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Yet another one.

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There are just no words for the deep level of my disgust for the TSA.

This type of tyranny (and I do not use that term lightly) has become so common that it barely makes the news.

I have to stop here because this type of stuff makes me see red!

Saw that. You know for defamation to have occurred there has to be someone that is lying. It is not defamation if it is the truth. I saw no where in that article where the TSA agent in disputes the facts of what is alleged. She just does not like a spade being called a spade. If the TSA agent does not like people knowing what she does on a daily basis she needs to get a new job. Yep that is cold and hard, but just as cold and hard as what has been chanted at the flying public (don't like it--don't fly). By continuing to remain employed by an agency whose very procedures require you to violate people's private parts with out their consent (consent under duress is not consent) the TSA agent defamed herself--Ms. Alkon just made it public what the TSA agent does to possibly hundreds of women everyday.

Quite honestly as we (the traveling public) seem to have no recourse against the TSA, we can't seem to legislate them out (TX vs the TSA as a recent example), the courts continually find that groping an innocent person--even a child-- like a prison inmate "a reasonable search" then perhaps it is time for public condemnation of those perpetrating these offenses. A long time ago it was tar and feathers and being run out of town--we are a bit kinder today so now it is ostracism. Don't like it--get a new job.

This is probably just my beef, but if we mess up in our knowledge of the law we are told "Ignorance of the law--no matter how complex or nuanced the law is--is not an excuse" and we are thrown in the slammer. When a LEO or a government agent messes up the law it is "my bad--sorry about he 3K of legal fees." If you are going to be enforcing the laws, you really should know them better than to tell anyone that taking a pic of them is a violation of the law. If you are going to be in charge of airport security you ought to know your own regulations for ID.

chasfm11 wrote:

mamabearCali wrote: If conservative, liberal, everyone hates these procedures why are they being allowed to continue.

Because Federal bureaucracies of all stripe are NOT accountable to the people, even through our elected representatives. "They" have determined that they know what is best for us and there is no deterrence the zealotry.

VMI77 makes an excellent point that I really hadn't thought through completely. If there really was the potential for explosives, the current procedures put every TSA worker at risk for a premature detention.

The whole TSA strategy is cut from the same cloth as the school zero tolerance. Innocent kids are punished and there is little effect on the real problem with guns or drugs in schools. When a incident is discovered that strains even the wildest stretch of credibility, it is easy for those in charge to claim that it is "policy."

This is why I home school my kids and why we drive just about anywhere we need to go. Right now, at this moment, I can "opt out" of the system. What scares me the most is that the TSA wants to be just about everywhere and has gotten their tentacles into everything. They are reckless in everything they do, their searches and ague-ably assaults of the flying general public make no one safer. If you are really looking for bombs on a person's body do you want to do that in front of 100's/1000's of people in security lines with nothing but a rubber glove separating you from what might be a highly unstable item. They are searching passengers, but not cargo. Hello--if a person really wanted to take out a plane at 30,000 feet with the screening procedures in place today they would send the explosives by cargo--not by person. It is alarmingly reminiscent of the tactics of other brutal regimes through history and unless someone checks it we are in serious trouble here.

I find it incredibly telling that literally once a week or more we read of the TSA's dive to new depths of exploitation. What is going on here that we can see these things every week and yet those who hold the reins to the TSA (congress/president), have barely gotten them to agree to limiting criminal level pat downs of small children. I hear our politicians making jokes about it--"ha ha ha take the train if you don't like pat downs"--that won't even be an option if TSA gets their way, but I do not hear them doing anything about it. TX state legislature is the notable exception, but even they only passed a watered down bill. If conservative, liberal, everyone hates these procedures why are they being allowed to continue.