A hundred and one ways for planes to go BOOM. Fun reading while sitting next to a nervous flier.
Posted on 06/07/2017 6:55:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
In all its years of annoying and harassing travelers the TSA has never caught one, not one, terrorist.
They have found plenty of fingernail clippers and toiletries with more than 3 oz in them.
Also, it is not too much to ask that the goal of luggage theft be always a trend toward zero, with serious jail time for violation of victimizing travelers. No exceptions, no second chances.
The TSA supervisors, of course should be held to higher standards, with higher penalties for clearly defined crimes, including incompetence. Nuke nepotism and muslim employees altogether.
I drive twice that distance to avoid the TSA. I love flying but the boarding experience is horrible. For some reason I usually get the grope session while others skate. I’ll never fly again unless it’s an emergency.
“... I went ahead and enrolled in the Pre-Check program. I don’t know if Pre-Check is really a step in the right direction or just a way to pay the government money to avoid their security theater, but at least air travel is now fractionally less annoying.”
We pretty much only fly on airmiles anymore...earned thru American’s charge card program. If we don’t fly first class, we’re generally given pre-check status even though we’ve never signed up thru the pre-check program. I guess they just know enough about us now. And, it does make it less annoying. Although last flight, they rifled thru my bookbag and swabbed it. I don’t have an issue with that. I actually used the time standing there to talk to a very nice-looking young lady that was also having her bag rifled.
Unfortunately it is only useful at U.S. airports. Why? I have no clue.
So, for foreign travel, it is one-way convenience.
More Guns,Less Crime also!
They'd be wondering, is there really is such a book and wonder where they can get a copy.
"Any protest to this policy will be entertained, with prejudice, back at the terminal. Good luck."
Yeah, I guess Abdulla would cause some suspicion with that remark.
A hundred and one ways for planes to go BOOM. Fun reading while sitting next to a nervous flier.
Ha,ha! (as if any employee of the T.S.A. could even read a book)
At one time, in a land far away, people actually liked flying. Flight attendants were cheerful and helpful. Passengers were just ordinary people, neither great nor obnoxious. You were able to bring things on board that now are designated “criminal”.
It was unlikely that a bearded savage would shave off his facial fur and fly the plane into a building.
Much has changed since then. The mutual trust among people who didn’t know each other is now gone. You are treated as a terrorist, unless you actually are one, in which case you are offered an extra drink.
Bob Barr spoke at the first FR event, if I’m not mistaken.
All the books I read these days are on the pad.
It’s just part of the programing.
Once the upper middle class’s and lower upper class’s acclimated to governmental personal intrusion then unwarranted searches of car, home and person becomes socially acceptable.
Remember Bostonians acted after the bombing.
Someone needs to write a book entitled, “What a bunch of assholes the fat, lazy, morons at TSA are”
Other books that I’d like to see are: “Why the government jerk-offs don’t give a damn about you, and how they screw you over” and “How to make fun of a TSA drone with him, her or it even having a clue.”
They can thumb through those, if they can even read.
(I've got a copy of each).
The latter was a textbook in the "Unconventional Warfare" class the Political Science department offered when I went to college (I didn't take the class; I only bought the book "for reference").
re: “Give someone an ID badge and a badge and they’re like the Gestapo”
YES, that is the point! The people who turned the TSA into the organization they are today knew that.
The famous academic study which described how to change people with the use of uniforms and fake authority is known as the “Stanford Prison Experiment,” but real life precursors of the TSA include the Sturmabteilung, which was eventually folded into the Gestapo. The first large scale action of the Sturmabteilung was setting up checkpoints in front of private businesses, changing both the Sturmabteilung members and the general public in the process.
The TSA’s only accomplishment since inception is the complete validation of the Milgram Experiment.
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