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TSA Invades Chicago’s Union Station

July 10, 2012 By
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Although this video is a little breathless and melodramatic for my particular tastes, thank goodness that we have people like this gentleman who are out there making these recordings and sharing them online.

This is clear evidence that earlier this month the TSA set up shop in Chicago’s Union Station (a train station). What happened next, we don’t seem to know. I couldn’t find any other reports on this, either from mainstream or independent media.

“If you don’t like it, then don’t fly,” they say. Well, add riding a train to the list. Pretty soon, the masquerading TSA agents will have nothing left to say but, “if you don’t like it, too bad!” They’re reducing our choices little by little.

And that’s what this is all about: choice. Choice is what the TSA is reducing and choice is what we are fighting for. We want a freed marketplace in traveler security solutions where airlines, airports, travelers and security industry providers can work together to devise a diverse world of solutions that the end consumer can choose from. Eventually, if the government and the corporations don’t get in the way, the marketplace may be able to accommodate all reasonable needs for privacy and dignity.

Source: @jnreports

Thanks to Adrian S. for posting this to our Facebook page.

Filed Under: Coverage Tagged With: amtrak, chicago, union station, video
  • http://www.facebook.com/goldberg.a Adam Goldberg

    What do they think might happen? Hijack a train?

    • http://georgedonnelly.com/ George Donnelly

      Maybe they watched “Source Code” once too many.

  • Umpa Lord

    It doesn’t matter what form of transportation we as citizens chose to take, Amend. 4 “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
    and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
    violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
    supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
    to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

  • Bob
  • Contessa36

    Why not involve the senators from our states. If they don’t respond, they just might get voted out next term….they have a better pipeline (supposedly) then average Mr and Mrs. Citizen of the U.SA.

  • tBone

    uhhh, i watched the Part 2 of this story —-> http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82700859/ …and um, i have news for this guy. it IS illegal to film law enforcement. i don’t know who was bustin his balls in Part 2 and i remain unclear as whether or not TSA falls under “law enforcement” but, just sayinnnnn

    • tigersfan61

      It is not illegal to film law enforcement…might make them mad, but not illegal…also TSA is not law enforcement agency…

      • http://moderate.posterous.com/pages/disqus Monday Never Comes / J Dunphy

        Actually, tigersfan61, it is illegal to film law enforcement in the state of Illinois. The law is as unconstitutional and as sleazy as Hell, and everybody knows it, but the courts haven’t gotten around to striking it down.

        One gets to see the dark side of union driven politics in this. A fair number of Chicago cops will, as has been noted before, swagger like B movie villains, telling the latest citizen that they’ve harassed that they are above the law, and that the other cops will perjure themselves on behalf of any cop who is the subject of a complaint, or otherwise cover for them. There are … I won’t say good, but certainly well thought out reasons why the CPD doesn’t want to be filmed. Perjury doesn’t do one much good if that pesky film evidence is floating around. Not a problem, though, because the cops have a union. The union does a little schmoozing down in Springfield, and before you know it, the cops can get back to abusing the citizenry without fear of exposure.

        Nothing excessively breathless about the video, at all. Law enforcement, in Chicago, is even more corrupt, far more corrupt, than those in the outside world seem to imagine it to be. It has been out of control for years – look up the name Burges – and anybody who shares with the maker of the video the misfortune of being stuck in this miserable hellhole of a city knows exactly why the maker of the video was in the mood he was.

    • http://georgedonnelly.com/ George Donnelly

      Do you have a source for this ludicrous claim that it is illegal to film LEOs?!

      • http://moderate.posterous.com/pages/disqus Monday Never Comes / J Dunphy

        Will this do? I was able to find it fairly easily using a Google search under “illinois “law enforcement” filming illegal” – check it out. If you don’t like that source, there would seem to be 5.49 million others to choose from.

        See comment above. Illinois is not a good place to live or even visit.

      • http://moderate.posterous.com/pages/disqus Monday Never Comes / J Dunphy

        Mr. Donnelly – as a visitor to your blog, may I put in a request? Please use a different comment system. Disqus is a mess, as anybody who has tried to use the RSS from his comment feed or use the “services” tab when setting up his profile knows, and their customer service is an unprofessional joke.

        Your blog and your call, but I will say that being forced to go through Disqus in order to post a comment made getting involved in the discussion, at all, a much less appealing prospect, and that is how the logins work, at this point. I tried signing in through Twitter, a company whose services I am happy to use, and was directed back to Disqus. Had you been talking about almost any subject other than this one, I would have been deterred from getting involved in the discussion, at all.

        I can just about guarantee that you’re losing a lot of participation, this way. I don’t know if that matters to you. Maybe you feel that you’re getting all of the participation you want, already, but I just thought I’d bring it up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Hill/100000700969860 Deborah Hill

    Dept of Homeland security goon squads coming to a train station near you.. They are part of the fusion center. Frog, meet pot of cold water. This is part of a desensitization drill. Gradually the heat will get turned up. Is it starting to get a little hot for you yet? Wait awhile and you’ll just “go to sleep..” Of course then it is too late.. Eventually they will be at checkpoints, roadblocks and on city streets and sidewalks. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and this will only be a steady march to complete autocracy..fascism/ dictatorship.. Where the rich get a free pass and all others are shaken down and strip searched or hauled off on a whim in the dead of night. This has been played out countless times over the past century and the USA is now the target..not by external terrorist threat but by corporate dictatorship. Say hello to your KGB/ Stasi trained fascist police state. Alas Babylon..

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