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Jesse Ventura Sues TSA in Pat-Down Smackdown!

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posted on Feb, 6 2011 @ 01:49 PM
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I'm willing to bet he probably has a good case. His main arguments will probably be that: 1. The searches substantially interfere with the Right to Travel and 2. TSA agents probably didn't have any reasonable suspicion that he was carrying a weapon for a Terry Stop. Not that their searches usually stop at the Terry Stop patdown, anyway...



posted on Feb, 7 2011 @ 10:13 AM
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posted on Apr, 5 2011 @ 06:47 AM
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LOL I'm watching CNN repeat of Piers Morgan interviewing Jesse Ventura. Piers is making him look like a muppet.

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posted on Nov, 8 2011 @ 11:45 PM
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Why JV may get his day in court . There are now certain Congressmen and aids that are exempt from TSA . This may be all he needs to win. Cost benefit -

Not going to do any editorializing here; just going to do some non-fancy math.

"There have been precisely three attempts over the last eight years to commit acts of terrorism aboard commercial aircraft. All of them clownishly inept and easily thwarted by the passengers. How many tens of thousands of flights have been incident free?
Let's expand Joyner's scope out to the past decade. Over the past decade, there have been, by my count, six attempted terrorist incidents on board a commercial airliner than landed in or departed from the United States: the four planes that were hijacked on 9/11, the shoe bomber incident in December 2001, and the NWA flight 253 incident on Christmas.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics provides a wealth of statistical information on air traffic. For this exercise, I will look at both domestic flights within the US, and international flights whose origin or destination was within the United States. I will not look at flights that transported cargo and crew only. I will look at flights spanning the decade from October 1999 through September 2009 inclusive (the BTS does not yet have data available for the past couple of months).

Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.

These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune.

Assuming an average airborne speed of 425 miles per hour, these airplanes were aloft for a total of 163,331,261 hours. Therefore, there has been one terrorist incident per 27,221,877 hours airborne. This can also be expressed as one incident per 1,134,245 days airborne, or one incident per 3,105 years airborne.

There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists themselves, on the flights on which these incidents occurred. By contrast, there have been 7,015,630,000 passenger enplanements over the past decade. Therefore, the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning."
Again, no editorializing (for now). These are just the numbers.

Source
www.fivethirtyeight.com...




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