The end of privacy

Post by **GORDON** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:11 pm

Texas should invite the feds to leave their soil, like South Carolina did in 1861.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed May 25, 2011 11:59 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu May 26, 2011 8:56 am

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.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu May 26, 2011 9:10 am

I got it.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:50 am

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."

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:06 pm

TSA is doing their part to anger our allies.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news....-bottom

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:09 pm

TSA fucks with a mentally handicapped guy.

http://www.foxnews.com/us....estnews

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:53 pm

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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Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:40 pm

Malcolm wrote:“See, it’s hard. It could be used as a weapon.”

That's what SHE said!

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:07 pm

TSA will try to molest fewer kids, but no promises.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:02 pm

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?

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:10 pm

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?

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:17 pm

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?

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:33 pm

TSA cancer cluster suspected.

http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/radiation_cluster_dosimeter.pdf

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:38 pm

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.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:45 pm

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.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:47 pm

Forbes.com: Time to close the security theater.

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcard....theater

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:41 pm

GORDON wrote:Forbes.com: Time to close the security theater.

http://blogs.forbes.com/artcard....theater

If only there were some federal budgetary crisis that was forcing us to shutdown worthless gov't offices...

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:16 pm

GORDON wrote:TSA will try to molest fewer kids, but no promises.

Mother arrested when she wouldn't let her kids be touched.

http://www.tennessean.com/article....rcation

"Hey... we said NO PROMISES."

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:32 pm

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.