So in Texas, a terrorist can stuff a bomb in his child’s diaper and board an aircraft, assured that no search will occur?
Doe Eyes,
You need to get a grip on reality. Seriously, did you read your post before posting it. I guess you’re a big advocate of strip searching babies. Really? This is your stance on this?
I think Rep. David Simpson said it pretty well, “Instead of threatening to shut down flights in Texas, why doesn’t the TSA just show us their statutory authority to grope or ogle our private parts.”
How does this legislation, “not ensure the safety of the passengers and crew.”? The legislation would simply keep a check on pat downs and aggressive abusive pat downs in particular. Up until this past year we seemed to being doing pretty good with airline safety. And please don’t bring up the “Christmas Day Bomber.” That story doesn’t hold water and the flight originated outside the US. Our domestic record has been pretty good without this federal overreach.
I say pass it. How in the world could the federal government justify shutting down all flights in and out of Texas? If they did wouldn’t that be an admission of failure for the past nine years post 9/11? The federal government increased security checks. Then formed the massive bureaucracy known as the TSA. The TSA put in place security checks and procedures to keep “us” safe. Now all of the sudden if they can’t touch your junk we’re not safe and no planes can takeoff or land in the State of Texas. Are you kidding me?
“The...bill...relates to the punishment for the offense of official oppression by the intrusive touching of persons seeking access to public buildings and transportation.” http://tinyurl.com/3ts33d7 or preview http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ts33d7
They can still scan your bag. They can still remove everything from your bag. They can still wand your person. They can make you take off your shoes. They can make you throw away your bottle of water, diet coke or how coffee. They can confiscate your toe nail clippers and your clippings for that matter.
Does “intrusive touching” by a federal employee really make you feel more comfortable traveling to and from Texas? Not an officer of the law, a federal employee. I don’t know anyone that meets their mailman, a federal employee, at the mailbox to be intrusively touched so that they would feel more secure in opening and reading their mail. I think maybe the federal employees at the DMV should think about incorporating these policies. If you’re going to stand in line for two hours to be treated rudely you might as well get some intrusive touching.
They can already place plastic explosives inside a body cavity with a simple fuse/non metal detonator . Mid flight go to the lavatory remove the explosive & scream allahu ahkbarBOOM end of flight .
The TSA finger f**king my 15 yo niece taking a flight to band camp wont stop the mad mohammadans from trying to do the C4 suppository stunt .
Now you may not mind yourself & your loved ones being publicly fondled, groped, poked, prodded, finger f**ked in public by govt. flunkies but some of us in fact do object & do so strenously.