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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 07 2019, @02:27PM
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!!"
Washington DC delenda est.