Planes, trains and automobiles — the Transportation Security Administration is now inspecting them all. And trolleys, ferries, subways and even private cars. For several years now, TSA has coordinated with local and federal law enforcement agencies to perform inspections and large-scale training operations through its VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) program, targeting random transportation centers and giving unsuspecting citizens its trademark pat-downs. (AFL-CIO wins representation of TSA agents)
TSA conducted more than 8,000 VIPR operations in the past 12 months alone, including more than 3,700 operations in mass transit and passenger railroad venues. In 2009, the total cost to taxpayers was $30 million. And now the agency is requesting funding for 12 more VIPR teams, which would bring the total to 37 squads and a budget of almost $110 million a year.
you become your enemy.
Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud of all those TSA and ICE thugs. must be unemployed KGB perhaps. America lost it’s freedom and nobody noticed or cared. actually as the US has (had) the best political system it’s sad really
VIPR – intentionally slithery name?
SWAT sounds like a silly little slap on the backside.
SEAL teams might balance balls on their nose and have cute whiskers
GREEN BERETS – an Irish drinking club in Paris?
VIPR – you die!
1984
That is all.
These posts against the TSA strike me as an assault on unions.
Assault it a proper word to describe what would likely happen should these marxist minimum wage pieces of shit attempt to violate my rights under the 1st 2nd or 4th amendments. War is coming and if, (like you) one doesnt support American sovereignty and the US constitution? That makes you a valid target. Death to the “New” World Order and any who support it! We are being transformed into a 3rd world police state shithole and all you can be concerned with and erroneously so is unions?! I bet your one of the cretins who voted for Obummer! So tell me, hows that working out for you huh? The vote is utter bullshit when msm and the council on foreign relation pre ordain ANY candidate long before they even stand a chance of being nominated! Wake up, load up, and RESIST!
#25, HAR!
I carry. Fuck them.
If I voluntarily decide to fly but refuse the scanner and get a groping, could I be found guilty of pandering?
If TSA agents are paid to provide the groping, could they be guilty of prostitution?
Actually, America lost its freedom in 1798 with the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. It’s been a downward slope since then.
Your Papers Please!
New graffiti spray painted on the base of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Rock Creek in DC
“Those willing to sacrifice liberty in the name of security deserve neither”
Obama didn’t start the TSA, nor did he greatly empower it. Anyway, the TSA is a government jobs program with a slant towards minorities. It is toothless, and irradiated.
VT plates read: Live free or die. ‘Bout sums it.
On 9/11/2001 my country turned into the old Soviet Union….I weep.
“Boarding Pass Arrest: Nigerian Slipped by JFK Airport Security”
Foreign national?
No valid ID?
Expired boarding pass?
Not on passenger manifest?
Hmmm. Dick seems to be in the right place. Welcome aboard,sir.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boarding-pass-arrest-nigerian-slipped-jfk-airport-security/story?id=13963831
Well of course the TSA has to harass the bus and train passengers, the same way it does the plane passengers. Or people might start thinking, “screw the plane ride, I’ll take the train, and avoid the groping”. So apparently, this is more of an economical balance move. So the airlines don’t lose too much business. I’d still take the train, if I could. Train wrecks don’t kill 99% of their passengers, the way plane crashes do. And trains never crash into each other, the way planes have while taxiing and on take off. I’ll wage a lot of “incursions” don’t get counted as airborne crashes.
Reading this reminded my of what I learned when I saw this movie about the old Brinks Robbery. And how the government conducted searches of all cars and trucks leaving Manhattan Island, at the time. Though it was many hours after the robbery. And this was probably highly illegal searches. But they went and did them anyway. As if Brinks’ faulty security warranted a federal investigation, to find the thieves. They didn’t rob any federal banks. Just an armored car service, that stored some payrolls after closing, for certain of their clients. Their insurance should have covered their loss. But the dang FBI saw an opportunity to make a name for itself, and made a big stink about catching the robbers. Who were really pretty small timers, up until then.
After the Brinks job, the FBI took to investigating people who basically leaned to a more Socialist form of government. This was before Social Security and Medicare, which actually is Socialism, if you think about it. But back in the 1930s, it was anti-communism, head clobbering time. And the FBI needed to be able to do that. So anti-war activists also got “investigated” as commies. Can’t have people believing in Peace, when war is so profitable.
this sucks! i thought theses cars were for lalaloopsie dolls, but they turn out to be freakin retarded realy dumb trolleys! boooooommmm