This dipshit says the TSA is the last line of protection. NO! The last line is the flying public itself.
The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners after a two-year period. Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice.
Mica, one of the authors of the original TSA bill, has recently written to the heads of more than 150 airports nationwide suggesting they opt out of TSA screening. “When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees,” Mica writes. “As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.”
I have always heard that security is actually controlled by the local authorities. Contact your airport administrator and local city councils and have them boot out the TSA. It’s costing too much money and ruining air travel. They are not a requirement and are corrupt for buying these Chertoff machines..
We’ll see how long *that* provision lasts.
Nice dodge in that video. CSN? LOL!
Anyway, Archie Bunker had the right idea. Instead of disarming passengers, you hand them a pistol when they board, and collect them when they leave. Might want to get rid of onboard liquor service first.
The linked article is FUD. The private party option is paid for and supervised by TSA and only offers “maybe” the ability to be more flexible?
WHAT are the actual differences observable TODAY between the 5 model projects and the rest of the TSA directly operated airports?
Silly Ninnies: Bitching about the “invasion” of their desire for personal privacy but not willing to do anything that makes a difference: STOP FLYING.
The public did not VOTE FOR MORE SECURITY AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR LIBERTY. We are a republic and our masters approved this. Just another item on the LONG LIST of how Congress acts in a way that is contrary to what MOST PEOPLE WANT and the people have very little redress. Drugs, prostitution, taxes, abortion, outsourcing jobs, corporate merging of media outlets, NAFTA, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON regarding the public HAVING TO put up with our government bought and paid for by special interests: the chief of which is the SUPER RICH.
Realistically, all that can happen is our country has to basically “go broke” with this silliness then elect a leader on a tidal wave election FOR REAL CHANGE. Then we can get some real change for a real difference for about 5-10 years before everyone gets corrupted by money and power once again.
With the idiot Republicans vowing to start investigations one a week against the corrupt Obama administration ((and not for being a repulsive version of Bush-Light either)) there is no change on the horizon. Even if Barry grew a pair, its too late for him. Cuckolded instead of a leader. Too bad. Had some skills that were wasted.
“When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees,”
Are you f’ing kidding me? What government agency isn’t a huge and unwieldly bureaucracy??? That is the definition of government!
Before you fly ask yourself “Do I really want to see aunt Millie and her idiot second husband that badly that I will subject myself, my wife and my cute 18 year old daughter to radiation exposure and public exposure when the TSA troglodytes finally figure out how to get “those pictures” posted to nudie sites in the internet?”
And then the terrorists have already won.
The rich are taking back the air.
What do they care?
They divested themselves of all of their airline stock years ago, when PanAm went under.
They don’t fly that way, waiting in long lines full of sweaty, uncouth people, namely “le commun des mortels”.
The first word from her mouth was “look”. No one has spoken to me since boot camp like that. Her cavity search will take place between her ears.
I seriously doubt that the local option will improve how the screeners intrude on the passenger. I am sure that any local screeners would have to conduct the screening to a level determined by (wait for it) the TSA.
Again, the TSA is there to make the flying sheeple feel safe from a enraged Muslim with a nail clipper.
The best solution right now is to implement the Israeli system and TELL the people that we are implementing the most effective, scalable, un-intrusive security system in the world developed by the Israeli government.
The sheeple already know that Israeli’s don’t fuck around with security.
#8 Stop talking about yourself in the third person, it’s spooky.
Try taking Amtrak. They check nothing, no body scan, no metal detector, NOTHING. The only thing you need is a state ID or driver’s license. They do have ICE agents walking down the aisles checking for illegal immigrants though.
lets ask a few questions here..
1. Protect from WHOM?
2. all Problems in the last 10 years have been from INCOMING INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS. Why NATIONAL flights are being scanned? WHO are they looking for?
3. Why are they doing it INSIDE the USA, when most of the problems are coming INTO the USA from internationals locations? SCAN those coming TO the USA..which they do.
4. Lets see. Scanning flights OUT of the USA going international? WHY? IF we let the idiots INTO the USA, how did they get materials to BLOW up planes INSIDE the USA?
5. Any incoming FLIGHTS, should be scanned? THEY ALREADY ARE. Why not SCAN persons AFTER they arrive? BECAUSE they were already SCANNED?
Its weird logic, and it REALLY dont work.
The problem is INTERNATIONAL flights INTO THE USA…we cant scan them. WE ASK the other nations to SCAN THEM.
Scanning packages on ARRIVAL is a good thing.
So, WHY are we scanning NATIONAL citizens.. BECAUSE we cant point out a certain GROUP and JUST scan them. WE even had a NATIONALIZED person, try to shoot things out on a military base..but He wasnt SCANNED(how he got a gun is stupid).
TO MUCH protection for NOTHING..
we have had MORE planes crash because of FAILURES in the last 10 years, then we have had BOMBS..
Why anyone is surprised that giving a position of power and responsibilty with NO accountability to a skunk-haired jack-jawed beast like janet napolitano is a bad idea remains a mystery. The only thing that half-women-brain donor is suited for is to run against nancy pelosi for village idiot.
Given the available options, I would rather just strip down to my birthday suit and rum my clothes through a scanner. I DON’T want my body dosed with radiation and I DON’T want some jerk groping me or my family. Neither one of those options should ever have even been considered acceptable by anyone, ever. What are these people thinking?
John,
Dipshit is far too kind for this idiot.
Maybe ‘asswipe’ is a better fit.
That dirty rotton, turkey trott’n,bowlegged,knock knee’d,pidgeon toe’d ,sawed off sewer pipe of a manager needs to be replaced. I am sick and tired of being made subservient to their sense of security.
The problem began when the TSA was intended to be a real service like Customs or Immigration but was defanged by congressional special interests and turned into a quasi-bureacratic circus.
That bitch hiker from Iran should be restricted from boarding any airliner in the United States. That would be a good start.
#9 Pedrito, I know you love the TSA because safe sex is better than no sex. However, you need to realize this not just about you.
An airline ticket is a contract. Contracts cannot remove inmate rights or violate the law. In other words, killing someone under or because of a contract doesn’t make it legal.
Step forward now, ticket “agreements” subjecting the holder to sexual molestation and/or a porn scan are illeagle and have no bearing upon your right to refuse such treatment from anyone, let alone your own government.
Janet Napolitano has zero clue on security, the law, and the bill of rights.
CAN we STOP with ALL the CAPITALIZATION? THAT would be GREAT.