Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA

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Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 23, 2012 @05:19AM from the your-dad's-not-president-yet dept.

cervesaebraciator writes "Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been detained by the TSA in Tennessee for refusing a pat-down. Apparently an anomaly appeared when he received the full body scan. While he offered to undergo the body scan once more, he was informed that only a pat-down would be sufficient to clear him. He has since been detained and the story is developing."

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Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by elrous0 · 2012-01-23 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

"A senator would make a great mule," Simmons tells me.

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1. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by alphatel · 2012-01-23 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No one expects the Aqua Buddha!
  
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2. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by mveloso · 2012-01-23 05:37 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  An old friend of mine's father was in the Pope's press pool. Talk about exempt from screening; those guys got away with everything. Not to mention the reporters!
3. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by ChrisGoodwin · 2012-01-23 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  A. They probably picked the most anti-TSA guy in the Senate...
  B. ...who is the son of the most anti-TSA guy in the House of Representatives...
  C. ...and sits on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
  Oops?
  
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4. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by sycodon · 2012-01-23 06:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Airport security was done by cheap, thug, thief, rent-a-cops before TSA.
  Now it's done by expensive, thug, thief, federal cops in the TSA.
  
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5. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by nman64 · 2012-01-23 06:23 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Some would call that a privilege.
  My point is that one can refuse the pat-down and leave. Our rights have been eroded, but we can still do that much.
6. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by nman64 · 2012-01-23 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Well, they aren't going to make the flight go "boom", but they certainly are a threat. These are the people that damn near passed SOPA and PIPA, after all.
7. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by Feyshtey · 2012-01-23 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  My point is that one can refuse the pat-down and leave. Our rights have been eroded, but we can still do that much.
  Try it and let us know how that works out for you. I'm sure they will simply let you walk away...
  
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8. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by alexandre_ganso · 2012-01-23 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Last time I asked if it was fine to have an erection while being patted down. They let me go.
9. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 06:41 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  Congratulations, captain ahole
10. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment by amiga3D · 2012-01-23 09:02 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Well, bang stick comes to mind. But I used to read a lot of survivalist material. I've since decided that survival is too much work to be worth the minimal rewards.
So what they've done is... by Gordonjcp · 2012-01-23 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

... they've pissed off a Southern Man and a Republican, in a position of political power.
Yeah. I can't see this ending well whichever way you slice it.
Re:Unconstitutional to Arrest a Congressman by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny

He's not arrested, just "indefinitely detained"
Actually, entire Adamantium skeleton by StefanJ · 2012-01-23 05:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Ron Paul wanted to give his kids all the advantages.
Re:An anomaly?! by GameboyRMH · 2012-01-23 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

He was carrying a Crystal for -30% radiation damage and a Spring for +30% impact resistance, good combination for today's air travel experience.

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Re:Oh dear. by Bardwick · 2012-01-23 05:51 · Score: 3, Funny

The Union branch.
And other than that... by msauve · 2012-01-23 07:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Senator Paul, how was your visit to the security theater?

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Re:Far more effective by nwf · 2012-01-23 10:15 · Score: 4, Funny

But don't you feel so much more secure now that these morons are watching over you?
If it takes a thief to catch a thief, does it take a moron to catch a moron? Clearly people who blow themselves. up are morons.

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