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re: Things Get worse Before They Get Better

Kristin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:42:09 GMT

If there were such things as ogres, I imagine that is what their feet would look like. My poor baby. :-(

re: Abolish The TSA

Kristin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:02:29 GMT

Hear, hear.

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Dr. Bladon — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:35:10 GMT

Hello I'm a Nuclear Engineer. You get more radiation going to the beach than you do with this machine

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:40:55 GMT

And hey, on top of it, you got a nice extra dose of radiation!! Genetic-damage-while-you-wait!

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Joe — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:10:52 GMT

Does anyone think that the murderers of children, of women, men, invalids and elderly - those that were behind the attakcs of 9/11 - those that were behind the slaughter of innocents in London, Madrid, Mumbai, Bali - does anyone think that they called a truce with us Americans? Do you think they haven't attacked us because they like us? Should we pull the TSA screeners from the airport check points because someone is offended that they have to take off their belts or empty their pockets? Does anyone really think that aircraft would not be falling out of the skies within days if not hours without the TSA? Really? Has their presence not prevented any attacks since 9/11? Does anyone think we've just been lucky? The truth is the TSA employees should be decorated in medals for what they do day in, day out....imagine a few hours without their presence.

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:44:51 GMT

If we keep letting them get away with this sort of humiliating and dehumanizing behavior of taking pictures of kids genitalia and celebrity's naked bodies when can we expect this treatment on the streets. At some point we have to ask when enough is enough. video.foxnews.com/.../security-exposes-celebrity-skin Don't think that you or your wife and kids are safe from perverts. We need to say no to these police state measures at the airports and everywhere else. Are we a free county or not???????

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Willow — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:33:43 GMT

Roark, you can do something, too. I worked for the TSA for 2 years. I came to the conclusion that it wasn't doing much that was worthwhile to protect airline passengers. The rules we followed weren't designed to find weapons; they were merely window dressing. (Someone sets off the puffer, and our response is to give them a pat-down search that doesn't include the (female) *** and groin areas? Which happen to be the places a bomb would most likely be concealed. Are we really interested in finding the bomb or aren't we?)

In short, it's all a dog-and-pony show. At the airport where I worked, part-timers (5 hour shift) routinely got up to 2 hours of breaks. HUGE waste of taxpayers' money.

You know what I did? I quit. I refused to be party to the rip-off any longer. Yes, I work harder now, but my conscience is clean and I sleep good at night. Try it, you'll like it.

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Roark — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:27:40 GMT

One day I hope to read a "TSA rant" that has helpful and realistic solutions to the perceived problems.

Yes, I work for TSA. No, our procedures and equipment is not perfect. Yes, a lot of our procedures and equipment is ridiculed from the inside (as in TSOs) as well. But really? Is this it? Mocking TSOs (who actually have nothing to do with creation of procedure and protocol, or the purchasing of new equipment) and what you feel to be unnecessary precaution?

Not to mention you claimed this was your first time going through an ATI (oh how I hate the ATIs, trust me it's worse for us then it is for you). You honestly don't expect to run into a few minor hitches the first time you do something, ever? Next time you use one (if you choose to) you'll know about taking your belt off and removing everything from your pockets.

Sigh. All that said I don't feel that people shouldn't complain about things they take issue with. It's perfectly normal and it helps expose possible flaws in our system. The problem is complaining to the right people and/or presenting solutions for these problems. Letters to senators, congressmen and women, etc. Don't read this as an anti-rant, but as a plea to forward your feelings to people who can possibly do something.

re: My First Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Kristin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:20:50 GMT

I opt out every time and go for the pat down. Each time, I am treated like I'm a royal pain in the butt, met with rolling eyes and big sighs from the TSA staff. My children went through the scanners the other day -- I gave them the option, and they were patted down anyway. Perverts.

re: My first Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Wimpie — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:25:39 GMT

This is a strip-search, period. It makes no difference that the technology allows it to be done on an industrial scale, it's a violation of privacy that ultimately has, at best, no effect on safety. At worst, it exposes frequent fliers to elevated doses of x-ray radiation which may cause more deaths by cancer than the terrorists could ever kill with an airplane.

Body-cavities are not revealed, thus making this simply an exercise in power-mongering voyeurism.

You MUST opt-out of these intrusive searches, and maybe be wanded/patted by a same-sex guard. I Opt'ed Out a few months ago, which gave me the opportunity to officially express my displeasure - the smurf wrote down the reason for my opting-out for their official records (it's a strip-search, I said). I suggest more people do this.

Plus - do you want your kids showing up to Beavis & Butthead in the back room looking like this:

www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html

THIS IS KIDDIE PORN!

re: My first Experience with the TSA Body Scanner

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:07:11 GMT

I totally agree. Just one more hassle to deal with when flying. Jacket off, shoes off, now belts off. Now I have to take every piece of paper out of my pockets. OK, I'm half undressed & I'm really not comfor

It honestly may be easier to go through a pat down.

re: Cool new blog theme…

Coleen Sherry — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:48:47 GMT

I like it! It's very cool.

re: Keeping threats in context.

Casey Watson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:27:20 GMT

I initially read the title as "Keeping Threads In Context", which would explain why I was so confused when I started reading the post.

re: Keeping threats in context.

Bob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:10:29 GMT

Yeah... but how much of that is due to the efforts made to stop terrorism is difficult to quantify. It's not like it's such a small threat that we don't need to do anything. And, even more problematic, the more our governments tell us about what they have to do to stop terrorism, the less effective those efforts become.

re: The benefits of nationalized health care: Part III

Bob — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:42:30 GMT

Wait, wait wait... they have dentists in England?