On the long list of prohibited items by TSA before boarding a flight they seemed to have left one off. My friend and former campaign manager, Steve Bierfeldt, was recently detained by TSA at St. Louis airport when returning from a Campaign for Liberty event. What was he carrying? Cold hard cash.
Fortunately, in our age of technology we have the capability to record our govt and that is precisely what Steve did with his cell phone. Take a listen:









Thanks for sharing this Amit…and I am glad our mutual friend Steve made his plane on time!
More importantly, I am glad he had his recorder. This was a clear over-step by the police. If they don’t know the law, they have no business enforcing it.
This ought to go to Drudge.
Personally, I’m just waiting for an invasion of privacy suit by the TSA folks . . .
John Stossel, getting all excited about this? Are you kidding? That @ssclown made a career out of calling for more surveillance in the name of the “war on drugs.”
In any event, much credit to Steve. He did good, here.
the full recordings:
Secret recording of TSA threatening passenger Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0
Secret recording of TSA threatening passenger Part 2 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWSmyG4XPU
Secret recording of TSA threatening passenger Part 3 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWz0gi2thEM
These guys are street thugs with limited authority. They are representatives of the government and to me, CLEARLY violated this man’s 4th amendment rights against illegal seizure.
Recording this was pure brilliant.
This is really bad, if you hadn’t posted it, I would have.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/20/tsa.lawsuit/index.html