really 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 a keep the t.s.a. more hands off when it comes to their pack tell us more on that in just a moment. and what we're on the topic of t.s.a. how about another hurdle your travel plans isn't bad enough with those pat downs but can you imagine not being able to get on the plane a look at why some people are placed on that no fly list. when public schools throughout the nation face budget cuts students and teachers alike are rising up to protect education now students in newark new jersey even hosted a walkout reaction to plan cuts on this movement later in the show. well it's friday april twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret hell you're watching r t starting this hour more outrage against the t.s.a. it's a well known fact that the agency has gotten a reputation for getting

a bit too close for comfort just take a look at this. the only thing we just we just heard john. kerry she. actually you know touch my right like the you know your we do world lawyer who you do they're here to test my dream if you're rich well lawmakers in texas are trying to do something about this proposing legislation that would make it illegal for t.s.a. agents to get touchy feely but in some restrictions on just where t.s.a. officers can touch passengers now texas state representative david simpson who proposed the spill believes it boils down to one major issue the t.s.a. is treating innocent folks as criminals and to him that's a big problem and taxes. now to break this down i was doing earlier by the man with the plan himself representative simpson from taxes i began by asking him why the

t.s.a. seems to treat n.s.a. people like criminal suspects with these pat downs well 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 through like we used to do but it's really unfortunate for the way. those will chairs are and lands they really get. and have done necessary and it's an effective and it is just wrong certainly so what exactly are the restrictions that you're trying to put before the texas legislature here will house bill and he would simply prohibit 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 con 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 probable 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 as it violates muslim curity laws even president obama himself said back in two thousand and 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 are people screen all the same way you know are we seeing this across the board. well particularly the weak as those who brought have medical and plants and even the recently wounded warrior who had his

legs blown off fighting from an eye 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 it especially hurts and violates. the weak among us and those who have medical and black 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 shouldn't go to third base i say so ok the interaction of these full body scanners that of essentially replace traditional metal detectors in 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's e with this 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 other parts of the world they don't use these methods and it's very unfortunate and it's raul based the stuff are there other alternatives specifically though 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 that's mainly what is needed we people are consenting to this and we need to stop consenting were and they blowing people to treat us like just butts 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. well i'm not sure mr murphy the u.s. attorney. who made threats last time has retired perhaps there's more common sense and the justice department. intimidates again last 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 attendance and dignity and not allow the federal government or anyone to bottom but the fourth amendment and to thank you representative i really appreciate your time that was texas state representative david simpson. well here's one exclusive list you may not want to be on that would be the no fly list first introduced as a security measure in the wake of the september eleventh terrorist attacks the no fly list reportedly contains the names of twenty one thousand people five hundred of which belong to americans know this secret lists have garnered some sharp criticism been called in affected by civil liberties advocates such as the a.c.l.u. so who's on this list and more importantly how do we know if you're on it r t correspondent liz 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 with targeted names 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. all radic 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. according to the a.c.l.u. it's unconstitutional and the same in the civil liberties group 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 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 the night at the airport the no fly list doesn't fly in washington liz wahl r.c. well in newark new jersey one thousand students walked out of class on tuesday protesting governor chris christie's budget cuts to the state educational funding of public schools. now this is walkout is in response to a number of complaints mainly that their public schools like most around the u.s. are understaffed with cuts to programs and classrooms that are in major need of repair now this is very similar to other protests we've seen in cities like chicago

earlier this month with over fifty four school closures following a budget deficit earlier i was joined by r.g. correspondent stasia churkin to who was on the ground in chicago and joined us from our studio in new york to tell us just what's going on in newark. 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 was 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 on to 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 i love unlikely that this money is going to be returned into the system like you mentioned at that point in twenty time and what happened was he put in a 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 pit 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 on a saturday and 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 is what in these times jacob and reporter michael utrecht 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 from closing along with closing the surge the way to sort of backdoor privatization to allow charter schools to expand in the state so i understand the you know these protests that are happening in chicago and in

newark on the ground do you think that they're actually going make a difference well a good question margaret i mean other 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 this isn't which they're certainly not as we saw this week a new work and last month in chicago they say so certainly a lot happening in terms of public education here what's that 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 of 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 and be honest as he is certainly a lot happening on the ground that was artie's honest not any work while still ahead here on our team is the u.s. military industrial complex expands always leave it to the mainstream media to not report on it instead it seems that a good source for such news comes from certain comedy shows will explain the hard truth of comedy after the break. the scene story doesn't make good news you saw no puff pieces so we touch a. little

worse you are the only one out to the. minute. what you. are about to give you never seen anything like this. well you have heard the phrase the behind every joke is a kernel of truth well critic and journalist jeff cohen just came out with a new app that arguing that these jokesters may be the only ones telling the truth he writes that some something about the mainstream t.v. or that the toughest most consistent questioners of militarism and defenders of civil liberties are not the news channel but they're the comedy channel and are we back in the days of shakespeare when the one person who would dare speak the truth

that came with in fact the jester well earlier i was to end by jeff cohen journalism professor at a college and we discussed why we have a thing this trend now of comedians calling it like they see it if 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 parties and as n.b.c. demick 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 and 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 and take a listen. we were to spend more on defense then 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 or yeah unfortunately that's what it seems to be i believe you know news is so much sort of tailing after what the government says what the

ruler 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 then as n.b.c. terminated him three weeks before the invasion of iraq because stewart's in the cold paris 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 case so chattery 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 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-parents 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 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 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 well 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 it'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 i'm you know trying to provoke belligerence with iran well any reporter in the mainstream who steps outside of that bipartisan consensus and ask questions when you're likely to get fired him 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 is bain or sad i have to leave it there are a lot of great information that was jeff cohen journalism professor at a college. well have you ever wanted to leave your electronic footprint to the ones

you love well now you can google is launching a tool that helps users manage their afterlife yes you heard me correctly there there afterlife you can leave your messages likes and dislikes e-mails and expect to the loved one of your choice after you die and google and google announced this today that users who use this product it's an array of digital services that can actually control how their data is handled and essentially this is all done while they're taking a dirt nap so this interactive account manager as it's called lets you tell google to delete or share your information to predetermine people you select after a specific period of an activity now google users can delete their their data after three six or even a year of inactivity and they can choose when the people who they want to receive the messages from beyond the grave as it were now is the school or creepy i think the jury might still be out on this one. and to new york city which is opening up

its wallet after losing a legal battle with activist group occupy wall street now the charge was that the city violated the act of a civil rights when they cleared out those groups and can't park back in two thousand and eleven for more on the settlement the residents for harshness explains . ok this is a good story with the good guys when back in november of twenty eleven new york city police raided the occupy wall street encampment that was set up it is entirely cart during their raid the police were tasked with basically shewing everyone out of the park returning it to its normal state as

a place where street finance workers can eat their subway sandwiches or talk to their friends on their cell phones to make plans for a player shoot hoops after work whatever they do on their lunch break and the way during the raid the police took their instructions to empty the park to heart clearing everything out now when the police have to remove a citizens property they are supposed to and here to established procedures to protect the legal rights of the property owners there are legal carefully outlined procedures for the removal of property but when the police emptied zuccotti park they didn't hold everything off in a bunch of trucks and then they destroyed a lot of the occupiers belongings and do you know what the occupiers did as a result in a surprising move they actually sued the city and guess what they want that the city is going to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to people whose property was destroyed in the raid and

a lot of that is going to books that were destroyed by the occupiers and collected more than three thousand books w. and the people's library and when the police cleared them out they just destroyed all the books why they would do that i have no idea maybe they were afraid the book had bed bugs. it defies logic that anyone would have a giant pile of books and sure of what to do with them and come to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to destroy them and not donate them to a library not hold them in an evidence room until their rightful owners decided what to do with them just they i know let's destroy all these both why they did it who knows and even the thirty admit that that was basically a stupid thing to do and are paying out forty seven thousand bucks just for the people's library alone the state is also covering over one hundred eighty six thousand bucks in legal fees it's a lot of money and they also issued a sort of half apology to recognizing that you can't just destroy the possessions

of citizen blake bad so it's a story where the good guys win but to me the most interesting part of the story is that these guys won by using the system they have been railing against they didn't just whine about this that he ruining their stuff they didn't hold us bellies burdened with mediocre guitar playing an infant bernie they actually utilize this system they hate to their advantage and came out on top now i hate the system as much as anyone else and i do believe we need a massive overhaul but i think the lesson here is that maybe we don't need completely under anarchy to accomplish some things maybe there's a way to accomplish change in a legal legit way or not who knows but the story is enough to make it big about it a little bit more before you embrace the dark side of anarchy now the only question remaining is with no more occupying going on what is occupy wall street going to do

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