To any and all lurking DUmmies, Re: the TSA

[thundley4]

You idiots bitch and moan about the invasive scanners and the groping done to those who refuse the scan.  Want to know who to blame?  Look in the mirror. It's the fault of all you lefties that didn't want to allow profiling to be used on passengers.  Now we have 3 year old girls being groped by government workers while Hadji walks through free and clear.

OTOH, good news for you loons.  The Obama administration has cleared the way for the TSA employees to be unionized.  Just think, they can soon do their groping and leering knowing they will be protected from being fired by their union's lawyers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9568506&mesg_id=9568506

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9572099&mesg_id=9572099

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9572282

[true_blood]

You idiots bitch and moan about the invasive scanners and the groping done to those who refuse the scan.  Want to know who to blame?  Look in the mirror. It's the fault of all you lefties that didn't want to allow profiling to be used on passengers.  Now we have 3 year old girls being groped by government workers while Hadji walks through free and clear.

Thank you for posting this Thundley.
You stupid DUmmie/liberal bleeding hearts that warned about racial profiling will hurt the feeeellings of the people that should be profiled, now bitch and complain about you and your family being felt up to board a plane. We give up more freedoms so the hijab wearing mooselims don't get offended.  Hey Big Sis, when are you going to make it mandatory that the people that work in the gubberment also be groped and felt up before boarding a plane?!

[Evil_Conservative]

Because of TSA, and this total disregard of the 4th amendment, I will no longer fly.  The terminal we went through at McCarran had those stupid body scanners, but we THANKFULLY did not have to go through one.  I'm sick of being treated like a criminal when I want to fly back and see our family in the Midwest.

We are AMERICANS!!!  When was the last time an American tried to blow up a plane? 

I'm sick of this crap.  Why chance it?  I would NEVER allow my daughter to go through one of those full body scanners and if they started to touch her and her privates... I would call the police.  If someone did that out on the streets, that person would be added to a sex offender list.  But when TSA does it, it's for "safety".  **** that.  And **** the TSA.

Your local sex offender down the street could more than likely get a job with TSA. 

[IassaFTots]

I would rather go through a scanner, than a pat down.  If the TSA agents can't find my lotion, lighter, pocket knife, and lip balm in my purse, wtf is a pat down gonna do????   

[Freeper]

This is what happens when political correctness wins the day.
Instead of using common sense approaches such as profiling we waste all this time and money, then harass everyone all because your du thongs get bunched up if we dare question "brown people".
All this shit going on is because of the ACLU and liberals who don't want to offend those people who want us all dead.

[USA4ME]

Hey primitives, no complaining,  As others have already pointed out, you have no one to blame for this but yourselves.  In fact, anytime the gov't steps in and overreaches (And should you ever wonder when that is just come over and ask one of us and we'll tell you, because you have proven time and time again you aren't intelligent enough to know without someone like us informing you correctly) then you and your lib ideology is to blame.  So shut up and stop talking about it.  This is all your doing.

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[NHSparky]

I would rather go through a scanner, than a pat down.  If the TSA agents can't find my lotion, lighter, pocket knife, and lip balm in my purse, wtf is a pat down gonna do????   

Or, you could do like they did in my case in Boston last month, and get to do BOTH the scan AND the "patdown", anal fisting, ball fondling, whatever you wish to call it.

[IassaFTots]

Or, you could do like they did in my case in Boston last month, and get to do BOTH the scan AND the "patdown", anal fisting, ball fondling, whatever you wish to call it.

And yet, if you had a friggin lighter in your pocket, or a razor blade in your shoe, chances are they wouldn't even see it.  El Al has it right.  Profile, profile, profile.

[Airwolf]

One would have to ask this. what if the unintended consequences of this causes the airlines to finally fail? You can bet that right now any hope of a bailout is about as likely as Jimmy Carter getting another shot at the Oval Office.

[Boudicca]

I would rather go through a scanner, than a pat down.  If the TSA agents can't find my lotion, lighter, pocket knife, and lip balm in my purse, wtf is a pat down gonna do????   

I know, it would be hilarious if it weren't so damn scary how these morons miss things like perfume, pocket knives and whatever else.  I've known people who forgot that kind of stuff in their pockets and/or purses and "snuck" on through.

[IassaFTots]

I know, it would be hilarious if it weren't so damn scary how these morons miss things like perfume, pocket knives and whatever else.  I've known people who forgot that kind of stuff in their pockets and/or purses and "snuck" on through.

Exactly.  All of the stuff I mentioned, I had no intent on bringing with me.  I had just switched purses, and they were all in one of my little cosmetic bags.  This was probably maybe 3 months or so after they banned the liquids.  Not so diligent, eh?  I can't begin to tell you the amount of times I have gone through security with a lighter in my pocket. 

[Splashdown]

And they want the same people who brought you the TSA to be in charge of your healthcare...

[jukin]

I like this guy's tactics for air travel security.

Watch it to the end and NOT safe for work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8x_YypfjA

BTW, this is so simple that government will never think of it...or consider it.

[NHSparky]

I like this guy's tactics for air travel security.

Watch it to the end and NOT safe for work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8x_YypfjA

BTW, this is so simple that government will never think of it...or consider it.

Start with "Big Sis" Napolitano and all those idiots at the TSA.  THEN you can brain the idiots who get drunk off their asses and delay the flight.

The rest I leave to you.

[Karin]

Pretty powerful video I saw on last night's news, the one of the little 3 year old girl screaming 'DON'T TOUCH ME!  DON'T TOUCH ME!!"  while the TSA woman continues to poke and prod and grope her.  And now Uncle Morty is going to "consider" the hijab exemption?  I feel like I'm living in a nightmare, sometimes. 

I will not fly.  If I need to go somewhere, I'm jumping in the car. 

[thundley4]

Pretty powerful video I saw on last night's news, the one of the little 3 year old girl screaming 'DON'T TOUCH ME!  DON'T TOUCH ME!!"  while the TSA woman continues to poke and prod and grope her.  And now Uncle Morty is going to "consider" the hijab exemption?  I feel like I'm living in a nightmare, sometimes. 

I will not fly.  If I need to go somewhere, I'm jumping in the car. 

It makes you wonder if the federal government isn't trying to kill off the airlines.

[BlueStateSaint]

It makes you wonder if the federal government isn't trying to kill off the airlines.

I was thinking the same thing.  If someone tried to grope The Heiress, she'd claw the shit out of them.  (I'd probably have been Tasered and put in cuffs by then.)

[TheSarge]

It makes you wonder if the federal government isn't trying to kill off the airlines.

Or just do this to them:

[terry]

This is how you do it.

http://online.wsj.com/video/how-israel-screens-for-terrorists/987D025A-145D-42F5-9756-7B43CC7613CE.html

[BlueStateSaint]

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Air travel had already become an immense pain in the ass, fortunately I am about to the point where I have almost no "Have to" flights to worry about any more.  The scanners don't really bother me, it's not like they're stealing my soul.  Even the pat-downs are just a transitory annoyance.  But the whole thing taken all together is just too much of a pointless waste of my time, being treated like a crime suspect all the way through it to boot.

[IassaFTots]

Air travel had already become an immense pain in the ass, fortunately I am about to the point where I have almost no "Have to" flights to worry about any more.  The scanners don't really bother me, it's not like they're stealing my soul.  Even the pat-downs are just a transitory annoyance.  But the whole thing taken all together is just too much of a pointless waste of my time, being treated like a crime suspect all the way through it to boot.

I don't travel much, or as much as I would like to.  I would travel more, if I had more time off and more money to do so.  The pat downs and the scanners don't bother me as a procedure.  What bothers me is that I find the majority of the TSA employees to be deficient in training, and education to conduct their jobs. 

This entire inconvenience is superficial, at best. One of those "let's feel secure about traveling thingys."  If they want to make ME feel secure, station some actual military around, with their automatic weapons.  And throw a couple on the plane as well. 

Then I would feel more secure.   

[thundley4]

Air travel had already become an immense pain in the ass, fortunately I am about to the point where I have almost no "Have to" flights to worry about any more.  The scanners don't really bother me, it's not like they're stealing my soul.  Even the pat-downs are just a transitory annoyance.  But the whole thing taken all together is just too much of a pointless waste of my time, being treated like a crime suspect all the way through it to boot.

The whole thing would be much easier if they weren't so damn politically correct about it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

What bothers me is that I find the majority of the TSA employees to be deficient in training, and education to conduct their jobs. 

They do mostly come across as people who weren't quite bright or fit enough to make it as baggage handlers.

[littlelamb]

Personally anything that will keep us safe I am all for it