How ‘bout we disband the DHS, including the TSA, and allow concealed carry on public conveyances.
Problem solved, and won’t cost the public a dime.
Just sayin’.
Wonder which major DNC Donor is getting the contracts for this one (or which friend of a Government official)?
I can’t be the only one who ears earplugs being I usually sit in the back and it can get pretty loud sometimes,I also wear earplugs to keep my eardrums from emploding from the pressure. Soon we will have to pay $10.00 to supply our own ear plugs,and $5.00 to admire the very attractive stewardess.
people at TSA can read ?
Departed from Boston’s Logan Airport last night (weather was idenitical to 9/11 when I was trying to fly out then also.)
Scads of TSA Blue Shirts on duty - one doing her instant messaging while “monitoring a computer”, two others playing grab#ss, three others chatting while oblivious to their surrounding. I sure am glad the Later Loser Ted Kennedy insisted on making them fed. employees to insure high standards.
Perhaps I’ll call John Kerry to complain. /S
DHS and TSA are George W Bush’s Legacy. Napolitano and Obama have taken it to new heights. Hitler, if he were alive, would be proud.
Sooner or later we will be charged to blow our noses,cough,say “excuse me miss” and $5.00 extra to use Bounty or Angel Soft over the 15 cent TP rolls in those nasty smelling restrooms.
I'd be too much an optimist to presume that the TSA will now employ less people. Quite the contrary, the TSA will hire 3 new people for each machine, to "operate" it during the 3 shifts. The original guy becomes their supervisor.
Yeah, too hard sitting on their collective butts as they scrutinize innocent travelers for any excuse to hassle same so they can point and say "see, we're doing our job".
What about even younger children, they will have NO ID to match their boarding passes!
Oh, I know, now there will be a national ID required for kids, another way to waste more money.
I made it small enough so that it would get "lost" mixed in with the other gear in my laptop bag. In other words I hid it in plain sight and relied on the "Oh, that's my letter opener" if I got caught. My investment was only some of my time so if I needed to, I could surrender it and not think twice.
There is at least a plausible explanation.
They want machines there because the rate of human errors is unacceptably high. They have false negatives - where some IQ-challenged TSA worker doesn't know various forms of popular names. Then they have false positives - where the traveler presents fake or wrong ID or a boarding pass and is allowed to proceed.
This happens not only because the workers are not attentive enough. It also happens because the work is tedious, and they have only a couple of seconds to authenticate the ID. A terrorist can manufacture a very realistic-looking boarding pass - it's just a piece of paper, after all, it doesn't have to pass the magnetic reader at this point. Combined with his own ID, this "pass" will let him into the secure area of the airport - either to fly on another, this time real, boarding pass, or just to drop off some explosives for someone else who does fly.
The machine would close most of these holes. If you have to scan your boarding pass and your ID the computer will first check that the boarding pass is valid. If it is, it will figure out the unique identity of the passenger and match it to the ID (a driver's license, for example) that you also scan. The computer will be able to detect false IDs by checking with databases - something that a TSA worker can't do.
This closes a bunch of security holes (no more delivery trips into the secure area) and at the same time presents no [additional] privacy violations. I'm unsure if those security holes are important enough to be searched and probed over, but as long as they stick to this method they might as well do it right.
But, then who would there be to tell you that the razor knife with no blade you left in your pocket is OK then his “Supervisor” is right there to confiscate it?
I actually had to send an e-mail to these idiots with dictionary definitions of a knife and a blade to get them to understand. There was no blade. They sent me a claim form. I want my $8.06 back because they unlawfully confiscated my property.
I’m sure that everyone who has flown more than once the past 10 years is aware of the racial makeup of the TSA drones. The real reason for substituting machines for humans is that a large percentage of the TSA drones are illiterate.