the t.s.a. can be a texas legislature as are all ears some lawmakers in the lone star state are pushing for a build the keep t.s.a. more hands off with their pat downs more on that in just a moment. while we're on the topic of t.s.a. how about another hurdle to your travel plans you know it's bad enough with the pat downs but can you imagine not being able to get on the plane a look at why some people are placed on that do not fly list. all public schools throughout the nation faced budget cuts students and teachers are raising up to protect education students in newark new jersey even hosted a walkout in reaction to the planned cuts more on this movement later in the show. well it's friday april twelfth four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret how old you're watching r t. and starting this hour more outrage against the t.s.a.

it's well known that the agency has gotten a reputation for getting a little bit too close for comfort just take a look at this. he. was just doing her job. here and she. actually you're. touching my right there you know your story we do a little bit slower. here but if you trace my journey if you're if. you will lawmakers and taxes are trying to do something about this proposing legislation that would make it illegal for t.s.a. agents to get touchy feely putting restrictions on just where t.s.a. t.s.a. officers can touch passengers now texas state representative david simpson who proposed that bill believes that it boils down to one major issue the t.s.a. treating innocent folks as criminals and that's a big problem in taxes and joining me now to break this down the man with the plan himself representative simpson from texas hi there. how are you doing great to

represent the sense and why does the t.s.a. treat innocent people like criminal suspects with these pat downs i'm not sure so. that really violates the fourth amendment of our constitution and our texas bill of rights is well it's unnecessary they are allowing people to pay one hundred dollars get a background check and and just pass on through like we used to do but it's really unfortunate for the way those will chairs are and plants that really get picked on and have done necessary and effective and it is just wrong certainly so what exactly are the restrictions that you're trying to put before the texas legislature here well house bill and he would simply prohibit the touching of private parts of a person without probable cause it would also prohibit the separation of minors from a parent or guardian without probable cause or to engage in some kind of conduct

that would constitute assault under our penal code already. and to basically harass or coerce or. keep people from proceeding. to their plane or to a public venue. without horrible cause i say so and in your opinion do these pat downs apply to everyone equally and i guess my question pertains to women in those traditional jobs who are protected from pat downs currently is that violates muslim curity laws even president obama himself said back in twenty twenty ten that they're protected from these invasive t.s.a. screenings and the touching of their bodies and now that we're seeing this in every issue every airport in america you know our people screen all the same way you know are we saying this across the. particularly the weak as those who brought have medical and plants and even recently wounded warrior who had his legs blown off

fighting from an idea and afghanistan came back and they took his legs off and humiliated him searching him it's incredible what they're doing and i do think especially hurts in violates. the wake of among us and those who have medical and. aged and babies and children the worst case i heard about a parent related to me when their autistic boy was separated from her he began when they touched him in the most intimate way yelling out man on boy man on boy i met on boys and that is the right response it is wrong and we teach our children not to let people touch is in these ways and unless there's a reason they should go to third base i say so ok the introduction of these full

body scanners that of essentially replace traditional metal detectors at airports for people traveling. t.s.a. you have the option now to be touched by t.s.a. then passing through are going through the scanner which essentially under ross is here with us electromagnetic radiation why are these the only two options on the table well unfortunately that is the case much of the time it is not all the time many times a lot of people go through the metal detectors but. i'm not sure of the reason but at other parts of the world they don't use these methods and it's very unfortunate and it's wrong place to stop are there other alternatives specifically about that you could maybe give us that would be you know something that they could still do to keep us safe but maybe not so invasive sure i mean continue to use the magnetometers the metal detectors they have bomb sniffing dogs they have mains sensing explosives residue just watch people that use common sense

but don't take the underwear off ninety five year old women with cancer returning home for their last trip. i think definitely what is needed we people are consenting to this and we need to stop consenting were and they blowing people to treat us like despots and it's just wrong it's not making us more say it's removing our dignity and if we continue to do this is just evidence that the terrorists have won i say so if this passes and taxes where do we stand in terms of the federal government do you think that they're going to have a response to you guys down there on the sure mr murphy the u.s. attorney. who made threats last time has retired perhaps there's more common sense and the justice department. in two minutes against moment you know if they want to

threaten to come and take airplanes come and take it this is uncalled for and we need to stand up for our travel and dependence and dignity and not allow the federal government or anyone to violate the fourth amendment and to thank you representative i really appreciate your time that was texas state representative david samson. one exclusive list you may not want to be on these days that would be the no fly list first introduced as a security measure in the wake of this that temper eleven terrorist attacks the no fly list reportedly contains the names of twenty one thousand people five of which five hundred of which belong to americans and that secret list has garnered some sharp criticism being called ineffective by civil liberties advocates such as the a.c.l.u. so who's on that list and more importantly how do you know if you're on it well r.t. correspondent live wall has more. well the no fly list has grown dramatically since

it was created after nine eleven and now that list includes more than twenty one thousand names the list bans many americans from flying who pose no danger to national security at all and that's because there's something called false positives not me and you happen to share a name of a suspect on the list and your chances of getting off the ground will be difficult or impossible it's happened to children veterans even senators some examples back in two thousand and four senator ted kennedy told the senate judiciary committee that his name was on the no fly list and was delayed repeatedly at the airport apparently if he counted it was a name on the list because it was once used by a terror suspect as a well known senator he wondered how ordinary citizens were treated at the airport was targeted named and as we reported on our team not too long ago the government banned this man from boarding a plane and visiting his family and cutter citic long is an american born muslim who is also a ten year veteran of the u.s. air force and he is not the only veteran that the government has grounded the

a.c.l.u. has filed a lawsuit against the government on behalf of fourteen people of the for no fly list including four military veterans that you see here another name on the list is a frequent guest on our show jasmine radek she is an attorney that represents government whistleblowers. obama took the bush secrecy regime and expanded that by an order of magnitude everything including classification numbers have gone up the number of people being targeted for assassination has gone up. well radek like everyone else on the no fly list has no idea why she's been banned from flying she suspects it may have something to do with her fight to protect government whistleblowers but being on the no fly list is more than an inconvenience in some cases a block people from visiting family or traveling for work or pleasure and according to the a.c.l.u. it's unconstitutional and

a statement of civil liberties groups says quote today the government's no fly list consists of thousands of people who have been barred altogether from commercial air travel with no meaningful chance to clear their names resulting in a vast and growing group of individuals whom the government deemed too dangerous to fly but to harmless to arrest it is unconstitutional for the government to put people on secret lists and deny them the right to travel without even basic due process oral arguments for this case will be heard in district court late june for the plaintiffs and thousands of others a night at the airport the no fly list doesn't fly in washington liz wahl r.c. . in a newark new jersey one thousand students walked out of class on tuesday protesting governor chris christie's budget cuts to the state educational funding a public school. this walkout is in response to a number of complaints mainly that the public schools like most around the u.s. are understaffed with cuts to programs classrooms all of them are in major need of

repair so this is very similar to other protests we've seen like cities in chicago earlier this month with over fifty four school closures following a budget deficit so here to discuss this is r t correspondent an associate churkin us was on the ground in chicago and joins us now from the new york studio so what's happening in newark. well margaret what we saw happen earlier this week on tuesday from according to different estimates from several hundred up to two thousand public high school students walked out of their schools about a dozen schools in total to protest what seems to be becoming a trend in the united states budget cuts to public education and this comes after the announcement that governor chris christie is considering cutting an entire fifty six million dollars out of the public school funding and this is exactly what the students organized by the newark students' union were protesting they were saying this is far from the first time that these budget cuts are taking place when

it comes to the schools that it's highly avoidable that officials could have gone. in other directions to not have these budget cuts take place also they're saying that it's the neighborhoods with minorities primarily being targeted and that they're going to keep coming out onto the streets to protest this and see so you mentioned governor christie's budget cuts in education in two thousand and ten and that was actually ruled unconstitutional by the new jersey supreme court and there was a promise made to put that money back and so far he hasn't is there anything going on that's going to make him return those funds or was this just some symbolic gesture by the court can they actually make him put the money back. well margaret you know i think considering this court decision was ruled just three years ago where in two thousand and thirteen now it seems highly highly unlikely that this money is going to be returned into the system like you mentioned at that point into any time and what happened was he put in place a budget cut of almost one billion dollars to be exact over eight hundred million

dollars and this is still not been put back regardless of that decision and so of course it's been highly symbolic but you know it's worth noting that since christie took office in twenty ten total of three point six billion dollars in budget cuts to schooling have picked taken place and meanwhile people are just completely outraged by this on the grounds that he put in place a total of two point one billion dollars anastasio for big business i want to take you back so you were in chicago covering you know these fifty school closures there in that school system and here's what in these times jacobson reporter mike a new trick had to say about these closures of those seventy five closings that have happened in the past forty percent of those closed buildings are now privately operated most of which are done by charter so it seems like. closing it is all along with closing the surge the way to door privatization to allow charter schools to expand and. so honest as you know these protests that are happening in chicago

and in newark on the ground do you think that they're actually going to make a difference well a good question margaret i mean people are hoping that the fact that they're coming out is certainly going to attract attention to these issues because if they don't come out then you know the officials are going to assume that the people are absolutely fine with these decisions which they are certainly not as we saw this week a newark and last month in chicago i see so certainly a lot happening in terms of public education here what's the net what's next what's next for these guys. well you know margaret what we're hearing is the promises to continue coming out onto the streets i mean in chicago the final vote will not take place on the closing of the fifty four public schools until the end of may and the schools will remain until august so people are hoping that more protests will will bring the message home to the officials and that these decisions will not take place but you know officials obviously the way they are reacting or not reacting to these protesters in newark and in chicago it seems unlikely that they're going to

back withdraw from these decisions you see on associates certainly a lot happening on the ground that was. going on in new york back in twenty twelve the united states congress passed the magnitsky act named after sergei magnitsky a russian lawyer who died in prison in russia and that act prohibits that what the u.s. teens were sponsible for the batteries death for coming to america and now it also uses financial sanctions against the russians on the list and today the u.s. government released a list of russians blacklisted from stepping on u.s. soil despite protests from the russian government though in response the kremlin has written up its own list of american human rights abusers who are not allowed in russia and who face similar financial sanctions now this back and forth has struck a blow to the bilateral relations america has with russia and u.s. national security adviser thomas donilon will fly to moscow now to meet with

russia's top security officials over the weekend now r.t. international correspondent guy in chick chick and has the story. the black list includes eighteen names those are russian officials suspected of being responsible for the prison death of the lawyer sergei magnitsky in two thousand and nine the list includes judges investigators directly involved in the markets good case the money's good law itself casts a much wider net requiring us the certain financial sanctions against all russian officials deemed to have been involved in human rights violations the wording of the legislation is quite vague though for example the bills provision that names put on the list of people to be sanctioned can be based on quote unquote data and information provided by n.g.o.s and perhaps by other interested groups or people rather than through due legal process so this potentially undermines the basic principles of presumption of innocence and due process russia's prime minister the admitted it has made a similar point he noted that the us government already has the full authority to

deny the set to anyone they want without having the special law in place so russia sees it as a message a message that will most certainly prompt a similar response from moscow russian lawmakers have already passed legislation targeting american officials deemed to have been involved in human rights violations but they haven't published any lists yet critics of the magnitsky law even here in the u.s. have pointed out that perhaps before punishing russian officials for alleged violations the u.s. could look into human rights abuses committed by americans in guantanamo iraq again it's done anyway moscow does not see these tit for tat moves as a positive development a bit about sergei magnitsky himself he chose the number of russian officials of corruption but was himself accused of tax evasion and died in a moscow jail four years ago his colleagues and family said he died because he was regularly beaten and refused medical care present with him called magnus does in prison a tragedy but russia sees this kind of punitive legislation as interference in

their internal affairs. well that was our chief international correspondent guy and she can. and now an update on guantanamo bay that hunger strike there continues and now passing the two month mark after meeting with president obama earlier this week the president of the international committee of the red cross peter moore had this to say about the administration administration's strategy for speeding detainees he said quote if we see a hunger strike today we interpret this as a symptom as an indicator about the lack of perspective that those detainees have the impression of an american government which does not follow up on promises promises that have been made on transfers. well that's not the only news from guantanamo just yesterday it was are available tens of thousands of e-mails between several guantanamo bay detainees and their defense teams for wrongly turned over to prosecution one time obey attorney sandy hook and i sat down with r.t. earlier and gave us the latest. it's interesting we've heard

a letter to secretary people. regarding the strike and are concerned as lawyer about this and we got a response from william leeds our secretary of people who it's only created to us that the. u.s. is going. to mean. somebody and it seems that would be you know as we use words work with us go in there and back with your national guard in our house over the years or so this could be one of these and. do others need other measures in the mud and then see you at this point provide them the respect the process of respect the average and respect the correct answer to talk to them about what it is it would take to end this right i'm alive well that was semi panuco guantanamo detainee attorney.

if you ever heard the phrase behind every joke is a kernel of truth will critic and journalist jeff cohen just came out with a new op ed arguing that these jokesters may be the only ones telling the truth he writes it says something about mainstream t.v. that the toughest most consistent questioners of militarism and defending of civil liberties are not the news channels but they're the comedy channel. and we back back in the day of the shakespeare when the only people who would dare speak the truth of the king or the jest earth while this to discuss this i'm joined by jeff cohen the man himself journalism professor at the college jeff why are we seeing this trend of comedians calling it like it is why are they the only ones doing this well i think there's a certain amount of intimidation i worked at m.s.n. b c i was at fox i was at c.n.n. at the news channels they take their leads from the elites of the political party

it's a mess and b. c. leaks them it leans to the democrats fox obviously leans to the republicans and when the leaders of the two major parties aren't debating something and they usually don't debate foreign intervention both party elites agree on expanding drone strikes they both agreed on expanding the war in afghanistan the leaders of both parties agreed on the invasion of iraq so there's not a lot of debate in mainstream news if if you're a new moves and you question that bipartisan consensus well you're seen as biased that's why the comedians well when they have to fill that giant gap i say jafo we want to play you something now take a listen. we already spend more on defense than the next twelve countries combined including china including russia or like the lady on jerry springer who can't stop getting breast implants if we're not punishing people who approved of

this torture we can't really punish any americans because we all basically approve the torture when reelected president bush not sure it was secret but we had some hints it would be a good time to my democrats the president has a drawing program. with ambiguous constraints and murky legal justifications such as it is this a throwback to those times where the gesture is the only one telling the king the truth in your opinion yeah unfortunately that's what it seems to be i believe that you know news is so much sort of tailing after what the government says what the rulers say what the people in power say and these comedians and jon stewart and especially co barry's a comic genius they're not playing by the same rules and and it's because it's comedy they can get away with things you know phil donahue tried to question war and stand up for civil liberties and m s n b c terminated him three weeks before

the invasion of iraq because stewart's in the cold verus are operating within the you know comedic format they get away with so much and if it weren't for stewart and colbert i don't know who would be questioning these things on tell how k. so chattery these these issues like military and they seem to be died spam mainstream media do you think that they're doing it on purpose. well there's no doubt you know there's no doubt that militarism is almost untouchable it you know it may explain why other countries in northern europe have universal health care and free college education and we don't and it explains why you know social security is now on the chopping block when we have a country that spends most of its federal discretionary spending on the military war war preparation so you know this is the huge elephant in the room and the mainstream t.v. news hardly touches it and that's why we end up with co-parent stewart filling the

gap it should be the subject of a raging debate you know in other countries they experience the u.s. war on terror as a u.s. war of terror kidnappings drone strikes killing of civilians night raids but we don't have that kind of debate thank god we have a couple comedians brave enough to talk about it on primetime t.v. ok so heading back to that mainstream media and they're taking their cues from do you think that the media obeys the presidential administrations specifically framing the issue and they seem to even adopt their vocabulary and if you think they do it just how are they doing it there's there's no doubt that they have their vocabulary but it's it's especially in the case when the leaders of both the democrats on the republican side agree on the big military budgets agree on the invasion of iraq when the leaders of the two parties don't agree well then the mainstream media feels free to say wow that is an issue that's why we have debates

about gay marriage we have debates about gun control we have debates about minimum wage but we don't usually have the bate's about us foreign policy the u.s. war on terror so-called and that's in the absence of real debates in real news channels that's why so many of us turn to the daily show and the colbert report because they're gonna they're going to. ridicule they're going to show that the emperor doesn't have clothes they're going to stand up for civil liberties they've shot page every year this idea of mainstream media being fair and balanced they all like to say that they are how does this play and have them not talking about the real issues well i think you hit on it they believe you're fair and balanced if you take your cues from the leaders of the two political parties and if the two political parties are in agreement as they were on the invasion of iraq as they are and you know trying to provoke belligerence with iran well any reporter in the

mainstream who steps outside of that bipartisan consensus and ask questions well you're likely to get fired in terminated as fast as you can say phil donahue i worked with phil donahue when we were all fired three weeks before the invasion of iraq because we were asking journalistic questions so that's the problem went with their idea of fair and balanced in a lot of mainstream news is well what is what has been or setback has only been on the air a lot of great information that was jeff cohen journalism professor at a college. now most of us drug going to the dentist but if you want that great smile you're just going to have to sit in the chair but that's not the case for an indiana man you know he says the dentist pulled out all of his teeth without his permission put i'm. going to move. on from your. well christopher chris said that he went to amazing family dentist

in indianapolis to have a couple of problem teeth removed but somehow the dentist removed twenty nine of his teeth he is now toothless and wondering how this could have happened now this twenty one year old autistic man was told by his mother to ask for three teeth to be pulled so it's unclear just how or why this dentist decided to take out all of his teeth when the t.v. station in indianapolis said that after chris christie aired some twelve of their patients came forward saying that the same thing it happened to them now crist and his family are planning to sue the dentist and you may want to ask before you get into that dental chair next time do you swear to poll the truth the whole truth and nothing but the tooth so help you god well that's going to do it for a nail for more on these stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america will see it five. oh.

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