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

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

Overhead Bin - Former TSA chief: Airport security in America is 'broken'

Osama bin Laden won

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

Originally Posted by rubicon

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.

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).

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

Originally Posted by waynet

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

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)

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

Originally Posted by dklassen

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.

Is the argument against having airport security?

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Is the argument against having airport security?

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

Originally Posted by ilovetv

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.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

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

Ok then, have at it.

Originally Posted by Posh 08

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.