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As reported by Harriet Baskas, some airports may revert to private security guards to secure airports. When the TSA was established, airports were allowed to opt out of TSA control of security. Five airports opted out of the TSA system including San Francisco, Kansas City, Rochester International, Jackson Hole and Tupelo Regional. Baskas reports that Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Charlotte N.C. are considering dumping the TSA in favor of private security guards.
Some airport managers are fed up with the TSA and are looking for change, “The TSA has grown too big and we’re unhappy with the way it’s doing things,” said Larry Dale, president of Orlando Sanford International Airport. “My board is sold on the fact that the free enterprise system works well and that we should go with a private company we can hold directly accountable for security and customer satisfaction.”
Public outcry has fueled the controversy that has spread to lawmakers. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), recently named chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged the nation’s 200 biggest airports to opt out, calling TSA a “bloated, poorly focused and top-heavy bureaucracy.”
But even if airports opt out of TSA control of security, the TSA still sets standards for searches. The virtual strip search scanner machines and genital touching groping would still be required of the private contractor. However, the attitudes of security agents may be better if they work for a company that has a vested interest in keeping the public happy during searches. Much of the criticism of the TSA has been following the actions of rude TSA officers.
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Finally! Some common sense! After a Sacramento pilot embarrassed the TSA by showing holes in its security plan, Representative Chaffetz (R-Utah) has called the TSA to answer questions regarding security saying, “We’re spending millions of dollars on technology, but we’re not doing the basics.” Chaffetz, who will chair the subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations also said, “We’ve got to be doing the basics to secure the airlines.”
It is most likely that he is only saying this because of the massive publicity that was generated when a Sacramento pilot, now identified as Chris Liu released embarrassing videos that he recorded on his cellular phone camera. He shows how pilots and aircrews are screened but maintenance workers and baggage handlers merely swipe a card to gain access to aircraft.
Any terrorist with a gun could knock our or kill a baggage handler, take his card and put a bomb on an airplane. That Liu pointed out this obvious hole in security, he was punished by the Federal Government with the revocation of his deputization, his firearms permit and they even confiscated his gun!
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You may have already heard about this story as it has been all over the news for the last few days. What I find most important about this story is not that the pilot exposed the weaknesses in the TSA and FAA’s security – a 9-year-old with average intelligence could have figured all of that out. What is most disturbing about this case is how the TSA and Federal Government have handled the issue.
I like the CEO’s take on the TSA in this video, “You have to do what we tell you,” and “we know better than you.”
Rather than take the embarrassment and fix the problem, the Federal Government instead retaliated against the pilot by stripping him of his right to carry a firearm as a Pilot Marshal and then relieved him of his state issued weapon permit. That the Federal Government would act in such a capricious manner should be upsetting to us all. Is this Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany where dissent is not tolerated? When you speak out about injustice, unfairness or Government waste, abuse or negligence, you should not fear retaliation from your government.
I am quite surprised that more political leaders have not called for an investigation into this matter.
The latest reports indicate that Federal Agents have raided the home of the Sacramento pilot. I cannot believe that in this day police can raid your house because you spoke out about government ineptness. But then again, in a 2 to 1 margin, most of you believe that x-ray virtual strip searches are warranted even though it has been proven that the machines don’t work. Year by year we are being conditioned to accept any manner of civil violation so long as it is in the name of “security.” It’s a bunch of hogwash: security and civil rights violations are not synonymous.
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According to TSA guidlines any passenger who fails a metal detector test will be sent through the back-scatter x-ray machine. This is the virtual strip search machine that can look right through your clothes and see your genitalia. If you opt out of the x-ray strip search you will be subjected to a very thorough “pat-down” search that can includes the touching of women’s breats, men and women’s buttocks and genitalia. TSA officers can even reach inside your underwear and touch your most private of parts.
When a computer malfunction caused the lines at the airport to back up and many missed their flights. Claire Hirschkind, age 56 was one of the first to the security checkpoint. She said that she could not go through the backscatter machine becasue she wears a pace maker. TSA officials told her that she would have to get a “pat down” and she agreed so long as her breasts were not touched. TSA officers said that they would touch her breasts and when Hirschkind refused to comply she was arrested. She says that the police pushed her to the ground, handcuffed her and then dragged her across the airport ground while she cried.
This seems to be against TSA policy of banning you from the airport and subjecting you to a civil penalty (a fine).
According to KVUE news, “An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy that anyone activating a security alarm has two options. One is to opt out and not fly, and the other option is to subject themselves to an enhanced pat down. Hirschkind refused both and was arrested.”
Hirschkind refused the “enhanced” pat-down because she says that she is a rape survivor and it is too traumatic for her.
I can only imagine what our society has come to that we will allow security guards to feel our genitals or else look at us naked even though these same guards can’t catch 90% of guns and bomb parts in the baggage x-ray machine.
Remember, when you give the government power over some part of your life, you’ll never give it back. We have become so frightened by the spectre of terrorism that we are willing to allow our civil rights be violated. I’m all for safety but if the technology doesn’t work, why do it? This TSA madness isn’t about safety, its about government control.
Why do you think that the TSA makes the pat-downs so uncomfortable? In this way, like cattle, the American people will herd themselves into these x-ray machines and in no time we will find them everywhere. At what point does our civil liberty end and the government’s power begin? We are the government; think about that before you give away your freedom.
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