Ugh, New TSA Rules (Good Luck Flying to the U.S.)

[phraun]

The TSA makes yet another foray into the realm of nazi-like behavior and people continue to bow their heads in acceptance.Pretty soon we're going to have to take flights in drug induced comas inside cast-iron "coffins". Exaggeration? Maybe. By much? No.

One plane out of how many that flew on that day (let alone that week, month, year, etc.) had an incident with some idiot that couldn't even successfully detonate the explosives in his pants before the passengers and crew took him out, and now we're all subject to further idiotic bullshit in the name of "security".

 

[TheKurrgan]

Ah, America. Where its not about real security. but PERCEIVED security. They gotta look like they did something now dont they? Fuck that noise, I've tolerated them up to this point. Innocent citizens being treated like criminals or at the very least, SUSPECTED criminals for taking a mode of travel. I will not pay hundreds of dollars for such treatment. Flying is now an emergency only mode of travel. I move everyone who CAN, BOYCOTT these fuckers and hit em where it hurts. We PAY THEM. Not the other way around. ALSO, why is Airline traffic which is a private business this heavily regulated? Sept 11? Right. Even with current protocols that shit wouldnt have been avoided. So I say every one look at this, and pass it on: THIS SHIT IS NOT REALLY ANY MORE SECURE AS FAR AS STOPPING WHAT ITS A REACTION TO. Write your congressman and yell BULLSHIT. Stop the insanity. I am. And everyone else reading this and bitching might take the same amount of time to put a letter together to some one who is obligated to listen and thinking about it. Lets start a petition, SOMETHING. I'm looking up the info for northern CA right now, and will say my peace. Who else is with me?

Stop the fucking insanity.

 

[4ILY45]

This not only means no iPod, iPhone

at least no iGrenades.

 

[earthwormsvx]

If the female flight attendants want to pat me down to find the dynamite in my underwear, I'm all for it!

 

[Vascular]

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

Benjamin Franklin

 

[Luscious]

My 70-year-old mother from Europe was denied a visa to visit me back in 2005 because of some uncooperative jerk at the embassy. Now she has problems every time she tries to enter.

This guy has his name on a watch list, was given a visa, the embassy in his home country knew of his radical ties, and he successfully boarded a US bound plane with an exploding johnson???

We've gone from a society that preaches innocent until proven guilty to one that practices "guilty until proven innocent". Indeed, we have reached the point where we give up our freedoms and get nether our liberty or security. Benjamin Franlkin was all too right.

 

[Guest]

We in the Western World are so PC it's pathetic.Cannot profile people from certain countries,ethnology,religion,dress,etc.etc.& give them extra scrutiny like X-Ray at least.No,this would be racist,unfair,etc.

What countries,ethology,religion,etc.are doing this to us??.Is it that difficult to figure out who should be checked more thoroughly.
If Canadians were the terrorists who had been doing this then I sure as hell would expect to be checked out more & expected to go through an X-Ray machine or full body search if I refuse.
I notice todays poll(Canada) shows 78% would agree with X-RAY!I figure 21% of the 22% will also agree once 'they' blow-up an aircraft with them in it!!(We know that 1% will agree to nothing.)

 

[duzcizgi]

There are more transparent ways of having more security without putting people in this hassle.

1. TSA has the flight manifest of all flights, about an hour before the takeoff. They can check for the names of people who is waiting to board the plane, or boarded the plane & inform the flight crew to pacify that person under suspicion. (If they're wrong, they can say "sorry" & offer another ticket with apologies. That'd cost less than these "measures")

2. Good training of security personelle in the airports. - Turkey lived with terrorist attacks for the past 30 years without a plane lost. - A couple attempts to board the plane were easily averted before even takeoff, at the airport. And they never humiliate you at the airports with some stupid measures.

3. Relying on devices but not the human decision will give the terrorists an edge. - If you know the limitation of the screening device, you can find material that it would not detect. But you can't pass through a well trained security personelle, with the intention of exploding yourself. (Doesn't matter how determined & cool you are, you'll of course be nervous & show some "anomalies" that a trained eye can easily catch.)

4. As the previous point, the security personelle behaving like a machinery and not deviating from what's written in the book is also easy to walk around with this or that way. So, the security personelle should be alert, flexible & unpredictable. (Don't know how possible in the US)

5. Security measures at the edge of stupidity are doomed to be employed for a couple of weeks maximum, then people & personelle will just ignore them, effectively taking us back to where we were at the first place.

 

[justiceguy216]

damn, this makes me so mad at TSA...I could just...just...blow up a plane!

JK, seriously these rules are BS...I don't mind the pat down part, but if I can't update my facebook mid-flight I'll go mad.