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TSA Has Been Compiling A Shitlist Of Travelers It Just Doesn't Like
The TSA is the worst. Super-secret watchlists can keep people from flying -- people deemed too dangerous to travel but not dangerous enough to arrest. This isn't the TSA's fault. Not these lists. Those are maintained by agencies who could possibly cobble together enough intel to build a flimsy case against these "dangerous" would-be travelers.
The TSA, however, maintains its own database of travelers. It can't necessarily keep them from boarding airplanes, but it can give agents a heads up that the person in the queue probably needs to be detained and hassled. [via Boing Boing]
[...] It's an agency shitlist, and only the TSA knows who's on it. This list doesn't contain people who've actually assaulted agents, but people who've expressed their displeasure with intrusive gropings through words or non-violent deeds. The agency's official statements make it clear this is an arbitrary way to punish travelers who make agents unhappy, noting that it neither requires "injury" to a TSA employee nor the intent to do so. Instead, the list contains anyone who presents a "challenge" to the "safe and effective completion of screening."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday June 05 2018, @05:33AM (7 children)
I have flown once since 2001.
I avoid planes. I avoid the whole TSA bullshit. flying is no longer fun.
but - since I don't fly often and don't need to for business or personal reasons - I can afford to PISS THEM THE FUCK OFF.
I plan to, next time I'm flying. "YOU TOUCHED MY BALLS!". yeah, I can say that loud. what are they gonna do?
again, flying is optional for me. and if I get pushed to a later flight and miss shit for work, no skin off my back - its not my fault at all.
the more people get angry - the better! things are not going to get fixed if we all just go along with their groping and crap.
we should all make a fuss at every chance. its the only way we can try to change things back to how they were. not that I expect it to happen, but it sure would be great if people unified against the TSA and gave them hassles at every chance.
of course, people who want an 'easy' flight won't make waves; and this is exactly what they count on. the pussification of america! ;(
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:20AM (3 children)
I have NOT flown since TSA as a matter of principal. I will not voluntarily subject myself to such subhuman treatment. I will not bow to them, as anyone who flies must.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @11:55AM (1 child)
What did Your principal do to You?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @12:23AM
Probably his principled principal disciplined his pimply prepubescent ass on principle. Or he just doesn't know they are two different words. Principled pedants are aware of pendulantly punctuating principal postulates per the principle of the matter.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:36PM
you are not alone. i don't have much respect for flyers these days. these are the dumb bastards who gladly fund the enemy every time they turn around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:23PM (2 children)
the more people get angry - the better!
Your anger is bullshit if it isn't converted into votes.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday June 05 2018, @05:39PM (1 child)
Votes for who? Which candidate would get rid of the TSA? NONE! Not even the fringe candidates.
If there were a libertarian candidate, I would probably vote for him, but libertarian is not "Libertarian".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @04:37PM
Votes for who?
Anybody you want. The process for getting on the ballot is all documented in black and white. Any and all difficulties only arise from your fellow voters that choose to believe the propaganda. There is no compelling force.