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Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« on: February 24, 2011, 01:26:05 PM »
Man. When are we going to have enough of this TSA sponsored dog and pony show??

These idiots couldn't pour piss out of a boot with directions written on the heel.

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The only bad thing on our trip was [the] TSA at the Savannah train station. There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train. This made no sense! Poor family in front of us! 9-year old getting patted down and wanded. They groped our people too and were very unprofessional. I am all about security, but when have you ever been harassed and felt up getting off a plane? Shouldn't they be doing that getting on? And they wonder why so many people are mad at them.


http://m.gizmodo.com/5768805/tsa-harasses-9+yo-boy-and-other-train-passengers-after-their-trip
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 04:18:04 PM »
The stupidity of this incident, TSA pushing the security theater boundaries this far, makes me wonder when we'll start seeing security checkpoints on the Interstates.  Will they eventually take that concern out of the realm of tinfoil hattery?
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 04:23:17 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on February 24, 2011, 04:18:04 PM
The stupidity of this incident, TSA pushing the security theater boundaries this far, makes me wonder when we'll start seeing security checkpoints on the Interstates.  Will they eventually take that concern out of the realm of tinfoil hattery?

Good luck enforcing that $#!+.

Un-sworn TSA "agents" doing that?

I honestly can't say how I'd respond to that, on a polite and civilized forum.
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 04:30:20 PM »
Wait a minute... running security screenings as they were getting OFF the train??  Color me stupid, but... ???

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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 04:31:13 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 24, 2011, 04:30:20 PM
Wait a minute... running security screenings as they were getting OFF the train??  Color me stupid, but... ???

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Not stupid.  Just sheepishly naive. 

TSA = Grooming apparatus for the acceptance of a Police State.
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2011, 04:38:05 PM »
Well, if I was going to do something, you know, stupid, chances are I'd do it while I was still ON the train, not after I'd gotton off.  What's next, airport security checks station as you exit the plane?


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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2011, 11:42:11 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 24, 2011, 04:38:05 PM
Well, if I was going to do something, you know, stupid, chances are I'd do it while I was still ON the train, not after I'd gotton off.  What's next, airport security checks station as you exit the plane?


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As much crap as they miss going on the plane why not?
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2011, 04:03:26 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on February 24, 2011, 11:42:11 PM
As much crap as they miss going on the plane why not?

Holy Flaming Mohammed on a Pogo Stick, don't give them any more stupid ideas....
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2011, 08:31:42 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 25, 2011, 04:03:26 AM
Holy Flaming Mohammed on a Pogo Stick, don't give them any more stupid ideas....

As a member of the Faith of the Eternally Rebounding and Sizzling Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him), I take offense at your mockery.   :angel:
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2011, 11:25:26 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 24, 2011, 04:38:05 PM
What's next, airport security checks station as you exit the plane?
It makes sense. That is when I get my random alcohol and drug testing done... right after I flew 155 people across the country for five hours, in the middle of the night.

Its for the children!   ;/
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2011, 12:01:27 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on February 25, 2011, 11:25:26 AM
It makes sense. That is when I get my random alcohol and drug testing done... right after I flew 155 people across the country for five hours, in the middle of the night.

Its for the children!   ;/

Eh, that's it, from here on out I hitchhike at night. It's safer and I'm less likely to get groped.
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2011, 12:05:58 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 24, 2011, 04:31:13 PM
Not stupid.  Just sheepishly naive. 

TSA = Grooming apparatus for the acceptance of a Police State.

Uhm.   We've been a police state for a while now.  It's just becoming more blindingly obvious and less discrete. 


Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 24, 2011, 04:38:05 PM
Well, if I was going to do something, you know, stupid, chances are I'd do it while I was still ON the train, not after I'd gotton off.  What's next, airport security checks station as you exit the plane?

Uh, they've already done that.  To troops returning from overseas, to folks getting off regular flights, to test out the backscatter x-ray, etc.
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2011, 12:12:49 PM »
If they had refused to participate, would they have been ordered back onto the train and returned to their point of origin?

I can't think of a proper, polite way to express my true opinion.

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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2011, 11:24:39 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 25, 2011, 08:31:42 AM
As a member of the Faith of the Eternally Rebounding and Sizzling Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him), I take offense at your mockery.   :angel:

Heretic...  He's only sizzlin' once the flames go out.... >:D
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« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2011, 11:25:55 PM »
To Quote Tamara:

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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2011, 03:17:52 AM »
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2011, 06:59:39 AM »
Quote from: French G. on February 25, 2011, 12:01:27 PM
Eh, that's it, from here on out I hitchhike at night. It's safer and I'm less likely to get groped.

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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2011, 01:56:16 PM »

http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/02/screening-of-passengers-at-savannah.html

The comments are interesting.  Folks are annoyed enough to leave uniformly hostile and angry comments on the TSA's own site. 

I did laugh at the apparently hoax report of a cafe refusing to serve TSA agents.  If any business did go that route, they'd probably roll in the dough.

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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2011, 03:26:09 PM »
From the TSA blog:

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The teams provide a random high-visibility surge into a transit system and work with state and local security, and law enforcement officials to expand the unpredictability of security measures to detect, deter, disrupt or defeat potential criminal and/or terrorist operations.

And I thought TSA as Aviation Safety. Now mission creep, as we all knew.
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Re: Big Brother Chester just released another hit..,
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2011, 10:27:56 PM »
Quote from: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on February 27, 2011, 03:26:09 PM

 Now mission creep, as we all knew.

I've said it before:

John Pistole is the real-life version of Bob Bullard.

This man is a traitor to watch... closely.
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