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A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
[via Threat Level]
…hooray for America?
More impressive than the victory? The man’s chest-writing skills.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5f4e5afd543f875636652d74612e562/tumblr_mhbp3fFfw41r69k7do1_400.jpg)
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
[via Threat Level]
…hooray for America?
More impressive than the victory? The man’s chest-writing skills.
(Source: Wired)
Great news, everyone: The TSA is chucking the last of the naked-body scanners. Why’s that? Well, a company that was supposed to meet a deadline to get rid of the naked-body images on the machines and replace them with not-so-naked images … didn’t. So the TSA is dropping their contract and switching to companies that don’t use such … um, revealing images. The full-body scans are sticking around. They’ll just be less naked.
Citing concerns of time and delays, the the Transportation Security Administration has begun removing the controversial X-ray body scanners from some large airports, and replacing them with more modern millimeter-wave scanners, which don’t have many of the radiation or privacy issues the older machines have — in part because they show a person’s profile in a cartoon style, rather than the pseudo-nudity of the older machines. The older machines are getting moved to smaller airports, where the time delays caused are less of an issue. ”They’re not all being replaced,” said TSA spokesman David Castelveter. “It’s being done strategically. We are replacing some of the older equipment and taking them to smaller airports. That will be done over a period of time.” (photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images)
Gun parts, ammo found hidden inside 4-year-old’s stuffed animals at Rhode Island airport.
Poor Mickey. Sad to see he turned to a life of crime.
Video of the day: In which the terrorists win by convincing the U.S. government to terrorize a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair, all in the name of counterterrorism.
» But where does it all go? Since 2005, Congress has allowed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to use forgotten money left behind by passengers as part of their operating budget, although the agency says it works hard to return the money left by passengers. But a new proposal in the House of Representatives, introduced by Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), would change that. Miller’s proposal would send all forgotten monies, collected by the TSA, to the USO instead, and may expand the bill to include higher value items like sunglasses, cameras, and computers. He’s convinced that taxpayers and travelers alike would both prefer it this way. But we’re wondering, what do YOU think of this new plan?
Paul apparently set off an airport security full-body scanner “on a glitch,” a spokesman in Paul’s office told ABC News.
The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding a full body pat-down.
The Paul spokesman said his office called TSA administrator John Pistole about the incident this morning.
The fun part, of course, is that this totally plays into his civil-liberties playbook.
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
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He had C-4 explosives on him wrapped in military-grade wrapping, according to local police; the FBI has yet to explain what he was carrying on him, but the guy is in custody. To folks who say the TSA has never caught anyone bringing anything dangerous onto a plane: Here’s the exception to the rule. Yeah, freaky, right?
What I would do with the TSA is privatize them and get rid of those unions.Rick Perry, advocating the privatization of, among other things, airport security — with a little slap at unionization, to boot.
Get your freak on girl.A note from the TSA • Found scrawled on a post-inspection luggage insert, which was in a bag owned by Feministe blogger Jill Filipovic. She had packed her vibrator in the luggage, which no doubt spurred this rather personal request. Said Filipovic: “Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok, but I also just died laughing in my hotel room.” source (via • follow)
The new normal in airport security? It was announced today by the TSA that terrorists might try to surgically implant bombs into themselves to bypass airport checkpoints, a warning which seems to imply further heightening of security could be coming. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explicitly said that the warning “does not relate to an imminent or specific threat.” That said, that a terrorist could hide a bomb in their body is fairly obvious, so whatever intelligence they’ve gleaned must be enough to drag this out of the realm of the hypothetical. The TSA has also advised international airports to tighten their security. source
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