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/doh!

I support taser-based retraining of TSA agents for more productive work as lab subjects in the biotech industry.

/is it getting crowded in here?

CIA, FBI, NSA. Now TSA. OMG WTF?

[Obvious]

A couple of little picky points:
Don't link directly to page two.
When you go to submit a link, why not look for the little link marked "print" at the top or bottom. Very often, it gives you the article in a neat, all one page format, usually without ads. Like this:
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/07/11/askthepilot283/print.html (new window)

Oh, and this article is why we need a "Duh" tag for Fark. I think we could probably make a policy that anyone who passes the psychological screening for TSA should NEVER be allowed to work with people. Call it the "Little Tin Gods With Delusions Of Adequacy" test, or something.

Seriously, folks. We're trusting our lives to a bunch of people who 1) eagerly accept and enforce utterly mindless "no tolerance" rules, and who 2) were unable to get a job anywhere else.

And any TSA screener who wants to post here to say "I wanted to take a job where I feel up people all day long, take their property, am constantly vilified, and win every argument", well, you just described why you shouldn't be allowed to do it.

Well, it's a good thing that we have the GOP this past week to tell us that they're going to clean up wasteful government like the DHS and TSA, bloated bureaucracies created by the... wait, I'm confused.

This man will be the next pilot put on the no fly list if he is writing these articles under his own name.

dahmers love zombie: I think we could probably make a policy that anyone who passes the psychological screening for TSA should NEVER be allowed to work with people. Call it the "Little Tin Gods With Delusions Of Adequacy" test, or something.

Your newsletter, I would like to subscribe to it.

I propose the nextg Fark tag, now that we have FAIL:

I am personally more afraid of the TSA than al Qaeda, but that's just me.

glad we federalized it. now we have incompetents who are protected from firing by civil service

Marcus Aurelius: I am personally more afraid of the TSA than al Qaeda, but that's just me.

I treat them the same way you'd treat any large, stupid beast - keep a respectful distance and let them graze calmly in a field. They're brutal, but stupid and easily distracted by flashy colors and shiny objects. Use that to your advantage. Try to find a way to make them feel as if they've won and are in control, and they'll happily let you bring an AK-47 onboard your carry on luggage.

"culture of fear" is quickly approaching "nanny state" for most over-used stupid phrase of the year.

You know it's coming.

Can I request an honor killing of the subby? His linking to the second page of an article has sullied the honor of fark, and this offense must be cleansed.

have you guys heard john mccain is a POW?

Just like the Executive Branch!

the TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability

Is there any other kind of bureaucracy?

LegacyDL: You know it's coming.

Get your ass to mars!

In other news, people still take commercial flights.

I work for TSA and I'm really............. oh hell that was just so messed up. I really don't know what that screener and Sup were thinking.

I have crew members some though my checkpoint all day every day and I've never had this kind of problem.

If you can always travel though a small airport, you get treated so much better and it's a hell of alot faster, plus we like to try to use common sense and try to keep the crazy screeners in check.

Which they helped create and are responsible for maintaining.
Misuse of the word "has" should be "is" and/or always has been.
Not one politician, I refuse to use the word "leader", with the brains or balls to tell these animals that they do not have a million terrorist suspects, not yours.

they're raising the prices and cutting the services, and the tsa is doing their part to discourage the common herd from air travel.

soon only the rich will fly, just as god intended, just as it was in the beginning. then will be restored the beautiful, available "stewardesses" to replace the godawful "flight attendants", and luxury air travel will return to replace the airborne cattle cars.

the rich will once again be able to enjoy flying as it was meant to be.

I vaguely remember a thread about a woman not being allowed on a plane on account of nipple-piercings - even though she agreed to show them to prove they weren't weapons.

There was this one farker who showed up to defend the knuckle-dragger TSA mentality - who was that guy?

The TSA people really depend on the airports. You go somewhere like Phoenix, and they're nothing less than terrifying. "Airport Nazi's" is a more accurate description. You go to Chicago, and they all look about 14 years old and are more laid back. You go to your local airports, and they're generally MUCH more friendly and laid back.

But yeah, they need some freaking reasonable freakin oversight.

Backscatter scanners.

Coming soon to an airport near you.

That way they can see if you have anything worth stealing on your person, not just your baggage.

Commander Lysdexic: There was this one farker who showed up to defend the knuckle-dragger TSA mentality - who was that guy?

Anyone actually defending the TSA is a closet machoist who feels intense sexual satisfaction from being beaten and humiliated in public. Which, I suppose, is just fine and all....but what's offensive is that they expect everyone ELSE to enjoy body cavity serches and to like the latex lifestyle.

bunner: Backscatter scanners.

Coming soon to an airport near you.

That way they can see if you have anything worth stealing on your person, not just your baggage.

Maybe that's why the Phoenix TSA is so cranky, they have to sit around and look at average Americans naked all day because they already have the backscatter machines.

That's not a proposition I like, even for the occasional hot chick.

More goodness from our "small government" party.

SciHobo: The TSA people really depend on the airports. You go somewhere like Phoenix, and they're nothing less than terrifying.

Have you been lately? The guys at Phoenix were joking around with me, really nice.
BWI, on the other hand, dude was YELLING at me. For no reason. I had nothing in my pockets, no belt, no reason why i'd make the metal detector beep. And while I'm ready to cry from him yelling at me, my bag is at the end of the conveyor thing on the other side. MY farkING CHANEL PURSE!!! I'm like 'just wand me, and prove to everyone around here that i'm wearing an underwire bra' What a dick.

Weaver95 nails it! I work with livestock frequently, and I fly incessantly on business. I do treat TSA drones just like I'm working with horses. No sudden moves, do the things they expect in order to not agitate them, etc. I don't care what they do, since I'm paid big bucks to fly places. If they refuse to let me fly, they can explain their reasoning to the defense Department...

Big government FTW !

/already on the list

mark12A: Weaver95 nails it! I work with livestock frequently, and I fly incessantly on business. I do treat TSA drones just like I'm working with horses. No sudden moves, do the things they expect in order to not agitate them, etc. I don't care what they do, since I'm paid big bucks to fly places. If they refuse to let me fly, they can explain their reasoning to the defense Department...

most people aren't lucky enough to have that kind of leverage over those TSA goons.

IrishDrunk: SciHobo: The TSA people really depend on the airports. You go somewhere like Phoenix, and they're nothing less than terrifying.

Have you been lately? The guys at Phoenix were joking around with me, really nice.
BWI, on the other hand, dude was YELLING at me. For no reason. I had nothing in my pockets, no belt, no reason why i'd make the metal detector beep. And while I'm ready to cry from him yelling at me, my bag is at the end of the conveyor thing on the other side. MY farkING CHANEL PURSE!!! I'm like 'just wand me, and prove to everyone around here that i'm wearing an underwire bra' What a dick.


There about 2 weeks ago. Terminal 3. Was the only time I got harassed by the TSA for "Sitting in one spot" for too long. I had to take a shuttle to the airport and wait 3 hours for a flight. Apparently that's suspicious.

Congratulations TSA! You are no officially in the club! Join your new friends FBI, CIA, NSA, and all the rest. I'm sure you'll enjoy your time in the club, everyone else does.

/sigh
//why do we put up with this shiat?

Remember after 9/11 it was the Democrats who demanded they become unionized federal employees with little accountability . Norman Mineta a 20 year Democrat congressman from the San Francisco Bay Area was the Secretary of Transportation at the time. So yes you can blame the democrats for the farked up TSA employees.

In the Bay Area those farkup's make between 35 & 60k a year.

and no=now in my last post. groggy still.

Marcus Aurelius: I am personally more afraid of the TSA than al Qaeda, but that's just me.

Me too. I had no problem flying after Sept. 11. Now that the TSA is fully in force, I won't go near an airplane.

Phoenix_M: Remember after 9/11 it was the Democrats who demanded they become unionized federal employees with little accountability . Norman Mineta a 20 year Democrat congressman from the San Francisco Bay Area was the Secretary of Transportation at the time. So yes you can blame the democrats for the farked up TSA employees.

In the Bay Area those farkup's make between 35 & 60k a year.

I don't want to 'blame' anyone for starting the mess, I just want them to fix the damn thing!

Article just about sums it up.

albo: glad we federalized it. now we have incompetents who are protected from firing by civil service

Can't wait for my medical to be served by the same folks.

Bob Down [TotalFark] Quote 2008-09-06 11:07:33 AM
CIA, FBI, NSA. Now TSA. OMG WTF?

IRS, ATF, DEA, DHS. BFD?

"Has become", subby? Unaccountability and power-lust were built in from the git-go.

Nick Nostril: albo: glad we federalized it. now we have incompetents who are protected from firing by civil service

Can't wait for my medical to be served by the same folks.

OMG, my biggest fear is that these same folks will someday run our military.

Oh, wait, never mind.

Was screening at Charlotte. TSA lady asked me to show her my ticket. I placed it in front of her, folded up. She barked at me to open it up for her. I told her to do it herself. She said "that's not my job". I asked her if it was too difficult of a task. "Not my job," she barked again and gave me a look like she'd get her friends to do a "thorough" search if I didn't listen. I suggested they should add it to her job description, which was apparently sitting in a chair and looking at tickets, unable to open them herself, perhaps because it was too much for her to comprehend. She just stared as if she didn't understand sentences more than four words long. I then opened the ticket for her, showed my ID, and made my way through the maze they call screening. I really enjoyed that moment with the TSA and look forward to the next opportunity to witness overinflated beaurocracy at its finest.

Gulper Eel: "Has become", subby? Unaccountability and power-lust were built in from the git-gomo.

FTFY

I keep saying it.
TSA is doing a wonderful yob!!!
Exactly the job it was designed to do.
The real job @ TSA is to introduce CONTROL to the American population thru a rewrite of personal freedoms that were unpossible before 9/11.
Secondary goal, prepare the airline industry/population for Federalization.

Viewed w/ these goals in mind, it makes a kind of perfect sense.
Come on, NOBODY can really be that stupid to spend all that nice money to do what TSA does unless it was intended. Not even Bushie's orderlies. The GOP does not piss money away, they just lie about the agenda.

**Note to our presidential candidates - first one with the balls to promise to dismantle the TSA wins in a landslide.

Bob Down: CIA, FBI, NSA. Now TSA. OMG WTF?

srsly!