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TSA Tries to Pat Down Man After His Flight, Watch Him Refuse
benswann.com ^ | Sept 12, 2014 | Barry Donegan

Posted on 09/13/2014 5:36:34 PM PDT by BulletBobCo

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To: Cboldt
“Just saying, too, that “SSSS” can be assigned for reasons other than posting stuff in public.”

Yep. If you PO a ticket agent as you check in they are known to manually 4’s you. Also if you draw a positive in the swab test for explosives they take your info down to include DL a/o passport info. The positives I have seen were always false alarms due easily explainable reasons but your are entered on a list. What that entails I don't know but I doubt it is for your traveling enjoyment.

61 posted on 09/13/2014 8:49:21 PM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: Dan(9698)
To get a boarding pass one has to show ID.

Unless you are an Illegal.

Or you are a multiple voter!

62 posted on 09/13/2014 9:04:33 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: roadcat
It still is that way in Asia. Try any of the Japanese airlines, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and even Korean Airlines.
63 posted on 09/13/2014 9:36:04 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: exit82

Cathay Pacific or Singapore Airlines guy

Cathay makes flight attendant applicants bring a bikini to the interview. They also all have to speak English as well as Chinese


64 posted on 09/13/2014 9:52:48 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: BulletBobCo

I cross into Canada by car fairly regularly. I have noticed US Customs more and more stopping motorists to ask questions why they are LEAVING the USA.

police-state in the making. What’s next is a new big wall.


65 posted on 09/13/2014 10:10:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ontap

When my grandparents on my Mom’s side flew out for Christmas with us in Idaho back around ‘72 their dog spent the flight up in the cockpit with the crew eating cookies with them, that another passenger brought and gave to them.

We should have depopulated other nations before we allowed that type of America to fade away...


66 posted on 09/13/2014 10:53:20 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: BulletBobCo

See yuh, Ass Clowns...


67 posted on 09/13/2014 11:06:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Fai Mao
Cathay makes flight attendant applicants bring a bikini to the interview.

I think I may have found my dream job. ;)

68 posted on 09/14/2014 4:00:17 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: sheana

My wife & I are both retired military. We got the full shakedown by U.S. Customs when we returned from Canada after a four day visit. Scanned our passports then told us to pull over into the holding area. Delayed over an hour.

Oh - and we’re both NRA life members, CCW holders, registered Republicans, and we live in the South.

Yes, I think there’s a connection.


69 posted on 09/14/2014 5:46:50 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: BulletBobCo

After having a TWIC card for years I’ve finally made the “Pre-Check” TSA list. I don’t take off shoes, don’t pull the laptop from it’s case and don’t take off the belt. AND the line is much shorter and faster.

If it wasn’t for overcrowded flights and not knee room without an up grade I would almost like flying again...


70 posted on 09/14/2014 12:52:10 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: BulletBobCo

I have NOT flown since the TSA started harassing Americans. Is it inconvenient -— YES. But I would rather have inconvenience with freedom, over “convenience” with tyranny. So I have to build an extra day or two into my plans in order to drive where I want to go -— so what. I see a lot of beautiful country and get to visit interesting places along the way. If more of us were willing to give up our temporary conveniences, instead of just acquiescing to unconstitutional power and authority, perhaps we could begin to move things back in the right direction.


71 posted on 09/14/2014 1:19:45 PM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was Constitutional Conservative when it wasn't Cool)
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To: exit82

Yep, I’m with you!!!


72 posted on 09/14/2014 1:21:24 PM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was Constitutional Conservative when it wasn't Cool)
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To: PGR88

I got stopped leaving the US via the tunnel between DTW and Windsor, probably 5 or so years ago. No booth or regular checkpoint, jut a couple agents in the tunnel entry road, one with a rifle, motioned for me to stop. I was questioned and made to open the trunk. No request for ID or anything else.


73 posted on 09/14/2014 1:34:52 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Billthedrill
Fortunately, I have never posted to a website that is critical of the government.


74 posted on 09/14/2014 1:42:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: LTC.Ret

I’m a railroad commuter, and I dread the day the TSA idiots take over monitoring the passenger railroad system away from the Amtrak police (it’ll come, I have no doubt). They have this moronic thing called “Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response” (VIPR), which they’re itching to use. They tried it at the Atlanta Amtrak station a while ago, stopping and inconveniencing hundreds of commuters who were just trying to leave the damned station (they’d already gotten off their trains). The VIPR jerks demanded to inspect everyone’s briefcases and backpacks. Fortunately, the local Amtrak Police Chief got wind of this and had a cow; he came down from his office and told them to get the hell out of his station or he’d have his men arrest the lot of them. They left.

Since then, I’ve seen them show up at my station platforms once in a while. That’s all they do - for now - just stand around looking bored. One day the idiots decided they needed to direct traffic out of my station’s parking lot! Dammit, they forced us to queue, and it took twice as long to get out than if we’d figured it out for ourselves. Jerks. Total useless appendages to national security.


75 posted on 09/14/2014 1:54:10 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

After a flight? What is the point of searching them AFTER a flight?


76 posted on 09/14/2014 1:54:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL
After a flight? What is the point of searching them AFTER a flight?

Well, it was after a commuter train ride, but your point is well taken. I'll tell you what their point was: they attempted it because they felt like it. Thank God for the local Amtrak Police Chief to told them to take a hike.

You've got an out-of-control government agency with power, you've got thousands of mall rent-a-cops with guns and barely high-school education levels, and a burning desire to justify their existence - it's a toxic mix that's not good for anyone.

77 posted on 09/14/2014 2:01:57 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Took my first cross country train trip year before last and loved it. If/when TSA takes over rail security, I will quit riding trains, too.


78 posted on 09/14/2014 4:01:33 PM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was Constitutional Conservative when it wasn't Cool)
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To: BulletBobCo

To his credit he walked away and they did nothing- you need to stand up to bullies or they’ll continue to bully.


79 posted on 09/17/2014 8:11:28 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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