Capitol Hill man beats the TSA, acquitted of charges in New Mexico ID case

These pigheaded TSA's and cops made a complete ass of themselves. Amazing when cops can't even quote laws they are supposed to uphold. Now how about a good civil liberties lawsuit. Where is the ACLU? I wonder how fast they would have been out there if he was black?

I'm retired Police IMO the TSA and the second cop were complete jackasses. I applaud Phil Mocek for being brave enough to defend his rights. He kept his cool much better that I would have.

Too bad that he is just one in a million.

TSA is running open loop making laws up as they go, subjective at best.

If every patriotic American cared about this country they would boycott flying for just two months and the problem would be sefl-correcting. Instead, we have a bunch of sissies who would surrender their rights because they don't have the integrity and will power to do what is right. It will be these same people who during time of war would run like coawrds and hide with their tail between their legs.

so that travelers can share their first hand experience against TSA individuals rather than some DC bureaucracy that at best represents the fox guarding the henhouse

There is a case of malicious prosecution. The TSA knew, or should have known, that their agents trumped up charges.

The TSA agents should be discharged immediately.

Further, the prosecutors knew, or should have known, the the charges were false.

They, too, should be removed.

Al Quaeda won.

Yes, He has the right to video tape TSA at the airport checkpoints but what about TSA officers rights.There are organizations in this country that regard the TSA as the enemy. Photographing TSA officers for what purpose? They have a right to privacy, to keep their identities from falling into Al Queda's hands. As it is, TSA officers are being assaulted,cussed at,spit on for doing their job and what is that job? Protecting the flying public, keeping them from being blown out of the sky or flown into buildings at 400 miles an hour. If you have a problem with airport security take the train ,the bus or a ship. They don't need another clown who wants to make headlines over proving himself like this druggie did.

This is one software developer I'd never, ever hire

Would Mr Phil Mocek be a member of the National Libertarian Party? As part of their agenda they want to get rid of the TSA and have goaded officers into repeated confrontations at Federal check points.

This incident and its outcome needs to be loudly and boldly presented to the public by every news media across America - - - and repeated again for the sheeple who were sleeping.

The TSA needs to be closed and most of it's employees need to be charged with public harassment and abuse of authority. Anyone who tolerates these arrogant morons deserves to be cattle-prodded. Phil Mocek MUST COUNTERSUE, and don't take any bull about Public Servant Immunity. These dirt-brains lost immunity when they claimed false authority and fabricated "law". Every traveler must have the courage and understanding of freedom of Mocek.

I truly do not understand why it is a problem to show ID as part of airport procedures....either at the airline check-in, or when going through security. It seems to me that this is a crucial part of keeping travelers safe. Certainly, terrorists would love it if everyone could travel anonymously...would make it alot easier for them to cause mass casualties. At any rate, it is impossible to be anonymous because your name is on your airline ticket. It seems like a very innocuous thing to provide ID, and to object to it is just being obstructionist, not to mention a little paranoid.

If I am missing some actual problem with presenting ID, I would be glad to hear any replies.

This is the profoundly valuable knowledge that the news media and government will not tell the dumbed-down Americans who are not taught how to ask effective questions.

Are you required to get permission and show your papers, Comrade, to travel in the US? The freedom to travel is inherent to a free society.

There are two primary sets or jurisdictions of law in the US.

Under the INFERIOR laws you are required to get a drivers license (permission/ID) to drive motor vehicles on the public roads. It is the law.

Under the SUPERIOR laws you have the RIGHT (NO PERMISSION REQUIRED) to travel (drive) by common means (motor vehicles) on the public rights of way (roads). It is the law.

By law, a "human right" is "willfully surrendered" by acquiescing to getting "permission", changing the undeniable right to a privilege deniable by the king or central authority, Comrade.

"An inferior law contradicted by a superior law holds no weight or effect as law." - US Supreme Court.

An entire, modern, well educated society was fooled by the government and its news media into believing that Jews were criminals (Nazi Germany).

It was just as easy to fool the Americans into believing they held no right to travel in the US, Comrades.

With that KNOWLEDGE, more and more individuals are lawfully driving without drivers licenses, with full knowledge of the police, and one State is debating a law to eliminate drivers licenses since they do nothing but create an expensive bureaucracy and denial of American rights.

What did American soldiers fight for in wars? What have you taught your children?

Respectfully, DougBuchanan.com

Not that decision will matter. TSA will simply ignore the decision. Courts and law do not matter anymore in this nation. After all, 9/11 changed everything.

Hurray! Our side won one. Let's hear it for the bill of rights folks. And let's insist that the damned TSA be abolished and, correspondingly, the bill of rights be restored. Without the bill of rights there is no United States of America.

Bravo, Mr. Mocek.

It bears remembering that the 9/11 terrorists were able to review the twin towers' infrastructure in great details, design their controlled demolitions, and install literally thousands of explosive charges under the nose of not only the occupiers of the buildings, but also their security services. So the most formidable terrorists will have proper IDs and special privileges and may even be allowed to bypass the TSA systems.

Love,

People need to start suing the TSA agents individually in civil court for harassment and false arrest and wrongful imprisonment. Once the agents themselves have to pay out of their own pockets this will stop.

Itching for a fight, knowing the rules and giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Nice set up Mr. Mocek. Now, file civil suits against each and every one involved. I think the 4th Amendment would apply, don't you. Take badges, take jobs and take livelihoods. Get your right to use the airport back, and do it again. Focus on this one location until they crumble. You will need more wiling to take the heat, your a known commodity.

Congrats, sir

BfD

Until you learn that lawyers and judges lie more than politicians, to protect their empire of absolute power over the law, and you therefore take the time to learn the common law, which can be done in a few hours, you can be fooled with such ruses as hiring a lawyer to "sue the government" to feed the wealth of lawyers and judges.

For most cases against the government, you want to more easily, economically and successfully "file criminal charges" against the law-violating cop, prosecutor, judge or bureaucrat who has "used power of office or color of law", "applying and inferior law above a superior law", "to effect a damage".

Fraud, evasion of a known legal duty, malfeasance, perjury to oath of office, etceteras. Lawyers cannot help you, because they are, by inferior law, required to obey the orders of the court, that is, the verbal decrees of the presiding officer of the court, regardless of the law even in open violation of the law. And lawyers inherently protect lawyers. All judges are lawyers.

You will never be told by lawyers that an otherwise lawful instrument cannot lawfully effect a crime, or that an inferior law contradicted by a superior law holds no weight or effect as law, etceteras.

You will not be told that you can file charges against each progressively involved executive and judicial branch officer who criminally evades their known legal duty to initiate due process of law upon recognition of evidence that a crime has been committed (by a fellow government thug), requiring the entire chain of authority in law, in the US, to risk the legal and social results of... read more ch a criminal evasion, to save the skin of some lowly cop, prosecutor or judge who violated a petty law to damage you (not likely, and easily made certain).

And much to the howling laughter of lawyers whose title fools unquestioning people, you will certainly not believe just some guy who holds no titles, writing reasoning like the above.

Are not the humans an amusing lot?

Respectfully, DougBuchanan.com

Fight the power.