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Ron Paul: If you can't grope another person, and if -- if you can't X-ray people and endanger them with possible X-ray, you can't…

On the recordNovember 18, 2010
If you can't grope another person, and if -- if you can't X-ray people and endanger them with possible X-ray, you can't take nude photographs of individuals, why do we allow the government to do it?
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Ron Paul

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Congressman Ron Paul questions the legality and morality of government pat-down procedures at airports.

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