Tyranny is thriving in my own State. Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul was harassed and detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport.
In response, some of us were able to assemble and protest at the Nashville Airport. Unfortunately, within 30 seconds of our impromptu protest inside the airport we were surrounded by some not so friendly cops. We were informed that we could not "protest" inside the airport and that we had to put our signs down. We were told we could apply for a permit to protest or be arrested for trespassing. While en route to ask "permission" to exercise our 1st Amendment, one of my friends saw some local reporters and raised her sign for their cameras. Our field trip to obtain a permission slip to speak was then cut short by the cops and we were forced to leave (but not arrested). Local Media got a quick interview with us before we left (@46 seconds)
Rand Paul on being detained:
"“It was a big headache,” Paul said in a phone interview. “I missed my speech here. I was supposed to speak to the Right to Life March, probably the biggest audience I’ll get to speak to, and I missed it.”"
"The White House, through spokesman Jay Carney, defended the TSA’s actions during Monday’s press briefing by arguing that Paul wasn’t technically “detained.”
“Let’s be clear,” Carney said. “The passenger was not detained. He was escorted out of the area by local law-enforcement.”"
"But Sen. Paul told TheDC that he certainly felt like he was detained. “If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?” Paul asked.
“I tried to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!’ So, that, to me sounds like I’m being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little bit like I’m being detained.”"
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