Posted on 11/15/2010 6:39:08 AM PST by ChrisBoundsTX
What are your thoughts about the new TSA procedures? I'm sure Johnny Edge's airport story has circulated FR.
Benjamin Franklin sum's up my feelings with his quote:
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty or Safety.”
I’ll never board a plane again—for any reason....it’s as simple as that.
It’s very invasive, totally invasive search and seizure. They give you an ‘insignificant’ dose of radiation? Are all the machines REALLY going to be operated by trained radiationists? Are they going to be monitored for safety? For if they are working correctly? And is the government going to pay for your medical treatments if YOU happen to be the one who gets cancer from it? Because they mandated it?
The Marxist idiots in DC are shredding the Constitution bit by bit. They should be mandated to be on the receiving end of everything they are dishing out to We the People.
And bit by bit they are heating the water in the pot, so the frogs won’t notice.
Since the CEO of the company that makes/sells the scanning machines traveled to the Far East with emperor nobama do you think something is shady about requiring these???
excellant points.
I did not go on a trip via plane this thanksgiving, not only because of the flying hassles...but that was the MAJOR reason. i just don’t care anymore, i just don’t want to fly...for me, it has reached the tipping point.
wonder if this holiday season we will see any drop in the usual number of holdiay flyers?
How often are games won by the defense? Because that is what we are doing, playing the defense. Muslim terrorists turn planes into bombs and blond-haired, blue-eyed, busty white girls get frisked. Shoe bomber? Everybody has to take of their shoes. Underwear bomber? X-ray’s for three year olds, and all liquids must be in 1 oz. containers and all containers encloses in a 1 quart clear plastic bag. Ink toner bomb? Butch Napolitano wisely prohibits all ink toner cartridges over 16 oz. on planes.
Every “security measure” we have is in response to something. Let’s try something original and actually frisk the people who are most likely to do this? Did I read correctly that Muslims can “opt out” of pornovision at the airport because it violates their religion?
and why in god’s name would you intrusively pat down a young child??
this has gone too far. the Israeli’s don’t do this and they have way MOre to worry about. this is justs nuts.
I think that anyone allowing themselves to be degraded in this fashion, deserves what they get. Rhetorically: does your freedom want to be expunged by hanging or electrocution. The end is the same.
HA! hey Hijab Muzzies...bring it on!
the first one that gets through security without the invasive pat down....HA! Its over.
Any TSA worker who wasn't already a pervert when s/he accepted the position will surely become one after freely groping breasts and genitals all day, every day. What sane person would agree to frequently fondle strangers' genitals as a condition of their employment?
The situation is FUBAR.
Do you have a source for this story?
I think its been orchestrated to generate public hysteria fueled by certain cases. And its been proven that Soros was involved in this by getting a billion dollar check from Obama to pay for all of these machines.
Its no wonder Glenn Beck is after Soros so hard, and I hope America realizes that this man only profits from our discomfort.
I have a pacermaker/defib & my heart paces 100%. I do not go threw the achway but always need a pat down. I can go threw any machines. I have alwys before this time have a nice patdown with back of hand by female TSA person.
I did get lockrd in a room with two female personel one time in Pittsburgh, PA airport. The door locked & had to be open from outside so we waited ten minutes or longer until some one missed the women gone & came in the room so we could get out. My handbag & carry on was left on the x ray belt. No one to watch them. TSA can do stupid things rushing people through like herding cattle.
I wrote to TSA & other government agencys to complain. No return message from any one.
I have two cards from Medrontic that made my pacer/letter from two doctors(Cardologists)not to walk threw archway or the new x-ray machines.
I told the TSA lady in Pittsburgh two weeks ago & demanded the pat down. The woman looked me in the eye & said, in the future use the x-ray, do not ask for pat down for x-ray is so safe. I looked her back in the eye & said can you not read my doctors instructions , I will not go threw the machine . One little thing could go wrong & I would be deadas I pace 100%. She said what do you mean- you pace? If a person is going to tell me what I should do then she should know what pacing the heart means. What a sorry group of people that stands around looking at each other & waste of taxpayers money.
The TSA isn’t even playing defense.
They’re playing “Security Theatre.”
The boss’ wife thought she’d do us all a favor, so she’s brought in a massage guy every Friday. She asked me why I’ve never gotten a free massage from him. I told her that for as long as I live, there ain’t another man gonna be rubbing on me.
You can also bet I’m never gonna let another man grope me at the airport either. I’ll just drive.
” Let’s try something original ...”
How about POP, Pigs on Planes?
Instead, we've made it into another government monstrosity where grandmothers are subject to near body cavity screening levels, lest someone feel offended that everyone’s not subject to the same screening level.
This has never been about flight safety. For everything that has been done, we've still had a panty-bomber. There has never been a reported incident where a terrorist was stopped by TSA screening.
It is like everything else the federal government does: a complete and utter failure.
Worse, the lack of training the TSA has demonstrated time and time again at spotting and dealing with real threats will be thousands more ‘false positives’ and referrals to more intensive screening and searching, because TSA agents can't figure out that nail files and clippers aren't the threat, Muslim men are. That No-Fly lists only inconvenience the innocent, as the guilty cross the border from Mexico with impunity, and domestic threats simply pick up fake ID.
I saw that. But, if you spend a lot of times at airports, you would notice that TSA doesn’t wear that style uniform anymore. I wish the site would have posted the date of the video. If it was dated, I must have missed it.
Anyone catch the date?
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