Example of the TSA's professional diligence.

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The TSA in another of it's more outrageous deeds, decided that a 4 year old girl who innocently hugged her grandmother was now at the top of the terrorist watch list and threatened to shut the whole airport down if the frightened and hysterical child would not cooperate in a pat down, all why refusing her mother's requests to try to explain the situation to the little girl.

So the TSA agent with a glowering face is yelling at this little girl and expects.........what???

Read this story and tell me how great these clowns in blue are.

Experts in risk assessment they are not.

Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers after she hugged her grandmother while passing through security | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134280/Weeping-year-old-girl-accused-carrying-GUN-TSA-officers-hugged-grandmother-passing-security.html#ixzz1sxAVHmrN)

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Even the former head of the TSA knows how bad it is:

Overhead Bin - Former TSA chief: Airport security in America is 'broken' (http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/24/11372503-former-tsa-chief-airport-security-in-america-is-broken?lite)

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Osama bin Laden won

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djp: I read that article also and was encouraged that it will yield many needed changes

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djp: I read that article also and was encouraged that it will yield many needed changes

I hope you are right, but finding examples of the government admitting mistakes and doing away with the workforce implementing those mistaken programs is a near impossible task. The TSA and its screeners will be with us for a long time to come.

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You don't necessarily need to get rid of the screeners - you need to re-train them (and fire the ones that can't handle a job that requires actual THINKING).

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Another good essay on the clownish bullies of the TSA. It happens everywhere.

Ravings of a Feral Genius: A Slow News Week For The TSA (http://feralgenius.blogspot.com/2012/04/slow-news-week-for-tsa.html)

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Osama bin Laden won

I do not often agree with you, but on this I DO !! The country is broken and he and his cohorts PREDICTED THIS and this..

"“Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

And Iran is saying stuff like this...."he head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force says his country has no choice but to destroy America in order to build an ideal society."

Read more: Iranian Military Commander | Destroy America | The Daily Caller (http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/15/iranian-military-commander-we-must-destroy-america/#ixzz1t6FPxD7f)

We are fractured in this country !

And Syria just gets worse and worse....and we will no NOTHING because it is an election year.

Sorry outside the boundaries of the thread title (sorry RICH)

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Your friend the government. Let's make it even larger, more centralized and more powerful shall we?

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Your friend the government. Let's make it even larger, more centralized and more powerful shall we?

Exactly right. Never ceases to amaze me.....1960's hippies whose mantra was "Anti-Establishment" are now The Democrat Establishment and Big Government, and they can't get enough of it.

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Is the argument against having airport security?

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Is the argument against having airport security?

We're not talking about airport security, we're talking about the TSA.

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Exactly right. Never ceases to amaze me.....1960's hippies whose mantra was "Anti-Establishment" are now The Democrat Establishment and Big Government, and they can't get enough of it.

Your observation is the conundrum of our day. The hippies have become "the establishment". The anti-government anarchists are now the big government bullies. Amazing turnabout.

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We're not talking about airport security, we're talking about the TSA.

Ok then, have at it.

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Is the argument against having airport security?

It is about Airport Security. There is none with the current TSA. Checking people as they enter the gates is NOT security. What about all the people in the terminals before they go thru security. I will not fly, never, until passengers are checked before entering the terminal and the checkers have passed a background investigation and have at least a High School education or a GED. Stupid is, as Stupid does.

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Lots of these security screeners lack common sense. Sure, there have been kids in Iraq or Vietnam with explosives taped to them but a 4 year old with her mother and grandmother? Get real and get some common sense.

Figmo is right, too. I was travelling in Europe by train in the 1980's. The Basque Separatists were bombing train stations in Spain at that time. There were National Police with automatic rifles guarding train stations both inside and outside.

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I felt quite safe at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport 3 months after 9/11 when the National Guard were patrolling the terminals.

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I flew back from Milwaukee to Orlando yesterday. While passing thru the security screening, I noticed four TSA agents chatting and having a good old time while the line to go thru the the detectors got longer. Then, just before our flight boarded, three more agents showed up at the gate. One had a dangerous-looking chemical tray and was sticking her sampling probe into the bottles of water people were carrying on. The other two didn't seem to be doing anything--until my zone was called, that is. One of them stopped me just as I was about to present my boarding pass. He said he needed to question me...where was I going? (At the boarding gate to a flight to Orlando? Duh!) Did I live in Florida? (None of his business IMHO). Had to re-present my ID and boarding pass (only the third time after arriving at the airport).

People tend to give TSA a "pass" because they're "assuring our flight security". Baloney! There have been too many examples where people who try can breach TSA security quite consisntly. Then here's the anecdotal observations of inefficiency like mine.

I have a spending reduction proposal...cut the TSA budget by about 15%. Then see how things work and maybe cut it 10% more!

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Is the argument against having airport security?
Is TSA another example of the government not being able to do anything right?

Would we feel safer if we privatized airport security? Like maybe let the airlines do it?

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What to stop all the BS with TSA and Big Government?

Simple, don't fly for one (1) that's right, one (1) day and see how fast things get changed. Money talks, BS walks. Either step up and doing something about it, or shut up and take the feel up, your choice. Me, I don't fly and won't until things change.

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I have no love for TSA...haven't been able to fly from my home airport in almost 3 years. Everytime I check to see if they have gotten a scanner the project is pushed back 6 months.

For 7 years on a reqular, sometimes weekly, basis I am subjected to a patdown...not once have they found a bomb in my bra and they never will. I will NOT, unless totally forced, allow them to touch me using that new enhanced patdown. But I do go to great lengths to miss it.

That being said some TSA agents can be helpful as they were to me a couple of weeks ago...the scanner at MCO was down for repairs, not wanting the search I did ask for a supervisor. They worked out a way for me to avoid the dreaded pat-down.

And then there are some I rather not talk about.

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To me the TSA should be another agency with a mandate like I think a LOT of agencies should be.. An agency that sets standards and, perhaps, enforces them. NOT necessarily being the ones to carry them out.