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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @12:18PM (2 children)
Given the need that we have for relief;
Given the role and function of those involved;
Let it therefore be resolved this day
That this list be now taken
as our list of nominees
And that therefore upon the occasion of the next national elections
Third November; Two Thousand and Two Tens
ONLY those candidates whose names appear on the list of nominees
Compiled as previous detailed by the TSA
Shall be permitted upon the ballot.
ONLY those candidates whose names so appear
Shall be eligible for nomination by any party
Large or small, fake or third.
In this way shall Freedom truly bloom
And her enemies shall rue
Lo, indeed shall they rue.
-Malaclypse the fuglier, halfway through a bottle of truth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @01:04PM (1 child)
Shit, how am I going to get on that list so I can run for office? I always fly on my company jet...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @02:08PM
"Those who desire the job should never be allowed to have it.". Badly quoted hhgttg