TSA Outrage Etc...

[biteme]

TSA goons getting stripped
Abuse of phony uniforms and badges

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...-officer-title

House Republicans look to 'strip' TSA screeners of their 'officer' title
By Pete Kasperowicz - 12/09/11 09:31 AM ET
More than two dozen House Republicans introduced legislation on Thursday that would prevent the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) from calling airport screeners "officer" unless they have gone through federal law enforcement training or are otherwise eligible for federal law enforcement benefits.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the lead sponsor of the Stop TSA's Reach in Policy (STRIP) Act, said that TSA has essentially allowed its airport screeners to play dress-up by giving them metal badges and police-like uniforms in recent years. But she said many airport screeners have no "officer" qualifications, and should have this title removed.

She also said giving airport screeners police-like uniforms has led to problems. She said in New Jersey, a screener was arrested for impersonating an officer, and a Virginia woman was raped by a screener after he approached her showing his TSA badge.
"It is outrageous that in a post-9/11 world ... the American people should have to live in fear of those whose job it is to keep us safe," Blackburn said. "Congress has sat idly by as the TSA strip-searches 85-year-old grandmothers in New York, pats down 3-year-olds in Chattanooga and checks colostomy bags for explosives in Orlando.
"Enough is enough!" she added. "The least we can do is end this impersonation, which is an insult to real cops."

[biteme]

Big fat Sis says she's sorry if shoving her foot up your ass bothers you and creates a bad experience, but no matter what she does it's within the new TSA daily changing laws and within TSA non existing parameters

http://campaign2012.washingtonexamin...ey-belt/249971
TSA thought woman's back brace was a money belt byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer

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In response to ongoing criticism for removing the back brace from an elderly woman who claims Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers strip-searched her an airport, the TSA issued a "clarification" about their position on the incidents, claiming -- contrary to an earlier TSA statement -- that the woman's back brace was removed because the security personnel thought it was a "money belt."

"There was a bit of a miscommunication and our officers were told that the passenger was wearing a money belt," explains a TSA blogger. "Unlike medical braces and supports, money belts must be removed since they’re not providing any type of medical benefit." Last week, the TSA blog reported that the woman "told the officers that she was wearing a back brace or support belt which required private screening."

In today's update, the TSA acknowledges that the security agents did not return the brace to the woman immediately upon realizing that it was not, in fact, a money belt. "Since the item had already been removed, our officers had it X-rayed and returned it to the passenger who was then clear to travel," the TSA says.

The TSA denied that any strip-search ever took place, adding that they "truly regret that these passengers feel they had a bad screening experience."

[biteme]

O'bummer and Holder, deny, deny, deny all, they Know nothing
He was not detained, he just wasn't allowed to leave
Although I must admit, a lot of senators could be terrorist




http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/ra...e-the-cubicle/
The White House, through spokesman Jay Carney, defended the TSA’s actions during Monday’s press briefing by arguing that Paul wasn’t technically “detained.”

“Let’s be clear,” Carney said. “The passenger was not detained. He was escorted out of the area by local law-enforcement.”

But Sen. Paul told TheDC that he certainly felt like he was detained. “If you’re told you can’t leave, does that count as detention?” Paul asked.

“I tried to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!’ So, that, to me sounds like I’m being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little bit like I’m being detained.”

The incident started after the scanner Paul walked through sounded its alarm. Current TSA rules would require Paul to undergo a mandatory pat-down before proceeding to his plane. But Paul told TheDC that the TSA agents caved in after a two-hour battle and allowed him to go through the scanner again without additional physical screening.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/ra...#ixzz1kJrsR6mh

[Pete Bondurant]

Deport this bastard to Luxembourg.

[biteme]

TSA was created to program and control all citizens, in the old days they used God and religion
now its's big Fat Sis and TSA

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/ro...ut-of-control/

The police state in this country is growing out of control,” Paul wrote in a statement provided to The Daily Caller. “One of the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs our kids and our seniors and does nothing to keep us safe.”

[Waldowas]

Oh yes, fullbodyscans can be soooooo sexy!

[biteme]

Big Fat Sis's TSA agents are so well trained and professional


http://www.infowars.com/tsa-forces-w...f-cute-figure/
TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.

One woman who flew out of Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport several months ago said a female agent sent her through a body scanner three times after the agent commented on her “cute” body.

“She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’‘You just have such a cute figure,’” Ellen Terrell recalled to CBS News in Dallas.

Terrell said the female agent appeared to be acting on a request from male agents who were in a separate room viewing the scans and who apparently asked the agent to to send Terrell back through the scanner twice because the scan was blurry.

After the third scan, Terrell said the agent seemed frustrated with her co-workers in the screening room. “She’s talking into her microphone and she says, ‘Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go,’” Terrell said.

Terrell, who was traveling with her husband at the time, told the TV station, “I feel like I was totally exposed. They wanted a nice good look.”

[malq]

Big Fat Sis's TSA agents are so well trained and professional


http://www.infowars.com/tsa-forces-w...f-cute-figure/
TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.

One woman who flew out of Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport several months ago said a female agent sent her through a body scanner three times after the agent commented on her “cute” body.

“She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’‘You just have such a cute figure,’” Ellen Terrell recalled to CBS News in Dallas.

Terrell said the female agent appeared to be acting on a request from male agents who were in a separate room viewing the scans and who apparently asked the agent to to send Terrell back through the scanner twice because the scan was blurry.

After the third scan, Terrell said the agent seemed frustrated with her co-workers in the screening room. “She’s talking into her microphone and she says, ‘Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go,’” Terrell said.

Terrell, who was traveling with her husband at the time, told the TV station, “I feel like I was totally exposed. They wanted a nice good look.”

TSA we have a problem!..

[Pete Bondurant]

Are these TSA agents members of AFSCME? If so...there's no firing them.

[Waldowas]

Oh yes, extremely sexy!

[biteme]

Oh yes, extremely sexy!

Not an airport scan so what does it have to do with the story?

[TheMorningStar]

If Americans didn't want this, it wouldn't be.
If Americans stopped flying, how many days would it take to collapse the entire airline industry? How many days before the collapse would the TSA go away? Its always about money. Do you really think its about your protection?
Therefore.....

[malq]

Not an airport scan so what does it have to do with the story?

It is actually revealed it is a male, therefore it belongs in our voluminous collection of tranny threads.
What I have gathered is 80% of the people approve of the full body screenings and 20 don't. looks like a majority rules. I was searching the internet for body scans. There are some pretty revealing pics out there. Nipples and nipple rings and clitoral jewelry. A penile implant can be recognized as well as a boob job.
Then again, if I want to sit next to some guy reading the Koran and praying and sweating profusely, I would be happy he was scanned. Frankly I think few people get off on seeing nakies on xray. Everyone has to do it, kinda like gynos and proctologists. I doubt they go home at night and jerk off to what they have seen.

[biteme]

It is actually revealed it is a male, therefore it belongs in our voluminous collection of tranny threads.
What I have gathered is 80% of the people approve of the full body screenings and 20 don't. looks like a majority rules. I was searching the internet for body scans. There are some pretty revealing pics out there. Nipples and nipple rings and clitoral jewelry. A penile implant can be recognized as well as a boob job.
Then again, if I want to sit next to some guy reading the Koran and praying and sweating profusely, I would be happy he was scanned. Frankly I think few people get off on seeing nakies on xray. Everyone has to do it, kinda like gynos and proctologists. I doubt they go home at night and jerk off to what they have seen.

Don't know @malq, after the shit I read on here I'm sure there's a whole group out there that jerk off to x-rays
Just like some marry buildings and diddle themselves to the great wall of China, I'm sure we have X-ray jerk offs and what better job could they have than working for Big Fat Sis as TSA agents. I don't mind being scanned, patted down or sucked off, my issue is it's ineffective, the goons are untrained, it's the beginning of a police state, this is the beginning of the TSA Gestapo police state empire. The DHS, TSA agenda is to make the population docile and controllable, religion no longer works to control the masses, this is the new world order, make everyone compliant, get the population slowly used to being told what to do and under government control
This is no better than what Muslims do with religion and it will slowly get just as bad if we let the government continue
My issue has always been with the police state Big Brother effect, the trampling of the constitution and peoples rights

[biteme]

If Americans didn't want this, it wouldn't be.
If Americans stopped flying, how many days would it take to collapse the entire airline industry? How many days before the collapse would the TSA go away? Its always about money. Do you really think its about your protection?
Therefore.....

Fliers griping over Obama ‘grope hike’
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/co...icleid=1403458
No grope tax!

That’s the message from Bay State fliers, already saddled with sky-high ticket prices and now fuming over the president’s proposal to triple the cost of passenger security fees — which would force travelers to fork over almost eight bucks for getting groped or scanned at airports by the Transportation Security Administration.

[biteme]

Kind of like this statement in a crazy way

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/co...icleid=1403458

with a reported $32 billion total package of proposed airport fees and cuts, “for that kind of money, they could give every frequent flier a gun, which would do more to stop hijackings than the TSA clown show.”

[malq]

Don't know @malq, after the shit I read on here I'm sure there's a whole group out there that jerk off to x-rays
Just like some marry buildings and diddle themselves to the great wall of China, I'm sure we have X-ray jerk offs and what better job could they have than working for Big Fat Sis as TSA agents. I don't mind being scanned, patted down or sucked off, my issue is it's ineffective, the goons are untrained, it's the beginning of a police state, this is the beginning of the TSA Gestapo police state empire. The DHS, TSA agenda is to make the population docile and controllable, religion no longer works to control the masses, this is the new world order, make everyone compliant, get the population slowly used to being told what to do and under government control
This is no better than what Muslims do with religion and it will slowly get just as bad if we let the government continue
My issue has always been with the police state Big Brother effect, the trampling of the constitution and peoples rights

lol, you got me there, give a weirdo an xray and shut the door, don't even want to think about it.

Yeah, it's the slippery slope thing. I have seen a huge erosion of rights in my life. I guess it can be justified to protect us in general, but that is a slide into communism when the people fail to take personal responsibility.

Personally, I think we gave the government too much money in taxes to play with. They have nothing to do but sit around and try to facilitate measures that control your life, but don't effect them.
Interestingly enough, a democracy is only historically designed to last 2-300 years. When you run out of other peoples money, you take it and make more rules to maintain the flow. You then enter communism. When that fails, it is complete chaos.

[Mare]

What's the big deal? If you don't like it - don't fly. The option to drive or take a boat or a bus or any other mode of transportation is available.

I fly. A lot. I fly nationally and internationally. I have never been groped nor have I found the American TSA to be bad. These stories are exceptions and not the rule.

If you think the American TSA is bad, I urge you to fly to Europe or Japan or Israel or Lebanon.

If you want a real, authentic TSA experience (one that you can write home about and that sounds as bad as these articles) then you must fly to Russia (Moscow) and if at all possible, when you go out, do NOT carry your passport. Should you be questioned, I suggest you threaten to sue. Once you do that, we can discuss the American TSA and their "respect my authority" attitude.

[Shadow]

I'm going to have to fly in a few months, across the country to the East Coast. I already dislike airports. I don't like to fly. I am afraid of heights, but hubby refuses to drive and I can't drive myself. I haven't been home in almost 20yrs.

While I understand the rising need for increased security, this new thing that they do 'x-raying' us, I feel like it's an invasion of my privacy. I have a lot of health problems, and often have to use a walker to get around. I also don't like 'pat downs'. These tactics put people who aren't really appropriate for the jobs, in positions of power and they have the law behind them.

My husband and I had to go to the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, getting through the checkpoints while we were there, proved challenging enough.

This upcoming trip feels like it's going to be a nightmare.

I feel sorry for the lady in this story. I do think that the male employees in question ought to be relieved of their duties.

~shadow

[biteme]

What's the big deal? If you don't like it - don't fly. The option to drive or take a boat or a bus or any other mode of transportation is available.

I fly. A lot. I fly nationally and internationally. I have never been groped nor have I found the American TSA to be bad. These stories are exceptions and not the rule.

If you think the American TSA is bad, I urge you to fly to Europe or Japan or Israel or Lebanon.

If you want a real, authentic TSA experience (one that you can write home about and that sounds as bad as these articles) then you must fly to Russia (Moscow) and if at all possible, when you go out, do NOT carry your passport. Should you be questioned, I suggest you threaten to sue. Once you do that, we can discuss the American TSA and their "respect my authority" attitude.

But that's the point, if we let the government continue on its present unconstitutional course we will not have to go to Russia (Moscow) or China to see what its like, this is the beginning of Big brother in the USA, this is how it starts, carrying ID papers to cross the street will come soon enough
I don't want to live in repressed Russia, China or a repressed USA

[biteme]

Seems we are flying less

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/flights-u-a...222052224.html
Flights by U.S. airlines hit 10-year low

The industry operating figures were released as President Barack Obama signed into law $63 billion legislation authorizing guaranteed funding of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through 2015.

[Mare]

@ceisdsgil - they don;t x-ray everyone, just some people.

I travel at least four times per year (usually more often) and have never been x-rayed.

Getting to an Israeli Consulate is often more intensive than traveling.

@biteme - in my post I meant that foreign visitors have to carry passports when traveling in Russia, not the natives (same applies to foreign nationals in the US but that is rarely checked and enforced)

[Kitty]

Not all airports are equipped with scanners/xray.. at most they have the "puffer" things that blow air at you to detect fumes/dust of explosives and stuff.

I like to fly, but don't do so often.. International is a little exhausting. When I was in Japan in 2005 and other than very long lines and an extremely smelly curry house in the airport it was relatively painless (had to go through THREE airports in Japan!)

I imagine getting into the Israeli Consulate was tougher than getting into the White House (have to apply 6 weeks in advance)

[malq]

The thing is, is it not very effective.
Flying to Germany I decoided I would test it out. i shoved a plastic water bottle in my back pocket and let my shirt dangle over it. Easy enough to play dumb. Well I waltzed right though. That could have easily been gasoline that I could light on the plane.
It did not inspire confidence. Self admittedly, on their own self checks a staggering 2/5th get through with contraband.

[CbabyRKO]

I am a born and raised Dallas girl and I was just about to say I had never seen the x-ray thingamajiggies but the then I realized she was flying internationally so thats a whole nother headache. Generally however when flying within the states it really isnt that big of a hassle no liquids no lighters no sharp objects i.e. knives nail clippers tweezers etc. no lotions or shampoos unless they are 3oz or less or in ur actual luggage and not ur carry on. I'm sure I'm missing something but I think I got the gist of it. Flying out of DFW can be a fucking pain in the ass only becoz its the most frequently used airport even tho we have the Lovefield airport as well. And if these dickwads were actually feeding the lady administering the x-ray commands to make the woman go back thru 3x then that female TSA agent needs her Woman card removed and they should all be reprimanded for their actions.

[Shadow]

Not all airports are equipped with scanners/xray.. at most they have the "puffer" things that blow air at you to detect fumes/dust of explosives and stuff.

I like to fly, but don't do so often.. International is a little exhausting. When I was in Japan in 2005 and other than very long lines and an extremely smelly curry house in the airport it was relatively painless (had to go through THREE airports in Japan!)

I imagine getting into the Israeli Consulate was tougher than getting into the White House (have to apply 6 weeks in advance)

At the Israeli Consulate, we went through several checkpoints and even then, they very nearly refused me admission because I don't have a passport and have never had one. It's something my husband and I hadn't the thought to take care of, because my only purpose of being there, was in support of him and the business he and his brother had concerning their property in Israel. They took my cellphone and my laptop and my camera. I'd planned on taking pictures of SF when we were finished with our business there. They also took my 1ltr bottle of diet pepsi. No liquids allowed to be brought into the building. I'd just opened it too. LOL.. Anyway, it took about an hour to get through all the check points, particularly with my walker.

I am glad to know they don't have x-rays in all the airports. That makes things a lil' more tolerable, I guess. :)

~shadow

[Shadow]

The thing is, is it not very effective.
Flying to Germany I decoided I would test it out. i shoved a plastic water bottle in my back pocket and let my shirt dangle over it. Easy enough to play dumb. Well I waltzed right though. That could have easily been gasoline that I could light on the plane.
It did not inspire confidence. Self admittedly, on their own self checks a staggering 2/5th get through with contraband.

Funnily enough a few yrs ago, (this was after 9/11) we flew to NY from California, and on the return flight, I had the same small 4oz bottle of water, they'd given me on the flight out, UNOPENED, and it was in the mesh pocket of my backpack. I'd forgotten about it. They took it from me, even though it was clearly marked for airline use only, or something like that. I was madder than a wet hen. They didn't take the assjockey in front of me's big ass bottle of cologne, but they took a small bottle of water, that THEY gave me? Can someone explain this idiocy to me?


~shadow

[Redshoes]

Ugh I hate those machines. I think I've been through them at least ten times last fall- mostly flying within California. They are super creepy. That can't be all that healthy, can it?
I've only had one overly gross pat-down. She could have at least bought me dinner first :(
They don't actually seem to care about lighters all that much (I've forgotten a couple; they're never confiscated). I was able to buy razors and lighters inside an airport anyway, so... I just don't get it.

[biteme]

Like I said this administration does not care for the USA constitution
Trampling the constitution and everyone's rights one at a time, O'bummer truly believes only he knows what's good for the people
O'bummer running the country like Chicago the most currupt city in the USA with his hinchman fast and furious Holder
Does O'bummer have a GOD complex?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNQ91N8B1A.DTL

The furor over President Obama's birth control mandate has swiftly entered a ... "Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72961.html
Chicago most corrupt city, report shows

Now there’s proof: Chicago is the most corrupt city in the nation.
A new report finds the Wind City easily lays claim to the title, based on the number of public corruption convictions there in recent decades, making Illinois the third-most corrupt state in the country, according to a new report.

http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-oba...g-constitution

Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution

[Obsolete]

The town I live in has a fairly small, but busy airport. It's not an international airport but it is the second busiest in our state. My daughter flew out of it a few weeks ago and I noticed they had put in the scanners since the last time we were there (last summer). Everyone who wants to fly has to walk through it. My daughter questioned me about it and when I told her they would be able to see through her clothes she looked disgusted and asked if she HAD to walk through it. I explained that refusing could cause her to be detained and possibly miss her flight. Apparently the idea of not being able to see her best friend for the first time in 2 years was enough to make her shut up and walk through it without complaint. She survived the scan and doesn't seem to have any permanent mental scarring from it. Airport scanners aren't nearly as intrusive as having to get a fucking pap smear once a year.

I get what @malq and @biteme are saying about it being ineffective, although I don't know that I completely agree with that. Yes, there haven't been any reports of TSA agents stopping any intended hijackings, but at the same time, the US hasn't HAD any hijackings since 9/11 either. Maybe the security measures that they've implemented have been enough to deter terrorists from trying to hijack planes.

My question to you boys is this...what security measures would you suggest be implemented as a replacement for the scans? I'm not being facetious, I'm really curious as to what some other, maybe more effective, options may be.