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By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:02 EST
If Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was acting “irate” during a recent visit to Nashville International Airport, it certainly hid it very well.
After being briefly detained by police officers on Monday, Paul appears to be getting some vindication in the form of a security camera’s video. Although police described him as “being irate” in an incident report, footage published Thursday shows Paul sitting calmly inside an airport checkpoint, and occasionally picking up his phone.
Paul reportedly set off an alarm on an x-ray machine designed to peer under fliers’ clothing, then refused the more aggressive search. He was briefly detained by local police before being released and re-booking his flight.
Paul has been a longtime critic of the TSA’s invasive search procedures. He told a Senate committee in June, 2011 that the TSA has “gone overboard” with “invasive searches on 6-year-old girls.”
At the time, a TSA spokesman told Raw Story that Paul was not detained, but merely “denied access to the secure gate area.” Paul returned a short time later and flew back to Washington, D.C. without incident. He’s since called for an investigation.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/26/security-video-shows-police-lied-about-rand-pauls-behavior/
This video is from Nashville International Airport, embedded courtesy of The Tennessean.
"In all Honesty, I really thought that, this whole thing was just a Ploy to make the Paul family look like ordinary citizens, I knew something wasn't correct!!!!"By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:02 EST
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Section 6: Clause 1 of US Constitution: The Senators and Representatives... They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, beprivileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wakdIFN7e3ESection 6: Clause 1 of US Constitution: The Senators and Representatives... They shall... more
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He wouldn't allow some Travel Suppression Agent to pat him down to make sure he wasn't with Al Qaeda.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was detained Monday by the Transportation Security Administration in Nashville, Tenn., after refusing a full body pat-down, POLITICO has confirmed.
“I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely,” Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley said. “The image scan went off; he refused patdown.”
“My son @SenRandPaul being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville. More details coming,” wrote the authenticated Twitter account of presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Like his father, Rand Paul has libertarian leanings and has been a fierce critic of TSA’s pat-downs of passengers at airports, which he views as government overreach. The senator grilled TSA Administrator John Pistole last year after a 6-year-old girl from Paul’s hometown, was patted down by airport security.
“I guess this little girl would be part of the random pat-downs, this little girl from Bowling Green, Kentucky, one of my constituents,” Paul said, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “They’re still quite unhappy with you guys as well as myself and a lot of other Americans who think you’ve gone overboard, you’re missing the boat on terrorism because you’re doing these invasive searches on six-year-old girls.”He wouldn't allow some Travel Suppression Agent to pat him down to make sure he... more
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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul announced Wednesday that he would filibuster any attempt by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring the Protect IP Act (PIPA) to a vote.
PIPA, the Senate version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is being sponsored by Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and pushed by Reid as a “job creator.”
The bills would ostensibly crack down on online copyright infringement, but critics contend that the legislation would also challenge free speech and the ability of large websites to function.
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, the sponsor of SOPA, announced Tuesday that the bill would continue to undergo markup in the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, in February.
http://runrandrun.com/legislation/rand-paul-promises-to-filibuster-censor-the-internet-legislation/Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul announced Wednesday that he would filibuster any... more
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By Dan Nguyen, ProPublica
In the next few weeks, among the most talked-about legislation will be the Stop Online Piracy Act — commonly referred to as SOPA — which, if passed, would give the Justice Department the authority to block access to foreign websites deemed to be dedicated to copyright infringement.
Both SOPA and its Senate version, PIPA (officially known as the PROTECT-IP Act), have widespread bipartisan support among lawmakers. But the proposed law has become a pitched battle between entertainment companies — who believe SOPA will curb the illegal distribution of movies and music — and online media companies like Google and Facebook, who fear that the bills will be burdensome to implement and are tantamount to censorship.
Though the controversy involves companies that trade in information, it's been surprisingly difficult to find out basic facts — like where each member of congress stands and what financial backing they've received from interests who have the most to gain or lose.
Over the holidays, I made a news app — SOPA Opera — as an online resource to collect the facts about which member of congress support SOPA, and to shine a light on the debate and process behind a bill that may have major ramifications on how the government regulates communication and commerce online. Today SOPA Opera is moving to ProPublica, where we'll continue to update it.
SOPA Opera's tally of congressional supporters and opponents is based on factors including whether they've sponsored the legislation, whether they've voted for it in committee and their public statements about it. For each legislator, we're tracking what they've said or done so far about SOPA. We're also tracking campaign contributions to each legislator from the entertainment and Internet industries (using data from the Center for Responsive Politics).
Check out SOPA Opera.
Data Sources
Our SOPA Opera uses a combination of legislative data and research to fill out the biographical information and position of each member of Congress. The websites and APIs we consult include:
OpenSecrets / Center for Responsive Politics – Their extensive campaign finance database contains categorized spending from Federal Election Commission reports.
OpenCongress – An invaluable site that takes the archaic data from the U.S. legislative site and formats it for modern web consumption.
New York Times Congress API – an extensive API that contains the boilerplate biographical information and historical legislative data.
GovTrack.us – Another comprehensive resource about the legislative record.
Library of Congress THOMAS – The official clearinghouse for legislative information.
Metholodology
How are the positions of the members of Congress determined?
A supporter:
Co-sponsored the bill (or one of its precursors).
Voted to move the bill (or one of its precursors) forward in committee.
Has defended the law in public.
An opponent:
Supports amendments or competing legislation that would undermine the bill.
Withdraws sponsorship of the bill.
Speaks out against the bill (e.g., Sen. Rand Paul's dontcensortheinternet.com).
The majority of members of Congress are listed as having an unknown position and this may be the case up until they cast a vote.
Campaign Finance Information
Using the API and data from OpenSecrets and the Center for Responsive Politics, we included the reported campaign contributions (as categorized by OpenSecrets) from the "Movies/Music/TV" and "Computers/Internet" industries for the 2008 to 2010 election cycles. 2012 is not yet available through the OpenSecrets API yet. The totals here may differ compared to other SOPA-tracking sites because of the different timespans involved.
While many other groups, including labor unions and pharmaceutical companies, are also joining the SOPA/PIPA debate. We focus on the entertainment and computing industries because they have so much at stake financially and therefore have the biggest incentive to use money to influence politicians.
By Dan Nguyen, ProPublica
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