Feds torpedoed previous version after threat to impose blockade
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
November 12, 2012
A new bill introduced today by Rep. David Simpson (R-Longwood) would criminalize invasive TSA pat downs in Texas and put the Lone Star State on course for another collision with the feds who last year torpedoed similar legislation after threatening to impose a federal air blockade.
The Texas Travel Freedom Act, House Bill 80, would ban the very procedure that has caused rancor across the country, namely any pat down that, “touches the anus, breast, buttocks, or sexual organ of the other person, including touching through clothing.”
The bill would also make it an offense for a TSA screener, or indeed any federal employee, to remove, “A child younger than 18 years of age from the physical custody or control of a parent or guardian of the child or a person standing in the stead of a parent or guardian of the child.”
This would put an end to the TSA’s penchant for separating children from their parents when conducting invasive pat downs on minors.
The bill would also punish any federal employee who, “harasses, delays, coerces, threatens, intimidates, or effectively denies or conditions access to the other person because of the other person’s refusal to consent to” the invasive pat down.
“If you walk up to somebody and grab their crotch out on the street, it will land you in jail. Blue uniforms and federal badges don’t grant some goon the power to sexually assault you, or at least they shouldn’t. A person doesn’t forfeit her or his personal dignity with the purchase of an airline ticket,” commented the Tenth Amendment Center’s Mike Maharrey in response to the bill.
The bill’s reintroduction now sets the stage for a repeat of last year’s battle between Texas the federal government which eventually saw the feds resort to egregious threats of imposing a blockade over the state in order to sink the legislation.
The TSA and the Department of Justice resorted to financial terrorism by threatening a federal blockade that would have closed down Texas airports if the Texas Senate had followed the House in unanimously passing a bill that would have made TSA groping in the state a felony. The threats prompted protesters, led by Alex Jones, to peaceably storm the Capitol in Austin.
In a letter sent to Texas lawmakers, including to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Speaker Joe Straus, the House Clerk, and the Senate Secretary, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy threatened to cripple the airline industry in the state if legislators did not back down.
“If HR [sic] 1937 were enacted, the federal government would likely seek an emergency stay of the statute,” Murphy wrote. “Unless or until such a stay were granted, TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”
Rep. Simpson introduced the new version of the bill with a message that it was the state’s responsibility to protect the rights of the people when the feds had abused their power.
“Abel Upshur’s words are pertinent to our cause. ‘It is indispensably necessary to maintain the States in their proper position. If their people suffer them to sink into the insignificance of mere municipal corporations, it will be in vain to invoke their protection against the gigantic power of the Federal Government,’” he said.
We join the Tenth Amendment Center in encouraging people in Texas to contact their representatives and urge them to support the bill by clicking here. We also support the effort to introduce model legislation that would replicate the travel freedom bill across the entire country by clicking here.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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How do you “peaceably storm” the Capitol? You mean between 30-50 people walked into the building without being stopped or hindered in any way?
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When this Bill passes, Texas might be the powder keg and launching ground of the ultimate conflict : all supreme Feds versus the State. We all knew what happened last time, here comes round 2. Will Texas exercise its 10th Amendment this time around ? Not a Texas resident myself, I’d hop in my truck and drive 1000 miles to lend a hand…
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Anonymous Reply:
November 12th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I wish we Texans would tell the feds to shove it up their A$$ and form our own country once again. FU*K them!!
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slick50 Reply:
November 12th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Anonymous…the day after Obama was re-elected “Secession” petitions, 19 to be exact were posted on the White House web site. Apparently you aren’t the only one who wishes to dodge the hooks of the current administration.
Petitions have been filed for Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..-to-secede
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Please send this version of the law to Michigan Legislatures. They need help thinking for themselves.
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I hope this goes through, in the interests of justice and human dignity.
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Outside of the US people look at a whole nation being sexually assaulted and find it hard to believe that your citizens meekly accept this outrageous behaviour. I recently saw the movie Compliance, is that sort of behaviour the next step for the TSA, BJ’s all round.
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Tree of Liberty, meet watering can.
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Wishing Texas the best on this one. If only Jefferson City would grow a pair.
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Let this administration cripple the airline travel in TEXAS. EVERY state in the USA should ban all flights until the g-damned TSA are removed. Those f-ing perverts have no right to use the lies that this administration has put upon the American Public to be able to rape us for the price of a ticket to fly somewhere in the USA! Don’t fly anywhere and watch the airline industry lose their asses and go back to just flying mail across the country. Odumba obviously doesn’t want US Citizens to travel unless his Devil Worshipers can feel us up, can molest babies and old people and to physically rape young women they choose from the lines and all this is done by EX cons, perverts, pedofiles, and basically immoral, no values bastards. Impeach the fake ass you put in our highest office. He’s a Communist of the worst sort.
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I always try to put myself in other shoes so I can better feel what it must be like. But if I would have been a TSA worker, and with what they are told to do to travelers (groaping people) I would have quit that job from the first day they would have told me those are your orders.
Hard to understand how these people who work at TSA can follow orders that serve evil much more than protect people?
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Bravo, Texas! The pat-down is and always has been, 100% of the time, and in every instance, sexual assault if not worse. Federal employees have no authority to violate state law. TSA should be held accountable under Rico for their pattern of illegality through out the entire country. TSA checkpoints are public nuisances, and if TSA workers are paid to engage in illicit sex acts with passersby, what does that make them?
Every state and county should convene a grand jury to investigate TSA practices. States attorneys general need to demand federal grand jurys investigate the TSA. If federal prosecutors refuse to do so, then convene a state grand jury to investigate the prosecutors as accessories! Governors need to instruct their congressional delegations to take steps to stop TSA pat downs.
There is a lot to be done here. The same people who ordered a pat down today would have no problem with cavity searches on you, your spouse, and children in the name of security.
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