Posted on 07/30/2013 12:00:36 PM PDT by chittlin
Went to the local Social Security Administration Office today with my wife who will be retiring in near future. The office is in a rural low crime area in Western Kentucky. We were greeted by two armed, courteous "Rent-a-Cops" upon entry. While waiting to be served we observed the Rent-a-Cops doing a thorough search of a an elderly lady's purse prior to her being allowed to see the Social Security worker. These guys were opening every thing in the purse, unzipping every zipper. Voicing our disapproval over the search, we departed. The entire scenario was ridiculous.
Does anyone know the rationale behind the searches?
“Irrelevant”
Spoken like a man who doesn’t work in a SS office so he doesn’t care if someone shoots up the place.
Owensboro is a huge metropolis compared to the town we were in.
Nowadays? Obammie has the DOJ, the IRS and thousands of of other agencies armed to the teeth with millions of rounds of ammo, weapons and assault vehicles ready willing and able to put down any violent and rebellious actions some blue-haired Tea Party pensioner might start at the Social Security office. We see this as a normal daily occurance, and we think nothing of it.
Doesn't that just comfort your so? Ya can just sleep better at night know that, right?
/s
Wonderful Lake Street.
They are the law, but that has nothing to do with building security. If you don’t like the way a building is secured don’t go into it.
The IRS is afraid of We The People, because they are on the wrong side of the U.S. Constitution, and people are not going to put up with this much longer.
My wife had to stop by a rural social security office in eastern Kentucky last week to drop off some items to an employee for the local high school sports team. She said essentially the same thing as the original post. Armed guards barking orders, rude staff, in general making anyone who walked through the door feel like a criminal.
She has worked in private business and in health care and said she had never seen such abuse and crude customer service in her life. She told the friend who worked at the office she would not under any circumstance set foot in that office again with those goons who worked the front area, that she would send school related items through his wife.
When she told me about it I said we’ll how does it feel brushing up against the leviathan? She was not a happy citizen.
Spoken like someone who thinks it's ok to violate the law's guarantees in the name of security.
(Perhaps also someone who thinks that government agents are deserving of special protection, above and beyond that a normal citizen would receive at his office of employment.)
Yeah, Patti Duke’s commercial did it for me. She was on TV and the SSAN site. Her husband, with her in the bit, was a sergeant in the Army whom she met when she did “A Time To Triumph” in 1986, about becoming a helicopter pilot and thus holding her family together.
In any case though, it was really easy for me too.
Not always possible; consider courthouses where one may be compelled by law to go and, even though he has committed no crime, disarmed. [Jury-duty; you can be fined/jailed for ignoring/refusing summons.]
If you want to make an issue of your treatment call your congressman/senator. Trust me if they get a call or letter from your congress critter they will expedite the case. They deny this but it is a lie.
Next up call the regional office in Atlanta and complain. Keep in mind this will put you on their radar.
I worked for this outfit over 20 yrs. ago for all of a year and it turned my stomach so I quit.
Unzip my wife’s purse and you will find a loaded pistol.
Could have something to do with it.
Logical profiling, little old grey haired ladies most likely put money into SS and are expecting a fair payment out. Tend to get irate when they find cat food in their future. All the young “disabled” and foreign “visitors” are rarely angry when they get handed checks for nothing.
So, the logical profiling is done in this case.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/iraqi-indicted-in-bombing-at-social-security-office/article_7ea05386-f104-11e2-a77b-0019bb2963f4.html
Oh no one ever gets searched before they go into a venue.
Well they should be. Let us know when they also become ashamed of themselves.
“Wonderful Lake Street.”
Actually, it was closer to Franklin Avenue - but in that part of town, there’s really no difference.
Oh, then you're saying it's a-ok for the government to require searches of persons and effects prior to allowing their subjects an audience?
If all you were doing was death notification in order to stop benefits, that’s been the purview of the funeral homes for years now. I know I didn’t have to do anything when my mom passed in 2007.
Due to annoying family members I hit 3 court buildings in one day last week. To get into all of them involved emptying pockets and going through a metal detector, one of them I emptied my pockets into a locker and THEY kept the key. That’s how it works and if you don’t like it too bad. I’ve done jury duty in 2 of those buildings in the 90s, same drill back then. When the people in charge of a building decide it’s a security zone then it’s a security zone and you’re going to be searched to go in, and nobody has ever successfully challenged that as a rights violation.
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