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Topic: TSA = Tremendously Stupid Asses
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
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posted 05-13-2011 11:54 PM
Texas Kicks Ass
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Texas House bans 'offensive' security pat-downs
AUSTIN, TX -- The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch "the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person" including through clothing.
It also prohibits searches "that would be offensive to a reasonable person."
The bill's chief sponsor is Republican Rep. David Simpson, who said, "this has to do with dignity and travel, and prohibiting indecent, groping searches."
He believes it will keep Transportation Security Administration officials from treating travelers like criminals, though the measure may be superseded by federal law.
After a brief but raucous debate, lawmakers approved the measure with little opposition -- drawing applause from supporters.
(Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
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posted 05-14-2011 11:39 AM
I don't think this is so much about action as it is about attitude. (i.e. It's not what you say but how you say it.)
Think about the way we have to act in the theater. If you tell a customer, "No, you can't sit in that seat!" the guy is going to give you shit: "Why not?" But, if you say, "Excuse me, sir, your seat is right this way," while you courteously direct him to the right spot, his response will likely be much more pleasant and, if you play your part well, he might even thank you.
The requirements of airline security are different but I think the principle is the same. If you tell everybody to line up, drop their drawers and grab their ankles, of course, people are going to get upset! But, if you can get people to think that they are helping you keep the airports secure, they are more likely to understand.
Yes, it's easier said than done... I don't know how to pull that off but I'm sure you will understand my meaning.
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Brad Miller
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posted 05-14-2011 01:00 PM
quote: Randy Stankey
If you tell everybody to line up, drop their drawers and grab their ankles, of course, people are going to get upset! But, if you can get people to think that they are helping you keep the airports secure, they are more likely to understand.
But Randy that has no bearing here. TSA clearly believes the population are morons. Granted most of them are, but they are NOT doing anything to help keep the airports secure. In essence all they are doing is taking away all forms of defense from the good guys who will play by the rules and pretend the bad guys won't smuggle their weapons in up a baby's ass (or their own).
TSA will steal someone's harmless fingernail clippers, yet permit them to carry their KEYS onto the plane. That key is a perfectly suitable weapon, particularly when it is on a ring with other keys. Grab your keys in the palm of your hand, take the two nastiest keys and set them to protrude between your first 3 fingers as you make a fist and then start throwing punches at people. Duh!
Not that it matters too much. Just yesterday I dropped off a friend at the airport and had warned him before he left that they would confiscate his deadly long metal fingernail file with a very sharp point on the end, as well as a pair of scissors. He said I didn't know what I was talking about that "they have never taken those items away from him when he travels". He texted me from the airport saying he walked right through with them.
Want to smuggle in a weapon? Its EASY! For example at those rotating exit doors into the non-secure areas of the airport (baggage claim) stand by the door, reach down to tie your shoes, drop your gun from inside your pants leg onto the floor and gently kick it inside the rotating door. The action of you standing up as you kick it in will attract anyone's eyes who happens to glance over, not a small item you have gently kicked into the door. Meanwhile your terrorist buddy is on the other side of the door and grabs it from the secure area of the airport and carries it onto the plane. Am I the only person who sees these MAJOR loopholes? Come on, I'm not even trying to look for ways to get weapons on a plane. They are so damn obvious it makes me angry.
But the best of all...in first class they actually serve REAL KNIVES with their dinners. Problem solved...just fly first class and let the airline GIVE you the weapon!
All this money they are WASTING on the TSA project could have been placed into funding to install a "terrorist button" on each plane, that upon being pressed locally or remotely would remove ALL CONTROL from the plane and force it to land at the nearest airport on auto pilot.
Fucking morons. They have no comprehension of logic or how to effectively do their jobs. ![[fu]](graemlins/fu.gif)
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
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posted 05-15-2011 08:31 AM
Brad, you know that was a rhetorical device. A figure of speech.
Besides, your mind is already made up. Regardless of what I say, you have already decided to resist. It makes no difference what I say.
That, in itself, proves my point. Those government idiots have behaved so badly that they have already set your mind against them, before you even started this thread.
Here's another rhetorical device, just in case you don't notice:
Perhaps, when this latest "increase in security" began in 2001, if airport security played "Stars and Stripes Forever" over loudspeakers and waved the American Flag all over the place , people would have joined in to perform their "Patriotic Duty" to root out terrorists?
Yes, it's a silly scenario and it wouldn't really happen but it illustrates my point. If TSA starts out with a bad attitude, the people who travel through airports will have a bad attitude and it will spread. But, if they had a different attitude from the start, things might have been different. I think, if that was true, there wouldn't be people like you yelling out how much they hate airline security at every opportunity.
Just for disclosure, I don't like them any more than you do. Maybe even less.
I'll go back to my original example because most of us either have seen it happen or can try it as an experiment.
If you are working in a theater and you say to a customer, "No! You can't go in that theater!" chances are that they'll get upset and will probably argue with you. If you tell them something like, "Excuse me, sir, your theater is right this way," they are much more likely to comply and you are even likely to get a "Thank you" in reply.
Had the people at the TSA started out with a different attitude, I am certain the situation would be much different today. That doesn't mean that people will necessarily like it any more.
Do you enjoy going to the dentist to have your teeth drilled? Probably not unless you are a masochist. But, if your dentist has a good attitude and his staff has a pleasant demeanor, you will put up with it long enough to get the job done.
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