He smugly whipped out his radio and asked his sup if a CT ID is valid, even though I was in FL. The sup said yes, and he set it down on the desk, and yelled "next!"
That’s why I won’t fly till those (insert cuss words here) are all out of a job.
Well, Mr. TSA man, if you think there is something
in my diaper, why don’t you just reach in there and
find out?”
This confuses me a bit.
I am not a TSA fan by any means, but it is more like they are bored DMV employees than the malignant evil portrayed so often in the headlines.
I fly 2500 miles a week, over 100,000 each year since 9/11 and have 3 million lifetime miles.
I have encountered only courtesy and professionalism from the few times I have had to interact with them. Mostly it is their inability to understand things like wires in my bag and the decision to check all 27 pockets in my travel vest (only happened twice) that indicate dimness, not meanness.
This is in 10 airports across the country.
Yes they can be stupid and uninformed and inconsistent. But their conduct is rarely problematic...
Malls are finished too. Homeland doesn't care about radical muslims ...only about conservatives. Many of us didn't go into one mall this Christmas. We bought on-line...
Health Insurance is on the ropes... or will be soon after the colossal failure of Obamacare.
Every other government organization wants their own swat teams and enough bullets to kill hundreds of thousands of... wait for it ... conservative Americans.
Now they're killing the travel business... one humiliated, bullied citizen at a time....
Do you feel the boot grinding into your face yet?
he should have pissed all over them.
The good news is the Death Panels have ruled out PSA screenings so we don’t have to worry about the aftermath of those cancer surgeries anymore.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2013/08/28/how-much-will-your-life-be-worth-under-obamacare/
Anybody who willingly subjects themselves to Constitution-free zones deserves whatever the jackboots dish out.
If all Americans completely boycotted US airports, this nonsense would stop inside a week.
I hate to sound like a broken record (or a CD for you kiddies who don’t remember them – or the God-given freedoms all those folks died to try to preserve for you) but here I go again!
The TSA began hijacking our freedoms the day they started the “security” crap at the airports many years ago. Some of us bi**hed about it then but didn’t get much response. Fedzilla was conditioning us to accept more and more restrictions on our freedoms from day one.
But, of course, say you, didn’t their system of NOT PROFILING do a splendid job by keeping those 19 muzzies off planes on 9-11? Goodness, if they hadn’t been stopped, they might have killed over 3,000 people, knocked down buildings and...
Oh, never mind.
(In the post 9-11 world, anyone stupid enough to try to take over a commercial flight would be beaten to death by the passengers who realize that’s to be preferred to hitting the Capitol at 600 MPH.)
It begs a question of anyone who has a real-world grip on how governments — ALL governments — operate:
“Did anyone really think the situation would get better for the traveling public?”
Having said that, this airport “training” of the public is essential to the success of Obozo’s planned National Defense Corps (or is that “corpse?”) street patrols. Can you say “You VILL show me your papers” in ebonics?
“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” (William Pitt, 1759 1806)
FOLLOW UP POST: TRIP TO NEW ENGLAND
In mid-2002, my wife and I flew to a family wedding in New England and changed planes in Philly.
With a 1 hour layover, we went to get a bite to eat at a joint in the then "sterile concourse." Our departing flight was in the same concourse.
Imagine my surprise when the meal came with one of those sturdy, white plastic knives with a serrated edge I pocketed and took on the departing flight. I later literally butchered a salami to prove that the knife was, in fact, a potentially lethal weapon.
Cutting (pun intended) to the chase, after 9-11, the next gang of morons who attempt to charge the flight deck of a commercial aircraft would be beaten to death by passengers who understand that if the flight was taken over, they would be dead anyway. They'd have nothing to lose.
If the TSA wants to keep planes from coming down, they should devote their efforts to PROFILING (just as the Israelis do) and inspecting the AIR CARGO in the belly of the plane, only 5% or so is inspected now. That's probably how it'll happen next time.
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