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The TSA's Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous
http://gizmodo.com/5688087/the-tsas-sense-of-humor-makes-me-nervous ^ | 11/12/10

Posted on 11/12/2010 7:53:21 AM PST by NativeNewYorker

This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet?


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: sourcetitlenoturl; tsa; tsapervs
Are we a police state yet?
1 posted on 11/12/2010 7:53:25 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: NativeNewYorker

It’s a so-so photoshop.


2 posted on 11/12/2010 7:56:54 AM PST by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Looks like...........

3 posted on 11/12/2010 7:58:24 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Are we a police state yet?

No, we’re a nation of legalized perverts.
Amazing that a parent will hold a screaming child while one of these perverts feels him/her out!!!
And we worry about the economy.


4 posted on 11/12/2010 8:00:07 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Now THAT’S good satire.

(even if it’s photo-shopped)

And no, it does not make me nervous.

(even if it is NOT photo-shopped)


5 posted on 11/12/2010 8:01:16 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: NativeNewYorker

6 posted on 11/12/2010 8:01:39 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: WestwardHo

At least one TSA agent was discovered to be into S&M and had a history of sexual harassment.

Who screens the screeners? The same people who think it is marvy to let single adult male homosexuals have overnight stays with boy scouts?


7 posted on 11/12/2010 8:02:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Screw the airlines... screw tsa... I will NEVER fly commercial again... EVER... and I will support any effort to fire all tsa agents and privatize their service and outlaw ALL government unions.

LLS

8 posted on 11/12/2010 8:06:39 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: WayneS

Remember Tom Dashole’s words before the creation of the TSA:

You can’t professionalize unless you federalize.............


9 posted on 11/12/2010 8:08:38 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Sick just sick. Obama, however, during his India trip, said he’d look into ending airport “turban frisking” to appease Indian leaders and to not offend Sikhs by being disrespectful to religious symbols like TURBANS.

Apparently it’s OK for them to make jokes and keep images of women/children and feeling up Grandma’s chest is OK, but searching for weapons or bomb detonation devices concealed in a turban is now disrespectful. The police state has arrived but only for your average American citizen it seems.

http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/harsimrat-raises-issue-turban-frisking-us-president-barack-obama/25794

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html

New scanners break child porn laws

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws


10 posted on 11/12/2010 8:10:44 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori

The thing about this is that the serious terrorists can get around all of this anyway, by embedding the bomb inside their bodies - for instance, as breast implants. The only way they could make us secure through device detection is if they did actual x-rays from multiple angles, as thoroughly as if they were looking for a tumor. And even at that how would we know whether it was a legitimate breast implant or something more sinister?

Like it or not, the only way to protect ourselves is to allow screening of BEHAVIOR. To be looking for terrorists themselves, and not just devices. Like the Israelis do.

The millenium plot was stopped because somebody vigilant followed their gut instinct. That person was looking for terrorists, not just devices. And that saved a lot of lives.

This is why CAIR has to do the legal thing of trying to make it “discrimination” for people to report suspicious behavior. They know that they can work their way around people looking for devices. What they can’t do so easily is get around people who are looking for TERRORISTS.

The moves by CAIR and other Muslims make it clear to me that they believe they have reached the 10% population threshold where Islam says they have a responsibility to soften the society to receive sharia. They are making their move. We either stop them, or we will be destroyed by them. America needs to wake up.


11 posted on 11/12/2010 8:48:57 AM PST by butterdezillion (.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

It’s amusing but it’s not professional and, I dare say, not appropriate for a government agency. The wallpaper should go.


12 posted on 11/12/2010 9:03:09 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: WestwardHo

No, we’re a nation of legalized perverts.
Amazing that a parent will hold a screaming child while one of these perverts feels him/her out!!!
And we worry about the economy.”””

EVERY parent worth a darn has spent time explaining to their kids that the kid is NEVER to let a STRANGER near them & to run—& for sure, NEVER to let a stranger put their hands on the kid & in particular, their private areas.

NOW- the GOVERNMENT, via the radical Muslims, are paying STRANGERS to paw all over these same kids.

No wonder the kids are screaming—I would be screaming, also.


13 posted on 11/12/2010 9:27:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: newzjunkey
The wallpaper should go.

The TSA and all of its false security should go.

14 posted on 11/12/2010 10:09:04 AM PST by GingisK
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To: LibLieSlayer
I will NEVER fly commercial again... EVER

I am getting very tired of these "I will never fly commercial again" posts. Many of us don't have a choice. We live in WA and my the rest of my and my husband's family is in LA/MS. What do you propose we do? Drive 2K+ miles, when hubby works and the kids are in school?

You remind me of those who say they will never send their kids to public school. Many of us can't afford private school or can't stay home.

We need to fight the government control. Fight the system and make them profile likely terrorists instead of feeling up every flyer or taking nudie pix. Fight the public school system and demand that taxpayers who homeschool or send their kids to private get their taxes back. We haven't won if we are still paying for it.

15 posted on 11/12/2010 10:22:26 AM PST by sportutegrl (Why are they called Musketeers if they fight with swords?)
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To: sportutegrl
Since I must travel frequently for business, I have a plan.

On D-3, begin diet heavily weighted toward kimchi, broccoli, eggs, red meat, beer, etc. This diet will have certain natural gastrointestinal effects.

On D-Day, arrive at "security screening" checkpoint. Place small amount of carry-on property in X-Ray scanner. Inform TSA that "I opt out" of the backscatter X-Ray machine. When TSA commences sexual abuse "enhanced pat-down search" ... allow nature to take its course regarding gastrointestinal effects.

Childish?

Perhaps ... but TSA won't like it, and they can't really do anything about it.

16 posted on 11/12/2010 10:28:39 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ridesthemiles

NOW- the GOVERNMENT, via the radical Muslims, are paying STRANGERS to paw all over these same kids.

SUPER EASY SOLUTION!!!!!! DON’T CANCEL YOUR TRAVEL PLANS!!!!!!!!! SHOW UP IN A BURKA!!!!
Of course Moslems will fly through untouched for religeous reasons!


17 posted on 11/12/2010 10:30:22 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Three solutions...
1. Profile, profile, profile...
2. Time for We the People to take back the government
3. While #2 progresses, put a fence around DC and make the US Corp stay within their bounds. No jurisdiction outside DC.


18 posted on 11/12/2010 10:31:06 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: sportutegrl
LLS : “I will NEVER fly commercial again... EVER”

sportutegrl: “I am getting very tired of these “I will never fly commercial again” posts. Many of us don't have a choice. We live in WA and my the rest of my and my husband's family is in LA/MS. What do you propose we do? Drive 2K+ miles, when hubby works and the kids are in school?”

I am getting really tired of other people wanting to control the rest of the nation so that their own lives are made easier... even to the point of suppressing our right to speak freely, to assemble freely and to hold opinions on actions of our government.

sportutegrl: “You remind me of those who say they will never send their kids to public school. Many of us can't afford private school or can't stay home.”

If I had children of my own, they would be in the best PRIVATE Christian schools available... and then off to Marion Military Institute in Selma, Alabama. You remind me of stalin... without the mustache.

sportutegrl: “We need to fight the government control. Fight the system and make them profile likely terrorists instead of feeling up every flyer or taking nudie pix.”

You attack me... and by default you attack those that refuse to spend their money in a system as corrupt and inept as commercial aviation and the government goons that administer it. We are fighting back... by not supporting the totalitarian big brother sysytem that they created. You do what you want to do... leave the rest of the USA out of your family problems.

sportutegrl: “Fight the public school system and demand that taxpayers who homeschool or send their kids to private get their taxes back. We haven't won if we are still paying for it.”

KILL the department of mis-education and make all public service unions illegal.

LLS

19 posted on 11/14/2010 5:26:48 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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