TSA
This is one way I can put it. You have a cop shutting down a lemonade stand run by kids. You have the TSA setting up a stop and search for people GETTING OFF a train. They do this for many reasons, but foremost, they do it because they feel OK doing it....
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- "I didn't think I was much of a threat to anybody," said Marian Peterson.
Traveling back home from visiting her daughter in North Carolina, 94-year-old Marian Peterson was pulled out of line for a random security check.
"They patted...
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TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment to SB...
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Set to the famous soundtrack by The Who, this video portrays some of the imagery surrounding the controversial airport security procedures recently enacted by President Obama and Janet Napaolitano. If you refused to be irradiated and undressed by one of t...
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A Transportation Security Administration worker at Logan International Airport is accused of assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Sean Shanahan, 45, of Winthrop is being held on $50,000 cash bail following his arraignment in East Boston District Court. He is ch...
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Phillip Mocek was arrested at the Albuquerque Airport in November 2009. He refused to show I.D. to TSA officers. His trial has been postponed until Jan. 20, 2010.
"What really at root in this case is wether travel is a right that we have under the Constit...
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A Seattle man’s trial in Albuquerque on charges of making trouble at an airport security checkpoint is getting attention from civil liberties groups all over the country.
Phil Mocek was arrested at the Albuquerque Sunport in November of 2009 after he refu...
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After plenty of trial postponements, Seattle software developer Phil Mocek had his day in court. He didn’t testify. Instead, a video Mocek made with his cell phone camera was shown to the jury. On Friday, Jan. 21, he was still found not guilty of f...
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After an hour of deliberation Friday evening, a Bernalillo County, New Mexico, jury found Phil Mocek not guilty of all four charges he faced after refusing to show his ID and using a video recorder at a TSA checkpoint in 2009. If you're keeping score at h...
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Video recording made by Phil Mocek at Albuquerque International Airport, just outside the TSA barricade, on November 15, 2009, from approximately 2:34 p.m. - 2:38 p.m. Mountain time. This video (without the subtitles) was presented by the prosecution in S...
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On November 15, 2009, Seattleite Phil Mocek stepped into the main terminal at the Albuquerque International Sunport planning to board a flight bound for Sea-Tac. He carried with him two pieces of luggage, a boarding pass, and a cell phone capable of recor...
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I've been pretty much off my computer these last two days, traveling through various Colombian mountain towns, spending time with family and taking excellent photos and videos. Tonight, I am dead-tired and was planning on calling it an early ni...
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