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Poll: Nearly One Third Of Americans Would Accept ‘TSA Body Cavity Search’ in Order to Fly

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“A new survey commissioned by Infowars and conducted by Harris Interactive has found that almost one third of American adults would accept a ‘TSA body cavity search’ in order to fly, with a majority of Americans also feeling a law that would make disobeying a TSA agent in any public place illegal is reasonable.  The shock results emphasize the level of indignity Americans are willing to tolerate in order to travel.  They also highlight how the TSA’s reputation has remained largely intact despite a series of scandals and widespread criticism from innumerable public figures.”

http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-would-accept-tsa-body-cavity-search-in-order-to-fly/

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Oklahoma Man On No Fly List Fighting To Come Home

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“An overseas Oklahoman who hasn’t been on the Sooner soil for more than a decade is now fighting to come home.  Forty-three-year-old Saadiq Long lives in Qatar where he teaches English. In April, the U.S. Air Force veteran was told he was on the Department of Homeland Security’s no fly list.  He’s been fighting to get taken off the list ever since, but now he’s running out of time.  Long’s mother who still lives in McAlester is terminally ill. Long will try to fly back to Oklahoma this week to visit her, perhaps for the final time.  Long, a U.S. citizen, hasn’t been given a reason for why he’s on the list.”

http://www.newson6.com/story/20009677/oklahoma-man-on-no-fly-list-fighting-to-come-home

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The Police-State’s Fascist Strength

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“1) WidePoint Corporation has been awarded … contract to provide mobile Telecom Expense Management Services (TEMS) to the TSA. … approximately $33 million dollars…. 2) ‘L-3 Communications Beats Estimates—Key contract wins during the quarter included … explosives detection and advanced imaging technology systems to the TSA. Funded order backlog was $11.0 billion. 3) Morpho Detection, Inc. received a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the TSA with a maximum value of $528 million. And this is just one day’s gleaning from my Google Alert on the TSA!”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/124885.html

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TSA opens museum to inspire its mission

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“In 2010, armed with a master’s degree in history and experience working at several museums, Smith was hired for the newly created position of TSA historian. Since then he’s been filming oral histories of current and past TSA employees, creating exhibits and organizing a growing cache of objects related to the agency’s history. In 2011, to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, the TSA gave the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History several artifacts relating to TSA history.  Among those items are images, oral histories, internal planning documents, a uniform and other objects relating to the first airport to get TSA screeners.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2012/10/24/tsa-museum-mission-hall/1652605/

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No-Fly List Strands Man In Hawaii

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“The 34-year-old from Gulfport, Miss., was stranded in the islands this week after being told he was on the FBI’s no-fly list during a layover for a military flight from California to Japan.  The episode left Hicks scrambling to figure out how he’d get home from Hawaii without being able to fly.   How could someone on a list intelligence officials use to inform counterterrorism investigations successfully fly standby on an Air Force flight?  He wasn’t told why and wondered whether his controversial views on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks played a role. Hicks said he disagrees with the 9/11 Commission’s conclusions about the attacks.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fly-list-strands-man-island-hawaii-17521926

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Ben Affleck Defends TSA ‘Dick Grabbing’

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“During a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time, actor Ben Affleck defended the TSA’s policy of grabbing people’s genitals. Affleck probably isn’t too fussed about what the TSA do because he is driven straight to the runway to board his private jet – he doesn’t even have to go through TSA security!”

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TSA removes X-ray body scanners from major airports

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“The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.  The TSA says it made the decision not because of safety concerns but to speed up checkpoints at busier airports.  The United States remains one of the only countries in the world to X-ray passengers for airport screening. The European Union prohibited the backscatters last year ‘in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens’ health and safety.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/tsa-removes-x-ray-body-scanners-from-major-airports/

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Wireless ‘smart meters’ tell snoopers when you are not home

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“Criminals no longer need to stake out a home or a business to monitor the inhabitants’ comings and goings. Now they can simply pick up wireless signals broadcast by the building’s utility meters.  In the US, analogue meters that measure water, gas and electricity consumption are being replaced by automated meter reading (AMR) technology. Nearly a third of the country’s meters – more than 40 million – have already been changed. The new time-saving devices broadcast readings by radio every 30 seconds for utility company employees to read as they walk or drive around with a receiver. But they are not the only ones who can tune in.”

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628875.300-wireless-meters-tell-snoopers-when-you-are-not-home.html

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Do You Have A “Derogatory National Security Record”?

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“A ‘national-security record?’ I had never heard that term before. Neither USA Today nor any of the hundreds of Internet journalists reposting the article bothered to define the phrase, or even to speculate what it might mean.  To find out for myself, I searched every possible variation of the term ‘national-security record.’ Other than attacks on Obama’s ‘national security record,’ I found nothing.  I suspect that the term ‘national security record’ is a shorthand phrase to summarize the status of a traveler in the programs and databases the Department of Homeland Security (which includes C&BP and the Transportation Security Administration) maintains on travelers.”

http://www.nestmann.com/do-you-have-a-derogatory-national-security-record-3/

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Ex-TSA agent: We steal from travelers all the time

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“Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers since 2003.  Pythias Brown, a former Transportation Security Administration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport, spent four years stealing everything he could from luggage and security checkpoints, including clothing, laptops, cameras, Nintendo Wiis, video games and cash.  Speaking publicly for the first time after being released after three years in prison, Brown told ABC News that he used the X-ray scanners to locate the most valuable items to snatch.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/

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