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Nov. 28, 2010 - Dan Bidondi Show
14:50
We Are Change RI Gets Violated-TSA National Opt-Out Day Nov 24th, 2010 Part 2 of 2
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I asked them to limit their cameras to just what you guys are doing.
It was not.
It was not prior to this.
So I asked, very simply, keep the camera pointed at you guys, get rid of that sign, and stop walking people down so that we can get this permit process going.
If you do not, listen to me, if you do not, I am going to ask you to leave the property.
Which property?
The property line is Post Road.
I'm not sure if you want to focus more on that.
Let's call the cops.
Understood.
Loud and clear.
Understood.
Understood.
If you don't do what I ask you to do, then I'm going to ask you to leave the property.
That's all I'm asking.
A little compliance.
A little understanding.
No, we're trying to be cooperative.
No, you're not.
No, let me or not write the free speech.
No, I'm not.
I'm asking you to stop.
I'm asking you for five minutes, in the spirit of cooperation here, and you're refusing from the get-go.
You're going to want to stay.
I just need your date of birth and I'll clear you to stay.
- I'm playing you to stag, and you can do what you need to do. - Terry Watson's going in. - Whoa.
- Well, I mean, I gave you my knee, you know, that I'm not talking to you, but that's not all I need information.
Okay.
You ought to know where I'm moving to, you know, so... Well, that's not what the purpose is.
Okay, since... I know what the purpose is, but... The purpose of this is, is I've offered you the opportunity to complete the permit.
You have not, you have not complied with what I've asked you to do.
So I'm going to ask you right now, I'm going to give you a, I'll tell you, it all has to cease.
Okay, if it does not cease, then I'm going to give you a trespass warning.
Statement, you have no business, excuse me, no legal business here.
Trespass?
Yes, you have no legal business here.
So it's our First Amendment being violated?
Yes, sir.
- We can't believe it. - So it's our first amendment and white amendment.
So if you know, there's a constitution that we all put.
What's the constitution comment on? - We're being threatened to top down.
We're being threatened.
You put your hand up.
Why?
Put your hand up.
Why?
Keep going.
Hey, see, I'm gonna get him.
He's gonna get on film, man.
Do not touch me.
We're being threatened.
I am in.
I'm just here to defend and honor those that defend and honor the Constitution.
Believe me, this will be all over the radio, okay?
I got the power of the press.
I got two radio shows on two different stations.
This cooperation will be on the radio.
I guarantee that.
We got the mob squad right there.
Hey sir, opt out of the TSA body scanners.
Stop.
Stop?
Oh look at this.
I'm not allowed to tell the truth.
Hey ma'am, opt out of the TSA body scanners.
They're the truth.
Hey ma'am, opt out the TSA body skinners.
They're intrusive.
You're flying.
Don't do that scanning.
Hey sir, opt out the TSA body skinners.
You did.
Yeah.
Hey ma'am, opt out the TSA body skinners.
I know you are.
You guys, do you have a car in this line or no?
Nope.
Uh, we're in.
Drive or walk.
Hey sir, opt out the TSA body skinners.
You're flying.
Don't do that.
Yeah, you're flying with the others.
Yeah, you're seeing this line.
It's going up.
It's going up.
Hey, one right now.
Yeah.
I'm trying to go with the same one.
Yeah.
I'm trying to go with the same one.
Yeah.
I'm trying to go with the same one.
Yeah.
I'm trying to go with the same one.
Yeah.
Keep going.
No, keep going.
He's coming.
Let's go.
Yeah, you have no right to touch.
I can't at all.
I will, which is kind of what we were talking about.
No, the Constitution don't count.
The Constitution don't count, you know.
Alright, we'll stand right out in front of the sign.
Let someone say something.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
We're just having an issue today.
Yeah, I have a rope. I have a rope.
You're going to get hit by a car.
Turn the key.
He's in the road, he's gonna get injured.
Get out of the road.
Let's direct the salt.
Turn the camera away from me.
No.
Don't turn it away from me.
This is Billie Jean Keaton.
You get out close to her and you point the camera at whatever you want.
You're being insulted by DSA over here.
It's not DSA.
You can't walk past me.
Same difference.
There you go.
We're all set.
Yeah, there you go.
Thanks for inviting me to our first event.
Have a good holiday.
Have a happy holiday.
Hey, we can have the truth in the water.
I'm trying to find his family!
They know the TSA!
Meanwhile, airport safety is causing plenty of issues for local travelers deciding whether to go through a scanner or get the invasive pat-down.
ABC 6's Shannon O'Brien has been at T.F.
Green Airport all morning.
She joins us now live with more.
Hi, Shannon.
Hi, Doreen.
Well, I have some good news.
Really, this big issue was a non-issue today here at T.F.
Green.
Not many people bothered by the scanners.
Not many people asking for pat-downs.
And some people got here early to find there were no lines.
The lines at the baggage place to check your bags was actually longer than security, so National Opt-Out Day might have been a bust.
The nation's airports braced for protesters on what is now known as National Opt-Out Day, when travelers were urged to opt out of the 20-second body scan and elect to have a two-minute pat-down in hopes of slowing down travel and sending a message to the TSA.
This was the protest at T.F.
Green, an army of four led by Dan Badandi, who calls himself a truth warrior.
Has this national opt-out day kind of been a bust?
No, not really, because if we could reach out to one person out there, we've done our job.
One person is exactly what we found.
One person out of all the travelers on the busiest travel day of the year who said... I'm gonna do the body, excuse me, the body pat down.
Why?
Um, because I don't know about all those infrared lights and stuff with the scanning.
I saw a lot of stuff in the news about it and it looked kind of creepy.
The vast majority of people flying out had no objection to the body scanners.
Don't slow down my flight.
This protest has been cooked up by people that are spending Thanksgiving at home.
Where are you spending Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving with the family.
Where's your family?
Right here in Rhode Island.
So you don't have to get on a plane?
No, I mean, like, if I was... I could understand about the travels, I understand, but you gotta remember, civil liberties is more important.
But Donde and his gang believe the scanners violate our Fourth Amendment rights to privacy.
He says they're harmful to your health and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
People really need to step up, say, hey, what's more important, let me get to my family's five minutes earlier, or let me say, hey, let me take an extra five, ten minutes out and get the package.
But sometimes it's, if everyone would have done this, it wouldn't have been a matter of five minutes.
It would have been a matter of missing planes and days and time without your family.
Is it really worth that?
Oh, absolutely.
On his flyer, Badandi quotes Ben Franklin saying, anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Well, most passengers don't feel that way.
I'd rather not get on a plane with someone who's dangerous, and this is going to help us get rid of those people.
I don't know.
I think it's kind of crazy that people are making a big deal of it.
A big deal was not what happened here at TF Green Airport today.
Actually, it was pretty slow.
It was supposed to be the busiest travel day of the year.
The lines weren't very long, people got through very easily, and it looked like just an ordinary morning here at TF Green.
If things go as well in the air as they did here this morning, then travelers should have had a nice trip.
Reporting live at TF Green, Shannon O'Brien, ABC6 News.
We're on some of the other problems that travelers may face today.
This year could be even more difficult for flyers, thanks to those controversial full-body scanners and pat-downs.
In fact, there was a small protest over all of that at TF Green Airport this morning, and NBC10's Katie Davis reports from there now.
Katie?
Well, Frank, it has been pretty smooth here this morning.
The only exception was that small group of protesters that you mentioned.
We have some video of them we want to show you from around 11 o'clock this morning.
You can see it's a group of about three or four young men.
They were gathered in one area of the airport.
They were asked to move to a different area.
They had signs protesting what they called the naked scanners.
They were told they could stay and continue to protest as long as they fill out a permit to do so.
They'll be allowed to stay outside the airport for the rest of the day.
But again, other than that, very smooth this morning.
The airport tells us the longest wait that they saw at the checkpoints was about five minutes.
They also tell us that as far as those full-body scans, very few people have opted out of those and chosen the pat-downs instead.
Only about 0.02%, not 2%, but 0.02%.
About a dozen people in all from the hundreds that have come through this morning.
So, no major problems here again.
That one small group of protesters, but they are protesting peacefully outside of the airport in a separate area from the security checkpoint.
Live at TF Green, Katie Davis, NBC 10 News.
Developing right now, the biggest travel day of the year is underway amid security controversies at the nation's airports.
Live look now at Teal Green Airport in Warwick, where organizers have called on travelers today here and everywhere to protest the use of full body scanners by requesting a full pat-down.
It's dubbed National Opt-Out Day.
And we found a handful of demonstrators along with travelers inside the airport this morning protesting those full body scanners.
That's rather intrusive.
It really is.
They say they can't store the images, they can't print them, they can't transfer them, but they can do all that.
It's in the training manuals of the scanners themselves.
And they also subject whoever's going through them to completely unnecessary radiation.
Now airport officials say the scanners are safe and the images are erased as soon as they're taken.
And we've got limited time here and I can barely get the light bulbs changed around here, much less the hundreds of phone calls a day, people having their children taken by the government, where they can quantify what's happened.
Or illegal aliens robbing them or whatever and the government won't help them.
But send us the information, Lori.
Dan in Rhode Island, you're on the air.
Hey Alex, how are you doing?
This is Dan Badandi from We Are Change Rhode Island and Truth Radio.
We were just hosting a rally at T.F.
Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island, and my cameraman got physically assaulted.
We got our own film and everything else.
We got physically assaulted.
They put the signs down, the cameras down, they kept threatening us.
And when the mainstream media came over, they quickly dropped what they were doing and they walked away from us.
And when the mainstream media, after they did an interview with us, So there's protests going on all over the country, we know that.
And who was shoving on you?
Like physically, they pushed us in the back off the airport property.
Okay, so, yes.
So there's protests going on all over the country, we know that.
And who was shoving on you?
Who was physically going after you?
Not the airport police themselves, but the directors, the head people of the airport police.
Um, you know, the state police were flying, you know, they didn't bother.
Uh, the airport police were standing around like a bunch of, uh, terrorists.
and the two directors, the suit guys, they pushed us.
We physically pushed us off the upper property They're putting their hands on our cameras, telling us we can't film.
We have a case law right here that says freedom of expression on private property.
I guess the case law is on freedomforum.org.
It's free expression on private property.
It's a case law that gives us the right to protest on any property that serves the public.
Well, absolutely, there is case law because it's quasi-public, because taxpayer money was used to build it.
They just say that it's private.
And they do this at community centers, you name it.
Well, get that video up as soon as you can to YouTube, because this is the hottest news story right now.
It's a real issue.
People are concerned.
And so if people wait a week or two to put the video up, it won't have as big an effect.
That video, everybody out there, I know there's protests nationwide.
Of the TSA thuggery, of their attempt to violate your First Amendment, you need to get that up on the web right now, my friend.
We'll be up tomorrow morning and we did manage to reach out to some people and we did make a difference.
And people opted out of the scanner, we passed out flyers, we had huge signs, and they were telling us we can't have it.
They also, this is, you gotta get this out, right?
They told us we have to fill out a paperwork, right?
They want no more than 15 processes.
They want every bit of our information, data, birth address and everything, and we're limited.
To what we could say, limited, we can't, uh... No, no, no, no, no.
They turn it right into a privilege.
It's like New York saying you gotta have a permit to own a gun 50 years ago, and now they just don't issue the permits.
It's all made up.
It's all a bunch of baloney.
Get the video up now.
Great job.
We'll be right back with our guest.
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