Invasive TSA: Screening procedures border on abuse

Contrary to the propaganda, it doesn't seem that the "public has adapted" to being assaulted at the checkpoint.

http://www.thereporter.com/opinion/ci_21026592/invasive-tsa-screening-procedures-border-abuse

 

It doesn't border on abuse, it is abuse.

Would leave comment to that effect if I could, but they accept only FB comments.

 

Frankly, I'm glad these people were abused. I'm sick of trying to defend the public against this.

I hope people at airports get groped, rubbed, yelled at, and continue to be abused. F 'em. Every last one of them.

 

Abuse or assault?

 

And while the one woman is getting groped the writer of this piece gets through with a 5 oz. METAL container of sunscreen. The TSA must have missed one of their "layers" of security.

 

I don't consider myself a mean spirited person but I must admit that when anyone who has told me to "get over" the TSA or just "deal with them" goes to the airport I secretly hope they get the meanest, rudest, most obnoxious TSA agent and are put through (expletive deleted) and have something stolen because they are tired of listening to me. I believe that's the only way some people will finally "get it".

 

I've been saying this for a long, long time. The baggage scanners cannot "see" liquids. Period. End of discussion.

The screening of liquids requires one of 2 things:

1. A clerk who recognizes a wide variety of standard and non-standard container shapes that they then determine may or may not contain liquids.
2. The honesty of the screenee to bag, separate, and then remove liquids for additional screening.

All it is going to take to get a liquid bomb through a checkpoint is a non-standard sized, shaped, or material container that stays in the passenger's bag. That's it.

 

from that story:

Makes you feel proud, eh Rugape, to be part and party to this sick and perverse behavior?

 

Well, he wasn't there. He doesn't have direct knowledge of it. What are you going to do?

 

For some reason, my comment didn't get posted.

Not to worry, Lisa. Although I am on FB, my comment did not get posted.

 

All of these things are by procedure. He doesn't have to be there. He knows the procedures. He's part of the problem. Without people like him to cooperate in violating human decency, these terrible things could not be done to people who are nothing more than peaceful travelers, molested by him and his partners.

 

My comment:

 

I posted this: (wonder if it gets put up)

IT IS ABUSE. Even police officers need "reasonable cause" to search, and their searches are NOT rubdowns. If these airport searches were done anyplace else, it would be abuse and sexual assault.

FWIW the article does unload on em more.
Anonymouses!

 

Anonymouses didn't get posted; dunno how that got in this post :0

 

Unless there's a link to something like "see all comments" and I can't see it, only two comments to the article ever appeared.

 

Don't worry, they will find the sunscreen when the TSO demands to wave a magic test wand over it as the passenger is applying sunscreen at the gate.