{"id":36804,"date":"2011-07-02T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/texas-legislature-passes-anti-groping-measure-for-airport-screeners\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:13:00","slug":"texas-legislature-passes-anti-groping-measure-for-airport-screeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/texas-legislature-passes-anti-groping-measure-for-airport-screeners.php","title":{"rendered":"Texas Legislature passes anti-groping measure for Airport screeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SaH0QVJ3xgM\/Tg9FbONzBcI\/AAAAAAAAT0U\/_VAqoxgPSLU\/s1600\/joestraustexas.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\/4a48c_joestraustexas.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Religious Right and libertarians converge on Privacy<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero: <\/p><p>Dave Nalle, National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rlc.org\">RLC.org<\/a>) and a Texas resident has been pushing legislation these last few weeks, to halt intrusive searches by the TSA at Texas airports.  His efforts have proved successful.  <\/p><p>The proposed legislation, backed by mostly hardline religious conservatives, \"would still make it a misdemeanor punishable with up to a year in jail to touch a person's sexual organs and other sensitive areas.\"<\/p><p>The House passed a measure, and soon after, a somewhat softer version was passed through the Senate.  It now awaits Governor Perry's signature.  He has already indicated he's strongly in favor of such legislation.  <\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vrjvS8iVcAU\/Tg9LO2svSkI\/AAAAAAAAT0k\/b8JmXFJ9wBY\/s1600\/tsa-officer.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\/4a48c_tsa-officer.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jPQmvhZi3VqVdunYlJG39EG7uJ2w?docId=d38f8eb58dc1452baf9f0956482e535c\">AP<\/a> reports on \"Airport groping Bill\":<\/p><blockquote><p>Although dismissed last week as a \"publicity stunt\" by Republican House Speaker Joe Straus, the issue has become a top priority for the libertarian wing of the Texas GOP.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Ironically, the prime mover of the legislation in the Senate was fiery religious rightist Sen. Dan Patrick of north Houston.  Adding further irony, Joe Straus (photo), long-held in great suspicion by the social conservatives, was the prime mover of the legislation on the House side.  <\/p><p>Note - Of course, the Pro-Defense libertarian position is Anti-Groping\/Pro-Profiling of airline travelers from Islamic countries and other suspicious travelers.<\/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\/4a48c_7828681836623105417-8329654062103395189?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Right and libertarians converge on PrivacyFrom Eric Dondero: Dave Nalle, National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC.org) and a Texas resident has been pushing legislation these last few weeks, to halt intrusive searches by the TSA at Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/texas-legislature-passes-anti-groping-measure-for-airport-screeners.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-36804","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\/36804"}],"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=36804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}