Sen. Rand Paul Stopped by Tenn. Airport Security

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Sen. Rand Paul Stopped by Tenn. Airport Security
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By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ERIK SCHELZIG Associated Press
WASHINGTON January 23, 2012 (AP)

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and a frequent critic of the Transportation Security Administration, was stopped by security at the Nashville airport Monday when a scanner set off an alarm and Paul declined to allow a security officer to subsequently pat him down. The White House said airport security acted appropriately.

Police escorted Paul away, but he was allowed to board a later flight. The security scanner identified an issue with the senator's knee, although Paul said he has no screws or medical hardware around the joint.

Paul, who frequently uses the airport about an hour from his home in Bowling Green, Ky., told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he asked for another scan but refused to submit to a pat down by airport security.
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RON PAUL: The Police State Is Out Of Control
Michael Brendan Dougherty | Jan. 23, 2012, 1:14 PM
Ron Paul isn't taking his Senator son's run-in with the Transportation Security Administration lightly.

He issued a terse statement today:

"The police state in this country is growing out of control. One of the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities. The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to keep us safe.
"That is why my 'Plan to Restore America,' in additional to cutting $1 trillion dollars in federal spending in one year, eliminates the TSA.

"We must restore the freedom and respect for liberty that once made American the greatest nation in human history. I am deeply committed to doing that as President of the United States."

It's pretty certain this incident and the procedures of the TSA are going to be a topic of Paul's presidential campaign.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-the-police-state-is-out-of-control-20...

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[tadpoleposition]

Obi Ron has taught him well. The force is with him.

[chrisjlat]

Did anyone else see the nosey TSA supervisor in the right background shaking her head at the end of the interview?

After this incident, the Senate has decided that they should have pat

down searches of ALL Senators on the private Senate underground

subway line below the US Capital.

[WhatsReallyGoingOnUS]

The man is a goddamn US SENATOR!!!

Does that mean anything to these high-school dropout, pedophile, vaccine-injured troglodites that work for the TSA?!?!?!

FUCK THE TSA!

[Magurufukuru]

This is even more idiotic than making the pilots go through security. This fella here could suicide bomb the Capitol Building if he wanted to and they make him get groped by cavemen earning minimum wage for a fucking domestic flight? What in the fuck?

[MichaelTMurray]

They let his ass go real fucking fast too. His daddy put that shit up on facebook and had like 6,000 shares in an hour on a monday at 9am! That says a whole lot about how fast Ron Pauls message is! And how much America likes to gossip, keep playing like he ain't in first presstitutes. Ron Paul 2012!