ACLU Vs. The Bucs
Posted on October 13, 2005
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Tampa, Florida — If you’ve been to a Bucs game this season, you’ve seen and felt a difference — you get patted down before entering the stadium.
But on Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union and a Bucs season ticket holder are taking the owners of Raymond James Stadium to court.Source
Why the ACLU has decided to sue the Bucs when this is across the board mandated by the NFL is beyond me. The NFL said in August it was requiring all teams to conduct the pat-downs of fans, in an attempt to prevent a terrorist attack by someone with explosives. Of course this isn’t suprising since they are also against random searches on NY subways. This proves a very good point. The ACLU is against any kind of search no matter how it will protect us. They are against profiled searches, random searches, and now they show they are even against a search of everyone across the board. This lawsuit is ridiculous in my opinon. Another example of the word frivilous!
Michelle Malkin keenly points to this and this as further proof of how ridiculous the lawsuit is. Kit at Euphoric Reality has an interesting idea on all of this, creating signs for ACLU Offices. Third World County has started a meme to get the sign making started. Cathouse Chat says Heeeeer’s your sign.
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I wonder what would have happened in Oklahoma last saturday if people had not been searched. The idiot who had converted to Islam tried to get in the stadium before he accidently blew his _ _ _ _ away. It was very strange that they even had his funeral or what was left of him in a christian church.
Here’s a novel idea, if you don’t want to be patted down at the stadium, or have your bag inspected before boarding an airplane or subway, don’t go.
Technically, the TSA is a government entity, created by the FL legislature in 1965. The members are appointed by the governor, mayor, city council and county commission. But they lease the stadium to the Buccaneers who operated as a private business in the stadium.
Where is the state action to warrant such a lawsuit? Isn’t the Bucs a private entity? How does the 4th Amendment apply?
They are against profiled searches, random searches, and now they show they are even against a search of everyone across the board.
Damn that pesky Fourth Amendment! Why don’t we just search everyone as they exit their homes in the morning? THAT will show those ACLU commies…
Hello Jesus how is God doing today? Got a little bored just watching so you decided to post? Tell you what if it means the safety of my family I would gladly submit to a search at my front door, unlike you who can’t even use your real name I have nothing to hide….
Dear Lord, I know that I haven’t actually been in a church in a mighty long time, but you see, I have heard repeatedly that you are everywhere, so I figure you can hear me whether I am actually sitting in a hard wooden pew or barrelling down the road parying for you to clear the traffic because, once again, I am running late.
I know you hear those prayers Lord, because even though I consistently start out on my journey’s late, I often arrive on time, I for that I say thank you.
But this is not about traffic, at least not the kind one finds on a road. You see Lord, it has been over two thousand years since your only begotten son trod this earth and spread your word, and it seems he is getting a bit bored. I have a son myself, (thank you for that also), so I know how hard it is sometimes to keep their attention and make certain they are on the correct path.
So Lord, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that your son, Jesus Christ, is trolling the comments pages of this very blog.
Now I am not one to cast stones, (a lesson He taught me), but I must say that he was being rather rude and argumentative a couple of comment above this one, and I just thought that you should know that we honestly do try to defend the church, and when the Head of The Church’s Son comes around making trouble, well, you can imagine the thoughts that fly…actually, you hear them don’t you?
Well, I just thought you should know that, and maybe sending Him to do something constructive for awhile might help take his mind off of testing our faith, (not to mention our ability to not swear).
Might I suggest a dramatic appearance in a crepe in Paris?
Now THAT would be entertaining.
Jay, I don’t edit much on my blog, but I’ll tell you, I’d edit that name.
It’s just a drive-by moron that likely won’t return anyway.
I think it should stay I just loved Kender’s reply
Just happen to be a former student of Gordon Johnston and his wife, and personally aquainted with the family. Gordon Johnston is actually a conservative, not a Communist-Socialist Lib like the ACLU membership.
Mr. Johnston has taught in schools on two continents (I was a student of his on the socialist continent many years ago) and he knows history and government. It seems that many americans (including conservatives) who have never lived outside of the US have the “frog in boiling pot” syndrome, and don’t really see what is going on in our grand Land of the Free.
Mr. Johnston hates Communism and Socialism with a passion. It is ironic the legal company he finds himself with at this juncture.
A key issue here is disclosure. According to the story, the “business” would not refund his seasonal ticket after he discovered that these searches are mandatory. So, aside from some media announcement, the question is whether the stadium is fully disclosing this new policy to everyone purchasing tickets.
Another point - is it true that these searches are only from the waist up? If that is the case, it is one of the most idiotic policies I, as a US military veteran, have ever heard of and I have to agree with the statement by the ACLU spokesperson that “we are no safer, and a lot less free”. What’s that? The “Shoe-bomber”? If this is the case, it is a token, incomplete, half-hearted attempt to protect while doubling the publics inconvenience (and turning up the heat on that pot that the frog is in).
I believe a genuine, Constitutional Conservative would say (perhaps minus the expletives), “To h*** with across the board searches of the public, to h*** with being PC, we are going to go by the evidence, we are going to profile, and we are going to go on the advance and hunt down every terrorist and use whatever force necessary to win this war” - instead of going paranoid, suspecting every innocent neighbor and friend, searching even our own pockets for possible threats.
I’ve lived on three continents and I am amazed at the lack of ethical and constitutional knowledge and sense that exists now in America. Sense - it’s not so common anymore. There truly has been a “Dumbing down of America” even in the “conservative Christian” or “religious right” circles.
If we are going to maintain a Land of the Free, it will take more than just defeating (or eliminating) the American Communist Legal Union(ACLU), the People for the American Way, and the NEA’s (National Education Association and National Endowment for the Arts). We have to educate people in right thinking, logic, morality, ethics, honor and integrity.
We must both hate what is evil and love and promote what is good.
So many, including among us conservatives, just latch onto a spokesman or hero and forget to think independently. Two radio talking heads say, “I’m a conservative before I am a Republican”. I hope most conservatives think like that. The solutions are conservative, constitutional ones, not necessarily Republican.