Maryland Police Stop Travelers Search For Legal Weapons

Photo by: Bob Child
Police have been on the lookout for those bearing arms along the busy Interstate 95 corridor between Florida and Maine. Especially zealous police officers have stopped several motorists in Maryland. (Associated Press)

Notice that Maryland police did not stop and check the NYPD assassin who shot his girlfriend in Owings Mills, outside of Baltimore before traveling with pistol to NYC and killing two policemen.

[From article]
A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to raid it while his twins, wife and daughter looked on — separated in the back seats of different police cruisers.
The officers were searching for Mr. Filippidis‘ Florida-licensed, palm-size Kel-Tec .38 semi-automatic handgun, which he left at home locked in his safe. (Maryland does not recognize handgun permits issued by other states.)
[. . .]
The incident gained national attention. Mr. Filippidis went on multiple radio programs and described in detail how scared and outraged he and his family were. He wondered: How did the police know he was licensed for concealed carry, and what right did they have to search through his personal items on the side of the busy interstate filled with holiday travelers on that 10-degree day?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/30/gun-owners-fear-maryland-cops-target-them-for-traf/

Gun owners fear Maryland cops target them for traffic stops
Stories pile up but police say searches are legal
By Kelly Riddell
The Washington Times
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Eight Pols Own Stock in Airport Body Scanner Co.

[From article]
"A New World Order cannot coexist with our national sovereignty and a constitution protective of its citizens. Therefore, the power elite must deconstruct our rights and safeguards from within, and are readily doing so under the pretext of our own security. Once the majority of the sleeping population is properly conditioned, the violations of our rights will become incrementally more egregious until the perversions detailed by George Orwell’s 1984 are nothing more than a distant vision in our collective rear view mirrors.
[. . .]
The subtle deception by omission or deliberate evasion is likely to be the proverbial final nail in the coffin of our great republic.
[. . .]
Perhaps the most apparent of all totalitarian undertakings are those of the Transportation and Security Administration presently under the leadership of John Pistole, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the reign of Janet Napolitano.

We need to look no further than the TSA for illustrations of just how out of control the abuse of power is today. Unsurprisingly, the liberal watchdogs that have historically fought against such abuses are silent, while the conservative right permits the advances of such powers without objection as well.
[. . .]
We should be able to rely on those we’ve elected to protect our rights, yet the same people who have taken an oath to uphold the constitution are permitting and in many cases, facilitating its demise.
[. . .]
The Chertoff Group worked with RapiScan, which is one of only two companies that manufacture these devices who are TSA vendors. The other company, L-3 Communications, has as its lobbyist, Linda Daschle, who is the wife of former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. It should be looked upon as no coincidence that at least eight members of congress own stock in L-3 Communications. Included among those eight is Senator John Kerry, who owns upwards of a million dollars in L-3 stock.
[. . .]
In our opinion, the TSA has been openly running a criminal organization since its existence. The fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects American citizens from unreasonable searches. Unfortunately, this law is apparently not followed anymore, and our rights under the fourth amendment are not being protected. The TSA’s response is quite simplistic. According to TSA Head, John Pistole, if passengers refuse screening by scanners or pat downs, they do not have the right to fly.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36388

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Totalitarianism
Sex, Lies & the TSA
Doug Hagmann & Joseph Hagmann
Canada Free Press
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Major TSA Airport Abuses

Seldom reported regarding the abuses of the TSA at airport security lines is the personal nature abusing their power. If you look at them or make any critical comment they take you out of line and subject you to abuses. It is all personal with them and has nothing to do with preventing terror attacks. They are no different than local police and the FBI who abuse their power for personal and political reasons. Whoever created this new government agency of abuse has no respect for freedom and is a cowardly promoter of loss of freedom in the name of security. Big Sis needs to be repealed pronto.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/mother-kept-in-glass-cage-for-almost-an-hour-by-tsa-for-resisting-over-breast-milk.html

Mother Kept In “Glass Cage” For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting Over Breast Milk
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
November 30, 2010

Negligent Public Officials

Negligent Public Officials

[This letter was published in the Boston Herald on August 30, 2007]

It is curious that 34 years after the Rehabilitation Act and 17 years after
the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, a state agency forces a city
government to comply with basic access to the right to travel. (Marie Szaniszlo,
"Disabled rip Hub’s $320G sidewalk," Boston Herald, August 26, 2007) The many
years of the violations of that right for thousands of Boston citizens and
visitors remain unaddressed.
The City's liberal leaders focus on providing goods and services to illegal
aliens while American citizens with disabilities cannot use the sidewalks. Again
taxpayers pay for the negligence, wrongdoing and malfeasance of public
officials. Is this a hypocrisy or a democracy? The hackarama is the "Spending
Other People's Money Society."

--
Roy Bercaw, Editor, ENOUGH ROOM

Disabled rip Hub’s $320G sidewalk
By Marie Szaniszlo
Boston Herald
Sunday, August 26, 2007 - Updated: 01:28 AM EST

Meet the most expensive patch of sidewalk in Boston: $320,000 and counting.
The state Department of Public Safety’s Architectural Access Board has
fined the Hub $500 a day since Nov. 30, 2005, for an uneven, sloping stretch of
brick on Huntington Avenue, part of what advocates for the disabled denounce as
a pattern of violations in the city that puts them at risk.
“The irony is if the city had just made sure the sidewalk was repaired
the right way in the beginning, it would have cost taxpayers a fraction of that
amount and people like me who use wheelchairs wouldn’t have to risk getting
hit by a car by riding in the street,” said John Kelly of the Neighborhood
Access Group, which filed the complaint with the board.
Advocates note that under state law, the horizontal slope of a sidewalk
cannot be more than 2 percent; in some spots, the slope of the 4-year-old
Huntington Avenue sidewalk is 4.5 percent. That can send wheelchairs tipping
over or sliding toward the street.
“The continued dangerousness of this bumpy all-brick sidewalk has these
past four years been torturing the hundreds of elderly and disabled people
living next door at Symphony Plaza,” the Boston Center for Independent Living,
the Disability Policy Consortium and the Neighborhood Access group wrote in a
July 26 letter to Public Works and Transportation chief Dennis Royer.
Royer did not respond to the letter until Aug. 17, when the Herald
contacted Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s office, which released a statement in which
Royer said he planned to meet with the three groups.
“I take all complaints about the quality of access in and around our city
for mobility-impaired residents and visitors very seriously,” Menino said in a
statement Friday. “I’ve told the Department of Public Works to make these
complaints a top priority and to find short and long-term solutions to make our
city’s streets and sidewalks safe and accessible for everyone.”
So far this year, the Architectural Access Board has received 106
complaints about other Boston sidewalks and curb cuts that allegedly violate
state access code, according to the board’s director, Thomas Hopkins. None has
yet resulted in a fine.
Advocates note there has been progress in disability access in the Hub.
After a 2006 legal settlement, the MBTA undertook major improvements in
equipment, facilities and services, including the installation of new elevators
and bus ramps. Gary Talbot, assistant to the general manager for system-wide
accessibility, and General Manager Dan Grabauskas have earned high praise from
advocates.
But off the T, critics say, many of the most important civic buildings and
institutions in “America’s Walking City” remain off-limits to the disabled
because of inaccessible travel paths.
The state Attorney General’s Office has not sought to enforce the fines
for the Huntington Avenue sidewalk, a spokeswoman said, because the city is
expected to dispute them at an Aug. 30 hearing in Suffolk Superior Court.
The city is expected to claim that although it owns most of the sidewalk,
the MBTA and Massachusetts Highway Department oversaw its construction.
The state access board also has slapped the city with a $5,000 fine for
failing to maintain an accessible route on Huntington Avenue during
construction.
On Thursday, all three agencies said they would work together to make the
sidewalk accessible but would not say when.
“If we can’t even use a sidewalk, that’s a basic right,” said Karen
Schneiderman of the Boston Center for Independent Living, “and we pay taxes.”