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New York Post, February 5, 2024<\/h1>\n

Cancun Ted Cruz wants to make politicians a privileged caste at airports<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Texans elected Ted Cruz to the US Senate a dozen years ago after he promised to abolish the Transportation Security Administration. Cruz has \u201cgrown\u201d in office. Instead of seeking to ax the TSA, Cruz is pushing an amendment to compel it to treat members of Congress like royalty and protect them from riffraff at airports.<\/p>\n

The Cruz measure would provide \u201clawmakers a dedicated security escort at airports, along with expedited screening outside of public view,\u201d Politico reports<\/a>. Cruz was ridiculed in 2021 after he was photographed in the airport escaping to Cancun while fellow Texans were suffering massive power outages due to a winter storm. Cruz\u2019s bill should be called the No More Mockery for Poohbahs Act.<\/p>\n

TSA already gives members of Congress \u201cGet out of grope free\u201d cards to avoid checkpoint hassles. How did that exemption to \u201cequal treatment under the law\u201d occur?<\/p>\n

In 2010, TSA turned airport checkpoints into \u201cconstitutional twilight zones<\/a>\u201d with \u201cenhanced patdowns\u201d and whole-body scanners that radiated travelers while taking birthday-suit photos<\/strong>. The following year, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the House of Representatives\u2019 second-most-powerful Democrat, bitterly complained: \u201cWe\u2019ve had some incidents where TSA authorities think that congresspeople should be treated like everybody else.\u201d Clyburn warned: \u201cI think we need to take a hard look at exactly how the TSA interact with members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

TSA hustled to placate the political elite. A 2014 American Civil Liberties Union report condemned \u201cGovernment Placing Itself at Top of New Air Travel Caste System.\u201d <\/strong>TSA \u201ccompiled vast whitelists of individuals\u201d who \u201care automatically eligible for expedited screening at airports,\u201d including members of Congress and federal judges, the ACLU noted.\u00a0\u00a0 Politicians also benefit from PreCheck and CLEAR programs most travelers have chosen not to purchase.<\/p>\n

TSA spends $800 million a year for air marshals, but almost half of them are designated for standby for flights by members of Congress \u2014 despite zero aviation threats on most such flights. One veteran air marshal groused in 2021 that the DC field office \u201cwas almost exclusively dedicated to VIP services for Congress.\u201d The Air Marshal National Council formally complained TSA had turned its program<\/a> into a \u201cconcierge service\u201d and \u201cbabysitting\u201d for members of Congress, who exploited the program even for personal flights with no tie to official business.<\/p>\n

Cruz\u2019s \u201cSafe Airport Travel Specialized Screening Process\u201d legislative fix was forged by other indignities he suffered. After missing a flight in Bozeman, Mont., in 2022, Cruz berated airline staff so vehemently<\/a> that a policeman was summoned to defuse the situation. The real problem?\u00a0 An airport official later admitted the policeman failed to recognize Sen. Cruz.<\/p>\n

Does Cruz want a chorus of trumpeters to herald the procession of lawmakers through airport terminals? Or maybe he\u2019d prefer a litter carried by four AmeriCorps members who sing the \u201cBattle Hymn of the Republic\u201d while carting the VIP to his departure gate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cruz justifies his amendment: \u201cIt\u2019s important that we take reasonable measures to keep everyone safe.\u201d But almost nobody on Capitol Hill is taking \u201creasonable measures\u201d to keep people safe from TSA\u2019s intrusive, abusive warrantless searches.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legions of women have complained on Twitter about TSA agents grappling their private parts in a manner far worse than Prom night. Bethenny Frankel went viral with her own account<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

After an Oklahoma woman sued after being strip-searched due to a menstrual pad, Justice Department lawyers scoffed that the treatment she complained of \u201camount[ed] to no more than . . . petty oppressions.\u201d But who entitled TSA to oppress American women? Federal court cases are documenting recent TSA transgressions against female travelers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more than a decade, entering a TSA checkpoint has been akin to Russian roulette. Flying out of Washington National Airport recently, I scored an enhanced pelvic patdown after the TSA whole-body scanner alerted solely due to the zipper on my Levi\u2019s jeans. (Or maybe it was because I\u2019ve bashed TSA<\/a> in articles for 20 years<\/a> and was denounced<\/a> by the TSA chie<\/strong>f.)<\/p>\n

Cruz\u2019s amendment also \u201csolves\u201d the problems of sporadic horrific delays at airport security by specifying that lawmakers will be speedily cleared through with no delay. When TSA was created after 9\/11, Americans were promised: \u201cno weapons, no waiting.\u201d But that was only true for the ruling class. Everybody else must build far more slack time in their travel schedule because of TSA uncertainties.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Cruz\u2019s hypocrisy is only slightly more brazen than most of his Capitol Hill colleagues\u2019. Rather than a new law to shield congressmen from irate travelers, senators could mollify public outrage by honoring their oath to uphold the US Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard\u2019s latest book is \u201cLast Rights: The Death of American Liberty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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