Lots of uproar over the pat-downs and nude screenings at the airports.
There is also a curious juxtaposition of the dems and republicans, with the dems crying out for protecting the "police" and the republicans worrying about "unconstitutional searches". In reality, there is nothing mysterious in the positions taken - merely a case of each side acting politically with the democrats backing their president and the republicans staking out the ground of the opposition. Principles are not at issue, only power and popularity.
Frankly, the entire argument is ridiculous.
There are no constitutional issues in play. The Constitution protects contracts. Buying a ticket to fly is entering into a contract for services. The searches and scans are part of the contract...you agreed to them when you paid the price for a ticket. If you don't want to deal with the security, don't fly! You would do the same for any other product you thought was substandard, wouldn't you? If you find the security process offensive, subscribe to alternate means. If the ailines revenue declines enough, they will get the changes made post-haste.
Are these procedures intentional?
Of course they are.
I am not going to dump on the TSA workers as I have seen some do. Most of them are just like any other blue-collar worker in our neighborhood. There are a few cretins, twisted freaks and ulterior motivations, but most are people trying to pay their bills and get home on time.
Inherent in the character of the TSA work-force resides the problem as well.
The agents are not well-trained, experienced security and protection experts. It also appears that Homeland Security has no interest in providing them the training and skills to make them experts. So what the government lacks in quality, it makes up in quantity and brute force.
Tens of thousands of untrained, unskilled people will not make a quality security force.
What it will make, however, is a fertile field for groupthink (a new thin blue line).
Are the TSA agents unionized? If not, bet they soon will be...and what do we know know about government employee unions?
The only way to kill the monster is to stop feeding it.
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Thank you for your balanced approach to this question. I am not a flyer and I am not a part of the TSA, but I do appreciate your fresh look at this issue.
eh.. ridiculoso!
guess what.. it's not about SECURITY
it's about enslavement... i will not fly if i have to go through their stupid scanner.. it's not the employees fault unless they go along.
you know TSa is no longer required. literally. the contract was for 2 years required.
everyone who has a brain knows that dogs that are trained to sniff for certain things are the most effective bomb deterrents - this is just satanic b.s.
totally disagree with your assessment man
And I am sad you cannot see beyond the surface to the real issues beneath the provocations and hype.
If you read the whole post and considered it in context, what I said was "...starve the beast." Throwing a fit at check-in is the effectual equivalent of berating the waitress for a bad meal.
Don't fly. Hurt the revenues of the corporate state.
If you want to bring down fascists don't attack their other victims, attack THEM!
it certainly is unconstitutional to have unreasonable search and seizures and this is all about conditioning the slaves to obey.
i's definitely NOT about Security. It's so hypocritical to subject average citizens to this sort of "screening" in order to ride a plane, and now moving into the bus stations etc, while our borders are not protected.
i tend to agree that this is punishment and conditioning.
if people go along with this without protest it certainly will grow, and become the new *normal*
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