If TSA "Security" Measures Were Even More Invasive
Or, as I like to call it, the shape of things to come, thanks to the sheep of things we've had -- all the people who are so polite as their right to not be searched without probable cause is yanked from them.
Read Mark Steyn this weekend. He talks about silly regulations, and of course, the TSA come into play.
He tells the story of a passenger coming into LAX, wearing boots that showed up on the explosive trace monitor. He was immediately put on the no-fly list. The problem? They were combat boots, worn as part of his Marine military uniform, from where he had departed Afghanistan some 20 hours earlier.
And he was traveling with 25 other members of his unit.
Gee, would think they'd be happy that our Marines are conversant in gunpowder and explosives.
Mike43 at December 28, 2012 10:29 PM
It's sad to laugh at these. The number one image was well deserved at number one.
What really makes me sad about this is how so many children, teenagers and twenty somethings will have no idea this was not how it was supposed to be.
jerry at December 28, 2012 10:29 PM
I rather like this list of TSA stupidities.
Step right up and defend them, Jeff. Remind us all just what means of travel is Constitutionally protected, Mike Hunter. Step out from behind your government computer and blame Amy, "Knowing".
Radwaste at December 29, 2012 12:58 AM
What almost made me cry was when multiple politicians, pundits, and "reporters" brought up using the No-Fly List as part of the NICS background check to buy a firearm.
I bet the burger counter server that is at a TSA checkpoint can get your name on the No-Fly List because you pissed him/her off.
No one even knows how the list was compiled.
Jim P. at December 29, 2012 6:12 AM
Radwaste, step right up and get a frickin grip on what my position actually is.
In fact, see if you can, in one sentence, capture it.
Because, on current form, you clearly haven't taken it on board.
Jeff Guinn at December 29, 2012 6:33 AM
Jeff, the only thing you're maintaining is that because there have been no bomb attacks by passengers, it's because of the TSA.
And you have no idea what fallacies are, nor what proper risk analysis entails. That's been amply demonstrated by your comments.
You should look up post hoc, ergo propter hoc, just for a start, and apologize profusely once you have that clue.
Radwaste at December 29, 2012 7:09 AM
My other concern is the mission creep. First TSA started with airports, now train stations. Almost any federal building now requires you be searched. The most surprising is the teenager behind the breakable glass at our movie theater demanded to see inside my wife's purse. I told him it was not acceptable. He looked like a deer in the headlights. I very easily could have been carrying my Combat Commander in an inside the waist band holster and he wouldn't know. The kid wouldn't even have been a speed bump for somebody bent on committing mayhem.
Bill O Rights at December 29, 2012 7:21 AM
The TSA (Thousands Standing Around) is nothing more than the government's attempt to erode our civil liberties. Groping peoples' crotches in the name of safety protects NO ONE. There haven't been any more terrorist attacks on airplanes because the terrorists have moved on from that. They've won because the American public must now be groped in their private places before they're allowed to get on planes. For the terrorists, public humiliation by a country's own government in the name of safety is a win. But many countless others don't get that. Sheeple. That's what they are, and they believe what they're being told because they have forgotten how to think and reason for themselves.
Flynne at December 29, 2012 12:49 PM
Hey I just went back and reviewed your garbage. The problem is that you think that because I want to fly on a plane, it is reasonable for a person to be searched.
Now the problem with that concept is that if I want to travel on a train I could be searched as well because I want to travel.
How about in my privately owned car? Should I be searched because I want to go, on a highway, from Florida to Michigan?
www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/12/04/sommer_gentry_d.html
www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/11/30/the_tsa_what_sh.html
Jim P. at December 30, 2012 9:26 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/12/29/if_tsa_security.html#comment-3535917">comment from Jim P.Exactly, Jim P.
Amy Alkon at December 30, 2012 10:19 AM
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