{"id":35781,"date":"2011-05-29T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/republican-congressman-on-pc-madness-on-airport-screenings\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:45:38","slug":"republican-congressman-on-pc-madness-on-airport-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/republican-congressman-on-pc-madness-on-airport-screenings.php","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congressman on PC Madness on Airport Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-VYVCRlHYcI4\/Td1bJxmg9GI\/AAAAAAAATL0\/ZvSn01ImSww\/s1600\/paulbroun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a9b89_paulbroun.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Bass Ackwards - Old Granny, and little Girl patted down; Muslim man goes free<\/strong> <\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/transportation-report\/tsa\/163197-gop-lawmaker-i-saw-tsa-pat-down-little-old-lady-child-but-not-arab-man\">The Hill<\/a>: <\/p><blockquote><p>The Transportation Security Administration is too worried about &ldquo;political correctness,&rdquo; according to a Republican lawmaker. <\/p><p>Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said TSA is too politically correct when it chooses which passengers to search at airport security checkpoints. <\/p><p>During a recent trip, Broun said he saw TSA pat down an elderly person and a child, but not a man he himself deemed suspicious. <\/p><p>&ldquo;I walked through &hellip; right behind me there was a grandmother &mdash; little old lady, and she was was patted down,&rdquo; Broun said on C-SPAN&rsquo;s &ldquo;Washington Journal.&rdquo; <\/p><p>&ldquo;Right behind her was a little kid who was patted down. And then right behind him was a guy in Arabian dress who just walked right through. Why are we patting down grandma and kids?&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>H\/t Weasel Z...<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a9b89_7828681836623105417-3510316482811783225?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass Ackwards - Old Granny, and little Girl patted down; Muslim man goes free From The Hill: The Transportation Security Administration is too worried about &ldquo;political correctness,&rdquo; according to a Republican lawmaker. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), a member of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/republican-congressman-on-pc-madness-on-airport-screenings.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}