Posted on 06/26/2011 3:26:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
Worse: The latest word is that they have already started doing checkpoints at roads, and not just interstates but local highways and roads as well. They are supposedly searching only commercial traffic, but there was a news story from Texas that they were searching private cars.
They’ve already started. See my post #121.
School buses? You’ve got to be kidding!
It's childish to make informed consumer decisions?
I ask that the Lord NOT forgive them.
If at all possible, never ever ever fly. Go by train or drive yourself. I wonder if the American public decided not to fly. How long would the airlines last and how long would TSA be in business?Unfortunately this is the only way to take on these b@st@rds. Unfortunately it's not going to happen.
>>It’s childish to make informed consumer decisions?<<
Take 2 items:
1) A globe of the world
2) A map of, let us say, 600 miles around your home.
By saying “Well, I just won’t fly” your entire world is encompassed in #2.
You want to go to Hawaii? Nope. Want to go to Europe? Nope.
Your child/grandchild/etc. has a wedding 3,000 miles away? Not going to attend. Same wedding in the Bahamas? Not in the cards.
Of course everyone should make his/her own analysis. If 5 minutes of potential pissed-officeness is enough to shackle you, then that is your call.
It just strikes me as childish.
The way to change the system is to change the system. Not throw a tantrum that, frankly, no one cares about. Fly, don’t fly, no one cares.
But I 100% guarantee if you NEED to fly, those “informed consumer decisions” will be out the door faster than a call for an obama golf outing is in.
And, FWIIW, I haven’t been touched by a TSA person in many months (call it 100,000 qualifying miles). Not that they should, but it just hasn’t happened. That doesn’t make them my friends (they owe me Trusted Traveler which I DO have [Global Entry] for International flights — irony indeed).
>>I knew we could count on you. 4th amendment be damned. Humiliation and degradation of the elderly, frail, and terminally ill is the way to go. <<
And I knew I could count on you to misconstrue the 4th Amendment AND misconstrue my arguments (and break FR rules).
It is always good to have constants in the world.
Don’t fly — no one will miss you. In fact, I can imagine the kind of passenger you would be and we are ALL better off with you taking the bus (to Hawaii, the Bahamas, cross country, etc.). Let the bus passengers “enjoy” you.
I don't take orders from you. You don't think current TSA pat downs and naked scans are intrusive. That's twisted, sister.
>>I don’t take orders from you. You don’t think current TSA pat downs and naked scans are intrusive. That’s twisted, sister.<<
I make a recommendation.
You don’t want to follow the rules, then don’t fly.
If you do want to follow the rules, then fly (although I stand by my contention you may not be a great seat-mate but that is SEP).
I am suggesting you don’t really understand the issue and you don’t understand how to address it.
If you don’t want to fly because of your perceived violation of your rights, I applaud that decision and suggest you continue to stand on that principle for the rest of your life. For you and the rest of the flying public it is a win-win but it is your decision.
It was you who broke FR rules and pinged me to this thread so I guess it is you who must make the affirmative argument. And, based on your 2+ million flying miles miles that match mine, your opinion is weighted in reality, right?
So what will you do? Fly? Fly not?
Either way, someone wins. And you lose. From your own hand.
I didn’t start this, but I think you are best off leaving it be.
Wow, this is the worst TSA case I’ve ever heard. I may never fly again.
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