Security Theater
TSA treating amputees like criminals. TSA treats everyone like criminals. Amputees, more-so it seems.
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June 25th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Like I’ve always said, if there’s some pervert out there who loves groping random people and digging through their underwear, his perfect job is working for the TSA. I guess we can add amputee-devotee perverts to the list.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
So when do we fight back?
Oh, that’s right…never.
June 25th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
A year or two ago, back when I wore camo for a living, I injured my leg in an FTX. So, when they granted me Con-Leave, I decided to fly home for the month.
Going through security was a nightmare. I was on crutches, in my Service Dress, and they forced me to give up the crutches and hobble through security on two wooden canes.
When informed that I’d have to remove my belt, since it set off the metal detector, I got into a 15 minute argument regarding the punishments I would be subject to if I was to be seen improperly wearing my uniform.
It took a supervisor that had been in the Army for 6 years to get me past those idiots. They had even threatened to “detain” me.
Did they really think a service-member, in uniform and with valid military ID, was a security threat? Never mind my busted leg…
I have a special loathing reserved for the TSA as a result.
June 26th, 2010 at 12:06 am
A friend of mine who recently relayed a similar horror story like Jon’s…
He was in Kansas, on leave from the Army. He was in his ACUs, and attempted to go through Airport Security. Keyword there, attempted.
Airport Security made him take off his ACU top, boots, socks, and belt beause they kept setting off the metal detector. To make things worse, when they scanned his one bag, a backpack, he had extra contacts, contact solution, toothbrush, toothpaste, and a stick of deodorant, as well as clothing and other items, they hit on the tolietres and told him he would’ve have to check his bag, and have to go through the above again.
Mind you, he was a SGT with Top Secret clearance, in his ACUs, and they gave him a shit fit.
Anyway, he told them to F-off, got dressed, and left the airport.
That was in 2006, and he hasn’t flown since. He either goes by train, bus, or rents a car and drives.
June 26th, 2010 at 12:10 am
As far as I can tell TSA screeners are the human equivalent of hyenas, stalking those with disabilities or age or sickness and letting the lions through without a second thought.
How else do you explain frisking grandmothers, toddlers, and amputees?
June 26th, 2010 at 2:38 am
I’m trying very hard to determine how this isn’t molestation.
I’m also trying very hard to reign in my frustration that no related charges will ever be filed against the TSA agent.
June 26th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I’m unsure on this. The Tsa inspectors have rules they have to obey set up by administrators above them. Our country has enemy’s that have gone to various extremes in the past to strike at our homeland. Air travel is no longer as simple as hoping on a plane and going anymore due to their willingness to strike us. I think we need to stay angry at them.
June 26th, 2010 at 8:56 am
I think only people that have never flown don’t have a TSA horror story. The sad part is that people think we have to put up with this idiocy “for safety” when the whole operation can be summed up with a twist on Franklin’s quote…those who are willing to give up freedom for safety will get neither.
June 26th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
It is not a matter of giving up freedom for security, many people are quite willing to cooperate with the TSA for security without feeling like they gave up freedom.
It is a matter of giving up common sense for security theater. The TSA worship bureaucratic rules and abandon common sense – the result is not more security.
June 26th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Yeah, they have “rules” that changed whenever they feel like it. Bet you dollars to donuts that the “rules” never actually changed, it was just some guy on a power trip.
It’s all security theatre. There’s a reasonable amount of security – then there’s wasting money on ridiculous things that don’t work. Because all that security totally prevented that dude on Christmas… Oh wait, that was regular people doing what good people do.
June 26th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I also share the question about how much is it the agent at the airport and how much is it the suits in Washington? Those people have families to feed and if some jackass bureaucrat writes work rules for them they have to follow them.
June 26th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
i still say we hurt them.
June 27th, 2010 at 8:29 am
exactly why I haven’t flown since this shit started. If I must go to prison for killing someone, I would prefer it be someone of consequence, not some goddamned idiotic gnat.
June 27th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Let’s get a few things straight.
1 – servicepeople don’t get any slack. We’ve gotten fake CAC’s. Plus the gang members and AWOL’s and other issues, how do we tell a good troop from one that is hauling something that’s going to hurt the plane to pay off a gambling debt?
I’m waiting….
2 – The last two planes to blow up in the air, and tumble out all you ungrateful idiot passengers was done by grandma’s pissed off their kids died in the war. Go google “russian black widows”
3 – you saying an old person isn’t a threat? My grampa can kick your ass. Period. And, he’s smart too.
4 – you saying all parents love their children and would never do anything to put them in jeopardy? That’s why we take the baby shoes off – we find things in them.
5 – That stump thing is bullshit. I want to see video. Just like that whore saying we took her kid. All y’all got righteous and indignant, but when HQ actually got off their ass and posted the security video showing it didn’t happen, where was the apology? Yeah, I fucking thought so.
6 – yes, there are oxygen theif TSO’s. And oxygen theif nurses, doctors, waiters, cops…… do I need to go on? There’s 44 THOUSAND of us. All you can come up with is a handful of turds. That’s better odds than the NYPD, so, I’ll take it.
7 – why not search an amputee? We have found one pistol and several incidents with dope (we don’t give a shit about the dope – but if you can put your her-ron in there, you can put bang in there. Nuff said.)Its’ against the law to treat ADA people ‘special’. They have to have equal rights. That means equal screening. You all think you’re smarter than we are – what kind of bomb can YOU build out of a jazzy or wheelchair?
8 – you have NO CLUE about how hard management is on us. We get fired for shit you wouldn’t even get verbal counseling for, like getting our advisements wrong. Plus, the digging through shit-stained underwear, patting down stinky, fat, sweaty, nasty people. Oh yeah, its’ a great job. When people aren’t hitting you, throwing their stuff at you, screaming until spit comes out over things we don’t make the rules over.
9 – I’ll quit as soon as we quit finding stuff. Here, we get a loaded gun once a week (b-b-but, I have a permit), big knives every day, swords, two grenades, and a couple things I don’t even want to mention anonymously. JTTF has taken off with people we’ve stopped. So, no, its’ not theater/theatre. Everything we do is because one of you tried to circumvent the rules and bring something on that doesn’t need to go.
10 – I take my job seriously. I would honestly feel bad if one of your planes fell out of the sky with you in it because I let a gun, big knife, bomb component, etc get past me. So, yeah, I’m rooting through your shit. I am (blech) patting you down (deoderant – it should be a law). I ain’t apologizing a damn bit for it either. I will say I am sorry when the lines are long because the assholes that run us don’t think we need any more staff, though.
finally
11 – ok then. We suck. We’re stupid (although populated by the aforementioned retired military, law enforcement and college grads). YOU TELL ME. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
That’s what I thought. Easy to bleat and whine. Hard to come up with a plan I can implement right now, today. And, give me a break with that Israeli shit. You don’t have a clue how rough they are on their half dozen flights a day.
END. Let the howling and gnashing of teeth begin!
June 27th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Hey, Stinky: All of that may be true, but I’d dang near rather be blown to smithereens up in the air and have said particles rain down across several square miles of countryside than have to be in the presence of you and your ilk. People blew up airliners with bombs back in the fifties and nobody proposed this kind of intrusive assholishness.
When I was a kid, I flew aboard airliners in which the flight deck door was open at all times, and the pilots were required to carry The Mail Gun.
As a kid, I was invited forward into the flight deck, to watch the blinkenlights.
June 28th, 2010 at 10:38 am
“YOU TELL ME. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?”
Quit your (apparent) job and do some honest work.