Rand Paul stopped by TSA after body scan anomaly

[boston bean]

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was blocked from boarding a flight Monday by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tenn., after refusing a full body pat-down, POLITICO has confirmed.

“I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely,” Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley said. “The image scan went off; he refused patdown.”

Paul’s father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), tweeted out news of the incident, saying that there had been an “anomaly” with a body scanner.

“My son @SenRandPaul being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville. More details coming,” wrote the authenticated Twitter account of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71818.html#ixzz1kKhFwMrX

[Autumn]

1. anomaly?? I fucking knew he wasn't human

Let's get hid Dad under one too cause no way in hell he is either.

[boston bean]

3. They did let him on a later flight where he passed the rapiscan. nt

[boston bean]

2. Fuck the TSA and Fuck Rand Paul and Fuck Ron Paul

I wonder what it all means??

[Ilsa]

4. My understanding is that he is exempt from

the normal procedures by an article under a Constitutional amendment. They weren't supposed to search him if he had his Congressional ID with him. Congresscritters have the equivalent of diplomatic immunity from search. That's what I learned from listening to Thom Hartmann today.

[boston bean]

6. they gave themselves special immunity from the rapiscan.

my, how...... ummmm... unsurprising!

[jberryhill]

8. The Constitution...

...says they can't be arrested on their way to a session.

That's what some folks are on about, but he was not arrested.

[pnwmom]

10. Right. He was not detained or arrested. He was prevented from accessing

a secure area.

[jberryhill]

12. I think he wanted to avoid the anti-choice rally

He'd have had to have been pretty darn close to the end of boarding time in order for an argument over a resolution pat down to make him miss a flight.

Figure - minimum boarding time for small planes is .5 hour, and baggage check closes around 1 hour prior to flight time.

If he was running late, and knew he was going to miss his appearance at that rally, then he was going to need a good excuse.

How long did this all take?

[pnwmom]

17. I was already wondering if this wasn't some sort of PR scheme.

Your idea, I think, is as good a guess as any.

[boston bean]

11. why thank you again, my little friend!

nice to see you. I missed you from all of three minutes last we typed.

[jberryhill]

13. Lol

You make good comments, what can I say?

I'm on mobile view and can't see author names in the thread

[pnwmom]

9. Funny that he's not making that argument. Maybe he didn't

have his ID on him?

[Ilsa]

14. Who knows, maybe he felt like

he didn't deserve any special privileges just because he is a senator, so he went through the nudoscope.

We don't have all of the details yet, except that he and Pops are rabidly against the scanners and patdowns.

[Ecumenist]

20. Um, considering the nuts we have running for office, that's scary. These SOB'S are capable of

anything.

[DJ13]

5. I found the problem

[boston bean]

7. is that any reason for them to prohibit him from boarding a flight?

[Ilsa]

15. Even though it happened to Rand Paul,

It's still bullshit security theater. Yes, they should have let him fly, IMO.

[boston bean]

16. You are a Ron Paul supporter, aren't you?

I snuffed you out, didn't I!!!

You deserve a banishment from the bowels of DU.



sarcasm

[Ilsa]

18. That's funny, yeah right...

He's been my TFU (totally fucking useless) Congresscritters for over a decade.

Even the Paul family has it right on infringement on civil rights by the TSA.

[boston bean]

19. I was totally joking.

I know you don't like the assholes! Neither do I!

But you do know that if you think they are right on any issue, it could be misconstrued that you are a Paul supporter, here on DU.

That's all I'm saying!

[Ilsa]

21. I thought you probably were, but

I figured I needed to address it before I got turned in and banned! LOL

[boston bean]

22. I hear ya!