Deficits
News Journal: Number 34, November 12, 2010: TSA–Thousands Standing Around To Trained Sexual Assaulters To Tyrants Scanning Americans–Videos
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, housses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
~United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment
If you are planning to fly this Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday to visit family and friends, you might want to seriously consider driving or taking a bus instead of flying or just stay home.
The American people’s rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…” is being challenged by the Transportation Security Administration of the United States Government.
When you go to through airport security you must first pass through a metal detector then a full body radiation scan.
If you elect not to have the full body radiation scan, you are called a opt outer and subject to a perverted pat down of your entire body including genitals, breast and buttocks by the government gropers of the TSA.
Woman, children, and the disabled in wheel chairs may have to go through both the full naked body radiation scan and the perverted pat down.
You choices are as follows when you opt out:
Full naked body radiation scan Perverted pat downs Interrogation and possible detention, arrest and lawsuit Leave airport and drive to destination Just stay home
More and more Americans are electing to just stay home and save the time, money and invasion of their bodies and property and the legal molestation of their children by Federal Government Employees.
The American people should respond to the use of full naked body radiation scans and perverted pat downs by simply not travelling on commercial airlines.
The commercial airlines and not the Government should be responsible for security and safety on an airline flight.
When the airlines and the travel industry experience significant drops in their revenues and profits, they will insist the full naked body scans and pat downs not be used and current TSA employees become employees of the airline and not the government.
Time for Congress to revisit the whole subject of TSA, government unions, and unreasonable searches and seizures.
Metal detectors and thermal detectors are fine.
Airport Security and Screening on Fox News Channel profiling Thermal Matrix and the ACT System
End the full naked body radiation scans.
End the perverted pat downs.
End the Transportation Security Administration or TSA.
Stop unreasonable searches and seizures.
Start profiling passengers and target those who have the higher probability of being terrorists or suicide bombers.
Give the airlines the responsiblity for security and screening passengers.
Airline Attack Highlights Israel’s Security Success
Terminate Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano for approving these unreasonable searches.
Demand that your local airport opt out of TSA and select another company to perform security.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Pushes Perverted Pat Downs and
Full Naked Body Radiation Scans
TSA Posts Airport Screening Manual Online
TSA Manual Posted on the Internet
Senator Collins questions TSA officials on security procedure posting
TSA Fondles Women and Children Refusing Airport Naked Body Scanners
TSA airport full body scanner: a perverts dream come true.
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TSA Child Porn or Protection ?
Invasive TSA Airport Pat-Down
TSA Gropping People With New Pat Down Procedure-Getting Lawsuits
Air Travelers Not Happy With New TSA Security Measures
LIVE DEMONSTRATION OF NEW BODY AIRPORT SCANNER
TSA installs full-body scanners at Boston Logan International, other airports nationwide
TSA Body Scanners Deprive Americans of their Dignity
Scanners Too Revealing?
Woman Claims Security at DC Airport Beat Her Up
Airline Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos!’ DNA Damage, Cancer Risk
Full-Body Scanners Damage Human DNA
Alex’s Encounter with TSA During Latest Trip to California
Paul Watson Discusses TSA Agents Gone Wild on The Alex Jones Show 1/2
Paul Watson Discusses TSA Agents Gone Wild on The Alex Jones Show 2/2
EPIC FOIA – Feds and TSA save and transmit Body Scan images
TSA pulls pants off 71 y/o man with knee implant
Full Body Scanner Images Stored
Paul Watson Feds Caught Storing Body Scan Images at Florida Courthouse Security Checkpoint
TSA not screening screeners
Nude Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany
Airport scanner – TheBikerSite
Funny Body Scanner
EXCLUSIVE: TSA Unveils New Genital Visualizers
Background Articles and Videos
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
by Declan McCullagh
“…For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse. This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for “testing, training, and evaluation purposes.” The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual strip search. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing fuzzier images, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers. This privacy debate, which has been simmering since the days of the Bush administration, came to a boil two weeks ago when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that scanners would soon appear at virtually every major airport. The updated list includes airports in New York City, Dallas, Washington, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia. …” Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html#ixzz14ztWIFHJ
Pilots and passengers rail at new airport patdowns
By Jeremy Pelofsky
“…Executives from the travel industry, including online travel sites, theme parks and hotels, were set to meet Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Pistole on Friday to discuss their concerns that security is crimping travel. “We have received hundreds of e-mails and phone calls from travelers vowing to stop flying,” said Geoff Freeman, an executive vice president of the U.S. Travel Association, which set up the meeting with the Obama administration officials. “You can’t talk on the one hand about creating jobs in this country and getting this economy back on track and on the other hand discourage millions of Americans from flying, which is the gateway to commerce,” he said. Privacy groups have challenged the new body scanners in court, saying they are a violation of privacy and illegal. Lawmakers plan to hold hearings on aviation security next week when they return to Washington. Some travelers are also livid about how children are being screened. During a trip last Sunday by a father and son through Orlando airport in Florida, the 8-year-old boy was selected for extra screening by TSA after going through the metal detector. The father said the officer described the procedure before conducting it. Then he patted down the boy in the open security area, using the backside of his hands to check his genital area, he said. “I didn’t think it was going to be as horrible as he was describing,” said the boy’s father, Bill, who works as a lobbyist in Washington and did not want his full name used. …” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AA55S20101111?ref=nf
U.S. Marshals Service Storing Naked Body Scanner Images
Kurt Nimmo “…Now it turns out police agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Service, are storing naked body scanner images too. In response, the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction and putting a kibosh to the intrusive and unconstitutional snoop program. Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct Despite the revelation, the TSA steadfastly maintains that naked body scanners are delivered to airports with the image recording functions disabled. “We’re not recording them,” TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz told CNET on Wednesday. “I’m reiterating that to the public. We are not ever activating those capabilities at the airport.” Let’s get serious here. Naked body scanners are obviously being used to compliment existing dossiers on Americans. The NSA, FBI, CIA, and multitudinous government agencies have long profiled all aspects of the lives of American citizens. Images captured by naked body scanners, including images of genitals, are merely the next logical step in this process. …” http://www.infowars.com/u-s-marshals-service-storing-naked-body-scanner-images/
Transportation Security Administrion
PROCUREMENT SPECIFICATION FOR WHOLE BODY IMAGER DEVICES FOR CHECKPOINT OPERATIONS
“…3.1.1.1.2 Privacy TSA policy dictates that passenger privacy is maintained and protected during passenger screening. To ensure passenger privacy safeguards arc in place, WEI systems will prohibit the storage and exporting of passenger images during normal screening operations. When not being used for normal screening operations, the capability to capture images of non-passengers for training and evaluation purposes is needed. To ensure that image capturing maintains passenger privacy, the WEI will provide two distinct modes of operation: Screening Mode and Test Mode as defined in 3.1.1.3.1. During Screening Mode, the WEI shall (6) be prohibited from exporting passenger image data, including via STIP. During Test Mode, the WEI shall (7) not be capable of conducting passenger screening. The WBI shall (8) prohibit local storage of image data in all modes. The WEI shall (9) employ 256-bit encryption for image data in accordance with Fcderal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197 Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). http://epic.org/open_gov/foia/TSA_Procurement_Specs.pdf
Are airport full body scanners a danger?
Jane Jamison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “Technology Review” reports the technology can harm human DNA:
The airport scanning technology creates a “picture” of the passenger’s body. Clothing is not really visible. Body parts, or any “additions” or augmentations to the body, such as an implanted plastic bag of explosives, are visible. …”
TSA Screeners Frequently Miss Fake Bombs!
How the airport body scanner is used
TSA – Three Simple Steps
TSA – Laptops and Electronics
TSA – Why ID?
TSA – Traveling with Children
AT X-ray and Advanced Belts: TSA Checkpoint Evolution
Composure Benches: TSA Checkpoint Evolution
“…The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19, 2001. The TSA was originally organized in the U.S. Department of Transportation but was moved to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 25, 2003. The agency is responsible for security in all modes of transportation.[1] …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )News Journal: Number 33, November 9, 2010: Tea Party Movement Expects Republican Party To Balance The Budget By Cutting Spending Now!
Debt Clock
Economics 101 – It’s Simple to Balance The Budget Without Higher Taxes!
Deficits are Bad, but the Real Problem is Spending
Meltzer Says U.S. Economic Programs Have Been `Foolish’
Ron Paul – Dr. Allan Meltzer
No Compromise: Issa, Ryan and Cantor Will Cut Runaway Federal Spending
Eric Cantor Discusses Tax Rates, Ending Earmarks & Cutting Spending On Fox News Sunday
Rand Paul: GOP must consider military spending cuts
Ron Paul on the Deficit, Government Spending, and Military Industrial Complex (1988)
The tea party movement is expecting the Republican Party to balance the Fiscal Year 2011 and 2012 budgets or face the consequences or fate in 2012 of the big spending Democrats in this past election.
Instead the Republican Party is talking about a Fiscal Year 2008 level of total outlays of about $3 trillion dollars.
This is definitely an improvement over President Obama’s estimated budget deficits exceeding over $1,000 billion in FY 2010 and FY 2011.
However, it still would not come close to balancing the budget in FY 2011 where tax revenues are expected to be about $2,567 billion.
Unfortunately the deficit would be about $400 billion for the total combined on-budget and off-budget.
Refer to the following receipts and outlay estimates at:
Table 1.1—SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (−): 1789–2015
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/
The total estimated tax revenues for FY 2011 and FY 2012 are $2,567 billion and $2,926 billion respectively for the combined on-budget and off-budget.
The total estimated outlays for FY 2011 and FY 2012 are $3,834 billion and $3,755 billion respectively for the combined on-budget and off-budget.
The total estimated deficits for FY 2011 and FY 2012 are $1,267 billion and $828 billion respectively for combined on-budget and off-budget.
To balance the combined on-budget and off-budget the FY 2011 outlays would need to about the level of Fiscal Year 2005 of $2,472 billion.
To balance the combined on-budget and off-budget the FY 2012 outlays would need to about the level of Fiscal Year 2008 of $2,983 billion.
Either balance the budget or face the consequences in 2012.
Stop dithering.
Start shutting down entire Federal Departments, agencies and programs.
Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 4 of 4)
Pass the FairTax and limit future outlays or expenditures for the total on-budget and off-budget to 80% of previous year’s tax revenue from the FairTax.
The FairTax: It’s Time
The remaining 20% of FairTax revenues would go to pay down the debt.
Time for some real change and hope.
Stop spending our future and balance the budget.
Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis
Background Articles and Videos
Keynesian Economics vs. Austrian Economics
Keynesian Predictions vs. American History | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Why You’ve Never Heard of the Great Depression of 1920 | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Warren Harding and the Forgotten Depression of 1920
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
“…The economic situation in 1920 was grim. By that year unemployment had jumped from 4 percent to nearly 12 percent, and GNP declined 17 percent. No wonder, then, that Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover – falsely characterized as a supporter of laissez-faire economics – urged President Harding to consider an array of interventions to turn the economy around. Hoover was ignored.
Instead of “fiscal stimulus,” Harding cut the government’s budget nearly in half between 1920 and 1922. The rest of Harding’s approach was equally laissez-faire. Tax rates were slashed for all income groups. The national debt was reduced by one-third. The Federal Reserve’s activity, moreover, was hardly noticeable. As one economic historian puts it, “Despite the severity of the contraction, the Fed did not move to use its powers to turn the money supply around and fight the contraction.”2 By the late summer of 1921, signs of recovery were already visible. The following year, unemployment was back down to 6.7 percent and was only 2.4 percent by 1923.
It is instructive to compare the American response in this period to that of Japan. In 1920, the Japanese government introduced the fundamentals of a planned economy, with the aim of keeping prices artificially high. According to economist Benjamin Anderson, “The great banks, the concentrated industries, and the government got together, destroyed the freedom of the markets, arrested the decline in commodity prices, and held the Japanese price level high above the receding world level for seven years. During these years Japan endured chronic industrial stagnation and at the end, in 1927, she had a banking crisis of such severity that many great branch bank systems went down, as well as many industries. It was a stupid policy. In the effort to avert losses on inventory representing one year’s production, Japan lost seven years.”3
The U.S., by contrast, allowed its economy to readjust. “In 1920–21,” writes Anderson, “we took our losses, we readjusted our financial structure, we endured our depression, and in August 1921 we started up again. . . . The rally in business production and employment that started in August 1921 was soundly based on a drastic cleaning up of credit weakness, a drastic reduction in the costs of production, and on the free play of private enterprise. It was not based on governmental policy designed to make business good.” The federal government did not do what Keynesian economists ever since have urged it to do: run unbalanced budgets and prime the pump through increased expenditures. Rather, there prevailed the old-fashioned view that government should keep spending and taxation low and reduce the public debt.4 …”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods125.html
Historical Tables
Historical Tables provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2011 or 2015.
Table 1.1—SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (−): 1789–2015
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/
High Taxes and High Budget Deficits
The Hoover–Roosevelt Tax Increases of the 1930s
by Veronique de Rugy, Fiscal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
“…Conclusion
The tax increases of the 1930s coincided with large
deficits and economic stagnation. While the monetary and
trade policy mistakes of the 1930s are now widely
understood, the tax policy mistakes are less appreciated.
As Congress grapples with today’s budget deficit and
mediocre economic growth, it should look to the tax cuts
of the 1920s for inspiration rather than the failed “budget
balancing with high taxes” approach of the 1930s.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0303-14.pdf
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