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And the TSA continues to say there is no retaliation.

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"Silence, Komrade, or else".

An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
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Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10.
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TSA = We are ALWAYS right and anyone that proves otherwise will regret it forever.
 
It's gonna be UFIA for that pilot every time he goes through security now. :eek:
 
rpadula said:
It's gonna be UFIA for that pilot every time he goes through security now. :eek:
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Which will be yet another wonderful indicator of how professional TSA personnel are.
 
"Papieren, Bitte."

One baby-step at a time. Have we the will to stop it?
 
Good for him.

"Deputized" by the TSA? Seriously? I would think perhaps by the Air Marshals or something, but by the TSA?

This is out of control.
 
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nddons said:
Good for him.

"Deputized" by the TSA? Seriously? I would think perhaps by the Air Marshalls or something, but by the TSA?

This is out of control.
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For whom do you think the air marshals work?

TSA is much much more than the folks at the checkpoint .
 
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alaskaflyer said:
Whom do you think the air marshals work for?
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alaskaflyer said:
For whom do you think the air marshals work?

TSA is much much more than the folks at the checkpoint .
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Oh My God. I was hoping the Air Marshals were perhaps part of the U.S. Marshals, the Secret Service, or the FBI. But you're right, a 2 second search tells me it is the TSA.

OK, now I'm really scared. :hairraise:
 
This story has made the headline of the Drudge Report. All the TSA needs now is more bad PR. The pilot may get his revenge after all.
 
What will be the effect on the TSA of more bad PR? As if they haven't already been hammered again and again when their complete ineptitude has been exposed. Maybe it's time for open season no limit.
 
Richard said:
What will be the effect on the TSA of more bad PR? As if they haven't already been hammered again and again when their complete ineptitude has been exposed. Maybe it's time for open season no limit.
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Politicians may see the opportunity to score points with the public by changing how the TSA is managed. Heads might roll next year.
 
Gary F said:
Politicians may see the opportunity to score points with the public by changing how the TSA is managed. Heads might roll next year.
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Won't happen. Too many idiots in charge.
 
Richard said:
TSA, and govt in general, is infected with so much graft and corruption they could be a third world country.
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It's not just corruption but also the misguided belief that increased regulation, litigation, taxation and government programs all lead to utopia.
 
wsuffa said:
Technically not the TSA, but certainly involves the TSA and their strip-search contraptions: Link
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Yeah ok but that is the same old K street bs.

TSA deserves a lot of adjectives, many of which are muttered by me too but I'm curious about actual organizational corruption. Listening to Congress, failing to see the forest for the trees and hiring a proportional number of numbskulls - those don't count.
 
Richard said:
TSA, and govt in general, is infected with so much graft and corruption they could be a third world country.
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I've visited a few, and it's not even remotely that bad. I can't even begin to imagine a small government utopia anymore than a bureaucratic one.

We've been sold a bill of goods by both sides that it's one or the other when the choice is really Monty Brewster's "None of the above."

Government can be a force for the people, but not the way the choices are presented to us right now.

Power attracts the corruptible. 'nuff said on that.
 
In a significant victory, the FLRB voted to allow TSA staffers to vote on unionization. The door to collective bargaining.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fe...oyees_can_vote_on_unio.html?wprss=federal-eye



http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/top_...n_cheating.php

"Annie Jacobsen uncovers the latest embarrassment at TSA: top officials breaking federal rules by running a private consulting firm while they work for the government...."

"....Michael “Mike” Restovich and fellow TSA senior executive Morris “Mo” McGowan ran a private security consulting company while working as high-ranking officials with TSA...."

"...In 2006, Mike Restovich was awarded the Silver Medal by DHS Secretary Chertoff, “in recognition of his integrity, patriotism, and empowered leadership.”

Then there is Chertoff's association with the mfg of the infernal ineffective, "harmless" machines.

Silencing the whistleblower: http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/tsa-whitleblower-ti-imminent-danger


But let's dismiss that for a minute. Let's focus on an institutional attitude of blaming the rules..."those are the rules"...by which TSA regularly violate personal rights of travelers, et al. Placing blame on the rules is itself evidentiary of a corrupt system. The conundrum is a TSA worker operates in a position of authority but is powerless to exact personal decision in the field. In common parlance, it is called "common sense". There exists an edict at the executive level to usurp such decision making from the staffers...this probably to 'protect' the TSA worker--and the org--from harm.
 
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Richard said:
In a significant victory, the FLRB voted to allow TSA staffers to vote on unionization.
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Why is that a "significant victory"?

How is unionizing the TSA going to improve anything?
 
Bob Noel said:
Why is that a "significant victory"?

How is unionizing the TSA going to improve anything?
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It is a victory depending on which side you are standing. That's just great, eh? Yet another example of Govt Vs the little people.

Unionizing will not improve anything but the certainty of a paycheck for the Tub Stackers Assoc. Unionization will, beyond the usual ill effects, act to defeat security. Will changes to any TSA rules have to be shared with the unions? If so, won't that act to create new risks to security?

Of course, any improvement by unionization (to TSA workers) will be to the detriment of the general public and probably several special user groups.
 
alaskaflyer said:
Do tell. How is the TSA corrupt?
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I always thought they were merely authoritarian, arrogant, and inept but it does appear that, if some of the many references in the "Criticisms" section of Wikipedia are valid, then they do indeed have a corruption problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Criticisms

On the other hand, even if they weren't inept and had no corruption problem, there is no way around the authoritarian and arrogance aspects.
 
Jim Logajan said:
I always thought they were merely authoritarian, arrogant, and inept but it does appear that, if some of the many references in the "Criticisms" section of Wikipedia are valid, then they do indeed have a corruption problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Criticisms

On the other hand, even if they weren't inept and had no corruption problem, there is no way around the authoritarian and arrogance aspects.
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I guess corruption means something different to me than others. Individuals using illegal or unethical means to obtain money or privileges. With all of TSAs problems I don't see that other than the petty theft.
 
Stupid? Bureaucratic?? Unthinking? Inflexible? Uncreative? Easily duped??

I could see calling TSA some or all of the above.

Not corrupt.
 
The TSA is dangerous to our liberty - it is not 'corrupt' per se, anymore than the FCC is corrupt, or any other Bureau of the government...

Ranting at TSA employees for 'violating your rights' is a waste of your breath... They are employees doing the job their boss has ordered them to do (they need their paycheck just like you)...
That some of them take a bit too much pleasure in pushing folks around or in giving some chick a extra grope is human nature - almost impossible to eliminate...

Where we need to start at for improving the behavior of theTSA employee is with your Senators and Congressmen... Our elected congress critters IS the TSA's boss... Get the boss to set down some new rules and the TSA will change - and not until then...

denny-o
 
My biggest disappointment with the Obaminator is that he failed to reel those bastards in. I thought from his rhetoric that he meant to do so, but those were truly empty promises.
 
steingar said:
My biggest disappointment with the Obaminator is that he failed to reel those bastards in. I thought from his rhetoric that he meant to do so, but those were truly empty promises.
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Yeah. Remember the quote that used to be in my sig? Sounded from his inauguration that he was gonna stop the nonsense. Fail.
 
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