[Semper911]

Who is going to search the old ladies?

[Malesherbes]

It's high time. I came back from (eastern) Europe last month through the Atlanta airport. To get from international customs/immigration into the domestic terminal, you have to go through screening.

There was utter confusion in the screening process with six or eight "screeners" hanging about, shucking and jiving, while three were doing all the work.

[TightSqueeze]

As many as 3,000 airport screeners could lose their jobs this spring as the government reassesses the size of the work force that it brought to full strength only last November.

Oh well, easy come, easy go, I guess its back to Mickey-D's... Sir please remove your shoes before ordering, have you Left your Happy-Meal unattended, would you like that super-sized? Great government training.

[IMHO]

Cut 'em all, and restore the second amendment. That's all the security we'd need. Hijackings did not start until law abiding passengers were disarmed.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has suggested moving federal air marshals to coach so airlines do not lose revenue from first-class seats.

I thought the idea was to have them up front by the cockpit door? Is this another example of our crack government in action? The reasons that were so important last year to rush this program into place isn't that important this year, so we can move the marshals into the cheap seats in the back of the plane? Will they have to bring on their own meals, too?

-PJ

[shadeaud]

No wonder they wanted to be unionized. Imagine if they were and the word came down about these cutbacks. They would walk off and demand other unions to join in.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

ANTI-TERROR ÜBER ALLES

The mythical "freedom versus security" tradeoff is a false choice.

The 911 attacks did not occur because Americans have too much freedom.

They occurred because terrorists were able to gain access to the cockpits of hijacked aircraft.

Instead of equipping all commercial aircraft with doors which could actually be used to keep hijackers out of cockpits, Washington created an Orwellian monster named the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and hired tens of thousands of minimum-wage Gestapo to root through the underwear of airline passengers and arrest/prosecute those who object.

Simply setting foot in an airport is now considered to be a terrorist act.

The fact that the TSA created a national airport police force without ever addressing the cockpit-door scandal is damning evidence that their mandate has nothing to do with protecting anyone. 

The true mission of the TSA is to turn America into a police state.

Airports are the incubators. 

The statists want to condition us to accept the idea that probable cause is dead and they can search our houses, our hard drives and our persons and demand to see our papers at any time. 

Boycott the airline industry and its airport/POW camps now, or live in a national POW camp later.