Senate stirs pot with TSA groping bill, sanctuary cities
By Mike Ward / AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 11:02 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Protesters led by radio host Alex Jones, center, gathered outside the doors to the Senate gallery Wednesday, upset that the upper chamber sunk a bill that would have prohibited ‘intrusive touching’ by airport screeners. Bill sponsor Sen. Dan Patrick is upset, too.
Larry Kolvoord / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
www.statesman.com/news/texas-pol … 98725.html
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Boisterous protest over airport-groping bill
By Mike Ward | Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 03:16 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/05/25/protestors_try_to_storm_senate.html
Protesters at the Capitol
KXAN.com – 5 hours ago
Crowds spoke out loudly in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill in the Texas Capitol Wednesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esW0mCkChxQ
Alex Jones Storms The Capitol
Texas Tribune – 6 hours ago
May 25, 2011 Talk show host Alex Jones gathered a group to protest the Texas Senates so-called TSA “groping” bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42kDecHQjdo
KXAN: Protesters loud at Texas Capitol – 6 pm News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE4WJ6vk4c
KXAN.com – Web Extra: Protesters at Texas Capitol, May 25, 2011
A crowd of people yell “criminals” inside the Capitol in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill which is about TSA body checks at airports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdETlZDDvEE
Texas Legislature, Federal Government Clash Over Airport Pat-Down Bill
NPR (blog) – Eyder Peralta – 7 hours ago
A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down check on an airline passenger at a security checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down …
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 … -down-bill
9/11 Truther, Radio Host Leads Mob to Capitol
Houston Chronicle (blog) – Gary Scharrer – 7 hours ago
Alex Jones — a man best known for claiming the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks were an inside job and hosting Charlie Sheen’s phone-in program of choice — led a group of about 100 people, initially, to the wrong chamber as they protested the failure of … http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/201 … o-capitol/
The TSA war appears over and Dan Patrick lost
Houston Chronicle (blog) – 7 hours ago
The headlines out on the Internet about the death of Houston Sen. Dan Patrick’s anti-groping TSA bill sound so dramatic: Yesterday, Patrick accused Dewhurst of undermining his anti-pat down bill on the Senate floor. Today, he took his complaints a step …
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05 … rick-lost/
Anti-TSA protesters storm through Capitol halls
Dallas Morning News (blog) – Kelley Shannon – 8 hours ago
Protesters shouting “cowards, cowards” and “treason, treason” marched through the Capitol halls on Wednesday protesting the reluctance of the Senate to take up a bill banning routine invasive pat-downs by the Transportation Security Administration. …
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/ … -thro.html
TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed
Forbes (blog) – Kashmir Hill – 14 hours ago
Upset about invasive screening techniques at the airport, the Lone Star State was considering a bill that would make a TSA patdown that involves touching “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person including through …
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/201 … ll-passed/
Anomaly TeleVision 
That’s a great photo of Alex