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ACLU, Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sue TSA over ‘illegal’ detention

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The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers.Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by the TSA. Steve Bierfeldt, the man at the center of the controversy, recorded his confrontation with the airport security agents on his phone. The audio caused waves of indignation across the Internet, as he was seemingly harassed merely for carrying cash and Ron Paul campaign material.

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Comment by Lucky Red
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Perhaps the ACLU should also take issue with the mind-numbing rhetoric being spewed over the loud speakers at that goddam George HW Bush Airport in Houston, TX threatening people with immediate arrest if they make derrogatory remarks or jokes about Homeland Securities heroes.  Really, like I can't possibly think of anyone that would do such a thing much less why...



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