Tsa

[buster81]

Do you really feel like a handful of people not flying will make a difference though? military contracts alone with airlines contributes a sizable amount to their revenue per year

Do you really feel having your balls juggled by some chump in a blue uniform makes you safer?

 

[ManInBlack]

Do you really feel having your balls juggled by some chump in a blue uniform makes you safer?

This made my day! Right on!

 

[Steve9MMinMO]

Do you really feel having your balls juggled by some chump in a blue uniform makes you safer?

There are exactly two things that have made us safer since the WTC attack.

1) They lock the cockpit doors in flight. (In retrospect this should have been policy all along).
2) We, the people, will no longer "just do what the terrorists say and you'll be safe". We know now that we must do everything in our power to protect ourselves, not just sit there like stupid sheep and hope it works out.

All of this other crap - the shoes, the fondling, the pornoscanners - are to make people "feel safer" while doing exactly the opposite. The huge line of tightly compacted people in the non-secure part of the airport is every bit as much of a target as a plane at this point. All of the theatrics are useless - no one is going to try a shoe bomb or an underwear bomb again because now we are looking for them.

We all need to just stop traveling long enough to hurt the industry. Money talks - when the airports and airlines are dying from the financial pressure, they will use their paid for congresscritters to fix the TSA.

 

[Daylen]

There are exactly two things that have made us safer since the WTC attack.

1) They lock the cockpit doors in flight. (In retrospect this should have been policy all along).
2) We, the people, will no longer "just do what the terrorists say and you'll be safe". We know now that we must do everything in our power to protect ourselves, not just sit there like stupid sheep and hope it works out.

All of this other crap - the shoes, the fondling, the pornoscanners - are to make people "feel safer" while doing exactly the opposite. The huge line of tightly compacted people in the non-secure part of the airport is every bit as much of a target as a plane at this point. All of the theatrics are useless - no one is going to try a shoe bomb or an underwear bomb again because now we are looking for them.

We all need to just stop traveling long enough to hurt the industry. Money talks - when the airports and airlines are dying from the financial pressure, they will use their paid for congresscritters to fix the TSA.

nope. they will ask for money from the feds. I remember the last time they had trouble, that's what they did instead of becoming more enticing or competitive.

 

[OldCurlyWolf]

A wise man once said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I think history has shown him to be very wise in this indeed.

That appears to be a paraphrase of a Ben Franklin Quote.

:banghead:

 

[eye95]

That appears to be a paraphrase of a Ben Franklin Quote.

:banghead:

Not a paraphrase. I think that's pretty much word-for-word. Some misquote him by leaving out the words "essential" and "temporary," which makes the quotation indicate that no Liberty should ever be traded for any safety. But that is not what he is saying.