A lawsuit filed Thursday against the Transportation Security Administration alleges a Ron Paul supporter was unreasonably detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying about $4,700 in cash...The recording is here.
Bierfeldt said he refused to answer when a TSA official asked what was in the box. Another TSA official arrived, and Bierfeldt was taken into a separate room where he used an iPhone in his jacket pocket to record the officials' questioning.
An audio clip provided by the ACLU includes repeated questions from a TSA official about why Bierfeldt was carrying so much money, and his repeated refusal to answer. On one occasion, the questioner swears and asks, "Is there any reason you're not answering questions?"
Bierfeldt answers, "Am I legally required to answer the question?"
Monday, July 6, 2009
Ronulan sues the TSA
I hope he wins.
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They could always charge him with transporting toxic materials.
That is hilarious Rob.
What does this guy expect. He is traveling in an airport! Hasn't he heard of 9/11?
Now you must know that from this point forward, the first thing the TSA monkeys will do is to take any and all of your electronic gear and shove it into a muffled box *before* they start threatening you.
In an ideal world, the fools would issue an internal memo to that effect.
He may have been traveling in a post 9/11 world, but TSA's role doesn't include questioning where someone's cash came from. It's really none of their business.
They probably assumed it was drug money.
Unfortunately, using their own dubious standards, $4,700 seems to work out to the street value of a gram of pot. ;-p
Hahahahaha! I hope he wins. 47 hundred is nothing. Further proof, if any was needed, that the entire TSA employment roll consists of a failed orangutan breeding experiment.
Why is it that anyone with more than a couple of thousand dollars these days is accused of handling drug money? Or at best, just "money laundering". Police state, run amok.
The real issue is this is not what the TSA is supposed to be doing. The TSA's goal is to keep airline passengers safe. There was no conceivable threat from 47 $100 bills.
More liberties being restricted in the name of the war on drugs. Sadly, the "if you have nothing to hide you'll tell us everything" is rapidly becoming an accepted method of questioning.
There was no conceivable threat from 47 $100 bills.
Perhaps it was actually 470,000 pennies. Dirty Pennies. ;-)
... or maybe 2350 $2 bills. Now *that* is suspicious. heh.
Toad just reminded me...Steve Wozniak used to carry around sheets of $2 bills (you can buy them from the Fed directly) and would pay someone by cutting off the needed amount. Oh man, carrying a sheet of bills would get him body cavity searched. Heck, carrying a sheet of $100s would get him summarily executed.
Maybe I misread the article, but it says that he would not open a container that in fact held $4,700. Telling airport security that you will not open a container is stupid. What are they supposed to think? And then to refuse to act like an adult by saying that he didn't need to comply with their questioning.
This guy sounds like a fruit loop. Whatever TSA's problems this guy was trying to make a stink.
"Maybe I misread the article, but it says that he would not open a container that in fact held $4,700. Telling airport security that you will not open a container is stupid."
Uh, you read it wrong.
They probably assumed it was drug money.
Their speculation doesn't grant them the power to appoint themselves as DEA agents.
The guy's right, and TSA is wrong. Let's hope this suit puts a dent in their power-grabbing.
There was no conceivable threat from 47 $100 bills.
Why, with 47 hundred dollar bills, he could have hired a bunch of his fellow passengers as henchmen and seized the airplane! Haven't you seen the state of the economy? Money is dangerous, that's why the government is trying to take it all away from us!
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