TSA to Pre-Screen Air Travelers’ Tax Info, Property Records, Travel History

As the New American article says, "Congress created this monster, and it has the means to kill it." So lets get on with it Congress!

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Bruce

'Owe money to the IRS? Having trouble making your mortgage payments? Ever been sued or been arrested?

Soon, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will know the answers to these questions before you pass through security, and they might affect whether you are cleared for travel.
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Constitutionalists will readily recognize the “PreCheck” program for what it is: a means whereby the federal government not only violates the civil liberties protected by the Fourth Amendment, but that converts a right into a privilege, one revocable at the will of an unelected, unaccountable, unconstitutional agency of the federal behemoth.
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There is a fundamental problem with this explanation, however. Nothing in the Federal Register, no regulation promulgated under the color of law by the enormous federal bureaucracy, can have any legal effect if it violates the supreme law of the land — the Constitution.

The same holds true, in fact, for acts of Congress and orders issued by the president. Not one of them has any legal efficacy if it is contrary to the few and defined powers granted to the federal government in the Constitution.
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The solution lies with Congress. Congress created this monster, and it has the means to kill it. Although there have been a couple of attempts to curtail the creature, they have been thwarted by bipartisan support for perpetuating TSA’s authority as a means of “protecting the homeland.”

National security is a curtain behind which a cabal of wizards is making our civil liberties disappear.
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Americans who are tired of the pat-downs, the unconscionable treatment of the young, old, infirm, and disabled at the hands of TSA agents, and the revelation that now any and all personal information will be collected and passed around must contact their representatives and demand that a stop be put to this abuse and that the TSA monster be put down.'