Posted on 03/17/2012 10:03:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is quite a bit more than just paying $100. You have to fill out and submit a very extensive questionnaire and once that’s accepted then go in for a personal interview which is concluded by taking your fingerprints which get routed to the FBI for further checking. Pretty decent scrutiny all in all. I’ve already done it and it’s great for coming back into the country and skipping the long lines at immigration. Look forward to avoiding the security lines.
And if any part of your name includes “Mohammed”, you will automatically be accepted so as to avoid claims of racism or sexism or someotherism.
If it is a one-time fee, it may be worth it.
I wish I didn’t have to fund the TSA while sitting at home.
So they create a sorry situation, and if you want to avoid it, pay them a fee and they get to hire another bureaucracy. What is to prevent them from adding yet another onerous and dubious process and charging you to avoid it?
I’d like to know what authority TSA has to make two lines, one for first class passengers and one for everyone else..I paid my ticket and my taxes, why am I treated differently for a different class of ticket?
Anyone know?
That is a very good question. The airlines should treat first class passengers better; they paid for the privilege. But how can the airlines command, as a private company, the federal government to treat their best customers better?
Legally and ethically, it is like paying a high priced tax attorney to literally bypass a necessary audit.
Hmmm.
i did a little search and apparently the airlines control/pay for the area just before tsa thus they can give preferential treatment...maybe my beef is with the airlines?
I’m not quite getting the distinction for “first class”. Isn’t this for any seating assignment?
BTW, all of the 9-11 terrorists were sitting in first class.
I don’t know about other countries, but first class passengers as well as air crew get expedited through customs and immigration in Costa Rica. Don’t remember if this is true for U.S. as well. Come to think of it, the same was true 100 years ago. First class disembarked in New York, lower classes at Ellis Island.
Well, some of us travelers who have been mauled by TSA staff may agree to pay $100 if we are allowed to put on rubber gloves and squeeze hard the nuts and breasts of all the TSA staff on duty the next time we are at the airport to go through the security line. Payback.
I drive - takes longer (unless it’s within 7 hours of home) and the scenery is better. Don’t trust TSA to stop anyone who is a real terrorist and won’t pay exhorbitant prices for the “privilege” of flying.
Wasn't it papal indulgences that led to the protestant reformation in the late middle ages?
I guess this is just another form of JiffyPass, which costs turnpike users $1 per month and is worth it.
Agreed, we shouldn't have to pay the government to give us "absolution"; but it will give them some plausible deniability for singling out foreign-born muslim males between the ages of 12 and 30 who haven't passed the background check.
Until the ACLU and CAIR sue them again, that is.
That always bugged me.
For example, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, of Fort Hood fame, would have qualified with flying colors prior to his murder rampage. Alternatively, I probably would not. In 1969, a large group of summer resort employees, including me, were walking back from a picnic with, among other things, open bottles of wine. The police charged us all with open liquor in a public place. We pleaded guilty and paid a $30 fine. This was a criminal conviction, which I have had to mention on many forms since.
This solves nothing and risks lives.
TSA = “Thousands Standing Around”
....or ‘hussein’.
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