Business bans TSA agents.

[RancidSumo]

They are people doing a job, trying to get by like everyone else. There is no need to villainize TSA workers to somehow get back at 'the man' -it simply won't accomplish anything. Getting butt hurt and bent out of shape over this issue is not the way to change it (or to get anyone else to see it your way for that matter).

So what if I can only find work as a contract killer? Is that ok since I'm just trying to get by like everyone else? It may seem like an extreme example but the TSA (and pretty much everything else the government does) is to property rights what a hit man is to the right to life. Both of those rights are equally sacred in my book.

[No.6]

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If you don't like the policy, don't fly. That's the best way to affect change.

And if every single person quit flying tomorrow and never flew again, the TSA would still be around. Standing around perhaps, but never, ever gone.

[chadbag]

They are people doing a job, trying to get by like everyone else. There is no need to villainize TSA workers to somehow get back at 'the man' -it simply won't accomplish anything. Getting butt hurt and bent out of shape over this issue is not the way to change it (or to get anyone else to see it your way for that matter).

It is one of the only outlets the people have. If it causes enough TSA people to quit it may have some sort of effect on their bosses. Who knows.

[Heartland Hawk]

Apples to oranges.

If you don't like the policy, don't fly. That's the best way to affect change.

Umm. That's really easy to pop off when your visiting Grandma for Christmas. But when you are required to fly in conjunction with your job (like me, for example) six to eight times a month, it's not that easy.

[500grains]

The nudie scanners are not working out too well.

Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner

An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration.

The source said the undercover agent carried a pistol in her undergarments when she put the body scanners to the test. The officer successfully made it through the airport's body scanners every time she tried, the source said.

"In this case, where they had a test, and it was just a dismal failure as I'm told," said Larry Wansley, former head of security at American Airlines.....

The TSA insider who blew the whistle on the test also said that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined. The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today....

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-bea...116497568.html

Yo John Pistole!

[500grains]

Now searching people AFTER they get off a train?

Idiots. That is not transportation security. It is just an illegal search.

What if they come to my house and say, "We heard you went to England last month and we are here to search you?"

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TSA Harasses 9-yo Boy and Other Train Passengers After Their Trip

Jesus Diaz — TSA Harasses 9-yo Boy and Other Train Passengers After Their Trip After going down in a spiral of paranoid stupidity—called out for saving body scan images, ridiculed for patting down an almost-naked woman or nailed for harrassing a kid at airport security—the TSA has reached a new low. It's surreal.

Here's what a traveler recorded on February 13, after his train trip to Savannah:

The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn't they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.

Indeed, this doesn't make sense at all. Why search people after the train trip? What's the logic here? Did the TSA get an alert that dangerous 9-year-old terrorists were coming in a train to Savannah? Perhaps it was TSA Surprise Training Time? Or maybe it was TSA Let's Piss Off People Day again?

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http://gizmodo.com/#!5768805/tsa-har...ter-their-trip

[Don Robison]

Now searching people AFTER they get off a train?

Idiots. That is not transportation security. It is just an illegal search.

What if they come to my house and say, "We heard you went to England last month and we are here to search you?"

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I saw that earlier. My question is what exactly is a screener with no arrest authority, you're not entering into a sterile area going to do if you just walk past them and don't even acknowledge they exist.

[Irish]

The nudie scanners are not working out too well.

Brilliant.

[RWK]

Now searching people AFTER they get off a train?

Idiots. That is not transportation security. It is just an illegal search.

Hang on a min. Any more context available here? Were they moving from an unsecured area into a secured area? I've passed through some transit hubs where you have to pass through unsecured areas in-between secured areas.

[Irish]

Now searching people AFTER they get off a train?

Here's video of the searches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1B3A...layer_embedded

Absolutely no ****ing way under any circumstances would one of them put their hands on my child.