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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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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 07 2019, @01:39PM (3 children)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @02:23PM (2 children)
I agree with the sentiment, but we need to come up with a better way of saying it since that quote isn't relevant:
https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century [npr.org]
"It means ... much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means."
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 07 2019, @02:44PM
Why? Its original meaning was specific to a discrete situation, the context of which is now mostly forgotten dust. They're still perfectly good words whose most obvious interpretation is quite useful though. It really doesn't matter much to me if Benji gets erroneous credit for wisdom this long after he died.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Monday January 07 2019, @02:46PM
A non-democratic entity, here, the Penn family's ownership of the Pennsylvania charter attempted to bribe the state legislature to continue the non-democratic relationship. It's not that different from a non-democratic security apparatus promising security in exchange for a little essential liberty. They both promise some reward in exchange for a permanent relinquishment of freedom with no guarantee that the reward will continue once the freedom has been relinquished.
I think it's telling that the Ben Franklin quote is framed as "a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security." which is "misused" to defend a right to privacy rather than as a quote with broad generality.
Does anyone believe that Franklin wouldn't see the ineffectual TSA security theater or the far more serious, unconstitutional mass surveillance of the US government as a huge target to which this quote can be applied?
The quote is quite relevant.