[LucyT]

The expansion would erase one of the last remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance.

[snip]

Many of the same methods that now restrict foreign travel will be used within America because the same agency will handle both: the TSA in its many manifestations. They might be called BASE agents or VIPRs (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response), like the ones who partnered with law enforcement in 2011 in Tennessee to conduct random "terrorist" checkpoints on highways. They may be the specially trained clerks who sell you a ticket . But TSA agents in whatever guise are coming to the highway, bus stop and train station you frequent.

[Nowhere Man]

The terrorists have won, as my father says all the time. I keep thinking back to Steppenwolf’s song, “Monster,” from 1969, “the police force is watching the people.”

[ArmyTeach]

ping for continuation

[Slyfox]

[Vendome]

Once these jerkoffs have total control they’ll unionized and we’re screwed.

It’ll be impossible to get rid of them.

The police state grows. Who are your neighbors? Spatzi ????

[pallis]

The worst of terrorism is what is coming from our own government. Nothing terrifies me more than big, unchecked government. The states better start resisting.

[Brad’s Gramma]

They’ll be on the borders too, right? RIGHT?

/sarcasm ... heavy

[jonrick46]

The TSA, ran by union thugs, has to do something to justify their jobs.

[SuperLuminal]

Whining and sniveling is a waste of time...We didn't listen when there was still a possibility of doing something about all of this. That time is long past...

Just bend over and spread'em!

Americans are now outnumbered by those who rule, and those who want to be ruled, by about 55% to 45%.

Unless the concept of "thinning the herd" is adopted on a wide scale, we and our descendants are in for many, many centuries of tyranny on a scale of completeness that has never existed before.

[Adder]

Herr Zero’s brown shirts.

Refuse them outside of the airport.

They have NO AUTHORITY to be on your highways or streets despite their assertions to the contrary.

[Travis McGee]

[G Larry]

Not to worry, given the superior qualifications of TSA staff, many with IQs above 80.

As with most agencies, they grow empires.

[Smokin' Joe]

The Constitution will not protect the right to travel. Although many legal scholars consider it to be a Constitutional right akin to freedom of association, the word "travel" or its equivalent does not appear in the document except to guarantee the right of Congress members to travel back and forth from 'work'.

Yet the 'right' of illegal aliens to stream across our borders continues.

The Constitution can only protect what Rights the people demand to be protected. How well Freedom of Association is protected depends on who you are.

[Tench_Coxe]

Bookmarked. As another poster said above, expect a massive gun grab. That has to happen before we go “full retard” with Obama’s socialist utopia.

[Dead Corpse]

Some folks call them roving TSA patrols...

I call them reactive targets.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Your papers, please."

[winodog]

Sounds like the civilian army oboma wanted

[CORedneck]

Seems like the forming of a “National Highway Patrol”, not good. This further begs the question, will I have to go through inspections/customs when going from state to state ? And I do a lot of interstate travel too. And will there be new equivalents of no-fly list applied to highway travel ? Very dangerous !

[matt04]

Application to Make U.S. Into an Airport Screening Zone The application was tucked away on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the Federal Register (November 30).

What else are in the other 71 thousand plus pages of just Volume 77, Number 231?

[rfreedom4u]

Travel Authorities Will Comply

Private companies and public travel authorities will co-operate with this “voluntary” program

Well I sure as hell won’t “comply”