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KY Senator Rand Paul (Ron's son) detained by TSA after refusing a full body pat down!

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Posted by Water Modem 2012-01-23 12:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 US Constitution, Article 1, Section 6: members of Congress shall 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 in going to and from the same...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-01-23 12:49|| 2012-01-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ...but, but, but the Prez ~~declared~~ said the Senate was in recess. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-01-23 13:26|| 2012-01-23 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Wanna bet a certain AG rules that being the object of a commotion at a TSA checkpoint constitutes a "Breach of the Peace"?

Me neither.

Posted by Maggie Forkbeard6268 2012-01-23 13:34|| 2012-01-23 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently the Constitution has been re-interpreted out of existence.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-01-23 13:45|| 2012-01-23 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 TSA says he wasn't actually arrested or even detained; he just wasn't allowed to enter the secure area, and that's not un-Constitutional.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-01-23 13:59|| 2012-01-23 13:59|| Front Page Top

#6 its a smart move and will give Ron a great way to go after the current administration.

Posted by 746 2012-01-23 13:59|| 2012-01-23 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Just another example of why I don't think they should allow TSA employees to reproduce.

You would think that a simple, "Let him through, he's a Senator" would have done it. Unless this is subtle current administration harassment of the Republicans?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-01-23 14:41|| 2012-01-23 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The security search takes two minutes. His refusal is a well planned event to make the news and spin up people. This is dumb, he is a member of a society that the laws of that society dictate he be searched before allowing entry, agree with the law or not, it is there. He should have been the poster child and agreed to the search and showed the public he is a law biding citizen. If he did not like the law, he is a Senator, change it... Instead he goes for the sound bite, no better or worse than that congresswoman from CA that did the same.

Posted by 49 Pan 2012-01-23 15:10|| 2012-01-23 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 @ 49 Pan: Sorry 49, but we will need to borrow pages from the Dems playbook if we are going to defeat them. This is fair game. Good for the Senator.

Posted by Menhadden Hapsburg1617 2012-01-23 15:23|| 2012-01-23 15:23|| Front Page Top

#10 2 minutes? Typical ignorance pervasive amongst the left's unwashed section of useful idiots. A long line of these dead heads, about as long a line as at a typycal TSA check point Charlie.

Posted by Snease Hupuper4845 2012-01-23 16:02|| 2012-01-23 16:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Hate to break it to you but Article 1 Seciton 6 says they member of congress will not be impeded when he is on his way to or from Congress - Rand Paul was on his way back to DC for a 4:30 vote, therefore it was against the law for them to deny him. Plus the definition of Detain "Verb: 2. Keep (someone) from proceeding; hold back."

Pretty clear he was detained by TSA, and that it was unconstitutional.

Posted by OldSpook 2012-01-23 21:21|| 2012-01-23 21:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Back in the immediate post-911 day when i worked for the TSA (all the whorehouse piano playing gigs were taken) whenever we had an exempt person approach our podium, we took them aside, verifed their creds and allowed them to board first ( after briefing the aircrew and getting their OK, since it was their airplane) to detention, time out or anything, just an id check and away you go. but that was Bush's fault, too.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-01-23 22:12|| 2012-01-23 22:12|| Front Page Top

#13 John Conyers wouldn't have gotten this treatment

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-23 22:14|| 2012-01-23 22:14|| Front Page Top

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