DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!

/DID NOT READ THE FARKING ARTICLE!

Could happen to anyone. In fact, it has happened to me before.

I'm assuming the screeners didn't know who he was, so why should he be treated differently from the rest of us?

i love how these farkwads pass stupid ass laws and then act all angry when it applies to them.

DIAF.

Now you know how us peons have to live, you dirty cocksucker.

Tards
Standing
Around

/obligatory

Two of them, it appears. David Vitter yanked open a plane door and Peter DeFazio drew extra attention.

Trifecta now in play.

Members of congress are the little bus riders of the political system. It's hard to find a member of congress with an IQ above 120.

So now they probably won't do screen checks for connecting flight passengers. Which is awesome, cause now all I have to do is hand off a box cutter and some C4 Pert Plus to my Islamic friend who's catching a connecting flight to Washington D.C.

*gasp* You mean a member of Congress is outraged at being treated like, dare I even consider it, an ORDINARY CITIZEN?!

I bet this cocksucker voted for the extra security. Unfortunately he got directly affected by legislation as more bastard politicians should.

Don't TSA me, bro!

defects: I bet this cocksucker voted for the extra security. Unfortunately he got directly affected by legislation as more bastard politicians should.

Yeah, but now that HE had to deal with it, he wants the laws changed.

It was fine for the swine, but king pig expects better.

It's not fascism stupid when we do it!

Deadhouseplants: Members of congress are the little bus riders of the political system. It's hard to find a member of congress with an IQ above 120.

So now they probably won't do screen checks for connecting flight passengers. Which is awesome, cause now all I have to do is hand off a box cutter and some C4 Pert Plus to my Islamic friend who's catching a connecting flight to Washington D.C.

Person above understands nothing.

If people would actually RTFA they would know that he is complaining about getting searched TWICE. He had already been on a plane and was making a connecting flight where he was pulled out randomly for another search. What's the point in searching someone that has already been on a plane?

I certainly did not know of this policy but I only fly maybe once or twice a year. If I were him I'd probably make a stink too.

It's all over the local radio too.

TheBigBadCrystallineEntity: If people would actually RTFA they would know that he is complaining about getting searched TWICE. He had already been on a plane and was making a connecting flight where he was pulled out randomly for another search. What's the point in searching someone that has already been on a plane?

I certainly did not know of this policy but I only fly maybe once or twice a year. If I were him I'd probably make a stink too.

No, they'll do it. Remember, some of the people on the connection are just through screening, rather than coming from another flight. It's happened to me on a connection, and it's really not a big deal.

Epsilon: I'm assuming the screeners didn't know who he was

I wouldn't assume that. DeFazio is very, very well known throughout Oregon. Hell, my kids know who he is and they don't follow politics at all.

mediablitz: It was fine for the swine, but king pig expects better.

Some animals are more equal.

Epsilon: Could happen to anyone. In fact, it has happened to me before.

I'm assuming the screeners didn't know who he was, so why should he be treated differently from the rest of us?

Because he is different, he is better then all of us as a Congressman...this is pure racial profiling and disgusting....

DirkValentine: i love how these farkwads pass stupid ass laws and then act all angry when it applies to them.

DIAF.

I'd still argue that opening a closed gate door is dumber than general belligerence, but they're both dumb.

I'm glad that the politicians are getting sick of getting pulled out of line for a body cavity search by a group of high school dropout thugs. Maybe we'll start to see a reduction in airport security.

TheBigBadCrystallineEntity: If people would actually RTFA they would know that he is complaining about getting searched TWICE. He had already been on a plane and was making a connecting flight where he was pulled out randomly for another search. What's the point in searching someone that has already been on a plane?

I certainly did not know of this policy but I only fly maybe once or twice a year. If I were him I'd probably make a stink too.

It doesn't matter either way, since the second you protest a TSA action they can do pretty much whatever they want with you. Even if there are rules and regulations against it, judging by their hiring practices they don't feel compelled to follow them.

Nice to see that they don't discriminate based on office held, though.

Ohh..you think the TSA is ridiculous? Why don't you, I don't know, WRITE A MUTHERFARKING LAW TO FIX IT!

FTA: "I didn't lose my temper. I was not happy and I told them it was a stupid practice," DeFazio said Tuesday.

You see, people in Congress do have analytic capability. No shiat it's gotten absurdly stupid. I just wish they would apply this level of clear thinking to their actual jobs.

FTFA:
"The context is I was inside the airport and had already completed security screening (in Eugene) and had already flown on an airplane" when he was pulled out of line - apparently at random - and searched by security agents wearing rubber gloves, DeFazio said.

So.... UFIC*? Yes? No?

/*Congressman

TheBigBadCrystallineEntity: If people would actually RTFA they would know that he is complaining about getting searched TWICE. He had already been on a plane and was making a connecting flight where he was pulled out randomly for another search. What's the point in searching someone that has already been on a plane?

It's called added layers of security, it's done in CBP, DHS, ICE and TSA as well... common practice.

I go out of my way to avoid flying. I believe the post 9/11 security is an unconstitutional breach of my privacy. The 4th amendment specifically states "but upon probable cause". I carry a pocket knife, along with several other items, everywhere I go. Before September 11th I never had a problem taking it on a plane, and I flew numerous times a year while in the USAF. Now I will go to jail if I insist on keeping my knife when I enter the plane, regardless of whether I see it as a tool or a weapon. My assurances that I am sane and peaceful will not prevent them from searching my shoes for bombs or confiscating my shaving cream. And I am paying for the entire mess. So are you, if you pay taxes in the United States.

I won't hold my breath, but maybe some of these stupid laws will be relaxed and we can go back to regular old airport security, rather than taking off our shoes, belts, going through the air-blowing security machine and then getting a full search because you were 'randomly selected' (to say nothing of the double search that Difazio experienced)...

Oh, whats that? There's a huge industry built around airport security?

/shuffles off

anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows arguing with airport security is utterly pointless. just farking do what they ask and then you can get on with your day.

Do you suppose the TSA agents were nice enough to offer him 3oz of his favorite beverage to calm him down?

To the undistinguished fathead from the state of Oregon:

Hmmmmmmm, so you don't like it when the shiat laws you write come back and bite you in the ass, huh? What, do you think we citizens enjoy having to suck up to/be frisked and belittled by a bunch of neanderthals who often times make your average Kentucky based strip club bouncer seem like a member of Mensa in comparison?

Well......too bad, asshole! I'm glad they got you. If you don't enjoy the consequences of having handed that much power over to a group of proto humans who can barely tie their own God damned shoes....oh, I don't know....CHANGE THE farkING LAW!!!

Sincerely,

The masses

deadapostle: I'm glad that the politicians are getting sick of getting pulled out of line for a body cavity search by a group of high school dropout thugs. Maybe we'll start to see a reduction in airport security.

Wrong.

Body cavity searches are not done by TSA, only law enforcement.
You need a high school degree to enter the TSA.
The TSA has the same average years of college as most federal agencies like ICE and CBP... and it's above most local law enforcements.

But don't let petty things like the truth get in the way with your complaining...

Al!: I go out of my way to avoid flying. I believe the post 9/11 security is an unconstitutional breach of my privacy. The 4th amendment specifically states "but upon probable cause". I carry a pocket knife, along with several other items, everywhere I go. Before September 11th I never had a problem taking it on a plane, and I flew numerous times a year while in the USAF. Now I will go to jail if I insist on keeping my knife when I enter the plane, regardless of whether I see it as a tool or a weapon. My assurances that I am sane and peaceful will not prevent them from searching my shoes for bombs or confiscating my shaving cream. And I am paying for the entire mess. So are you, if you pay taxes in the United States.

Well, technically, you're entering private property(airplane), which makes your point moot.

Yeah. Kinda sucks when you realize that the asinine laws you pass apply to you, too.

Welcome to America.

Sadly, now I'll bet this assclown is going to propose a law that ALL congresscritters get to fly in private jets so they don't have to come in contact with the great unwashed.

/I really love it when our congresscritters get a biatch slap of reality every now and again.

Yeah, like I'm gonna believe one of those cocksuckers from either party. Get in line and shut up Bozo. Flight 93 almost landed on my house.


/can't wait to see how the filter cleans up that expletive

I'm not seeing anything in the article that makes me believe DeFazio was mad because they didn't know who he was. He was mad because the extra security screening was a "stupid practice." I've met DeFazio and he's not the type to think he's entitled to better treatment than the general population or thinks he's better than the rest of us. He's just not like that. But go ahead and jump to your conclusions, this is Fark after all.

Oops. No filtration of that word.

Global Citizen: anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows arguing with airport security is utterly pointless. just farking do what they ask and then you can get on with your day.

Well, you've obviously and correctly defined those in government service. You get a cookie.

flannelled fool: Oops. No filtration of that word.

Interesting. biatch gets filtered. Cocksucker...no problem there.

Hey GaryPDX, did you quit TF?

About getting checked, I used to work for the TSA and now work for the DHS directly, my security clearance is above any of the people who work there (except for the BAOs, but I guess you guys ignore the people with 15 years of bomb squad experience because it doesn't fit your "dumb thugs" argument)... but I know I have to get checked, nobody is above the security checkpoint... even if the president were to fly commercial he would have to go through standard security.

Now I've worked with Saudi Royal Family, and many heads of state from Central America and the Caribbean and for the most part they know they have to go through security like everyone else... it's humbling experience and I can understand how it can anger the "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, PEOPLE"...

By the way, I basically think there is NO WAY a brown arab guy is going to do an attack... I guess it's a remote possibility but it's almost surely going to be a white guy from Minnesota who will do the attack... I just wish sometimes you guys could only see what goes on behind the scenes and see that what you see at the checkpoint is only 1% of the operation, and that if you guys could see what I see there would be a lot less snarkiness about this subject.

FTFA

"The context is I was inside the airport and had already completed security screening (in Eugene) and had already flown on an airplane" when he was pulled out of line - apparently at random - and searched by security agents wearing rubber gloves, DeFazio said.

WAAAAHH!!!

I've twice been singled out and had my carry on and person searched after already going through security. I've also been chosen to have my bag entirely emptied out in front of me as they went through every article inside of my bag and destroyed any kind of order that I had anything put away in. I've been interoggated in a backroom, and also randomly chosen to have my body rubbed with some kind of gunpowder finding paper substance. All on seperate flights.

I'm white with blonde hair blue eyes, have no criminal record and my biggest crime on paper is a 90mph speeding ticket I got in Idaho.

AKA no sympathy for this jerk.

ochobit,
it's humbling experience and I can understand how it can anger the "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, PEOPLE"...

Once again, DeFazio isn't one of the '"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM PEOPLE..."'.

Someone show me in the article where it states that he thought he was above being checked. Oh that's right, it's not there. He had already been checked and was mad about being checked again, JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE.

SVX: To the undistinguished fathead from the state of Oregon:

Hmmmmmmm, so you don't like it when the shiat laws you write come back and bite you in the ass, huh? What, do you think we citizens enjoy having to suck up to/be frisked and belittled by a bunch of neanderthals who often times make your average Kentucky based strip club bouncer seem like a member of Mensa in comparison?

Well......too bad, asshole! I'm glad they got you. If you don't enjoy the consequences of having handed that much power over to a group of proto humans who can barely tie their own God damned shoes....oh, I don't know....CHANGE THE farkING LAW!!!

Sincerely,

The masses

How do you know DeFazio was in favor of those new laws? How do you know he didn't get steamrolled by the opposition that did favor them?

ochobit: About getting checked, I used to work for the TSA and now work for the DHS directly, my security clearance is above any of the people who work there (except for the BAOs, but I guess you guys ignore the people with 15 years of bomb squad experience because it doesn't fit your "dumb thugs" argument)... but I know I have to get checked, nobody is above the security checkpoint... even if the president were to fly commercial he would have to go through standard security.

Now I've worked with Saudi Royal Family, and many heads of state from Central America and the Caribbean and for the most part they know they have to go through security like everyone else... it's humbling experience and I can understand how it can anger the "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, PEOPLE"...

By the way, I basically think there is NO WAY a brown arab guy is going to do an attack... I guess it's a remote possibility but it's almost surely going to be a white guy from Minnesota who will do the attack... I just wish sometimes you guys could only see what goes on behind the scenes and see that what you see at the checkpoint is only 1% of the operation, and that if you guys could see what I see there would be a lot less snarkiness about this subject.

Don't think so. See, we don't deal with the guys with 15 years of bomb squad experience. We deal with the crabby asshats that think they're God of the Terminal, and you will BOW before their omnipresence! Nobody cares about the 99% of what goes on behind the scenes; we just don't want to be treated like criminals for daring to fly in a freakin' airplane on a Tuesday.

ochobit: I just wish sometimes you guys could only see what goes on behind the scenes and see that what you see at the checkpoint is only 1% of the operation, and that if you guys could see what I see there would be a lot less snarkiness about this subject.

Yeah, we get it, there's a real NEED for us to bring less than three ounces on toothpaste on the plane, and it has NOTHING to do with the extra money airlines charge for checking bags.

You want to convince me you're doing your job to "keep America safe"?

Start checking the cargo containers coming into our ports and stop making me take my shoes off.

Gosling,
How do you know DeFazio was in favor of those new laws? How do you know he didn't get steamrolled by the opposition that did favor them?

Don't bother trying to talk sense, most of the people in this thread are not using their brains anyway.

ochobit: ...if you guys could see what I see there would be a lot less snarkiness about this subject.

I doubt that. I don't know if I'm about to take a big old bite of bait, but the TSA is a bunch of rude, slack-jawed numbskulls who provide zero sense of security.

ochobit: Now I've worked with Saudi Royal Family, and many heads of state from Central America and the Caribbean and for the most part they know they have to go through security like everyone else... it's humbling experience and I can understand how it can anger the "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, PEOPLE"...

Reminds me of the guy that was creating a scene at the counter at the gate at the airport and yelled out, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

The gate agent picked up her intercom phone and said, "There is a gentleman at my counter who has apparently forgotten who he is. If you know who he is, please come to my counter and claim him."

dudemanbro: I'm not seeing anything in the article that makes me believe DeFazio was mad because they didn't know who he was. He was mad because the extra security screening was a "stupid practice." I've met DeFazio and he's not the type to think he's entitled to better treatment than the general population or thinks he's better than the rest of us. He's just not like that. But go ahead and jump to your conclusions, this is Fark after all.

You obviously have not traveled via commercial air all that often since 9/11. I flew 4 flight segments a few weeks ago. Got singled out for extra screening 2/4 segments. It's a pain in the arse. Yes. It's a "stupid practice". But it's rules/regs/laws that were enacted by idiotic/reactionary politicians.

It's good to see him get to experience what he and his ilk got us. Now, perhaps he'll realize the absurdity of some of this stuff, and perhaps allow a little profiling (gasp! he said it!) to go after the real security threats. And perhaps, if the initial screeners would do their job in the first place, we wouldn't have a need to pull people out for the rubber glove search.

I now do not fly commercial unless the distance is one that I cannot drive in 12 hours, or unless it's an emergency situation. I'd rather drive it. Much less of a pain in the butt, and I get to haul more baggage without a bigger charge.