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Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:11 pm
by GORDON
Texas should invite the feds to leave their soil, like South Carolina did in 1861.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:59 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew."
Sooooo, they're going to ground the entire country?
I bet you a trillion dollars they'd try.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 8:56 am
by TheCatt
Malcolm wrote:TheCatt wrote:TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew."
Sooooo, they're going to ground the entire country?
I bet you a trillion dollars they'd try.
No, I'm saying that the TSA cannot ensure the safety of anything and is a complete joke. Therefore, they'd need to ground everything all the time.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 9:10 am
by thibodeaux
I got it.
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:50 am
by GORDON
http://www.foxnews.com/us....estnews
"I think anything the country is doing to protect us is all well and good," Austin resident Janet Bates told MyFoxAustin.com. "If someone wants to file a complaint, they can file a complaint. I don't think we need laws."
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:06 pm
by GORDON
TSA is doing their part to anger our allies.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news....-bottom
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:09 pm
by GORDON
TSA fucks with a mentally handicapped guy.
http://www.foxnews.com/us....estnews
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:53 pm
by Malcolm
When the father tried to intervene and explain Drew’s disability, he said the two agents said, “Please, sir, we know what we’re doing.”
The agents confiscated a six-inch plastic hammer, something Drew had carried with him for 20 years for comfort. Agents called it a security threat, his father said, adding that they tapped the wall with it and said, “See, it’s hard. It could be used as a weapon.”
Bad judgement? Nooooooo. Bad judgement got left in the dust on this one. You could use this for a SNL skit was little to no modification. And sure as shit not "isolated bad judgement."
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:40 pm
by thibodeaux
Malcolm wrote:“See, it’s hard. It could be used as a weapon.”
That's what SHE said!
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:07 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:02 pm
by Malcolm
Pistole explained to committee members that a female security screener performed a pat-down search on the 6-year-old girl because the child had moved while passing through an airport body imaging machine. That prevented the device from getting a clear reading that the child was not carrying any banned objects through airport security.
"We have changed the policy to say that there'll be repeated efforts made to resolve that without a pat-down," Pistole told committee members.
How about not using those fucking Orwellian machines, you motherfucking asshole?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:10 pm
by thibodeaux
Here's what I can't figure out. Half the time when I've traveled since the machines came out, they just wave people through the older metal-detector door-frame things, and bypass the naked-picture machines. So...if we don't need to scan EVERYBDOY, why do we need to scan ANYBODY?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:17 pm
by thibodeaux
However, during the committee meeting, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, grilled Pistole about erring too far on the side of safety.
"This isn't to say we don't believe in safety procedures," Paul said. "But I think I feel less safe when we're doing these invasive exams on a 6-year-old. It makes me think that you're clueless, that you think she's going to attack our country, and that you're not doing your research on the people who would attack our country."
Pistole suggested a pat-down of a child is not entirely unjustified.
"Unfortunately we know that terrorists around the world have used children as suicide bombers," Pistole replied.
1. "It makes me think that you're clueless." POW! How can you not love Rand Paul?
2. "[T]errorists around the world have used children as suicide bombers." Sure; lots of American-born non-muslims have strapped TNT to their little blond-haired daughters to try to blow up airplanes. Lying bastard. Who besides Muslims of African and Middle-Eastern origin is doing this?
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:33 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:38 pm
by TPRJones
On the bright side, it appears that the TSA themselves are at the most risk. Which is okay by me. I won't shed any tears for them.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:45 pm
by GORDON
Heard about the thing today with the TSA forcing a 95 year old woman to remove her adult diaper? Well, the TSA is denying that.
Except...
http://www.cnn.com/2011....t=hp_t2
The woman's daughter, Jean Weber, told CNN on Monday that the TSA agents acted professionally and never ordered the removal of her mother's diaper. However, Weber said the agents made it clear that her mother could not board the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper.
They didn't say it had to be removed. They just said she wasn't flying until it was removed. Huge difference.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:47 pm
by GORDON
Forbes.com: Time to close the security theater.
http://blogs.forbes.com/artcard....theater
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:41 pm
by Malcolm
If only there were some federal budgetary crisis that was forcing us to shutdown worthless gov't offices...
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:16 pm
by GORDON
Mother arrested when she wouldn't let her kids be touched.
http://www.tennessean.com/article....rcation
"Hey... we said NO PROMISES."
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:32 pm
by TPRJones
Apparently their new policy was to try harder to get them to use the Child-Porn-O-Vision scanners, then if they refused still pat them down.
So in other words there were no changes to the policy.