I use to be a airport PD LEO, I've been saying for years that TSA needs to be revamped into an oversight agency and that the airport security needs to be under the charge of the municipal, county and state controlling agencies. Whenever TSA has trouble or wants to press charges the charging agency is always either the Airport PD or the County Sheriff, I say eliminate the federal BS and let the Airport Authority PD deal with it. It would be cheaper, more efficiently run and best of all no federal BS, TSA needs to be downgraded to a supervisory agency and not the controlling one.

 

No. It's NOT a tough call. I would rather get blown up than live in police state where 5 year olds get molested as a matter of security policy. Where a government can order you to either risk increasing your chances of developing cancer, or face getting hand-raped.

All in the name of "security." All to stop terrorists from "succeeding."

How much freedom and liberty do we have to lose before the terrorists have, in fact, won their victory? How much money can we really spend to fight them? For every $1 the jihadists spend, we probably spend $10,000 to fight/slow/stop/disrupt them. When we have spent ourselves into so much debt that we have no way and no hope to repay it, how secure are we then?

The U.S. military operation in Afghanistan annually costs the U.S. around 6 times that nation's ENTIRE economy. If the U.S. had simply given all that money directly to the Afghan people, the standard of living of those people would have been six times higher than it is (if you could keep corruption under control). How interested in global jihad would those people be if they had a life that was 6 times more comfortable than what they have now?

We are fools. Osama is sitting around his warm campfire talking with his buddies right now. They are drinking tea and telling stories about how in only 10 short years they got Americans to rip out their own souls with their own hands and strangle them dead in front of their own children-- souls that long ago valued liberty above all else, even our own lives.They are laughing at us. They should be.

We are fools.

 

Amen. UBL said he would bankrupt us (as his people did the Russians in Afghanistan the 80's), and he is well on his way to success. He has also changed our psyche...we used to pride ourselves on independence and self-reliance. Now we cringe before governmental thuggery, not just the TSA, but in many, many other ways. Sad, UBL is winning, hands down. Sam

 

No sir.....UBL HAS WON.....unless we wise up and turn this crazy train around.

 

+1. Sadly, and reluctantly, I have to agree. I forget which of America's patriarchs was quoted "...those who exchange personal liberty for security, deserve neither..." That man was a prophet.

Chuck

 

It was Ben Franklin.

This farce must end. Profile for Pete's sake. If it looks like terrorist or is acting oddly, screen it!

Seeing numerous reports that the traveling public may have finally had it. `Fed Up' Passengers, Unions Balk at Airports' Wider Use of Full-Body Scans - Bloomberg

 

The TSA needs to be eliminated completely. The whole organization was started as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11. There have been real security changes since 9/11. We know what those are. The TSA is just for show.

 

As of yesterday, at the SWA gates at least, it was still the Tub Stacking A$$h...s (TSA) at SFO.

 

This is the support we need.

TSA chief faces lawmakers on pat-downs, body scans - CNN.com

In a letter to aviation authorities, Rep. John Mica, R-Florida, raised the idea of privatization at transport hubs, which he said could improve efficiency and enable airports to opt out of TSA safety regulations.

"It is both inappropriate and inefficient for the TSA to serve as the administrator, quality assurance regulator, operator and auditor of its own activities," Mica, currently the ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said in the letter.

"My aviation subcommittee staff would be pleased to assist you should you move forward with your decision to opt to have a certified private screening program at your airport," he said.

 

Guys,

Sorry to be so uninformed, I am comming of 12 days off and I don't watch news much.

Could you summarize the current situation for me, please:

1. Do I have to go through the body scanner i.e. can I opt out and be manually searched instead?
2. Are the body scanners harmful to health?

Thx