shocking? no.

Depressing, yes.

Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

Ooh, and the TSA plays their trump card in the second hand!

ndotseth: Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

No, because if that was so then the TSA would have responded with facts. See the difference?

Wait for it.
The IRS letter is next week.

"What is the basis of this sudden recognition that Drew Griffin is a terrorist? Are we targeting people because of their critique or criticism?"


Yes, of course we do. I'm sorry, I thought everyone knew that.

Look for more stories like this. At least until someone starts shutting down politically dissident websites.

mess with the bull.................

Unsurprising. We've allowed the government to erode our rights to the point where there is no recourse for circumstances like this.

Tastes repeaty...

Government employees are scum.

What are we becoming, when we are afraid of government agencies, instead of the other way around?

Absolute power , corrupts absolutely.

A quote from Benjamin Franklin:::
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

This kinda happened to my dad, only it was the Nixon administration, and he was suing them.

The TSA needs to be dissolved immediately.

ndotseth: Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

You really are a stupid fark, aren't you?

Get Lost: Absolute power , corrupts absolutely.

A quote from Benjamin Franklin:::
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

you say that as if we have actually have a say in what our government is doing.

sorry, i should have started saving my lobbyist bribe money earlier on in life.

Lesson: Don't bite the hand that can make you miss your flight.

/fark the TSA
//Buncha dirty thieves

scottydoesntknow: Lesson: Don't bite the hand that can make you miss your flight.

/fark the TSA
//Buncha dirty thieves

this.

OR.. Troglodytes Standing Around

This is the kind of thing that amuses me when I read the 2nd Amendment blowhards freak out because they can't buy a machine gun. They run around throwing out words like "oppression" "tyranny" and an "unjust government" and act like they are the last line of defense that is protecting us from just such a government. Little do they realize the big brother government they are so scared of is already here.

The look on Chertoff's face when the Congressional hearing asked him about this was priceless. He looked like he shait himself.

Our govt. has hit epic fail when people fear the government more than they fear terrorists.

ndotseth: Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

....and around and around.

I wouldn't the media mad at me but then, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

This list is working about as well as the sex offender registry for England.

/1 Million strong and growing

No wonder CNN would rather ask questions like "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?" rather than put their efforts into calling out our government.

NYZooMan: Government employees are scum.

WINNER!!!

Peter von Nostrand: This is the kind of thing that amuses me when I read the 2nd Amendment blowhards freak out because they can't buy a machine gun. They run around throwing out words like "oppression" "tyranny" and an "unjust government" and act like they are the last line of defense that is protecting us from just such a government. Little do they realize the big brother government they are so scared of is already here.

I know this is a bit hard for you to figure out, but look what you've just written. If what you're so afraid of is true...you'd have disappeared already and your ashes would be sent back to your family in a match box.

musashi1600: No wonder CNN would rather ask questions like "Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?" rather than put their efforts into calling out our government.

Do you think?
The orderlies of the new order have no sense of fun.

This is what happens when you politicize the whole of the government and insulate government workers from all consequences for their behavior. Idiot bureaucrats start using the unwarranted power they've been handed to carry out personal agendas.

The TSA is an organization that exists almost soley to give the illusion of security. I'm 100% behind the idea of armed pilots and federal air marshalls, but you ask me to take off my shoes and give up my soda on the way to the plane? Screw you hippies. For 70 years people were flying with pocket knives without getting in trouble.

Mnemia: This is what happens when you politicize the whole of the government and insulate government workers from all consequences for their behavior. Idiot bureaucrats start using the unwarranted power they've been handed to carry out personal agendas.

And if you point out the corruption, greed and incompetency, you end up on the terrorist watch list.

Remember - this is for FREEDOM. This is for JUSTICE. And this is for AMERICA. Do not question authority. Do as you are told. All is well citizen. Once all opposition is crushed, we will all be free.

Yup, repeaty (new window)....

Weaver95: Remember - this is for FREEDOM. This is for JUSTICE. And this is for AMERICA. Do not question authority. Do as you are told. All is well citizen. Once all opposition is crushed, we will all be free.

Which party do you see as more authoritarian?

RobertBruce: Peter von Nostrand: This is the kind of thing that amuses me when I read the 2nd Amendment blowhards freak out because they can't buy a machine gun. They run around throwing out words like "oppression" "tyranny" and an "unjust government" and act like they are the last line of defense that is protecting us from just such a government. Little do they realize the big brother government they are so scared of is already here.

I know this is a bit hard for you to figure out, but look what you've just written. If what you're so afraid of is true...you'd have disappeared already and your ashes would be sent back to your family in a match box.

No, because they have to sustain the illusion of freedom, and they can't do that by throwing every Tom, Dick and Harry who utters a bad word into a jail cell or dungeon. You can speak all you like and it wont ever bring down a government, but the moment you start actuall... hang on, someone's at the door.

This is old news but no amount of bad publicity about the TSA would bother me.

See what happens when you interfere with people who are walking the path of righteousness?

bronyaur1: ndotseth: Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

You really are a stupid fark, aren't you?

Yes, he is.

TSA thinking: "Hey, we look really bad here, what can we do regain our credibility?"

signine: The TSA is an organization that exists almost soley to give the illusion of security. I'm 100% behind the idea of armed pilots and federal air marshalls, but you ask me to take off my shoes and give up my soda on the way to the plane? Screw you hippies. For 70 years people were flying with pocket knives without getting in trouble.

In fact, we might be safer if people were still allowed to have knives on planes. Right now, if a terrorist actually succeeded at getting a weapon past the TSA (probably very easy), then they would be the only one on the plane that's armed. If everyone had knives again, it would even the odds a bit more.

But yeah, the TSA is all about making people feel the like the politicians are doing something about terrorism. Not about actual security.

Whoops, I guess I'm going to put on the TSA watchlist now.

This makes me sick.

signine The TSA is an organization that exists almost soley to give the illusion of security. I'm 100% behind the idea of armed pilots and federal air marshalls, but you ask me to take off my shoes and give up my soda on the way to the plane? Screw you hippies. For 70 years people were flying with pocket knives without getting in trouble.

I made a trip from Dallas to Lubbock about a year ago. I had my SW knife on my key chain (one of those simple ones with scissors a screwdriver head, and two blades) and didn't even realize it. I went through security at Love field no problem, didn't even notice the knife. I could've hijacked the plane and crashed it into the Lubbock...well there's nothing in Lubbock. But on the way home, one of the security guards there (not TSA) saw the knife immediately and told me to go throw it in my check-in bag so I wouldn't lose it. I thanked him and he told me if he thought I was gonna hijack a plane, I would do it with something more than a letter opener.

/Also had some military drop-out point his shaking M4 at me in security because I forgot a bullet from hunting in my backpack and TSA went crazy
//What was I gonna do? Hit it with a hammer and hope the plane blows up?

I want public show trials of every TSA employee. The guilty (all of them) will be turned loose naked downtown in the middle of a workday with a sign around their necks that reads, "I'm from TSA and I stole all your shiate!" Free baseball bats will be handed out to the populace.

/PPV
//and popcorn
///lots of popcorn

doyner: Which party do you see as more authoritarian?

I don't think there's much of a difference between the two parties any more.

NYZooMan: Government employees are scum.

I especially hate those library clerks. Fark those people and their book peddling, whorish ways.

scottydoesntknow: I made a trip from Dallas to Lubbock about a year ago. I had my SW knife on my key chain (one of those simple ones with scissors a screwdriver head, and two blades) and didn't even realize it. I went through security at Love field no problem, didn't even notice the knife. I could've hijacked the plane and crashed it into the Lubbock...well there's nothing in Lubbock. But on the way home, one of the security guards there (not TSA) saw the knife immediately and told me to go throw it in my check-in bag so I wouldn't lose it. I thanked him and he told me if he thought I was gonna hijack a plane, I would do it with something more than a letter opener.

I've heard many similar stories from friends who also got knives and such through the TSA purely by accident. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the TSA's ability to keep weapons off of planes. Like I said, I think we would be better off just letting people have pocket knives on planes, since it's obvious that the TSA can't even come close to stopping people from bringing them on.

Weaver95: I don't think there's much of a difference between the two parties any more.

There's a huge difference. The Dems are too authoritarian for my tastes too, but the Rethugs are in a whole 'nother league. The Dems have some authoritarian aspects, but the Republicans are now an all-out Christian Nationalist authoritarian party.

It's time for Congress to declare war on the U.S. and urge the president to nuke D.C. off the map.

"I have seen the enemy, and he is us." - Pogo

Where is the citizen oversight for the TSA? Cops have to explain themselves to an arm's length organization after they shoot someone.

BobbyJoeBurns: This is old news but no amount of bad publicity about the TSA would bother me.

At this point, I think TSA operatives could be caught raping and murdering someone on live TV and none of them would be held accountable for their actions.

Anyone remember the article in USA today a few years ago, when a pilot was going through security, and the tsa agent opened the pilot's bag for a secondary search? The pilot asked, "What are you doing (in a nice way)?" The tsa agent said, "I just want to make sure you don't have anything that you can use to take over the plane." "But I'm a PILOT."

And that's the way it is folks. The gate tsa agents are the burger flippers of airline security.

ndotseth: Maybe now he'll do an investigative report on the phenomenon of what comes around goes around.

10/10



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