TSA: 25,000+ Security Breaches, 0 Terrorists Caught

The line is simple: no warrant, no probable cause, no search.  I will put up with X-rays of my bag, and metal detectors, because those are not sexually humiliating, degrading, and dehumanizing.  The rest is pointless and vile security theater.  I will absolutely not pose for nude photos that strange men salivate over in private pornography rooms.  I will absolutely not engage in heavy petting with complete strangers.  Therefore, the government has decreed that I have entirely too much self-respect and decency to be permitted to fly. 

What should be done about security?  Well, we know we would all be much safer if we weren’t grooming children for sexual predators by telling them to hold still while unknown adults rub their bathing suit zones.  There is nothing at all “safe” about strangers putting their hands down my pants.

The 500 screeners who have been arrested for theft prove that TSA makes us less safe.  A dishonest screener out for money who can sneak things out of passenger bags is a dishonest screener out for money who can sneak things INTO passenger bags.  We are one bribe away from having the TSA plant explosives for the bad guys.  We would be safer if we could lock our luggage to prevent tampering. 

We would be safer if flyers weren’t being used as guinea pigs in a massive radiation experiment, with pregnant women and children being exposed to unnecessary X-rays. 

We would be safer if the TSA weren’t causing people to choose less safe means of transportation to get where they’re going.  I won’t fly, so I drive long distances even though I know that I’m statistically far more likely to die if I travel by road than by air.  I’d rather die than be John Pistole’s sex toy.  That’s where I stand, and TSA has caused thousands of excess road deaths among the free and the brave Americans who won’t stand for having their 4th amendment rights trampled. 

Defund and dismantle the TSA.  They are a national disgrace.

I agree.  I don’t fly anymore and I wish more people would stop because there is no TSA without any flights.  If everyone who really thought ill of TSA would stop flying for a year, it would bring the whole industry to its knees and prompt reform because money talks not safety.  The illusion is safety but the reality is money. The real disgrace is the leadership in this country that allows TSA to continue because TSA goons like NAZI goons have always been around throughout history, but when leadership has a spine then they are in the background.  And when leadership is a jellyfish the goons take center stage.

I just wished I’d had your words today Sommer when I wrote Senator Burr about the disgusting state of our disgusting security screening….you summed it up to a tee!
I agree entirely with your position but as long as the American public puts up with it, the longer it will continue.
Unfortunately however, there are some citizens who are so mentally challenged about these things that they actually condone the gross assaults on our rights and privacy. Sadly those Americans will always take their place in the slave quarters and submit to the tyrants, never questioning nor showing any resistance.
So unless and until the public at large keeps the pressure up and the phones on Capitol Hill ringing off the hook, AND boycotts the airlines…I don’t see anything changing. After all, John Pistole has to make his profits off of those scanners and the gangsters in DC have to revel in their power so they are not going to voluntarily acquiesce.
My main question as to America’s submission to the police state…..why do members of law enforcement and the military obey orders from tyrants while going against their own people? Hmmm…Maybe being way down on the totem pole allows for that sense of masochistic power too!
I think I answered my own question!

Thank you Lily (who actually wrote this post). We need more people like Peter Greenberg and Richard Engel to come out against these molestations and assaults and start to question what is going on. Please tell Mr. Greenberg and others like him speak publicly about this in their capacity.

I’m fed up with being treated as a terrorist at every US airport I go to.  I have titanium replacement knees and am subjected to the full routine when the magnomoter goes off.  Used to be, I got wanded in the vicinity of my knees and went on my way.  The second itemis , that while I’m “in jail” my coat, shoes, carry-on bag are left un-watched and unattended on the exit ramp of the x-ray machine.  I was recently at a conference and at least 4 men reported the same experience, as well as several others who had pacemakers or defillebraters.  TSA needs to provide us with ID or an other item to give us good citizen passage through the airports.

Now it has gone further than just wasting our time.  With their new Xray machines they are actually hurting the health of travellers.  I opted out and I urge everyone to do likewise.  If enough of us opt out they will stop.