A Pat-Down For Paul
I get the whole meme that the TSA has to treat everyone equally, that there can’t be any profiling or exceptions. But really, Rand Paul as a terrorist threat? Really?
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was detained by airport security officials on Monday, according to his communications director Moira Bagley, who posted about the incident on Twitter.
“Just got a call from @senrandpaul. He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville,” Bagley wrote. She did not immediately respond to an email for further information.
Paul’s father, GOP presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, also confirmed the report on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The elder Paul’s Facebook post had racked up 2,000 comments in the first 30 minutes.
The senior Paul wrote that his son was “being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville.”
It’s this type of nitwit screening that does more to prove the TSA is concerned with security-theater than with actual security. Surely the TSA knows the only threat Rand Paul holds is to, well, the TSA. Which likely goes a long way in explaining his detention, scan anomaly or not.
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