TSA Agents Frisk Elderly Paul Ryan Supporters

Janet Napolitano's TSA needs to be stopped. Thuggish Transportation Security Administration screeners are now being deployed to political events, and were spotted patting down senior citizens at a Paul Ryan speech in Florida.

"I counted no less than (6) (transportation security) agents alongside the usual uniformed Secret Service detail-not to be confused with the 'Men In Black' looking agents." Javier Manjarres posted on his blog.

Mitt Romney's running mate this weekend spoke at The Villages, an enormous retirement community in central Florida.

In addition to the Secret Service, and local sheriffs from Sumter County, there were also TSA screeners in attendance. What were they doing there? What does a Paul Ryan speech have to do with transportation security?

During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama stated, "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful" as the United States military. Perhaps the airport screeners are the civilian army he was talking about.

It's awful that Americans are becoming so inured to being patted down by creepy TSA screeners. The agency is becoming omnipresent in society. Isn't the Secret Service enough to protect candidates at political rallies?

Comments: 12

Big Mama Aug 23, 2012, 1:00pm UTC

This is just one of the reasons that Obama and his merry band of thugs have to go! They are violating our constitutional rights at every opportunity the can come up with.

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Jared G. Aug 23, 2012, 1:14pm UTC

How dare they try to protect a potential future vice president! The nerve!

Big Mama Aug 23, 2012, 2:24pm UTC

That is the secret services job. What does Paul Ryan giving a speech have to do with transportation security? TSA agents are not secret service officers. This is just another overstepping of the boundaries By the Obama administration. It is being done to intimidate those attending the event. They haven't had TSA agents feeling up folks at the Obama speeches or any of Joe Biden's events. So it is more then obvious that this is a tactic being used to harass those who are supporting the Romney/Ryan ticket.

Graham L. Aug 23, 2012, 4:03pm UTC

During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama stated, "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful" as the United States military.

If this is true then we can see the beginning of a U.S civilian paramilitary that has far reaching consequences for every U.S citizen. You would be very silly indeed to vote in for a second term the present President.

Reno Berkeley Aug 23, 2012, 6:46pm UTC

Why are you blaming Obama for TSA being at a Paul Ryan event? Has it occurred to you that maybe, perhaps Ryan himself asked for their presence?

Reno Berkeley Aug 23, 2012, 6:47pm UTC

Also, I'd like to see where the writer got his information about Obama wanting a national civilian security force. And not one from InfoWars.

Big Mama Aug 23, 2012, 7:09pm UTC

Here you go Reno. Obama's own words.

http://youtu.be/Tt2yGzHfy7s

Big Mama Aug 23, 2012, 7:14pm UTC

Here is more on the civilian army that Obama has stated that he wants more then once.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47844

Jared G. Aug 23, 2012, 8:43pm UTC

The president of the United States does not have direct control over the Transportation Security Administration, by the way. He has as much power over them as he does over your mailman.

Jared G. Aug 23, 2012, 8:45pm UTC

And since no one else has said it yet, the primary purpose of the TSA is not to annoy and fondle freedom-loving Americans, despite the insightful depictions from newspaper cartoonists.

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Mark H. Aug 23, 2012, 8:58pm UTC

I am sure they looked like the guys flying the planes into the World Trade Center towers. White and middle class, both of which are on the endangered species list.

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Rory M. Aug 24, 2012, 9:05am UTC

This is what happens when a society let's fear grip them.

America, if you want to be the land of the free you are going to have to back to being the home of the brave, as well. (No, this does not mean voting Republican. They are the purveyors of fear.)

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