NH bill would put TSA agents on sex offender registry

[DadaOrwell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuXMA9jwTug

 

[Keith and stuff]

Yeah, Fox News also interviewed two New Hampshire Liberty Alliance members that are co-sponsoring this bill. One of them is a Free State Project participant. Thank you NHLA and FSP folks for continuing this national issue and thanks for all of the media attention!

http://www.foxnewsinsider.com/2011/03/04/nh-bill-will-make-pat-downs-a-sexual-crime/

 

[Keith and stuff]

The New Hampshire Tea Party group, the NH Tea Party Coalition covered this issue in a very supportive manor, http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2011/03/04/our-state-reps-working-for-us/

 

[Keith and stuff]

Manuse: Why I sponsored the ‘Don’t Touch My Junk’ bill
March 6, 2011
by Andrew Manuse

http://www.redhampshire.com/manuse-why-i-sponsored-the-dont-touch-my-junk-bill/

The first two paragraphs are below, click the link for the rest of it.

First, I think it’s important to say that we need airport security. We are facing an undeniable threat from people who truly want to kill us. But in fighting that threat, I want to make sure that we are not killing our liberty, which is the very thing we as a nation are attempting to protect. Our Constitution sets up some basic principles in the Fourth Amendment on how we can be searched. The Supreme Court has held that administrative searches without warrants may be conducted in very limited circumstances. Most searches require warrants and probable cause. But, it is clear from the Fourth Amendment that all searches must be “reasonable.” To be reasonable, our laws and practices have long held that there must be some articulable suspicion before law enforcement can take their investigation to the next step. If you think about it, I think you would agree that the TSA searches that are being conducted are not reasonable.

Rep. George Lambert, R-Litchfield, and I decided to sponsor this bill (HB 628) because we have been watching (and experiencing) the post-911 anti-terrorism apparatus get out of hand. We have seen horror stories and personally listened to stories from people we know that tell of TSA agents putting their hands underneath people’s underwear–or worse; we have heard about body cavity searches conducted without any cause. We have heard about the potential risks of cancer from the backscatter technology and also how some agents have used the backscatter images as pornography. We have read about how the TSA is expanding its airport security into our train stations, bus stations and onto our highways. In the name of fighting terrorism, we have forgotten about our liberties and basic human decency.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Nice.

 

[Keith and stuff]

The article was also featured as an OP-ED in the only state-wide paper in NH (you know, the paper that support no personal income tax, no general sales tax, no seat belt laws for adults, medical cannabis and the right to record government workers that are on the clock), http://www.unionleader.com/article....rticleId=efce1bff-2306-4c81-accc-595d35f06027

 

[DadaOrwell]

oooooo ther'es a red hampshire site now, i'll have to check that out

 

[Keith and stuff]

Red Hampshire isn't exactly new as it was created in May 2009.

 

[100DollarBarrelofOil]

This sounds fucking awful. I hate TSA protocol, but I'm even more repulsed by the idea of a sx offender registry. Honestly, how ridiculous is it to combat invading people's privacy by invading other people's privacy?

 

[Keith and stuff]

It happened again. Fair or not, NH got known as the state that restarted the Nullification Debate and now it is known as the state that restarted the TSA debate it seems, even though it appears AK is moving forward quicker on this issue, http://www.rlc.org/2011/03/12/alaska-anti-tsa/

I'm not sure if the media considers political news in NH more important than news in other states because of the first in the nation primary, it is due to NH being the center of liberty media for the world or if it is some other reason.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

This sounds fucking awful. I hate TSA protocol, but I'm even more repulsed by the idea of a sx offender registry. Honestly, how ridiculous is it to combat invading people's privacy by invading other people's privacy?

Ill take invading the government's privacy over the privacy of the people any day.