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Jesse Ventura Loses TSA Lawsuit, Threatens To Run For President And/Or Flee To Mexico

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An infuriated Jesse Ventura took the podium at a press conference in Minnesota yesterday after being told that the court in which he filed a lawsuit against the TSA for what he considers an unreasonable search and seizure process did not have jurisdiction over the matter. Railing against the “Fascist States of America,” the former Minnesota governor insisted he will “never stand for a national anthem again” and vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship. Ventura also noted he was “thinking about” running for President.

RELATED: Jesse Ventura Sues The TSA Over Body Scanners, “Unwanted Touching”

Ventura, who has had a long, storied career as a Navy SEAL turned professional wrestler turned governor of Minnesota turned outspoken albeit somewhat incoherent political commentator, sued the TSA in January of this year. Explains Yahoo! News:

Ventura has said a titanium hip implanted in him in 2008 sets off metal detectors and that agents previously used hand-held wands to scan his body. He said he was subjected to a body pat-down after an airport metal detector went off last November. Ventura said he hasn’t flown since and won’t fly commercially again.

Ventura, a political independent who served one term as governor, teased that he might have to run for president to change the policy and a court system he regards as broken. Moments later, he vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship so he can live there more months of the year.

The court struck down the lawsuit because of a jurisdiction issue, and Ventura was told to petition once again elsewhere. He did not seem interested in reapplying or appealing the suit, asking the press during his public statements: “Well my question is if the federal courts don’t have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?”

RELATED: Jesse Ventura To Lou Dobbs: ‘It’s Not Our Government Anymore’

According to Minnesota Public Radio, who have audio of his comments, the press conference was filmed for his program Conspiracy Theory, and Ventura’s comments didn’t stop at intermittently abandoning his citizenship and running for President. Calling the court “cowards,” he also promised not to “stand for a national anthem again,” and instead “raise a fist the same way Tommy Smith and John Carlos did in the ’68 Olympics.” The only solution for Ventura to repair his patriotism, he concluded, was to win a Presidential election. The race to apply for Mexican citizenship, however, indicates Ventura doesn’t seem to entirely believe in his chances.

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  • Anonymous

    Jesse Ventura: Fake name, phony wrestler, walrus, not Seal. Maybe he will take Alec Baldwin to Mexico with him.

  • Anonymous

    No, I like Thirty Rock. He needs to take Alex Jones with him. And let not the door hit them in the Arsh..

  • Lulu

    True! We can’t have constructive criticism of the merger between corporations and goverment at this moment in time. We need a diversion (” 99% vs 1%”) as we prepare for war with Iran to save our economy! USA! USA! USA!

  • Majmack

    Agree 100%…washed up has been still looking for publicity.  The good news is the first time he pulls the stunt he threatens during the National Anthem…”Old Jesse” is going to get his butt kicked.  I will donate personally for costs related to get him the citizenship he so desires in another Country…but he has to permanently give up his US citizenship as part of the deal

  • Anonymous

    Good riddance, Jesse. When you go to Mexico please take Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Janeane Garafalo and Alec Baldwin with you. Thanks. 

  • Anonymous

    Ventura took too many slams in the ring,he lost it a long time ago.I feel sorry for Mexico if he ends up there.

  • God

    You people putting down Jesse Ventura are mindless sheep….You have not a clue whats going on and never will….You all disgust me…

  • Aklatte

    Shame on all of u! Here is a guy who actually took a stand against tyranny and u mock him. Why don’t u take a look around. The TSA sticks their hands down children’s pants or puts us through a harmful NAKED body scanners and u morons just sit their and take it! And u call yourself free! Ha! Well just wait till these things are in the schools and government buildings, hell they’re already doing evasive pat downs at all the NFL games. But hey we need to be protected right, (even though the boarders are wide open). Well one of our founding fathers once said, ” Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither”. And to all the sheeple out there if u don’t take a stand like Jesse did then u deserve neither either

  • Win Court

    Jesse Ventura echos what it is to have respect and reverence for the Constitution and stand against the pathetic criminals which have infiltrated our public servant offices, from the president on down to your local officials and authorities.  It is time we stand up and restore respect and dignity to our government.  The government of the people, by the people and for the people, a democratic republic, where we hire (elect) servant to carry out the will of the people needs to be restored and taken back from the petty dictators and criminals who have managed to infiltrate our government and take the power from the people and Constitutional law from our government … this NWO, rich-elite, corporate government needs to be brought down and these criminals see the prisons, or hangmans’ noose, as is fitting …

  • Anonymous

    Good- take all your other loser libs with you, you insufferable dullard!

  • Daniellemke

    now now.

  • Anonymous

    He’s gotten crazy enough the last few years that he’d fit right in in the Republican presidential primary. (Unfortunately, though, he dared to speak the truth about religion being a crutch, so he killed his chance at winning over the lunatic base.)

  • Anonymous

    Run for President as a Republican, Jesse.  I’ll vote for you.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans despise anybody who defends the core principles of our nation.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U4LXUOYAJZDGYROZPVAUWGOB7Y That guy Matt

    Amen.. (no pun intended). Bunch of blogging nerds criticizing a guy who actually accomplished something, fought for our country and has earned the right to speak up… Jesse 2012!

  • Greg

    Give me a break he filed his case in the wrong court. He is either a idiot or his lawyer is a idiot. And instead of filing in the correct court and he goes on a moronic rant about nothing. No wonder morons on the internet are his only fans.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFR7CSJMD23L6SUBPBABCEZLUU Dave

    Titanium doesn’t set off metal detectors. I have it in both ankles, and never set one off. Good riddance you POS. If you love Mexico go there. You haven’t been worth much since got out of service

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFR7CSJMD23L6SUBPBABCEZLUU Dave

    You can go to Mexico with that POS. You disgust me. Hard to take anyone serious that made a living in professional wrestling.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFR7CSJMD23L6SUBPBABCEZLUU Dave

    It’s a given that he’s an idiot.

  • WardMD

    Hey Jesse…  The border (to Mexico) is THAT-A-WAY (he said, pointing SOUTH).  Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

    Adios!

  • Me

    Don’t let the door hit you in the ass Jesse…..and don’t drink the water in Mexico.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T2OWDBSZQPMDLYSEUCGCON43VE Leslie Davis

    Jesse Ventura

    LIAR –
    BRIBER – PHONY NAVY SEAL

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    Ventura intros his truTV show by lying about being a Navy SEAL.

    He wasn’t a SEAL and his photo on truTV is from the movie Predator.

    Facts you should know about Jesse Ventura

    - Ventura lied about being a Navy SEAL on active duty.

    - He lied about being in Vietnam. He told Dennis Anderson of the Minneapoli­s
    Star Tribune that “you haven’t hunted until you’ve hunted man”. Ventura was
    never in combat and he never hunted man.

    - Bribed a candidate on July 17, 1998 so he could run unopposed in the Reform
    Party. Call for a free DVD of the actual bribe.

    - Bribed Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner to fix the bribery investigation
    by giving a job to her boyfriend, John Wodele.

    - Endorsed “torture” of people at Highway 55 when 600-law enforcemen­t (the
    largest police action in Minnesota history) arrested peaceful protesters­.

    CALL FOR A COMPLIMENT­ARY COPY OF “ALWAYS CHEAT” AND LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT
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  • Anonymous

    He is one of yours, fatty- you and your OWS friends can keep him and go to Mexico.

  • Bluerooster29

    What have you accomplished in your little life, Dave?  Please tell us all what you do, and what great things you’ve done for your country.  Seriously, are you in the 7th or 8th grade?  I’d really like to know what your background is, because I think you’re just a little spoiled kid.

  • Bluerooster29

    Hey Stone, you’re quite the little name caller.  Please tell us all what you’ve done to make this a better country. And tell us what you really think about your government.  Seriously, you seem like a smart fellow.

  • Anonymous

    or as a talk show host
    or as a Mayor
    or a Governor

  • proud2teabagu

    Why didn’t you ask the same question to the idiot tool he was replying to?

  • Anonymous

    I will give you 1 thing
    you have cut and pasted this in more places than I can count
    Do you sell your services?

  • Anonymous

    “Give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”

    a classic!

  • Anonymous

    Cause unlike you, he has a brain.

  • Poop Copter

    phony author and commenters. 

    uh, Israeli-, World-Government-self-supremacists- run internet.  you guys are LAME!  you are doing a great job at butt-sniffing to promote yourselves into positions of greater criminality(a.k.a. power).  you are counting on most people missing brian lobes – you want to mess with the stupid masses in the balance – who can’t recall even a simple fact or two about your butt-owners’ crimes.  good luck becoming the cornerstone of christ’s church – a wing and a prayer you are counting on as you miss any reasonable deduction of life’s mysteries and mis-estimate the proof of “eternal” judgment.

  • Asdrgf

    Look how mean the commenters are!  What in God’s name could Jesse Ventura have personally done to “so many random commenters!”

  • Jeffy Teabagged by Jesse

    A que bonita bola de pendejos!

    Mr. Ventura is more closely aligned to the liberbarfhians. In fact, his rants about “gubbimint intrusion” are the same chant heard from the Constipation lovin’ teabaggeds. 

    Lemme splain. All those security measures at the airports were enacted under one administration to keep you gNOpig sheep safe.  But you also believe that if you clowns look and brag like the stupid ‘merkhuns that you are, you must be spared the “humiliation” while those in “full mooselin grab” ought to be poked in every hole under the safety of rabid xtians.

    In a few words: If you, I am talking to you gNOpig morons, IF YOU don’t want to be scanned, IF YOU don’t want to be touched, IF YOU don’t want YOUR sorry arse thrown out of an airplane, er, airport. DON’T FLY.

    You gNOpigs feel that was extreme? Try the racist laws passed by gNOpigs against Hispanics. Using the same logic you morons use, any USA citizen of Hispanic descent and brown skin ought to be able to sue in Federal Court arguing the SAME merits or “unreasonable search and seizure”

    What is even more hilarious is Jesse threatening to renounce his USA citizenship and going to Mexico. Of all places.

    What an absolute ugly ‘merkhun ijit. EVERY international commercial FLIGHT bound for the USA is subject to the same, or worse, “unwanted touching” by morons in an official looking uniform. Because that was the memo sent all across the world “If you let the ‘enema’ board a plane, uncle Sam bill be vely hungry!”

    Keep Jesse and Ron Paul, you widdle gNOpigs!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    You are right he wasn’t a Navy Seal “during the Vietnam War”. They Navy didn’t have “Seals” until 1983. He was in a UDT unit which was merged into the “new” Navy Seal program in 1983. After being discharged from Active Duty he went into the Reserves where he was part of Seal Team 1.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    I liked the guy who was going to College in Cincinnati but had to go to his grandmothers funeral in Richmond, Virginia. He was well aware of what the TSA had become so when he was on his way back. He (or a friend) took a wide black marker and wrote the 4th amendment on his torso. So when he was asked to have a further exam he stripped down to his gym shorts he was wearing under his pants.

  • Anonymous

    “Give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” That’s still one of the all-time classics.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Patsy!

  • Anselmo Minevir Jones

    Doesn’t TSA have anything better to do than to rag Jesse Ventura. As to the Dishonorable Susan Nelson, there must be a process to have her removed from the bench. Perhaps we should push for her impeachment in the House of Representatives. 

  • Unicornhmh

    He needs to leave this country and never return! He is as un american as can be!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    Schmuck

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    Another schmuck…

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    Bigger Schmuck!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    Yawn!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    Ventura is an idiot – I am a veteran of the USAF and USA, retired as a NYPD officer, and I am an Adjunct Professor in a state college; with very conservative views. Do I quantify? 

  • 71VET

    Paul/Ventura 2012

  • caconservative

    Please Jesse, choose the latter!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    All claims about Jesse Ventura are lies Jesse was a seal fact so your liar not a very good liar either.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Jesse Ventura would be one entertaining president that’s for sure but he will never be president. I doubt that he will leave to move to Mexico as well.

  • Retired Vet

    Lemme guess:  You’re a Zionist.

  • Poirierjane

    You people are stupid enough to believe anything you read on the web. Jesse is not giving up his citizenship. He is a TRUE American who is searching for the truth that our Government hides from us, take heed sheeple and wake up

  • swfljp

    learn how to write before you postulate

  • swfljp

    HUH? What?

  • swfljp

    You believe anything you read on the web. Jesse is not giving up his citizenship. He is a TRUE American who is searching for the truth that our Government hides from us, take heed sheeple and wake up

  • Anonymous

    maybe he should talk to the citizens of free Mexico who every day excape by the thousands to come to fascist america

  • swfljp

    MORON- SHEEPLE. Yeah keep believing what fax news tells you.

  • swfljp

    you’re an idiot if you believe this story, yes STORY. They don’t give you all the facts, so you just believe what they say.  Jesse is fighting for truths that our government is keeping from us and you fall for the smear the big corporation news puts out.  wake up idiots

  • swfljp

     You should investigate the facts of the REAL STORY before you smear Governor Ventura.  He is merely seeking the truths and fighting for OUR FREEDOM. YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE  SHOULD KNOW BETTER.

    FOX NEWS, AMONG OTHERS IS A PUPPET FOR THE BIG CORPORATIONS AND TELL YOU THE “NEWS” THE WAY THEY SPIN IT.

    WAKE UP

  • swfljp

     WAKE UP.  HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOUR FREEDOM TO NOT BE MOLESTED WHILE YOU’RE GOING ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.

  • Anonymous

    Not sure what you mean? Fox news is nothing but a propaganda arm of the GOP. I hate Fox. What made you think I believe them at all?

  • Jd

    ‘excape’ ? seriously? fuckin’ hell.

  • george

    most of you posting must enjoy being raped in public. Just wait untill the TSA does the strip search in grocery stores. they already do it at football games! NO TOUCHDOWN IN MY ENDZONE! pretty soon this country will resemble nazi germany. is that what you people want?

  • gerald

    they choose between the ‘LESSER OF TWO EVIL’S” ok, Adolph?

  • gerald

    the negative comments are from DUMB SHEEP WHO can’t read the constitution or the bill of rights! If they did, they would see that AMERICA IS ABANDONING IT’S MORALITY WITH THE EXCUSE AS TERRORISM.

  • qtiavcm1

    Is it me or these opinions are mostly done by fascists? seriously people! are you blind or you are born incapacitated to THINK? Here is one guy who actually does something while the rest of you live in la la land drinking scotch. I am glad I never moved to the USA! when I saw on the news that little tyke being “patted” I thought to myself: “bloody hell mate! that is disgusting!!!!”
    People like you elected bush(es) and obama for president and the only thing you got out of that  was a screwed up country, a massive debt, extremely large unemployment, repossession of homes, etc and you still don’t get it!
    you blokes are wrong, very wrong. you are surely barking at the wrong tree!
     

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/32V7MSOAHUAAE3YVGZ42BUHN6Q Sherry

    Most of those in this commentary will never take off the rose shaded eye wear they hide behind.  They are spineless and will subject future generations to full throttle police state tyranny.  They havent the faintest idea what our civil liberties are and how we lose a little more every single day.  Shame on all of you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pam.riggsby Pam Riggsby

    not only that but it is not like we dont know what to expect when we travel..not a big secret…i know my husband has a pacemaker and has a card to show when he has to go through metal detectors…i just dont understand why people are surprised at the efforts to make sure we travel safely..

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