You make some sense. However, if that's their only function, then who pulled that passenger with the recording phone out of the screening process and interrogate him like they're the FBI? Weren't they TSA?
You make some sense. However, if that's their only function, then who pulled that passenger with the recording phone out of the screening process and interrogate him like they're the FBI? Weren't they TSA?
WelshBloke
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I forget the exact numbers but I remember seeing a program where they swabbed a random selection of bank notes for cocaine and I think it was roughly 80% that turned up a positive result.
Not true. The military before W had actually risen to that mark (IF you consider high school graduation or equivalent ONLY), but since W lowered the requirements every 9 1/2 seconds while in office it's now getting back to being a refuge of the short bus clan. Obviously high school graduation or equivalent is still higher, since it's a requirement to enlist. However test score (ASVAB) averages are WAY down since lowering that requirement so far.
It's also untrue that enlisted have a large percentage of college degrees. In fact they have ALWAYS had less college education than the general public. Officers, obviously, have a high concentration of degrees. Now, you can argue it's because they're in the military instead of school all you want, but the fact remains that enlisted in the military have less college education than the general population of the same age. Since enlisted make up the vast majority of the military, the military has a lower level of education overall.
Text Please note that this study claims better education, but bases it SOLELY on high school graduation or equivalent rates. See chart 6 to get the whole picture.
Nemesis 1
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I agree and disagree . My place is like fort knox . I have cameras everwhere. Motion detect run. I love it. When I was illegeally busted for Pot last summer I could have beat the case. I hd video proof officer had NO right to approach me on my properity. But rather than cry about a noyhing charge and $100 fine it better to pay . Than piss off cops. I not smoking anymore as its not helping me anymore . I going back to mexico in a couple of weeks . I hope that helps like it did last year.
dphantom
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Read the study and I read it differently. The enlistee population is clearly more educated than the general population. When you separate out enlistees with college from those who do not enlist at the 18-24 age, that is what you are seeing in chart 6 which makes sense since so many enlistees are HS grads who put off going to college until later or perhaps go to trade school or stay in the military as a career.
That is my experience also traveling to several countries in Europe and Asia since 9/11. Our TSA is a joke, run by a bunch of cops-wannabe.
Fern
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That's silly. Of the Fox news shows I watch I've never noticed them to support the TSA and the related BS it brings.
I wish the guy would've just told them it was none of their effin business what he was doing with the money, because it wasn't.
Or maybe he could've been a sm@rt-@ss and said it was to buy fertilizer and diesel fuel when he got home. Probably not a smart thing though.
The whole thing is outragious and stupid.
Fern
The enlistee population has a higher percentage of high school grads or equivalent, because it is basically a requirement...no such requirement exists of the civilian population.
I clearly stated that while it's true that many enlisted personnel serve in the military first, and do college second, that doesn't change the fact that compared to the general population enlistees have less college education than those in their same age range - which is EXACTLY what chart 6 shows.
In other words, about 10% of military recruits have more than a high school education, while about 45% of non military citizens of the same age range (18-24) have more than a high school education.
What the study proves is that military personnel are more likely to be high school educated, while non-military citizens are more likely to be college educated, at least through age 24. If someone wants to claim that makes military people 'more educated', then I think they're the ones that need 'more education'.
Why isnt Obama doing something about it?
I always thought the USA bashers would have to stop once a (D) was in office. Well they somehow figured out a way to still do it, but pretend we arent led by Democrats....
Interesting social experiment...
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Or you can just come to terms with the fact the Japanese are more efficient and professional in many ways over us.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. If it makes you feel better, the USA is more efficient and professional in many ways over Zimbabwe.
Thank the LORD we have Fox News, defenders of our liberty, to expose the corrupt jackbooted practices of Obama's TSA...thank you jpeyton for opening our eyes to this 
Moral of the story if you have over $2k in cash stuff the cash between your ass cheeks to get through the security. Or if you have a woman companion and a plastic bag....
bamacre
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Originally posted by: alchemize
Thank the LORD we have Fox News, defenders of our liberty, to expose the corrupt jackbooted practices of Obama's TSA...thank you jpeyton for opening our eyes to this
Fox News would have never allowed a show like this while Bush was in office.
I actually don't care too much for the show because it's directed like some late night infomercial, and they at times get too conspiratorial. But I have seen some segments that weren't.
They are getting pretty bold now; I flew to see my Parents, spent the night and flew back the next night.
Landed, and was on my way to my car out in the parking lot at 11 at night when I was stopped by two custom agents and had my luggage searched right in the middle of the lot. They said they were looking for large amounts of cash because of my quick turnaround flight they suspected I might have been transporting drug money.
It happened so fast I did not have time to think but got a good look at their badges and names. I called the local office the next morning, told them I was searched in the parking lot by their officers and asked if that normal? They said yes, that it was common procedure.
So when you fly you and you think your done after going through check points you may not be!
Landed, and was on my way to my car out in the parking lot at 11 at night when I was stopped by two custom agents and had my luggage searched right in the middle of the lot. They said they were looking for large amounts of cash because of my quick turnaround flight they suspected I might have been transporting drug money.
It happened so fast I did not have time to think but got a good look at their badges and names. I called the local office the next morning, told them I was searched in the parking lot by their officers and asked if that normal? They said yes, that it was common procedure.
So when you fly you and you think your done after going through check points you may not be!
JEDIYoda
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Jpeyton...are you as stoopid as you are acting???
It`s a known fact that all money except for that that is newly distributed has trace amounts of cocaine and other drugs.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Poli...ure/Cocaine-TainteFrom the August 1993 ABA Journal:
"The mere presence of trace amounts of cocaine on a common object ...
is insufficient to support a felony conviction of cocaine." Lord v.
Florida, 91-2147.
"[T]he evidence of the narcotic-trained dog's alert to [tainted] currency
is of extremely little probative weight. . . . It cannot be doubted that
contaminated currency is widespread. The presence of trace narcotics on
currency does not yield any relevant information whatsoever about the
currency's history." US District Court Judge Thomas Wiseman of Nashville,
Jones v. DEA, No. 3:91-0520 (April 21, 1993).
"The probability that every single person in the United States is
carrying drug-tainted money is almost certain." -- Dr. James Woodford,
forensic chemist in Atlanta. Woodford cites a 1989 experiment by Miami
toxicologist Dr. William Hearn, who gathered 135 dollar bills from banks
in twelve cities. 131 had traces of cocaine.
d%20Money
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