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..
#18 I think you and maybe someone else in the blog are the only ones looking forward to pat-downs. No one believes you like profiling. No one.
BTW, isn’t it about time for some money hungry balls-to-the-walls lawyers to file a class action lawsuit against the TSA for violation of “civil rights” to step up to the plate? All it takes is for them to find the right sympathetic Federal Judge to put the breaks on this shit….
With all the complaints coming more frequently, this is starting to seem like a setup.
How’s this for a crack-pot theory:
After all the complaints, a few airports start to kick out the TSA. Then, within a month, an Al-qaeda nutjob boards a plane in Tusla and crashes it or blows it up.
Then Napolitano comes out screaming, “Aha! I told you so! We need the TSA!!!”
Then we’re stuck with TSA forever, followed by TSA check-points at every intersection.
as an arizona resident she was a poor governor and now just a politicl hack for the left agenda and newspeak from her party.as drudge said the jihad is winning this side of the war,because we have politicians running it.Jan brewer for next tsa head,second thought disband the whole agency.
So if the TSO’s are the last line of defense, then where do the aircrew and pilots fit in?
The TSA and that Napalitano dude have lost their way and their touch with their fellow citizens.
The TSA is one of the reasons I totally despise Bush. All this crap while he refused to control the borders. I don’t think it is all just “Security Theater”. I think it is intended to get the public used to the general Nazification of the USA.
Muslims are exempt from the enhanced patdowns, according to a CAIR announcement of an agreement they reached with TSA.
Polipundit gave the solution out of this mess. Arizona should pass a law saying that illegal immigrants must follow the process.
So how can we get aiports to op out?
it will never happen
Come on people, the TSA is the last line of defense. When we have failed and allow terrorist to get as far as our airports again it would be the perfect time for TSA to prove themselves worthy of their just cause.
I for one will be cheering for them with full force, no doubt about this. I just pray that I am there at the airport to do so. I can already imagine myself, with glee, just being there with the righteous TSA people.
I can also picture the look on the terrorist faces even as I type this, their shock their awe and most importantly their eagerness. I can imagine them laughing with me as they shoot constantly at the TSA people that I use as shields, one right after another. In some cases, I’ll consider even joining them. But one thing for sure, I’ll be just as happy as those terrorists shooting TSA people.
That’s my DREAM and you damn well appreciate it cause you can’t stop free speech! TSA is watching you!
This mess is a result of our government’s need to be politically correct and avoiding racial profiling. What happened to our great nation?
They can opt out but who’s going to use their services? Kinda like passengers having the choice to opt out of the search but then be label by the TSA, charge some thousand dollar fine for EACH problem found, and maybe get release and ban from the airport.
Sure you can do it just be ready to pay for it via our generous government (they do have our best interest in mind you know…like slaves being well fed so they can continue to work.) Go America, live off the fear!
I’ve emailed every member of the San Diego Airport Authority with the info on Mica and urged them to boot out the TSA.
TSA is the last line of defense? HA!!! As a firearms instructor who teaches people every week about handguns and using them effectively in self-defense, I say just let people exercise their SECOND amendment rights and carry their weapons on airliners. The only thing you’d have to worry about is making sure they use only frangible ammunition, like the sky marshals are required to.
I’ve traveled cross-country with my weapons before (unfortunately they had to be in checked luggage). TSA doesn’t make me feel any safer, especially when I see some of the asinine things they do and the policies they enforce. The only thing that truly makes you safe is having the tools and ability to defend yourself and loved ones.
Again as a previous commenter mentioned. Bringing in private security only changes the name on the uniform. The TSA still supervises and the private company MUST FOLLOW THE EXACT SAME TSA POLICIES and uses the exact same screening equipment.
Once you’ve booted out TSA at your local airport, what are yo going to do about your return flight?