Posted on 03/21/2009 8:32:00 AM PDT by nuconvert
Just when you thought you had the Transportation Security Administration rules all figured out, here comes a new procedure. Starting sometime in the next few months, you'll have to provide your birth date and gender whenever you buy an airplane ticket. The TSA is giving the airlines some time to change their websites and retrain their phone-reservations agents to be able to implement the agency's new Secure Flight program. Expect the changes on domestic flights by this summer.
The change is supposed to help reduce the number of Americans who are misidentified as individuals on the agency's no-fly and "selectee-for-further-inspection" watch lists. Up until now, airlines have done the work of vetting their passenger manifests for suspect names, but under the new program, the TSA assumes the job of monitoring watch lists full-time and implements "a uniform, efficient matching process."
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Thanks for your explanation. I’m beginning to think that this is going to be a domestic form of the ESTA program.
I can see the form now...
Gender: (check one only)
Male ___
Female ___
Other ___
Political correctness run amok. It’s literally killing this nation.
SSSS is a transliterated Arabic acronym. Rough translation: Praise Allah! The operation is postponed.
I have heard that you can get a statement from your physician that you have a metallic implant to present to TSA. I don’t know how if it really helps.
Make sure to point that out to the tsa drone the next time you fly. Memorize your lawyer's phone number beforehand.
I have an ID card with the serial number and manufacturer of the implant, the name of the ortho surgeon who did the work as well as a PET/CT scan image of my right leg clearly showing the device in place. Might as well show them a cartoon from MAD Magazine!
The scar running about 9 inches straight across my kneecap should be a pretty good hint that the beep from the metal detector is coming from something intentionally placed inside.
Many people have letters from their knee doctors. I don’t know why security accepts letters since they could be from anyone or anywhere.
EXTREMELY GOOD POINT!!!
Obviously something was funny about that, and I think you hit the nail on the head with the foot fetish analysis...
You did take your grievance to the airline you work for and the TSA???
Ridiculous stuff like this happened with TSA all the time. I remember a crew member who was late for a briefing and showed up absolutely furious... the screener, a twenty-something woman, had stopped her to look through her crew bags, pulled out her makeup kit and even went so far as to open her eye makeup compacts and unscrew the lid to her mascara - like she was shopping instead of doing a security check. She held her up for 15 minutes. They harassed crews relentlessly following 9/11, and at LAX they would let ramp and catering employees walk around security. That was still going on when I quit a few years later... I heard they finally stopped allowing that.
The union was always telling us to report stuff like that and we did and nothing ever changed. Our union was completely worthless. They were good for taking $40 out of your paycheck and giving it to the DNC and that was about it. After I left that job I swore to never be a union member again and so far I’ve lived up to that promise.
Maybe he's a seat-kicker. Good riddance!
Why are they bothering? There is no “war on terror”. No “enemy combatants”. No acts of terrorism, just “man caused disasters”. So says FedGov....
Good luck with the knee.
Paging John Smith.
John Smith. Please report to the booking agent.
Then the best part was when he asked me to lift up my feet so he could "wand" the bottoms of my feet. I am not kidding. I was wearing a dress with sheer stockings and he wanted to run the metal detector across the bottoms of my feet. My sheer-stockinged feet. I looked up at the passengers in line closest to me and just shook my head while he was doing this and they all started laughing. It was so supremely ridiculous it was actually funny.
Made me wonder if the guy just had a foot fetish or something.
I think it's pretty obvious that he had a foot fetish.
Not surprised, yet I am glad you are out of that situation...
I had to go pick up my mother from an international flight at IAH, and it has gotten to the point of why bother...
From the time you enter the road going into the “loop” to pick up, the security and local flunkies they get to pull airport duty with the local P.D.’s you cannot even “stop” to pick up your passenger without a “move along” whoop from those goobers...I guess there is a reason they put the lowest common denominator in those positions...
Everyone os a terrorist in their eyes, and common sense gets thrown out the window at the drop of a hat...
You almost have to watch them as closely as anyone you may see acting suspiciously around these kinds of places...
Yeah, LAX...Isn’t that where the El Al airlines girl was shot and killed a few years ago???
An excellent example of what they have (had) in place doesn’t and more important “couldn’t” work...
Now it is all a joke...
There is now a cell phone lot at IAH where you can wait until your arrival is ready to be picked up/ Once you get a call, you can get to passenger pickup within five minutes.
Perhaps some one should point out to the TSA that it is bombs on airplanes that blow them up, not a persons gender or age.
Unless of course you were to actually act on the known FACT that plane bombers tend to be males of the age of 19-28 years old. And Arabic, and Muslim as a side note.
But, no, YOUR PAPERS PLEAZZZZZE is much more important.
Or that placing your makeup or perfume in a baggie will not cause it to become explosive proof. (That is one DANG STRONG zip lock you got there Mr TSA Massa.)
Does anyone else notice that the TSA is all about circus and not security? The day my wife got searched while some muslim males walked right through with walking staffs was my most silly moment. Obviously the TSA never watches Karate fliks where a staff is actually used as a *gasp* weapon.
My wife did not get the humor, she was trying to figure out how her eyelash crimpers could be used to shoot down a jet...
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