Voluntary until they become mandatory.
Really? What happens if you decline to be "checked"?
Just in case muslims plan to hijack a milk run train and drive it into a skyscraper or something .....
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“The security at airports has increased so the bad guys are now traveling on the trains and buses,” said Robinson. This is bull$hit! Here in California the border patrol checkpoints are almost never open on the 5 and the 91. And I love that the inspections are voluntary, they just left out the for now. So if you decide not to just give up your 4th amendment rights at the bus and train depot as they have been taken from us at airports, do you get tagged for closer government observation down the road? After all Der Fuhrer requires all of his subject to be good submissive sheep!
I haven’t taken Amtrak since 1976. Certainly won’t be taking it anytime soon! I prefer to drive. Crank up the music, and sing at the top of my lungs. :-) Can’t do that on Amtrak, with or without TSA!
Drip... Drip... Drip...
“The security at airports has increased so the bad guys are now traveling on the trains and buses.”
And any time there is no TSA inspection of buses and trains, a terrorist could fly one into a high rise building!
No. Just no. The TSA airport inspections have demonstrated conclusively that there is no need for airport TSA inspections.
This being blindingly obvious, even to the TSA, the TSA is now desperate to find a reason, *any* reason, so they will not be first up on the chopping block when time comes to get control of the federal budget.
And they should be first up, followed by a whole bunch more of the ridiculously ineffective and intrusive government hyper-security espionage-police ‘apparat’.
Seriously, while we might need all 16 of the major federal intelligence agencies, they need to be looking at other countries, not us. Let the FBI, and just the FBI, look at us. That new spy complex in Utah? Shut that damn thing down. The government has zero reason to keep all emails, phone calls, Internet babble, etc. “just because they can.”
And likewise, the now 100+ federal police agencies, and the non-police agencies authorized to procure their own SWAT teams and tactical weaponry. The Department of Education DOES NOT NEED its own SWAT team, nor do dozens of other agencies. Have them send a requisition to the FBI or the Federal Marshal Service, if they need muscle.
I figure in the first year, roll about 80 of these federal police agencies into the FBI, if the FBI will take them, which is unlikely because FBI agents need to know accounting.
If not, they can work as federal prison guards, guarding all the former TSA agents who are now occupying the prisons because all they know how to do is molest people.
TSA stands for TRANSPORTATION Security Agency, not AIRLINE Security Agency.
They will eventually regulate all forms of transportation except walking on public sidewalks. Trains, boats, private cars. All of it.
Thanks GW Bush for pushing us ever closer to Totalitarian oppression. Really appreciate it, man!
people are more readily controlled when they don’t wander very far from where they’re made to live.
ROFLMBO! 'Voluntary' security checks are about as useful as unscented cologne!
All the more reason to drive.
Coming soon to a highway intersection near you.