More TSA "touching".

[Darwin333]

I fly several times a year (I use to average 100 plus flights a year between 1990 - 2008) and never had any of these "unreasonable searches". I wonder if it has to do with the fact I remove all metal items from my clothes and am prepared to pass through security when I reach the scanner. Unlike touristas that forget they have something in their pockets and have to go back through the scanner or get sent over for detailed security inspection.

So as long as its only a little inconvenient you don't mind the .gov deciding that you no longer have Constitutionally guaranteed rights?

 

[Darwin333]

I must say that I find it odd that the vast majority of the people who support the TSA or simply dgaf can't understand or comprehend the rather simple wording of the 4th amendment but almost all of them understand the 2nd very well.

 

[DougK62]

I want the TSA to be disbanded more than anyone, but the exaggerating of what they do during the pat downs isn't help the case for it. I always get the pat down because I don't care for how invasive the new machines are, and what the TSA agent does during them is definitely not groping.

 

[Zargon]

Don't like it? Don't fly.
The government only has to make reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs (prudishness is religious), and the fact is that weapons are physical objects that can be hidden on a person, so it is completely unreasonable to accommodate said belief and exempt a search.

Either get over it or accept that your religion is incompatible with the material preconditions for commercial flight.

9/11 was the first time an airliner was hijacked on US soil since the 70's.

the thing stopping from happening again is that they actually lock the cabin door, not pat downs and nudie scanners

if you think some TSA scanner jockey is going to do a pre-known by anyone procedure and stop some catastrophic event you are kidding yourself





I opted out of the scanner on monday and had to wait about 5 minutes for the pat down guy to show up and feel me up

it took him a few minutes to finish it.

I learned that you can just put whatever you want in your taint because he didnt check there at all, so much for security


or just have a baby with you, when my wife wasnt in the wheelchair(on the way to colorado) we cruised through the short line because we had an infant and just had to walk thru the metal detector. good thing you cant like, make plastic knives and guns easily now, we are so safe!!!!


/security theater rant



you would think now that we all know the NSA is watching all of us, they could atleast be nice scan our IDs and if we dont come up RED or something we could just walk on the plane

 

[DominionSeraph]

Call me crazy but I always assumed that we had an implied freedom to travel about the country freely using the methods of the day.

Pilots are subject to FAA regulations due to the danger to the public. The air is not "free," just as public roads are not. Commercial airline passengers are also subject to screening.
But you can charter a plane under 61 passenger or 45,000kg maximum takeoff weight without being subject to the full TSA screening. Under 12,500lbs MTOW, there's no screening required at all.