Why The Hell Are Ordinary People Being Treated Like Criminals?
Some neo-hippie-shirted suburban mom is being made by the TSA to "assume the position" like someone suspected of a serious crime. And her crime is...getting off a train in Savannah.
Yes, that's right -- our government is preparing us to be docile about having our rights removed from us by searching us, sans probable cause, at every turn. Everyone -- including small children.
Caption at the YouTube video link:
The only bad thing on our trip was TSA was 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? Shouldnt they be doing that getting ON??? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.
And a comment below it that's right on about the people laughing about this process:
"Adults" laughing, joking, smiling, waving at the camera. Grow the fuck up, you mindless robots! Your children are more mature than you. I cannot believe ANYONE would go along with this. You are literally having your life & soul OWNED from out under you by the NWO, and you're SMILING? You deserve the MUCH worse version that's coming SOON if this is how you react.Argue, disagree, kick up a fuss, get arrested if necessary, but for God's sake don't just swallow it and LAUGH.
If you've got money, and live in Chicago, you can bypass the ball-grab and all the wait of the horrid and stupid TSA process:
If you want an easy gauge of whether anyhting like this is anything near effective, just imagine the outcry if only black persons were singled out.
Myth and misconception: that abuse of govenment power is OK if it is applied to everyone!
Radwaste at February 25, 2011 3:48 AM
I would kill to have those jets in South Florida!
Just to fly from Fort Lauderdale to Savannah GA for my dads upcoming wedding in two months, my husbands tickets cost over $700, and it's not even a direct fucking flight!
Sabrina at February 25, 2011 5:09 AM
It's the beginning of the end, people. This: "Adults" laughing, joking, smiling, waving at the camera. Grow the fuck up, you mindless robots! Your children are more mature than you. I cannot believe ANYONE would go along with this. You are literally having your life & soul OWNED from out under you by the NWO, and you're SMILING? is stupidity at its best, ignorance at its worst. Who the fuck is stupid enough to think this is funny?? Mindless idiots, liberal frakkin' leftwingnuts. I've been booking flights left and right for my boss, for various speaking engagements and conferences that she has to attend in the next couple of months. There is no way in hell I will go with her, even if it's paid for, if I have to submit myself to these severe invasions of my privacy. She wants me to go to Colorado in May. I told her I'd leave a couple of days before her and drive out if she really wants me to go. This is so much bullshit, and a sheeple I am NOT.
Flynne at February 25, 2011 5:28 AM
But, but it makes us safer. Safer! And anything that makes us safer is okay. (looking around apprehensively) Safer! They are out there. They will do bad things. (quivering chin) We need to be safer, Ms. Alkon. (sobbing and screaming) SAFER!
The above is pretty much the only "argument" for this absurd sort of policy. Unreasoning fear is now the justification offered as support for these policies that somehow, in some unprovable way, allegedly reduces the statistically-insignificant risk of terrorist-caused death among civilians. Worse, lots of people think that is all that is required to justify things. It leaves me a little bit stunned, to be honest. But then, most people have no concept of what 20% means, let along what a .0000000001% chance of dying in a terrorist attack means. They just think there is a risk, and thus any measure to counteract it is, on balance, a good thing.
Spartee at February 25, 2011 6:18 AM
And these fuckheads want to spend money we haven't got on "high-speed rail"?
fuck that. Nobody will use it if it comes with this crap. Getting searched on the way OFF a train?
How about "Fuck you. Get a warrant, cocksucker."
brian at February 25, 2011 7:06 AM
How about "Fuck you. Get a warrant, cocksucker."
This. Then they'd have the media circus I'd pull down on their freaking heads.
Once, I had one of those sleazy car salesmen that wouldn't give me back my car keys after I decided his "deal" wasn't a deal, and so he tried to keep me from leaving. I was 8 months preggers with my youngest, obviously so. I argued with him for a few, asked nicely for my keys, but when he wouldn't give them to me, I walked to the middle of the showroom and "Went into labor". Loudly. While announcing it was because of the stress of his keeping me there. There were a lot of people looking at cars before I started, not so many after :D His boss couldn't get me out of there fast enough.
So yes, I can, and would cause them a *lot* bigger headache than they would cause me, because Drama and I are old friends.
Kat at February 25, 2011 8:16 AM
Off topic, kind of, but at least this chucklehead got what he deserved:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41774476/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001
Now if only common sense would prevail within the TSA!
Flynne at February 25, 2011 8:56 AM
I don't get this. Security cannot prevent you from leaving. They can prevent you from entering if you refuse to be inspected. They cannot prevent you from leaving. This is a crime and they need to sue.
Patrick at February 25, 2011 10:18 AM
People going from point A to point B behind the Iron Curtain 30 or 40 years ago were not treated like this. Someone would ask to see your papers, and you were on your way. Only suspected criminals would get what this woman & her kids got (of course, the most serious crime you could be suspected of was dissent against the socialist state). I never thought I'd see the day when ordinary American travelers would be treated more invasively by agents of their own government than I was in the Communist prison I escaped from.
Martin (Ontario) at February 25, 2011 10:32 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/02/25/why_the_hell_ar.html#comment-1851224">comment from Martin (Ontario)I know, Martin. I read all this Russian fiction when I was a kid, plus a lot of stuff about Nazi Germany, and was so grateful that I lived in a place where that sort of thing didn't happen.
Amy Alkon at February 25, 2011 10:51 AM
This is what happens when you exchange freedom for security. These fucktards shooting the video think this is funny. They find no problem being searched after they arrive, idiots. Although the kiddies did look a little suspicious, they looked a bit to normal. If someone touched my child like that, they'd be eating their teeth.
Here's a little tip, if you don't want to be searched, dress yourself to look middle-eastern and as suspicious and dangerous as possible and you are assured a search free ride.....
Ed at February 25, 2011 10:53 AM
Getting off of a train? Maybe the TSA was tipped off that somebody was going to hijack the station and fly it to Cuba.
The Terrorist Safety Administration was just doing its job. You wouldn't want one to get hurt. We could be sued.
MarkD at February 25, 2011 12:26 PM
The TSA Gangstaz is molesting people coming OFF the train. WTF, did they think the train was coming from Syria???
mpetrie98 at February 25, 2011 1:15 PM
And another thing: I think my infuriation meter has pegged so many times in recent years that it broke. I don't feel angry at all; I should feel angry, but I just don't. I feel kinda strange and mirthful at the obvious insanity of it all.
mpetrie98 at February 25, 2011 1:28 PM
If I were to be a terrorist who wanted to live to do terror another day -- it would behoove them to search the car I just left, not me. I would be leaving a backpack bomb a'la the Atlanta Olympic bombing.
And the "If You See Something, Say Something campaign leaves me totally cold. I don't want to be another Richard Jewell.
Jim P. at February 25, 2011 7:50 PM
(Sorry to repeat my exact same post from another thread)
A bill is being pushed in New Hampshire that makes "the touching or viewing with a technological device of a person's breasts or genitals by a government security agent without probable cause a sexual assault":
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/02/new-hampshire-vs-the-tsa/
If you care about this issue (and related encroachments on constitutional liberties by the federal government), support the Tenth Amendment Center, and push for similar bills in your state! Come on folks, in the old days they used to die for liberty, these days we can at least give up a little spare time (and/or change) to help the fight. Keep sending the message to the federal government that their overbearings are not acceptable.
Lobster at February 28, 2011 5:39 PM
Hello everyone. Catalog of Human Population (CHP) researchers determined that every human being is a carrier of a certain program and so is a biorobot. He or she self-regulates (or is controlled by someone else) utilising manipulation modes.
cyborg at March 21, 2011 12:26 AM
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