Sen. Rand Paul: "It was an ordeal.. I think it's an indignity..."

Drudge Report:

'HOMELAND' DETAINS U.S. SENATOR

WHITE HOUSE SIDES WITH TSA

 

.... Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul  ... called the TSA a "police state" Monday after Rand Paul was reportedly detained by TSA after he refused to take a pat-down from TSA officials at the Nashville International Airport.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that he didn't have any reaction to Paul's "police state" comments.

But Carney sided with the TSA saying, "I think it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure that air travel is safe."

Who cares what Jay Carney thinks?  (Is everything out of his mouth automatically the position of the administration?)

See also the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 6:

“The Senators and Representatives… shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same….”

 

Comments

[scp]

Rand Paul--Republican. Comerade hussein (obama)--deomcrat.

[Tom Glennon]

The reasons members of Congress are exempt from arrest or detention by the Constitution are myriad, and valid. It would take hours to discuss why this exemption exits. The only point I wish to make is that this is just one more example of why Constitutional expert and litigator Mark Levin has stated that we live in a post-Constitutional nation. And the media, given a privileged role by that Constitution, are again silent.