Posted on 02/24/2011 2:51:55 PM PST by Leisler
After going down in a spiral of paranoid stupidity—called out for saving body scan images, ridiculed for patting down an almost-naked woman or nailed for harrassing a kid at airport security—the TSA has reached a new low. It's surreal.
Here's what a traveler recorded on February 13, after his train trip to Savannah:
The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn't they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.
Indeed, this doesn't make sense at all. Why search people after the train trip? What's the logic here? Did the TSA get an alert that dangerous 9-year-old terrorists were coming in a train to Savannah? Perhaps it was TSA Surprise Training Time? Or maybe it was TSA Let's Piss Off People Day again?
We will never know, but it doesn't matter at this point. Just, keep up the great work, TSA. You are winning American's heart one unnecessary pat down at a time!
A government regulation to a governmental employee becomes an absolute right to them. Do not dare cross them or try to fight them, they will say.
These people are bullies and thugs.
I have already forwarded it onto Drudge.
They are talking about X-raying cars (or similar technologies). It would be interesting to see what the USSC does with this. Currently, even though a warrant is laughably easy to get, one is still needed to search a car whose driver refuses it.
My dad remarked that when they come back from an internation flight to Cincinatti, they are required to go through TSA leaving the terminal and there is no option to step out such as going from the terminal straight to their car !
He has some unkind words about that !
You are right, he did. And he was right to do so. And the TSA took revenge.
The “Junk” case hasn’t been through court yet. Do you know when that is scheduled to happen?
He was right to publish an extensive list of airport vulnerabilities?
Wouldn’t it have sufficed to say he knows of a lot of vulnerabilities and other pilots know about it too?
After all even Jim Rob, the captain of this blog, says “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” The Moose have been surprisingly stupid in their attempts to attack thus far, by all accounts. No need to wise them up.
Customs checks generally happen at one’s destination in an international flight. Has customs added groping to their check list?
No I do not. I would assume the TSA would decide not to go forward with it anymore, after the outcry, and the fact they got their message across to the sheeple, not to mess with them, period. Wait until they are unionozed.
True what Jim Rob said, but if there are holes in our security, the TSA needed to take steps to close them, and exposing them would hopefully see to it they are closed? After all, if a pilot could see them, then the terrorists and their airport moslem buddies could too.
The public momentum appears to be going against public sector unionization in general. The House will stop that up, at least for another couple years. And if the GOP does not nominate another nebbish to run as President, it will be stopped up for another 4-8 years after that — the American people absolutely hate Obama.
The momentum must be seized or forfeited. God only opens windows for a limited time.
A private letter to a Congressional committee on security would have been much more wisely targeted.
The pilot’s move was foolish, not wise.
For now, I am not, and will continue to, refuse to fly. If I need to travel somewhere, I will drive.
However, when this personally affects me on the highway, shopping centers or whatever location, I assure you that I will resist. Checkpoints have already been occurring around the country for no apparent threat.
If you go along with it, it will only get worse.
For now, I refuse to fly. If I need to travel somewhere, I will drive.
However, when this personally affects me on the highway, shopping centers or whatever location, I assure you that I will resist. Checkpoints have already been occurring around the country for no apparent threat.
If you go along with it, it will only get worse.
Who knows, maybe you will hear about me!
Unfortunately, this will, in probability, become a reality.
Pre-educate yourself. If they show up at your door, slam it, lock it and call the sheriff!
But have Sheriff Hart's booklet - indeed, you should order a number of them and distribute them to all the sheriff's dept in your state.
The Sheriff's have the authority to tell the feds to get out of the state. Listen to sheriff Mack. He went all the way to the Supreme court - and WON.
Listen to this tape and then go to his web site and order at least a booklet for your records and one to hand PERSONALLY to your local sheriff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJgPuNAh60
web site page
This was TSA after customs. Kind of a bad setup. When we went to Sweden through Chicago, bad setup on that airport. You fly in and you have to step “outside” to go to the International terminal and then go through TSA again ! What a real pain. When we came back, go through customs, take the train to the main airport. At least there, you don’t have to go through TSA to exit. I remember having to go through TSA after customs at Atlanta’s airport coming back from Japan.
Some of the airports need to get their act together. LAX is another bad one. You have to go out and back through TSA when going from one terminal to a different one !
The TSA is nothing more than a mirage of security.
Nothing but government control to lock step in the masses. All the TSA has are badges — now they are authority? What about training? The boyscouts wear badges too. The politically correct agenda dictates that TSA are out of shape buffoons and old people, who are unarmed, with no restraints. Sorry, that’s not stopping anyone. And an example will eventually be made how ineffective they are, and it will be a grand national embarrassment for them and the idiots running the current thugocracy.
I’m sure these are decent people trying to make some money; however, they are nothing more than government pawns with self-important dress up shirts with embroidery. It’s comical.
At one airport leaving, there were armed police officers before entering the metal detector area. That’s security.
At another airport heading back home, there is nearly 12 TSA all over metal detectors, near the lines, body scanners, with 3 TSA bosses on an elevated platform overseeing all. There were no police witnessed in the area, they were making the rounds walking the airport. I only saw one tall gentleman TSA who posed a physical obstruction, everyone else was a frail woman or very out of shape. I have no doubts whatsoever of getting past all these people if I wanted to go nuts, or take the tall gentleman out of the equation by savagely physically disabling him without warning, and watch as the rest stand in shock at the brutality — think they’d risk a move for their measly paychecks?
Does this make me a tough guy? No, just stating security is a locked defense. That means restraints, weapons. Sure they could call the police further in the airport, after the damage is done and they have a madman on the loose. The 9/11 hijackers slit throats of airline stewardesses to send a psychological message too.
A friend told me as we were seated watching this charade at the departure gate: “You’d eventually be caught, you would have nowhere to go(past the checkpoint)..” Really? What if a weapon is introduced? Not a gun/blade, how about a pair of socks, rolls of quarters? Heavy belt buckle? Some strong pens? The point is why let it happen? Where is the defense if something goes down? Are the TSA abandoning all their posts and just swarm a person? Will it be a wrestling match? From a tactical standpoint, I see nothing but holes, and so do THE REAL TERRORISTS AND MISCREANTS.
It’s also funny watching the TSA do the gestapo stance with arms folded behind them, legs spread as a huge crowd waits to go through the checkpoint.
I just think that these people are trained to observe behavior, watch, feel for bulges, but when the sh$t goes down they hold no opposition. Without a doubt, this will be illustrated in the future by a planned or spontaneous attack.
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Sidenote: I presented my boarding pass, printed out from hotel to Southwest airlines counter at airport. Said I was declaring firearms and ammunition. They never even asked to see an ID. Didn’t ask to see the guns or ammo locked in the security boxes within my luggage. Just filled out firearms declaration form, tape on outside of box. Then luggage get’s taken to TSA checkpoint which is roped off. TSA agent just asks “Are the guns secure, all ammo secured”. Never looked in luggage. Never looked at guns or ammo in security boxes. Ran it through a machine and loaded onto plane.
I think it’s way past time to start violently resisting these goons.
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