{"id":102865,"date":"2011-06-21T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=102865"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:19:07","slug":"perry-adds-pat-down-ban-to-special-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=102865","title":{"rendered":"Activists Praise Addition of Pat-Down Ban to Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=102866\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/06\/david-simpson3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"david simpson3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-102866\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u2014 Texas tea party activists are praising Governor Rick Perry&#8217;s addition of a pat-down bill to the special legislative session agenda. For Wesley Strackbein, the founder of the web site tsatyranny.com, the issue isn&#8217;t just pat downs at the airport.  He says it&#8217;s also a way to fight back against a federal government that thinks it can do anything it wants to its citizens.   According to Strackbein, &#8220;We&#8217;re confirming the rule of law and say that they must be shackled, to quote Thomas Jefferson, &#8216;shackled to the chains of the constitution.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would ban &#8220;intrusive&#8221; airport security screenings.  Representative David Simpson of Longview (pictured) sponsored a bill in the House last month that would make it a criminal offense for officials conducting traveler pat-downs to touch &#8220;the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person&#8221; including through clothing. The measure died in the Senate after a threat from federal officials to close airports if it were approved.   Simpson sent a letter to Perry on Sunday urging him to defend the &#8220;privacy, dignity, and constitutional rights of our citizens.&#8221;  Lawmakers can only take up measures Perry adds to a special-session call. Perry announced the decision Monday night.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u2014 Texas tea party activists are praising Governor Rick Perry&#8217;s addition of a pat-down bill to the special legislative session agenda. For Wesley Strackbein, the founder of the web site tsatyranny.com, the issue isn&#8217;t just pat downs at the airport. He says it&#8217;s also a way to fight back against a federal government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=102865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activists Praise Addition of Pat-Down Ban to Session<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:57:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102865"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103366,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102865\/revisions\/103366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}