The TSA Gets Put on Notice -- And Yes, Removing Your Shoes at the Airport is Idiotic

• screening at airports is really getting ridiculous, are they hiring perverts who want to ":pat;"people down????????? case in point++++++95 yr old woman in wheelchair and depend had to be removed, what in the world did they think she had???????????? 6 yr old patted down,   tsa needs to update their requirements for checking persons,   how about patting these tsa personnel down each day????

• Want to know the biggest joke since the 55 mph speed limit-how about "ticketed passengers only" at airport security. Read on and look at my site: DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE LOSSING YOUR RIGHTS!? The TSA has continued the ludicrous policy of �TICKETED PASSENGERS ONLY�. This policy has been instituted at all the nations airports since 9/11 for alleged �security reasons�. But don�t be fooled, �ticketed passengers only� is nothing but window dressing and �smoke and mirrors� to make the public think that security has improved. Ticketed passengers only creates back-up at security check points by creating a logistical mess because meeters and greeters block the entrances to security, even though the meeter and greeter population is small compared to the that of the travelers. In most cases, these people could pass through security faster because they have fewer or no bags. In fact, at certain times of the day, when things are very slow, these visitors are the only people at security, and could pass through in short order. Also, visitors and people picking up and dropping off passengers are no more a security risk than the travelers themselves, because everyone goes through security. This policy also creates difficulties for some of the passengers themselves. Some people need assistance to and from the gate because of physical or mental limitations, and the airlines are hard pressed to provide this service because of layoffs, etc., and airline agents are scared to issue gate passes. This is also a recipe for ADA violations, a federal law violating a federal policy. The airport is a public facility paid for by tax dollars and revenue bonds. In America you have a right to enter public facilities to conduct lawful activities. You can go into a Federal building, why not an airport!? What can you do about all this? You can write your Congressional Representative and Senator for a start. You can also write to the TSA, USDOT, and Homeland Security, and demand the policy be ended. But in the short term, you can go to the airline ticket counter and ask for a �Gate pass�. To make it easier to obtain this pass, have the traveler ask the agents to put in the record that assistance from family members and friends is required. Have it stipulated that passes should be given out to all visitors in the party. So write to your government and also demand gate passes until the checkpoints are once again opened to all the public from the first flight in the morning until the last flight, inbound or outbound, at night. It�s all in your hands! It�s up to you, the public. The government is not going to change a bad policy unless the public demands it in large numbers.

• Let me see if I have this right. 2 million passengers per day (in the US only) for the past 9 years (since 9/11) equals about 6.5 BILLION passengers. One nut tries to blow up a plane with explosives in his underwear which failed. (BTW: You can�t put enough explosives in your underwear to down a plane) and now OUR GOVERNMENT wants to strip search or physically pat down all AMERICAN travelers at a cost of billions of dollars. Nobody has been killed by terrorists on an American aircraft since 9/11! Odds: 1 in 6.5 billion ? or less? the bombs didn't work! Powerball 1 in 40 million? State lottery 1 in 14 million. I'm 465 times more likely to win the state lottery, than to be killed by terrorists on a plane! WHAT ARE OUR LEGISLATORS SMOKING? Billions to strip search Air Travellers? Teachers all over the country out of work? Cities & Towns going bankrupt? What about the 300,000 killed in car crashes in the same period? What's wrong with this picture? Speaking of pictures, picture you, your wife and kids like this: http://www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html or http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs538.ash1/31492_116905035017501_100000940157455_83609_869034_n.jpg WTF?

• TSA: Giving the Postal Service a good name since 2001.

• Everything that needed to be done to prevent another 9/11 style attack was done, finished and done, by the time United flight 93 hit the ground. For 40+ years, every airline of every nation in the world except El Al in Israel had the same policy: when someone hijacks a plane in flight, give them whatever they want until the plane is on the ground. Never resist, or they might kill all the passengers. That's the vulnerability that bin Laden exploited. And that vulnerability stopped existing the moment the heroes of flight 93 rose up to resist. Everything since then, every hour wasted and dollar wasted, has been for one and only one purpose: so that, when (not if, but when) there's another terror attack on the US, the government can say that they were doing everything they could, so don't blame them.

• The TSA is, for the most part, just an front for more Federal welfare. Rather than (a) just give lazy people a handout check and Medicaid insurance to sit at home on their butts and contribute nothing to society, the government (b) instead gave them a pointless job, a uniform, and a badge, so that they could collect a Federal salary and government health insurance while contributing nothing to society. BUUUT no one will ever do away with it. It's now institutionalized. It's existed for almost a decade, and no President or Congress is willing to absorb the political blow required to do the right thing and lay off all those thousands of (mostly minority) Americans. Government only grows with time. Too hard to shrink it, so don't ever get your hopes up.

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