The
following was written in April 2014, as part of a response to the
Campaign for Liberty's 2012 survey questionnaire for candidates
running for federal office.
9.
Will you support legislation to shut down the Transportation Security
Administration and place airport security back into private hands?
Yes,
I will support legislation to shut down the Transportation Security
Administration, and support legislation to transition the T.S.A.'s
administration to non-public hands, including private hands.
I
will urge commercial airports to apply to the T.S.A.'s Screening
Partnership Program in order to transition to private screening while
maintaining T.S.A. oversight. Also, I will sponsor constitutional
amendments to strengthen the 4th Amendment,
and legislation to prohibit any and all activities of the T.S.A. and
its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (V.I.P.R.) teams which
violate the civil liberties enumerated therein. I will also oppose
efforts to expand the jurisdiction of the T.S.A. to additional and
new forms of transportation.
I
will additionally support legislation to transition the
responsibility to collect funds and to provide for the administration
of transportation security at the state and local levels of
government, as well as to private hands. Local and market-based
alternatives should be free to compete against the federal government
to provide better transportation security services – and policy
thereof - leaving consumers and taxpayers more free to convey their
preferences about local airports' security measures.
It
is for this reason that I will support legislation to introduce even
more alternatives
to private and local authority, including egalitarian enterprises and
non-governmental and quasi-governmental entities. I will sponsor
amendments to T.S.A. legislation providing for the options of
transitioning of the administration of transportation security to a
wider set of alternatives than simply public governmental departments
and bureaus, private enterprises, or public-private partnerships;
namely, worker-consumer-cooperatives, social purpose enterprises, and
non-ministerial quasi-governmental departments.
For
more entries on homeland security and terrorism, please
visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/911-heres-what-i-think-happened.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/911-heres-what-i-think-happened.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/identification-and-travel-documents.html
For
more entries on transportation, transit, travel, and the automobile
industry, please visit:
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