I feel safer. TSA strikes again.

[Nevarwinter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNO-AzPxS4U

Good thing they checked this guy and then swabbed him.

Seriously though...when have we gone too far?

 

[jasonj5313]

Really???

I understand that a guy with a bomb isn't going to wear a sign saying so, but people need to use their brain.

I would think that someone whom is compliant during a check wouldn't be a threat. Some of you guys are cops, I would like to know how many people that ran weren't guilty of something.

 

[dsb45acp]

I would just like to know how the TSA, who ARE NOT sworn LEO's of any stripe, have the power to stop & search me without any probable cause at all. Let alone a search warrant. Isn't this a gross violation of my 4th ammendment rights & a civil rights violation under "color of law", or am I just being stupid again?

 

[jasonj5313]

You are being stupid.

Don't you know that the govt can do anything.

 

[headspace]

Hell, from the first dozen or so comments, looks like half the nation has already been brainwashed to believe this is acceptable...
It's not acceptable. Go on and be herded like animals if you want. I ain't been on a plane in 6 years. And it's cheaper to drive anywhere I've been so far.

 

[RyanW]

Haas anyone, any decent lawyer, figured out a way to jsut get around these morons? You have to violate an inalienable right in order to travel, how is that legit? My own company can;t do that to me to work for them, so technically wouldn;t people who are required to fly for work then be forced to violate their own civil rights for a job????

 

[dsb45acp]

You are being stupid.

Don't you know that the govt can do anything.

Thanks Jason. For a moment I was suffering from delusions of adequaecy.

 

[Mr_Willson]

everyone in the TSA who I have conversed with actually believe they are doing the right thing

 

[jasonj5313]

Your welcome, sometimes everyone needs a cyber "slap" to bring them back to reality. J/k

 

[CEHollier]

Profiling - The Israelis do it and it works.

 

[Hitman]

Just another Government Entity that has invaded our private lives under the guise of security…again…

 

[Scott.Thornton]

Just another Government Entity that has invaded our private lives under the guise of security…again…

Very true. It's amazing what freedoms people will give up in order to have a false sense of security. Trust me, as you know also it is a bull **** sense of security.

 

[dfsutton]

Profiling - The Israelis do it and it works.

What the TSA does would be considered the opposite of profiling. They seem to search those who would present the least likely chance of being a terrorist.

For example, a few years ago when I would fly on military orders, I would get selected for additional screening almost everytime I flew. I started to keep track of how many times it happened in a row and it got up to 5 in a row once. In 5 consecutive trips through security on Military orders, I was selected for additional screening??? Explain that one to me, because I do not understand it.

 

[Leadfoot]

What the TSA does would be considered the opposite of profiling. They seem to search those who would present the least likely chance of being a terrorist.

For example, a few years ago when I would fly on military orders, I would get selected for additional screening almost everytime I flew. I started to keep track of how many times it happened in a row and it got up to 5 in a row once. In 5 consecutive trips through security on Military orders, I was selected for additional screening??? Explain that one to me, because I do not understand it.

It's political correctness run amuck. Instead of doing what would actually work, profiling, they want to detain everyone to make it appear that they aren't looking at any group specifically.

Here's a fact that's 100% indisputable: Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists have been Muslim.

 

[Russo]

Here's a fact that's 100% indisputable: Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists have been Muslim.

Timothy McVay...

 

[Leadfoot]

Timothy McVay...

Timothy McVey wasn't responsible for 9/11 or the Patriot Act.

 

[Russo]

Timothy McVey wasn't responsible for 9/11 or the Patriot Act.

oh, i'm sorry, i didn't know the definition of "terrorist" included those two criteria

 

[Leadfoot]

Quit being a douchebag.

McVey was a terrorist. McVey's motivation had nothing to do with the current "War on Terror" in which the US is involved in.

 

[returningliberty]

The solution to this problem is very simple guys: don't fly commercial when you don't absolutely have to. International and business travel you're kind of screwed, but if all the people "just taking the kids down to see grandma" seriously Stopped flying commercial, the airlines would take notice and kick the TSA out.
The one time I had to fly since '08, I hooked up with a buddy's dad who flies GA and hitched a ride.

 

[Tulse Luper]

The solution to this problem is very simple guys: don't fly commercial when you don't absolutely have to. International and business travel you're kind of screwed, but if all the people "just taking the kids down to see grandma" seriously Stopped flying commercial, the airlines would take notice and kick the TSA out.
The one time I had to fly since '08, I hooked up with a buddy's dad who flies GA and hitched a ride.

Sound feasible to me.