VISION
Welcome! We are United States citizens - just like you - who want to regain freedoms taken away by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). We are fighting against the completely illegal, warrantless strip searches of our citizens, and fighting against the coerced, inappropriate physical touching of bodies, including our private parts.
Now is the time to go to the next level in this fight to preserve America's freedoms. We are building on the current efforts and creating a coalition with a strong organization and focus.
DOWNLOAD the INFORMATION KIT! - learn why this is important, understand how your rights and our children's rights are being taken away, and see how the TSA is doing things that the police can't do under our constitution.
Join other concerned citizens and help influence your federal and state legislators to stand up for America's freedoms and your dignity.
IMPORTANT NEWS! First Circuit Court of Appeals Accepts Amicus Brief In Redfern, et. al vs Janet Napolitano
Freedom To Travel USA filed an Amicus Brief for a major TSA 4th Amendment court case pending in the US Court System. Our brief has requested that the Court consider an evidentiary hearing based on the intrusiveness of TSA screenings which have caused many Americans to experience humiliation, fear, and a total loss of dignity.
CLICK HERE -> FTTUSA Amicus Brief - Redfern vs Napolitano
CURRENT EVENTS
JAN 2013 - TSA Announces Back Scatter X-Ray Scanners Will Be Eliminated!!!
The TSA announced it will remove Back Scatter X-Ray scanners from service because the manufacturer can't create software to hide nude images and still "detect anomalies". A congressional mandate to eliminate nude-picture taking on all scanners was passed in 2012.
CLICK HERE for X-Ray Scanner Announcement
Freedom To Travel USA reminds everyone that ALL scanners violate the 4th amendment and lead to privacy violations and criminal touching of private parts. So, removing the X-Ray scanners, never tested in situ by independent parties, is just a minor, but important, first victory.
The remaining scanners do NOT detect explosives, weapons, or incendiary devices. So, any "alerts" are followed by "pat downs", which touch one's private parts or other parts of your body. The scanners cannot tell the difference between an explosive, medical device, or mastectomy scar. The coercive physical touching by the TSA violates criminal laws in all 50 states if performed by anyone, at any time, anywhere else.
The false positive rate (not counting the actual alarms which have never detected a working non-metallic bomb on any of the 1.3 billion passengers from 2010 to 2012) of the remaining scanners likely leads to at
least 10 million plus pat-downs every year, many of which involve criminal touching
of private parts, such as experienced by mastectomy patients, those
with medical devices, and those with artificial limbs.
If you are fortunate enough not to be "profiled" by the TSA, please consider those who do fit these categories and voice your concerns to "restore liberties" for all.
DEC 2012 - First Circuit Accepts Amicus Brief in "Redfern, et. al vs Janet Napolitano"
Freedom To Travel USA had an Amicus Brief accepted by the First Circuit in "Redfern, et. al vs Janet Napolitano". Our brief suggests the Court should consider a special discovery process so evidence may be introduced concerning the TSA's procedures which include well-documented violations of privacy such as molesting, not one, but two terminally ill, dying cancer patients in addition to performing criminal touching of passengers' private parts in all 50 states.
Read more about why ALL scanners lead to privacy issues and violations of the 4th amendment with unprecedented general searches of our persons.
CLICK HERE for Amicus Brief
SEPT 2012 - Aviation Security Advisory Committee - Personal Testimony
One of Freedom To Travel USA's Co-Founders spoke at the ASAC meeting, which is a committee to provide recommendations to the TSA on various issues. It is mostly populated by travel industry or airport industry representatives.
Her very moving testimony concerning her experiences on why "Flying While Handicapped" is the new and just as unacceptable "Driving While Black" is at this link.
FTTUSA Testimony at ASAC
MAY 2012 - Congressional Briefing - "TSA: Failure By The Numbers"
Freedom To Travel USA presented a Congressional Briefing discussing why the TSA strip search scanners are mathematically a failure and makes a strong argument to eliminate spending and time on them. Also, the strip search scanner vulnerabilities which easily allow metal objects pass them undetected were discussed by Jonathan Corbett.
Original Invite - Congressional Briefing May 22, 2012
MARCH 2012 - Press Release - SCANNERS PROVEN WORTHLESS! Blogger defeats both AIT and ATR Scanners in Real Airports!
Patriot Jonathan Corbett defeated the Strip Search Scanners with a sewing kit. FTTUSA requests funding suspended for this unreliable technology.
Press Release - Press_Release_03-6-2012_FTTUSA_Announces TSA Scanners Proven Ineffective
JANUARY 2012 - Press Release to support STRIP ACT, Letter to DHS Secret Meeting
FTTUSA supports the STRIP ACT, a first step to challenging the TSA.
Press Release - Press_Release_01-25-2012_FTTUSA_Supports_STRIP_ACT
FTTUSA submitted this letter to a closed, secret meeting held by DHS in January, 2012 to discuss the irrational fear over extremely small risks, and how this does not justify the TSA abuses.
DECEMBER 2011 - Special Press Release
Freedom To Travel USA is pleased to announce it has submitted a letter to all members of the House Sub-Committee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security concerning the TSA Appropriations Bill H.R. 3011. The Press Release and the Letter Template are as follows:
Press Release - FTTUSA_Press_Release_12.07B_-_HR3011_Public_Comment.pdf
"Freedom To Travel USA Asks Congress To Stop Strip Searches and Genital Groping By The TSA"
Letter To Congress Template - H.R. 3011 Comments
OCTOBER 2011
We are actively testing our legislative contacts at both the State and Federal levels. With the summer past us, we are gearing up our legislative contacts to find those legislators who believe that the TSA should not be able to perform actions on Americans that the police are NOT allowed to do unless someone is under arrest or in custody.
AUGUST 2011
Our members were proud to assist Alaskan State Representative Sharon Cissna this August, when she was holding "TSA Teas" on her trip to the National Council of State Legislators Conference and back home. Rep. Cissna is nationally known for her refusal to be subjected to TSA indignities and has testified to Congress concerning her experiences.
TEMPE, AZ COVERAGE
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