Ron Paul is still hoping mad at the Transportation Safety Administration nearly a week after airport screeners clashed with the Texas congressman’s son Rand.

Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican presidential candidate, has renewed his calls for abolishing the TSA following security personnel’s refusal to allow Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, to board his flight in Nashville unless he agreed to a pat-down search.

Rand Paul was escorted away from the screening area by local police. He claims he was detained by TSA personnel, something the agency disputes.

Ron Paul says the incident underscores what he says is a continuing violation of the Constitution’s protections against improper government searches and seizure.

“It totally voids the concept of the Fourth Amendment, searches and prodding and poking, you know, with no permission,” Paul told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” today.

Paul said the searches are not voluntary, as the government argues, because Americans are not permitted to take commercial air flights without doing exactly what the government demands.

“They trap us into it,” Paul told Crowley. “There’s no way you can travel if you don’t do it. So I’ve said, you know, when you look at some of these pictures of probing groin areas and breast areas and all this, and old women having to take their clothes off, if we as a people are so complacent that we can look at that and say, oh, that’s OK, they’re making us safe.

“It doesn’t make us safe. It undermines our liberties and there’s a much better way of giving us security at the airports than accepting the bureaucrats and the politicians in Washington. That is totally unacceptable from my viewpoint.”

The congressman from Lake Jackson said the TSA should be abolished and airport security should be privatized.

“Well, it shouldn’t be government,” he said. “You know, the people who protect very dangerous chemical plants, they’re private sources, you know. They have their police guards. They have their fences. And they have their security. And they do a very good job.

“The assumption that the government has to do this is the wrong assumption. I voted against the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA and it’s a bureaucratic monster.”