If there was ever an agency that needs to be done away with because it’s a waste of money, it’s the TSA. Just how many terrorists have they caught trying to get on a plane anyway? If there’s been bunches, I wish they would tell us so that they could attempt to justify their existence and harassment of us all even a little bit. I never flew much before the TSA, but since their inception I have taken a grand total of two round trip plane rides, both of which were because I absolutely had to in order to get where I wanted to go in the time I had to get there. If I hadn’t had to fly, I certainly wouldn’t have.
Since our government is dead set on treating us all like bad guys for the sake of national security, the only way to fight the TSA is to not fly. After a few more airlines go bankrupt, maybe they will figure out another way. Until then my trips to our East Coast or Alaska or Hawaii will just have to wait, if they get taken at all.
To quote Age traveller writer, Ben Groundwater, in a blog on the worlds most difficult countries to travel through:
“USA
Relative to some of the above-mentioned countries, travel through the States is a piece of cake, but OTT visa laws and airport feel-ups warrant it an entry. American people are as friendly as you could hope for, but just making it out of the airport to meet them is an ordeal.”
Oh great blog….LMAO…now you got me freaked. I am flying to Denver in February. Do first class get same treatment? If not I may pay extra! OMGGGGGGGGGGG…I am freaked…I do not like to be touched by strangers..seriously..I have phobias! 🙄 And if I was standing there and they wanted to touch my child like that…OH HELL NO! We would be going back home! 🙁
I am opposed to dubious confiscations by the T.S.A., such as the expensive hand cream I bought just before I got on a plane, because “creams or cremes” are still not on their online no-no list. Or the small rubber air blower for optics that is shaped like some bombs, but is plainly not, as the air can be squeezed out of it.
I am also opposed to searches & confiscations of electronic equipment within 50 miles of U.S.A. borders without warrants. Such as happened to a public supporter of Bradley Manning on his way back from Mexico with his girlfriend, as I recall. I don’t know if he ever got his electronics back.
I got A. C.L.U. a long time ago.
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If there was ever an agency that needs to be done away with because it’s a waste of money, it’s the TSA. Just how many terrorists have they caught trying to get on a plane anyway? If there’s been bunches, I wish they would tell us so that they could attempt to justify their existence and harassment of us all even a little bit. I never flew much before the TSA, but since their inception I have taken a grand total of two round trip plane rides, both of which were because I absolutely had to in order to get where I wanted to go in the time I had to get there. If I hadn’t had to fly, I certainly wouldn’t have.
Since our government is dead set on treating us all like bad guys for the sake of national security, the only way to fight the TSA is to not fly. After a few more airlines go bankrupt, maybe they will figure out another way. Until then my trips to our East Coast or Alaska or Hawaii will just have to wait, if they get taken at all.
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To quote Age traveller writer, Ben Groundwater, in a blog on the worlds most difficult countries to travel through:
“USA
Relative to some of the above-mentioned countries, travel through the States is a piece of cake, but OTT visa laws and airport feel-ups warrant it an entry. American people are as friendly as you could hope for, but just making it out of the airport to meet them is an ordeal.”
I try to vote for Statesmen not politicians but they ain’t none runnin.
Ain’t a pair in all of Washington.
Oh great blog….LMAO…now you got me freaked. I am flying to Denver in February. Do first class get same treatment? If not I may pay extra! OMGGGGGGGGGGG…I am freaked…I do not like to be touched by strangers..seriously..I have phobias! 🙄 And if I was standing there and they wanted to touch my child like that…OH HELL NO! We would be going back home! 🙁
What am I going to do about it?
Post a blog with some YouTube videos!
Err..wait…wut?
I am not opposed to T.S.A. searches at this time.
I am opposed to dubious confiscations by the T.S.A., such as the expensive hand cream I bought just before I got on a plane, because “creams or cremes” are still not on their online no-no list. Or the small rubber air blower for optics that is shaped like some bombs, but is plainly not, as the air can be squeezed out of it.
I am also opposed to searches & confiscations of electronic equipment within 50 miles of U.S.A. borders without warrants. Such as happened to a public supporter of Bradley Manning on his way back from Mexico with his girlfriend, as I recall. I don’t know if he ever got his electronics back.
I got A. C.L.U. a long time ago.