Just when you thought government couldn't insult us more.

[mac]

There is a healthy growing rebellion against our imperial government. The latest thing to fuel this is the new pat down procedure at airports. Now government agents can squeeze your gonads, buttocks, breasts and vagina. To add insult to injury the TSA says that muslim women in that hideous black sheet may not have to go through this. A three yeard old girl was filmed screaming while being subjected to this. A Catholic nun was filmed enduring this insult. Bur MUSLIM women are exempt??!!! WTF. These same muslim women are strapping explosives onto their body and blowing up innocent children in the name of freaking Allah. The Isralies don't do any of this nonsense. They profile people. You can board an Israrali jet on a flight and they will serve you a steak and give you a steak knife to eat it.

 

[Whale of a Wash]

Even doing these procedures- There are many ways to hide contraband. A friend runs a jail in town, and says the woman with DD's may have only AA's. Cavity searches are the only way to make sure. Is there a secondary agenda to this?? Maybe it is making the airlines take over the screening and save the gov't money, although that would give up control. Maybe losing a plane or two isn't the worst that could happen, we lost 65K people last year on the highway.
Or we could profile and make the whole process easier. Jay leno had alot of good jokes about the TSA lastnight.

 

[mac]

The TSA has balloned to about 80,000 workers, and is still growing. The is not only pure government waste, but an insult to the people. Unless you're a muslim in a burqua.

 

[seattleguy]

I have flown El Al. The security is in a whole different league than TSA. They rely on human intelligence not jsut machines. The screeners, who I think are military, interviewed me twice, took apart my laptop, racially profile, seriously patted me down, etc etc. Based on my experiences with TSA, there is no way they are competent enough to do this. TSA will just continue to grow grow grow. Ridiculous.

 

[MudMoney]

In Sept I was Returning from Windhoek,Namibia.I was scanned and baggage was x-rayed there,in Jo-berg same thing again.Passengers are sitting in lobby waiting to board when all of us are told to form 2 lines.Men in a line women in another and all our carry-on is searched again,so this is 3 times for me in 2 hours.7 hours later we land in Dakar Senegal to refuel before the final leg to Dulles in D.C..Security wakes everybody up we are required to claim our carry-on from the overhead compartment and sit with it on our lap while they do another search of plane.There were a lot of confused elderly woke up as it was 5:00 am. Upon landing at D.C. before allowed into the US my bags were x-rayed again,Bingo,they found my swiss army knife in my carry-on,this bag went through 3 searches in 2 different countries.TSA was nice enough to say I could keep it I just had to go over to United and put it in my checked bag.My point is the other countries didn't really give a hoot about TSA security and being told what to do by our government.You will see posters put up in the foreign airports about TSA requirements that they are required to follow.From what I saw they go through the motions to collect TSA money other countries are so tired of it just like the rest of us.I chose not to fly with a rifle this time due to the hassles in the past but I still got pulled aside and asked where had I gone and what I did .I told them photo safari instead of hunting and putting up with the bunny huggers.Tsa does need to go to profiling and targeting the muslins!

 

[MikeV]

TSA is about to be unionized thanks to Obama. Then watch how bad they get.

 

[pitzerwm]

I imagine that they were always union, either way, TSA is more pathetic than effective.

I hate flying because of them, but next time, if they do want to feel me up. I'll probably say "you want to play with my nuts instead of profiling knock yourself out". "How about letting her do it"?

When leaving Dubai, they took the women behind a curtain and did feel their breast. I don't remember them feeling me up. In Bangkok, a woman patted me down, but didn't get too curious.

 

[Dean Taylor]

And they do this to the pilots too! Think about it, if a pilot wants to crash his plane, he has total control to do so. Why would he blow the freaking thing up?

If little green men are shooting at you, go look for little green men! (Duhhh!)

I believe Profiling is the correct option in this situation.

 

[lag]

A local musician wrote a song about TSA..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KucnZVKZfKQ