Barbara Call Me Senator Boxer would have been screaming bloody murder.

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  • Zer0
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:16pm

    Rand Paul, this is your only warning! Cease your criticisms of the unconstitutional nature of the police state and the abuse of power by law enforcement officers!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:25pm

      No worries, soon we won’t have to worry about airline travel, because the government will be providing free relocation for all of us. I just hope those train cars aren’t packed too tight.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:51pm

      I’m afraid of train rides. You never know when a plane will crash into one.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:09pm

      @txpilot
      Yeah, if we don’t repeal obamacare, the tropicana train to termination, is around the corner.Sorry to use the name tropicana.Its the only refrigerated car with a name that fits my statement.Frankly, I think if tropicana were asked to help on that project, they would ram the train cars into the whitehouse.By the way even if we can repeal obamacare I’m not so sure it will matter.It seems too many are on the side of universal healthcare.Another version will just fill the place.

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  • vic138
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:14pm

    So what if he was irate (although he clearly wasn’t)? Getting mad at a cop is ok, as you don’t threaten, so why is tsa any different? Is TSA above the law?

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    • A Conservatarian
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:13pm

      … uhm yes, they came into existence under the Patriot Act. No, I’m not joking either. Above the law, outside it, next to it, under it, whatever you wanna call it, they don’t follow it.

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  • bernbart
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:14pm

    That certainly did n look look like Rand. Have you even seen him with glsses on?

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  • bernbart
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:12pm

    Wasn’t it Rand who made the Big deal about his detainment?

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:11pm

    securty lol

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:10pm

    The only discrepancy that I see is Paul using his cell phone when he said that he was warned not to. Otherwise, he can be ticked off without making a butt of himself.

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    • bernbart
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:16pm

      that was not Paul Rand. When did he start wearing glasses?

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    • bernbart
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Why should he be ticked off to begin with. It was nothing but a Paul Rand publicity stunt.
      It is routine to go into one of those glass areas if the scanner gos off. My husband has an artificial hip and he has to do it all the time. And no one is suppose to have a cell phone going through security. Every passenger must turn off their cell and put it into the container. Passengers in these secure areas are only given their Stuff in containers after they have had a wand or pat down which is normal procedure. If it was him and he had his cell he has already gone through the extra security process.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:47pm

      I have glasses, but rarely wear them, because I can see well enough without them. What’s your point??

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:56pm

      Also, if YOU had to miss your flight and re-schedule, YOU would be ticked, too. Not to mention the fact that any House member or Senator cannot be stopped from attending session by law of the Constitution. They knew who he was and should KNOW he is not a security risk.

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