On departing the
RNC in Tampa, Ron Paul, his wife and grand-daughter were subjected to harassment
by the TSA at a small airport in Clearwater, Florida.
Eight TSA goons
told the Paul entourage they would need to be screened before they would be
allowed to leave because Mitt Romney might be nearby.
The insinuation
was obvious - Paul and his family pose a threat to the GOP presidential
candidate.
On departing the
RNC in Tampa yesterday, Ron Paul, his wife and grand-daughter were subjected to
harassment by the TSA at a small airport in Clearwater,
Florida.
Eight TSA agents
told the Paul entourage they would need to be screened before they would be
allowed to leave because Mitt Romney might be nearby.
After a
protracted examination of Ron Paul’s credentials, the agents demanded they be
allowed to check the airplane for explosives.
The incident
ended after Ron Paul’s wife, Carol, who has a pacemaker, refused to be screened
by the TSA and an aide started taking video.
The disgraceful
incident serves as a vicious parting shot by the establishment. The GOP has
consistently sabotaged Paul’s campaign and the corporate media has either
ignored the candidate or portrayed him as a radical that had absolutely no
chance of winning the nomination despite his huge and unprecedented following
and popularity with the American people.
Ron Paul’s son,
Rand, a Senator from Kentucky, was detained earlier this year by the TSA in
Nashville. Following the incident, Rand issued a press release in which he vowed
to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and
humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers.
In 2010, the
elder Paul told Alex Jones that he was also molested by the
TSA.
During an
interview with CNN, he said the TSA traps Americans into subjecting to the
humiliating intrusive procedure at airports.
“There’s no way
you can travel if you don’t do it. So I’ve said, you know, when you look at some
of these pictures of probing groin areas and breast areas and all this, and old
women having to take their clothes off, if we as a people are so complacent that
we can look at that and say, oh, that’s OK, they’re making us
safe.”
“It doesn’t make
us safe. It undermines our liberties and there’s a much better way of giving us
security at the airports than accepting the bureaucrats and the politicians in
Washington. That is totally unacceptable from my viewpoint.” Paul
said.
In 2010, Paul
introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act to shield Americans from the abuses
of the TSA.
“My legislation
is simple,” he said in prepared remarks. “It establishes that airport security
screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another
person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the
use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject
to the same laws as the rest of us.” Prison Planet
AHT/HJ
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