Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation

Fisher1949 · Jun 15, 2012

There had been rumblings on the Ron Paul blogs asking where this was earlier this week. Doubtful that it will get anywhere but it's a good shot at TSA.

This week Sen. Rand Paul introduced two pieces of legislation to streamline and rein in the Transportation Security Administration's screening processes and treatment of passengers.
The first piece of legislation, S.3302, establishes a "Bill of Rights" for air travelers, establishes protections for passengers, guidelines for screening procedures, and requires reforms to the air security bureaucracy. This Bill of Rights is listed at the bottom of this release. It also requires 90 percent of unclaimed change left at screening points to be returned to the U.S. Treasury through an incentive program to airports.
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http://paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=549

Mike · Jun 16, 2012

Red Alert Politics: Rand Paul files bills that take aim at TSA

TSA critics have their champion: Sen. Rand Paul has dropped a pair of bills that would essentially end the agency as Americans know it.

The Kentucky Republican introduced legislation that would gut the Transportation Security Administration’s government-operated screening program and establish a passenger bill of rights. One bill would require that the mostly federalized program be turned over to private screeners and allow airports — with Department of Homeland Security approval — to select companies to handle the work.

The second bill would permit travelers to opt out of pat-downs and be rescreened, allow them to call a lawyer when detained, increase the role of dogs in explosive detection, let passengers “appropriately object to mistreatment,” allow children 12 years old and younger to avoid “unnecessary pat-downs” and require the distribution of the new rights at airports.

That legislation also would let airports decide to privatize if wanted and expand TSA’s PreCheck program for trusted travelers.
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Original longer version of article ...

Politico: Rand Paul files bills that take aim at TSA

Mike · Jun 16, 2012

Becky Akers @ Lew Rockwell ...

Real Privatization of the TSA, a la Ron Paul

Becky Akers said:

So I said to myself, "Self, it's too bad Rand doesn't listen to his father."

“What we need is real privatization of security," the good doctor said last July, "but not phony privatization with the same TSA screeners in private security firm uniforms still operating under the ‘guidance’ of the federal government. Real security will be achieved when the airlines are once again in charge of protecting their property and their passengers.”
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He's On a Losing Streak

Becky Akers said:

Wow. Rather than “abolishing” the TSA, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was promising to do just a few weeks ago, he’s now seeking to “privatize” it – not only a bait-and-switch but exactly the non-solution for which Rep[rehensible] John Mica (R-Fl) is crusading. One of the two bills Rand’s introduced “would require that the mostly federalized program be turned over to private screeners and allow airports — with Department of Homeland Security approval — to select companies to handle the work.” Whether it’s Mica’s or Rand’s proposal, both leave the Feds in charge of bungling security at airports. Yes, the deviants pawing you at checkpoints will receive their paychecks – which your taxes will continue to finance – from “private” companies, but the TSA (or, per Rand’s bill, its über-bureaucracy, the DHS) will dictate every move they make, from groping you to stealing your mouthwash.

Some airports already sexually assault passengers under this “private-public partnership” (when foreign governments practice this arrangement, we call it “fascism”). San Francisco’s is one of them. If you’ve ever flown through there, you can testify that from the passenger’s standpoint, there’s absolutely no difference whether Uncle Sam or a “private” company taking detailed orders from Uncle Sam employs the deviant with his hands down your pants.

No wonder the second bill Rand’s offering would “establish a passenger bill of rights.” Um, Rand? We already have a Bill of Rights; it's appended to the US Constitution, which never, ever even remotely allows the Feds to interfere with our travels in any way, let alone gate-rape us at airports. Indeed, its Fourth Amendment specifically prohibits “unreasonable search” – and believe me, the TSA’s searches are as unreasonable as they get. No other regime anywhere at any time, no matter how brutal or totalitarian, has sexually molested its citizenry as a condition of travel.

Rand, no offense, but I’ll take that Bill of Rights over yours any day. Geez, guy, get with the program.
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phoebepontiac · Jun 16, 2012

Yeah, when I read his list of rights, it seemed like a list of our rights as to how we get groped and scanned. Better than nothing, I guess, but I still don't want to fly.

I'm sad about Rand Paul. I think somebody got to him.

barbell · Jun 16, 2012

I really don't understand how people can come out swinging against TSA, and then come up with some limp noodle nonsense like this.

What do these TSA "people" do behind the scenes that causes these reactions?

Becky hits the nail square on the head again. What good is it to say how we can be groped? And who gives a flip about going through a gd scanner multiple times? The whole point is the damn things don't work. They don't work at all. They're junk.

Caradoc · Jun 16, 2012

phoebepontiac said: ↑

I'm sad about Rand Paul. I think somebody got to him.
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Not that I consider InfoWars to be "reliable," but this makes for an interesting read:

http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-a-neocon-in-libertarian-clothing/

"In 2010, Rand Paul courted the neocon wing of the Republican Party. His “pilgrimage” to the heart of darkness should have set-off alarm bells in both the Tea Party and libertarian movements, but it was more or less glossed over."

Lisa Simeone · Jun 17, 2012

Seconding Becky Akers.

Lisa Simeone · Jun 17, 2012

Caradoc said: ↑

Not that I consider InfoWars to be "reliable," but this makes for an interesting read:

http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-a-neocon-in-libertarian-clothing/

"In 2010, Rand Paul courted the neocon wing of the Republican Party. His “pilgrimage” to the heart of darkness should have set-off alarm bells in both the Tea Party and libertarian movements, but it was more or less glossed over."
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Yes, worth a read. Another excerpt:

Romney’s foreign policy advisers are predominately neocon. On May 31, I wrote that “over seventy percent of the neocons who staged the illegal Iraq war have signed up as Mitt’s foreign policy advisors. It is the same old pro-Israel rogue’s gallery, including Elliott Cohen, Robert Kagan (who is behind Romney’s ‘American exceptionalism’ stance), Eric Edelman (one of Bush’s main neocons at the Pentagon), and Dan Senor.”

“Many of these advisors belonged to the PNAC, an influential neoconservative advocacy group founded in the ‘90’s. It has morphed into the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) launched by Kagan, Edelman and Senor. They advocate for regime change in Iran and a more confrontational stance with Russia. They are opposed to cuts in military spending,” writes Nancy Lindsay.
Patrick J. Buchanan has predicted Romney’s secretary of state will either be the irascible neocon John Bolton or the Israel-centric warmonger Joe Lieberman.
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How is it possible Rand Paul would consent to crawling into bed with this gang of war criminals? Is it possible he was a neocon all along a rode the coattails of his father’s reputation in order to get elected to the Senate?

If so, the people of Kentucky need to send him packing during the next election cycle.
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Mike · Jun 21, 2012

Travel Agent Central: Passenger Bill of Rights Blocks Intrusive TSA Searches

Among the 17 minimum rights laid out in Senator Paul's passenger Bill of Rights:
• A TSA screener "opt-out" for airports, allowing them access to the Screening Partnership Program (SPP) and private screeners
• A one-year deadline to implement a screening process for pre-cleared frequent-flyers at all airports with more than 250,000 annual flights
• Authority to permit travelers who fail to pass imaging or metal detector screening to choose to be re-screened rather than subjected to an automatic pat-down
• Expansion of canine screening at airports, a more effective and less invasive method of screening passengers for explosives, as well as a strong deterrent
• Eliminating unnecessary pat-downs for children 12 years of age or under
• Right of parents to stay with their children during the screening process
• Guaranteeing a traveler's right to request a pat-down using only the back of the hand
• Protection of a traveler's right to appropriately object to mistreatment by screeners
• Protection of a traveler's right to decline a backscatter X-ray scan, a screening method with potentially harmful health effects
• Protection of a traveler's right to contact an attorney if detained or removed from screening
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