TSA Actually Doing Something Right

Someone's got to post the picture of the old white hair grandma getting the pat-down from a TSA agent. You all know you have it saved as your background... let's see it.
 
In addition to richard Reid, lets not forget while they didn't attack airplanes people like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols do exist. Ya profiling does work, would it work in america probably not, because that would equal a huge lawsuit no on really wants to deal with. El Al has some pretty ridiculous security measures and idk if America's security issues are really that bad that we need to take out of their book just yet
 
Rosstafari said:
Yeah... but you've seen pictures of him, right? I'm pretty sure any profiling at all, racial or otherwise, would raise some suspicion over a guy looking as screwy as this:

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That's one funky looking dude.
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When ticket prices get low enough, between certain city pairs, you'd be relieved to see a guy as "normal" as this! :)

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Oh man, when the sweatsuit/sweatpants wearing crowd gets on, pissed off because "the airlines are screwin' him because it's costin' $150 to fly from Boston to LAX"... oh, I'd better keep my mouth shut.
 
Hold on........now we're invoking Tim McVeigh. He was caught on the I-35 due to a missing license plate. Perhaps we should set up TSA security checkpoints on all the highways..since if you're a smuggler thats really where you'd be. Flying isn't a right, neither is driving.
 
totally agree with you viking flying is not a right its a privilege which can be taken from you and is taken from people probably every week
 
N826AW said:
I think that's wha everyone thought the TSA agents were going to be. Instead of firing all of the private security companies because their employees suck and then subsequently hiring said employees to wear new uniforms.
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I love the airports where there is still private screening. Sure, its the same process, but my experience at MCI leads me to this conclusion. If the security people are courteous the whole process flows much better, and doesn't seem like such a big inconvenience.
 
Interesting idea IMHO..... but what about the folks who are afraid to fly? Seems they would look nervous or suspicious too.
 
This is the most stupidest thing I've read yet. I don't trust those buffoons with their job now, much less with targeting people based on their own idea of probably cause. Our liberties are going down the -hole. Those dropouts would easily further a power-trip with their own judgement of a search based on a "passenger's body language" and no one could ever complain since we all know it's "better safe than sorry." All it would do would be to inconvenience innocent passengers, just to meet their own psychological quota of achievement, making them feel better that they're saving the country one inspection at a time.

I hate that joke of an "administration."
 
Some of the rants are misguided.

According to the Air Transport Association, last year, there were nearly 665 million passengers enplaned on domestic flights.

Of those 665 million, the TSA's program flagged around 99,000.

So clearly, they're doing something -- we don't know what because they won't tell us and they shouldn't -- that doesn't indiscriminately flag people. Otherwise, the number of people flagged would be a hell of a lot higher.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the article says that only select TSA staff are in this program. I guarantee you that the doofus who can't tell that something that says 50 ml (1.7 oz) is legal isn't the person who's selected to do this.
 
tonyw said:
Some of the rants are misguided.

According to the Air Transport Association, last year, there were nearly 665 million passengers enplaned on domestic flights.

Of those 665 million, the TSA's program flagged around 99,000.

So clearly, they're doing something -- we don't know what because they won't tell us and they shouldn't -- that doesn't indiscriminately flag people. Otherwise, the number of people flagged would be a hell of a lot higher.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the article says that only select TSA staff are in this program. I guarantee you that the doofus who can't tell that something that says 50 ml (1.7 oz) is legal isn't the person who's selected to do this.
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It's the TSA, can you really believe that?

So the government can do whatever now as long as they're saying it's making the public safer?
 
PGT said:
It's the TSA, can you really believe that?

So the government can do whatever now as long as they're saying it's making the public safer?
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Look at the numbers.

They pulled out 100K out of 665 million people.

It's all about the numbers. If it was your typical TSA clown, then it'd be around 660 million out of 665 million who got pulled out for secondary screening. And of course, the five million they missed would be the bad guys.
 
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