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posted by takyon on Monday January 07 2019, @09:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the groped-into-it dept.

Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.

The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Monday January 07 2019, @12:54PM (6 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday January 07 2019, @12:54PM (#783142) Homepage Journal

    Airline security should have been left in the hands of the airlines. They have no particular desire to see their passengers knocked out of the sky, and they would handle security without the bureaucratic empire-building inherent in any government effort. Heck, they handled security well for decades - 9/11 was a fluke, and anyway, would not be prevented by anything that TSA actually does during screening. There have been plenty of tests that show TSA is ineffective; in my personal case, I have - entirely accidentally - boarded a plane with a pocketknife in my backpack.

    If TSA would just shut down, the airlines would pick up the slack, and the US could be rid of this stupid, ineffectual agency.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @01:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @01:26PM (#783153)

    The purpose of TSA is to train the public to normalize living in a police state. Being groped would be normal daily occurrence for most people who get out of their residences. Movement would be controlled and you would have to apply before attempting to move. Welcome to City 17. If you've chosen or been chosen...

    And then the whole system falls and those hook-nosed khazar jewish rats responsible will be punished adequately.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:44PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @04:44PM (#783236)

      obvious agent. says many true things that are inconvenient to the establishment criminals and then taints his speech (on purpose) with talk of "khazar jewish rats". fuck off pig.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:12PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @07:12PM (#783302)

        makes me wonder if the whole militia movement isn't guided by agents and pigs

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:41PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 08 2019, @07:41PM (#783813)

          the documentary "a noble lie" will give some kind of idea as to the feds involvement with these things.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 07 2019, @02:27PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday January 07 2019, @02:27PM (#783181) Journal

    Yes but the sheep were quickly and easily herded into the creation of the TSA after 9/11. Cheney was given carte blanche to realize all his long-held totalitarian desires. Thus we got the TSA, and the Department of Homeland Security, because why should Nazi Germany get to be a "fatherland" and the USSR a "motherland" while America, a mighty empire itself, had no such thousand-year reich capstone? We also got the Total Information Awareness program, which, though initially rejected for its branding, was absorbed into the federal government's DNA and became what Snowden exposed and which our lovely government still uses to oppress us.

    It's the danger of the herd mentality, and why we must all fight it every day, especially now. If somebody shows up and says, hey, let's all do this thing, that should sound as a loud, loud, loud alarm to stop and carefully consider the proposal, because it all too often turns out the idea is "let's jump off this cliff!!"

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 08 2019, @03:10AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 08 2019, @03:10AM (#783540) Journal

    Private security didn't seem to work real well in the 1900's. Hijacking seemed to be a popular sport, with almost routine hijackings to Cuba, and less routine hijackings to other destinations. The industry standard response was "Meet the hijacker's demands, and we'll recover later."

    Another issue, at least somewhat related, is the banking industry's attitude that cameras constitute "security".

    As much as I mock the TSA, I think that government had to get involved. I just don't know what would have worked, in that regard. We definitely needed something more imaginative.