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‘You don’t have to consent’: DEA agent seizes traveler’s bag

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by flgator2, Nov 22, 2024 at 2:18 PM.

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    Below is a notable part of the Fox News story you posted. Be interesting to see any further details regarding that aspect of the investigation.

    DEA agents failed to properly document searches, may have illegally targeted minorities and, in at least one case, paid an airline employee tens of thousands of dollars over several years to suggest targets for searches, according to the report released Thursday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
     
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    Lol... was it too shiny?
     
  6. rivergator

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    Let me get this straight. Not only has the DEA been ordered to stop random searches like this, but this exact incident was one of the examples used to show why the practice needed to be stopped.
    But you posted to criticize the traveler, call him an idiot and how he must be a liberal?

    This didn't really work out then, did it?
     
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    It worked out great for me not and my point was he was a liberal idiot which he was and still is
     
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    IDK, ask the Outrage Angler.
     
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    I find it odd that you can you enter the airport check in line, surrender your 4th Amendment right, get off a plane, get into a car, and if the police stop you, suddenly the 4th Amendment spring back into effect.

    TSA — no bottle of liquid for you
    Police — have all the liquid propellent you want.
     
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    I'm so outraged that I'm going to vote for an adjudicated sexual assaulting felon.

    OUTRAGED, I tell ya!
     
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  11. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    come on. not every thread. geez
     
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    Sorry. But that's how outraged I am. Very.

    Also, it's not inaccurate.


    Edit : Also, are we in the stage where talking about the obvious crimes of our POTUS-elect is as similarly verboten as mentioning comments from, say, his very own Cabinet appointees, in which they refer to him or his words as similar to those of The Unspeakable Germanic N-word People?

    We're now the tip of the spear in ignoring the actual facts of, or whitewashing, history?
     
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    I expect this outrage to carry over when the Feds are asking anyone with a hint of melanin where their papers are.
     
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    Stop and frisk 2.0