No, The Answer For Too Much Government Is Not More Government
The TSA needs to be disbanded, not have a touchy-feely wing added to it (metaphorically touchy-feely, as opposed to the airport workers who earn a living fingering your vagina).
But, count on Big Government-Loving Chuck -- Chuck Schumer -- to decide that the answer is hiring "passenger advocates" in every terminal. Yes, because government is so brilliant at running things. Look at any single aspect of the TSA and there will be major flaws. For example, the scanners. In medical facilities, scanners are checked daily. TSA? Their scanners -- peering into everybody's private uglies 24/7 -- are checked MAYBE once a year. Maybe.
Via Consumerist, a CBS/Miami story:
"Flying became a degrading experience that should be avoided at all cost," said Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).Schumer, along with state Senator Michael Gianaris made the announcement Sunday flanked by the sons of the elderly women.
"We are calling on the TSA to give a voice to those who feel they may have been inappropriately treated or subject to overly onerous screening," said Senator Schumer.
His proposal would post a trained passenger advocate to field complaints and address them immediately at all airports. Zimmerman was pleased to hear about the proposal and hopes that it is adopted.
"Women should not be abused. They should be protected," she said.
Um, we have a little thingie called the Fourth Amendment to do that. The problem is, it's ignored and our rights are violated in airports -- and pointlessly, since the TSA mainly scores some pot, a few knives, and sometimes steals passenger possessions and loot.
When I have to be "thoroughly" screened because I don't want to put a 10Ml bottle of medicine through an x-ray screen -- just fucking Kiss My Ass!!!
The TSA was not needed the moment United Flight 93 impacted the ground one hour and five minutes after Tower II was hit.
Please prove me wrong with anything the TSA has done that the passengers on on any flight after 93 has done better?
Jim P. at February 14, 2012 11:00 PM
This is a government agency, and the government is trying to fix it.
Government solutions are always more, not less.
It's easy to spend it when it's not your money.
Oh, and if I were a 'terrorist' I wouldn't have to sneak a bomb through security, I'd have it go off right there and take out the artificial crowd created by the checkpoint. Just sayin'
DrCos at February 15, 2012 3:44 AM
The solution is obvious: Pass a law requiring Congress to go through a TSA checkpoint to enter or leave the Capitol, and indemnify the screeners. Randomly rotate those with the worst complaints from airports to cover the Capitol.
If it's good enough for my representative, it's good enough for me. And vice-versa.
Chuckles the clown, never funny, and never quits.
MarkD at February 15, 2012 4:52 AM
So we're going to solve the problem of an unneccessary and expensive government bureaucracy with an expensive counter-weight government bureaucracy?
We're going to solve the problem of an overbearing government bureaucracy trampling our rights by creating another government bureaucracy to defend our rights?
The government is going to defend us ... against the government?
At midnight last night, I thought I heard my clock downstairs strike thirteen. I just assumed that I had miscounted.
Conan the Grammarian at February 15, 2012 9:50 AM
My first reaction was, "Seriously? Welcome to the world you helped create, Chuck."
Kat at February 15, 2012 3:07 PM
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