{"id":1423,"date":"2011-01-25T03:58:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2011-01-25T03:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T08:58:44","slug":"jesse-ventura-sues-tsa-says-body-scans-and-pat-down-searches-violate-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Ventura sues TSA, says body scans and pat-down searches violate rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/001-0912085819-jesse-ventura-9-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/001-0912085819-jesse-ventura-9-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.<\/p>\n<p>Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to &#8220;warrantless and suspicionless&#8221; scans and body searches.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which also names Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole as defendants, argues the searches are &#8220;unwarranted and unreasonable intrusions on Governor Ventura&#8217;s personal privacy and dignity and are a justifiable cause for him to be concerned for his personal health and well-being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, Ventura received a hip replacement in 2008, and since then, his titanium implant has set off metal detectors at airport security checkpoints. The lawsuit said that prior to last November officials had used a non-invasive hand-held wand to scan his body as a secondary security measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_17186132?nclick_check=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}