[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')oping to keep terrorists and others off-guard Transportation Security Administration conducted what it calls a random "Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Operation" on Thursday morning at the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station.

[rangerone314]

I've never heard a true basic and convincing rationale as to why we even have a TSA.

Is it to provide more jobs to those who would otherwise only be talented enough for welfare or working as abusive orderlies in a mental institution? (if so they'd be less annoying if they were poking trash in public spaces with pointy sticks)

Is it to save lives? (more people are killed by fine particulate air pollution each year than terrorism has ever killed)

[mattduke]

TSA agents display athletic prowess in saving their own asses during St Louis tornado.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')iss USA Sexually Assaulted By TSA

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')iss USA Sexually Assaulted By TSA

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I')'ve never heard a true basic and convincing rationale as to why we even have a TSA.

Is it to provide more jobs to those who would otherwise only be talented enough for welfare or working as abusive orderlies in a mental institution? (if so they'd be less annoying if they were poking trash in public spaces with pointy sticks)

Is it to save lives? (more people are killed by fine particulate air pollution each year than terrorism has ever killed)

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')exas House Passes Bill Against TSA "Groping"

Texas lawmakers have a message for Transportation Security Administration: hands off. The House passed a bill today that would prohibit invasive searches and pat-downs at airport security or other public buildings.

The legislation would make it a misdemeanor offense for a federal security agent to “intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly [touch] the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touching the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.”

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')SA officer accused of stealing from suitcase

[Keith_McClary]

Muslim scholars pulled from Delta plane in Memphis
They were going to a conference on American Islamophobia.

[dinopello]

My neighbor made a funny video on the TSA Pokey Pokey.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')igh School Fuckup Now In Charge Of Checking Airport Luggage For Explosives

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here were no TSA agents patting down students at the Santa Fe High School prom on Saturday night, despite a federal judge's ruling that there had to be.

A federal judge ruled on Friday that TSA certified personnel must now supervise district pat downs, like those at dances or graduations.
"With it being late Friday afternoon, there just wasn't time to achieve that," Santa Fe superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez said instead of TSA agents, the court is allowing Santa Fe High School to use state police for the prom.
"They didn't touch me personally, just had me pull out my phone, all my personal items," student Timothy Velasquez said.

[DomusAlbion]

Next it will be all bus & train terminals. Then the entrances to sports arenas and shopping malls, then on and on.

We're seeing the blossoming of the police state. Very disheartening. People are also very safe in a padded room with a straight jacket on.

[rangerone314]

I keep saying, what this country needs is a libertarian-oriented militia group to form, but not in the chinsey-numbers we've seen before, but something on the order of 4 or 5 million. Then when a few dozen jackboots get out of line somewhere, you organize a flash mob of several thousand people armed with assault rifles and shotguns, and force them to stand-down. The senseless and destructive lone wolf crap that people like McVeigh do is useless, as is small ineffectual militia groups that march around in the woods. A movement is needed.
(Ever see what happens, as deplorable as it is, when a flash mob of teenagers swarms into a store and shoplifts? Chaos, and the store owner is powerless)

One could imagine the JBT's (jack-boot-thugs) are worried about deciding to ramp up the police state in the future and having a larger scale flash mob stuff occur to contest it, which is why they want an Internet kill switch)

Forming a people's militia to oppose the actions of a police state is not what I would regard as an illegal act, since the actions of those "in power" are unconstitutional and illegal and the government is supposed to derive its authority FROM the people, not plant its boot on the throat of the people. In fact, not only should such action NOT be considered wrong or illegal, but perhaps it should be considered a moral duty or obligation to not let 200+ years of democratic system get flushed down the toilet.

A "government" run by corporate-bribed, rent-seeking thugs that refuse to respect the Bill of Rights and that rubberstamps damn nearly any newly requested police powers needs to be put in its place; slapped into its place if necessary.

Nazi Germany had its Jewish "boogeymen" and "aggressive" neighbor Poland, and now we have Arab "boogeymen".
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jake Sully', 'T')his is how it's done. When people are sittin' on sh*t that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')fter a woman was allegedly sexually harassed by TSA agents at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ, her son documented the aftermath as the TSA, Southwest Airlines and Phoenix Police threaten him with arrest for filming the ordeal. Officials seem more concerned with the video than with the woman brought to tears at the security checkpoint.

[AgentR11]

These is no place that the airlines fly to that is worth the cost in dignity required to get there.

[eXpat]

Not TSA but US customs. All the same
Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security 'revenge' nightmare
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t was billed as a chance to taste the “glitz and glamour” of Hollywood or enjoy VIP treatment in some of the most exclusive shopping areas in the world. But when a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay.

During their £10,000, two-and-a-half month “Alaska Adventure” tour from the Arctic to the Caribbean, the passengers on the luxury P&O liner Arcadia had become more than accustomed to passing US immigration with little formality.
By the time they docked at Los Angeles on May 26, for a one-day visit it was their 10th stop on US soil. But when a handful of them questioned whether the lengthy security checks at the port were strictly necessary for a group of largely elderly travellers officials were not amused.

Although they had already been given advance clearance for multiple entries to the country during their trip, all 2,000 passengers were made to go through full security checks in a process which took seven hours to complete. The fingerprints of both hands were taken as well as retina scans and a detailed check of the passport as well as questioning as to their background.

Passengers claim that the extra checks were carried out in “revenge” for what had been a minor spat over allegedly overzealous security.

They complain that they were “herded like animals” and made to stand for hours in temperatures up to 80F with no food or water or access to lavatories.

Some are said to have passed out in the heat while others were left confused and bewildered. When one lady asked in desperation whether she could use a bathroom, one immigration official is said to have replied: “Do it over the side, we won’t mind.” To compound the situation, the officials' computer broke down and further delays resulted.

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'T')hese is no place that the airlines fly to that is worth the cost in dignity required to get there.

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I') keep saying, what this country needs is a libertarian-oriented militia group to form. ... A "government" run by corporate-bribed, rent-seeking thugs that refuse to respect the Bill of Rights and that rubberstamps damn nearly any newly requested police powers needs to be put in its place; slapped into its place if necessary.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', 'A') group of people, brought together by injustices against them, to fight against the corrupt government/corporate alliance? It already exists. It's called the taliban. ... I don't really disagree with what you are saying, but you would be classed as a terrorist and probably spend the rest of your days in Guantanamo Bay, probably without trial.