TSA Backs Down from Prom Night Grope

[ktlight]

FYI:


Last week it was announced that TSA goons would conduct a grope-down of students during prom night at a Santa Fe high school. The TSA promised to move from airports into the New Mexico high school after two girls said security personnel groped them and a federal judge ruled the TSA should conduct pat-downs at dances or graduations.
See the KOAT video here.
The judge’s ruling indicates the federal government and the TSA believe they should be conducting searches. The TSA has moved from airports to train and bus stations. TSA boss Napolitano has said she envisions the agency ultimately groping citizens at malls and hotels.
In February, we reported that the TSA had announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United States.
Following the purported killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, New York senator Charles Schumer called for no ride lists for Amtrak similar to the no fly lists currently used in the nation’s airports. Schumer issued his demand after the Pentagon supposedly gleaned information about terrorists attacks from Osama bin Laden’s home in Pakistan. The Department of Homeland Security sent an advisory to law enforcement officials around the country stating al-Qaeda discussed tampering with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a valley or a bridge.
On Saturday night, the TSA did not conduct the searches at the Santa Fe high school as promised. Government searching students is now a well-established practice at public schools.

source
http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-backs-down-from-prom-night-grope.html

[Lord Sidious]

The feds have no jurisdiction in state schools, nor do they have the right to have checkpoints as they wish.
A good sign you are in a communist country is when every fourth or fifth individual works for the government.

[christian]

De iure the consitution and bill of rights etc. cannot be trampled upon, de facto the criminals in charge do it all the time, it's just the old issue of how long can they do it till the masses say no to it.

[Snowbird]

Not everyone is simply standing by while being groped. Two sisters from the Santa Fe prom are suing in federal court.

Santa Fe public schools sued over prom searches

One senior tells Eyewitness News 4 the pat down was so invasive she felt like she was being molested.

Capital High School senior Candice Herrera says while waiting in line to enter the prom she watched other students patted down by private security guards while faculty checked bags and purses for contraband.

When Herrera was up to be searched she says the female security guard made her extremely uncomfortable.

"She grabbed my breast and grabbed the inner part of my bra and shook it and then picked up the front of my dress to like mid thigh." Herrera said. "She was patting down my bare legs which kind of didn't make sense."

According to the lawsuit, neither Herrera or her younger sister had ever been in trouble at school and the younger sister, who is a minor, is ranked first in her class with a perfect G.P.A.


http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2116447.shtml

[Maia Gabrial]

It's so insane! Everywhere you turn....
Since I'm not that enlightened being who can see with higher perspective yet, I'd punish that judge (and others like him); and disband the TSA and Homeland Security. Then onto DC for some big time fun sending politicians to prison....
:rockon:
Maia