Submission. I suppose I should be thankful that someone is watching over me, but on the way back home to San Antonio last week I had my first encounter with the Department of Homeland Security border patrol. A few miles east of El Paso, on I-10, there is a permanent checkpoint where all cars are […]
June 26, 2012
TSA=Obamacare Lite. Imagine these agents wanting to come between you and your doctor! Confrontation with TSA Agent Leaves Grandpa’s Ashes on Floor: John Gross, a resident of Indianapolis’ south side, was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather — Mario Mark Marcaletti, a Sicilian immigrant who worked for the Penn Central Railroad in central […]
June 19, 2012
Including a hug at the end. A woman was thrown in jail on battery charges after supposedly “groping” a TSA officer at a Florida airport: It happened on her way to Cleveland, Ohio. Airline passenger Carol Price says while going through security to catch her flight, a TSA agent groped her. In response, the video […]
March 8, 2012
TSA Out of Our Pants. How to Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners TSA Blogger “Bob Burns” (may we see some ID Bob?) is further evidence of a sinisterly incompetent government agency that ridicules citizens who question whether taxpayer dollars are being well spent. In his TSA blog post, Burns mocks a YouTube video […]
March 1, 2012
Meanwhile…. along the border As a sort of truth-in-advertising effort, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN has introduced H.R. 3608, the Stop TSA’s Reach in Policy Act aka the STRIP Act. The Act prohibits any TSA employee who has not received federal law enforcement training from using the title “officer,” wearing a police like uniform or a […]
February 14, 2012
Start with RIC. Profiling blonde, white, frequent flier, American mothers- aka “domestic terrorists” After getting harassed, and delayed, for no reason the last three times flying out of Richmond airport, I now refer to TSA as “Torture Sara’s Ass”. But it’s not just me: CBS 11 News dug through more than 500 records of TSA […]
February 8, 2012
Nice badge, freak. Get me out of here If you read this blog regularly you’ll know I’ve been a pretty vocal critic of the TSA. (Not only here, but on Twitter, too). Based on what happened this morning at Richmond airport, I am starting to wonder if I am being targeted by the TSA as […]
February 7, 2012
Dominate. Intimidate. Control. Private companies preferred for private parts. Can’t happen quickly enough: Companies wanting to take over passenger screening at U.S. airports from the Transportation Security Administration will have an easier time getting contracts under Senate legislation. The U.S. agency must allow airports to switch to private companies for screeners unless it can show […]
January 18, 2012
Had to feel through my hair to exert control. The TSA has admitted to publicly humiliating and degrading two elderly women at JFK airport: In an about-face, the feds have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who say they were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by overzealous screeners. Federal officials had initially insisted […]
June 14, 2011
I’d like “Private Screeners” for $1,000 please, Alex. Oh, no such category. Too bad. The TSA has blocked a program that allowed airports to privatize their screeners, citing “safety concerns.” So we are stuck with the mouth breathers, and all the inefficiencies that the federal government is known for. Long lines? Don’t worry. You’ll […]
August 23, 2012
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