Posted on 02/24/2011 2:51:55 PM PST by Leisler
After going down in a spiral of paranoid stupidity—called out for saving body scan images, ridiculed for patting down an almost-naked woman or nailed for harrassing a kid at airport security—the TSA has reached a new low. It's surreal.
Here's what a traveler recorded on February 13, after his train trip to Savannah:
The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn't they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.
Indeed, this doesn't make sense at all. Why search people after the train trip? What's the logic here? Did the TSA get an alert that dangerous 9-year-old terrorists were coming in a train to Savannah? Perhaps it was TSA Surprise Training Time? Or maybe it was TSA Let's Piss Off People Day again?
We will never know, but it doesn't matter at this point. Just, keep up the great work, TSA. You are winning American's heart one unnecessary pat down at a time!
I see trouble in my future. I’m 64, and some of my relatives and friends are in their late Eighties, and early Nineties. I haven’t taken a plane in twenty years. But if I have to go to a funeral, I will have to. I am not one to take this sh!t passively. I’ll probably get arrested.
One organ of fedgov is trying to kill off our cars, the other organ is shoving us in mass transit, and a third is putting the finishing touch on us be full fledged sheeple.
Make sure you have a friend or relative videotape everything (quietly and unobtrusively, of course).
TSA at train stations now? How widespread is this?
And what if a train passenger refused the pat-down, what then? They have already completed the train travel, so what they going to do?
And there was not any metal detectors nor naked body scanners there, so everyone is forced to submit to a pat-down, including little boys and girls.
This is what a Democrat-led union-driven government looks like! Where is the ACLU?
Which is why I said it might be a drill.
Depending on the jackboots’ mood, refuseniks might be arrested, or might simply be inconveniently detained then ultimately escorted out of the train station.
You might start preplanning on how it would be done with Greyhound Bus.
TSA is already doing this at bus stations: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-new-greyhound-metal-detectors-scanners-pat-downs-introduced-at-bus-terminals_12022010
And the TSA has already put up highway roadblocks to do their searches: http://www.ajc.com/news/feds-involved-in-major-643211.html
The ‘TSA search’ campaign would be extended to sports stadiums, labeled “sports and general aviation industries” in the press release, as well as businesses and communities in general...http://www.webnewsjax.com/?p=131
No offense, but I must correct you, sir.
YOU have the RIGHT to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, that SHALL NOT be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The TSA has a regulation, not law, that says they have the "right" to take away YOUR RIGHT.
The only question is, will you let the TSA take away YOUR RIGHT. Given that after all of the scanning and groping, the TSA has not stopped one single terrorist and its neglect of our border, what does this tell you?
I laugh at those who condone this sexual assault in order to "feel safe" and convince the victim that the victim is indeed not a terrorist. This is nothing short of Big Sis conditioning the public to let the public know who's boss.
As for myself I am not a terrorist, I am not scared of terrorists (and therefore defeat them), and I will not allow anyone to take away MY RIGHT without a fight. I pity the fool that lays a hand on one of my kids, wife or myself.
We taught our children from the time they were knee-high that their privates are private. But it's somehow OK if someone wears a uniform from an agency that makes up its own regulation claiming that it can molest children and others at will? I think not.
Whatever happened to the men that used to live in America?
This reads as setting up bus station facilities at which, possibly, gropes might be carried out in the future if a bomb threat appears.
They’re going to have to staff them first to make the gropes an ongoing practice, however. This is something that the GOP House is unlikely to give in on.
How long until the goons set up ‘check-points’ between cities - and we’re all carrying ‘papers’. I am so sick of liberal elites and their goons.
And if you are critical of the TSA, this may be coming to your front door: http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/federal-agents-search-home-of-pilot-critical-of-tsa
I have yet to see a single Freeper fulminating about this to actually hit the news as having bucked the TSA and gotten arrested, or even report having personally done it and somehow evading arrest. The trumpets blow loudly but who’s marching?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwb48COSS4&feature=related
For in country travel, small airlines are starting to provide a go-round. No pat-downs, no scanners, no long lines - your name is pre-checked against no-fly lists.
NO PAT DOWN TRAVELING - ahahaha - up yrs, TSA/’bama goons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuHCmgnkOg&feature=related
You go to the airport, get on the plane, no luggage charge, have a free in-flight meal and beer, no parking charges and when you get back home...get off plane, straight to car and off you go.
American ingenuity - block our way? We'll find another.
http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/transeng/pages/-7207-/
Bethca this will catch on -
Now, if they only flew to Italy ;o( - I have to go for a family weeding. I've seriously been thinking about driving to Halifax and leaving from Nova Scotia. I believe I would, if the CAT were still running. but it’ s LOOONNNg drive up and around without the CAT.
Do you think you are safe from the TSA in your own car? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1153902-tsa-goes-mobile-strip-searched-you-walk-down-street-drive-your-car.html
This was the disgruntled pilot, I believe, who published a fairly detailed list of airport vulnerabilities.
This video needs to be sent to all Federal Georgia officials—Senators and Congressmen—and Georgia’s Governor, and State representatives.
This genie has to be put back in the bottle. The TSA has no “right” to do this, and they need to be defunded right away, and Janet Incompetano called on the carpet.
Rush and others need to se this.
We are at a turning point in America.
There is no other expkanation.
We can deny it all we want.
But our government has now been directed against us and a housecleaning is due.
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