Posted on 11/13/2010 5:36:46 PM PST by BulletBobCo
Does anyone remember when we , at least somem complained about the quality of the privately paid screeners. We must do something!!! What did the Gumment do? Federalize the same bunch of scanner, Triple the wages, make ‘em fireproff with civil service benefits. I am glad I am retired and no longer have to ever go near an airport. Most business travel can be replaced by Go to Meetings.com
Wake-up people, if this is allowed, you can kiss any hope of remaining free good-bye!
Frequent travelers are going to be accumulating a lot of X-Ray radiation dosage, so be aware!
If you opt out of the radiation dosage, demand that your private parts not be touched, and that it be done in a private area.
Put together some handout flyers, organize your Tea Party friends, and go to the local airport Nov 24 to pass them out. The flyers should be simple, direct and warn about the medical effects of radiation, legal rights not to be groped, and ask travelers to opt out as a protest.
Has anyone see or know of a source that could tell u what the dosage of radiation that is being absorbed on average with a full body scan?
I mean, you are shielded with lead filled blankets when you get a tooth X-Rayed, doing the whole body must equal 10K X of a tooth X-Ray.
Proudly so if you are as well endowed/engourged as the fellow in the 2nd scan picture.
They're the only ones who think body-borne explosives and detonation is a religious experience/duty, yet we gotta offend EVERYONE but them.
Use the method described in a popular email, where a phone-booth style armored enclosure is entered by EVERY passenger (so no one is singled out and offended), but no body scan, feeling-up, etc. is needed. If you have explosives on or in you, they are detonated in the booth, and then there will be a vacant seat on the plane, for the next Standby passenger.
I wonder how Ron copes with TSA.
He may have some good insight on how to handle the poofy fluffers.
Nothing will change until entire flights of passengers refuse.
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Amen and Amen. Perfectly stated
Wow, you’re right; fast food workers could and would never treat people the way the TSA’s do.
My friend says he wouldn’t mind if it was in a private area and only beautiful TSA agents could pat him down.
I quit flying 30 yrs ago, and haven’t looked back, and I left a job that required representing the corporation.
Now I just take a little more time, use a comfortable car, driver, train, boat, ship, or anything, but NOT an airplane.....I have never looked back, and my life is so much better.
I was on two different planes back then, that made my decision easy, one that missed the runway, and the pilot said “we would circle around, and try it again”. Obviously we made it, but it wasn’t my stop, and I had to go on with that moron to my destination. Then on another flight the drunk pilot was handing out drinks, because we had run into turbulation, and everyone missed their cocktails....HA.
I had just spent several days trying to keep a wandering President of the Board of Directors, from embarrassing all of us. Not my idea of fun. I changed careers, and all it took was adding a little more education.
This bunch of zeros are not making flight safer, but more dangerous. Travel by car with at least one other driver, and enjoy the music, conversation, quiet, or whatever....no stranded on tarmacs, no bad food, no terrorists, unless they try to get in your car, and you can protect yourself in your own vehicle.
It is the journey for me, and not just the destination. I can stop to see things that interest me, and I can have two or three great trips a year vs ten terrible ones, that depend on other unprofessional wackos, who make grandma a priority to search, and don’t the jhadist.
You made the right decision about not letting employees waste money on hotels, food and planes....with all the online meeting forums, it is just common sense.
Today I saw a scroll on Fox News that said, “since AZ law was announced, over 100K hispanics have left AZ, for sanctuary cities......sounds like success to me, I doubt they took a plane.
U may be right, but I’m still not flying.
Based on an article, “The Airport Scanner Scam” [http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam]
by James Ridgeway – Mon Jan 4, 2010 - as found on “Mother Earth” website:
Manufacturer’s are:
California-based Rapiscan Systems, represented by former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff,
AS&E (American Science & Engineering) – retained DC-based Wexler & Walker to lobby for them, as well as Tom Blank, who worked under House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Smiths Detection – employs the transportation lobbying firm of Van Scoyoc Associates, which includes Kevin Patrick Kelly, a former staffer of Sen Barbara Mukulski, D-Md (Homeland Security Appropriations Committee) and former congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley, R-Md.
L3 Systems – represented by former Senator Al D’Amato, R-NY.
All the DC-scanner relationships stink.
I’m not sure whether to take an OD of viagra or if I should write an uncomplimentary message to the screener in body paint on my belly before passing through security. Why not have some fun with it?
everybody should pee when yelled at, and then pretend to cry. After 1000 “cleanups on aisle 5” per day and the smell, something will change
That's the truth! **ALL** of our vacations are planned with the. “We will get there by car.”, attitude.
The airlines have already lost thousands upon thousands just on my husband's and my decision to avoid flying.
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