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bumperwack — I expect you’re right. Either that or we’ll end up with some sort of pat-down exemption for VIPs written into one paragraph of some 2,000-page legislative spewing.
Claire, I wonder, if you or I had triggered the alarm would we have been allowed to leave the airport without being patted down first. Somehow I have my doubts. Does anybody know what the TSA policy is for the poor and powerless?
Ted Kennedy getting on the no-fly list didn’t fix that problem. I don’t see why the system will respond to this incident by fixing this problem (ie- disbanding TSA and beginning prosecutions). Might be amusing to see what spin TSA’s Blogger Bob puts on this one. We’re already seeing multiple, inconsistent stories out of the feds.
Carl-Bear, well I agree with your lack of optimism. But OTOH, Ted Kennedy was an authoritarian lover of all government control systems and that was a time when the public was even more quiescent than it is now. No motivation for change. Rand Paul already loathes the TSA, We the People are getting seriously pissed, and … well, we’re just closer to “interesting times” than we were even four or five years ago.
Do I really expect Congress to abolish the TSA any time soon? Nope. Do I think the Pauls, father and son, will use this to strike a PR blow against the police state? Already happening.
It does seem that if one isn’t rich and powerful one would not be escorted out of the airport without being groped or incarcerated.
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January 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 am
Yeah…we CAN hope…but it wont. If anything, this will probably contribute to “better funding” requests in the future…
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:59 am
bumperwack — I expect you’re right. Either that or we’ll end up with some sort of pat-down exemption for VIPs written into one paragraph of some 2,000-page legislative spewing.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 am
Claire, I wonder, if you or I had triggered the alarm would we have been allowed to leave the airport without being patted down first. Somehow I have my doubts. Does anybody know what the TSA policy is for the poor and powerless?
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:31 am
“we’ll end up with some sort of pat-down exemption for VIPs written into one paragraph of some 2,000-page legislative spewing.”
And it will allow sexual intimacy as a right for any TSA agent who feels inclined.
“Does anybody know what the TSA policy is for the poor and powerless?”
Sodomy!
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:45 am
Ted Kennedy getting on the no-fly list didn’t fix that problem. I don’t see why the system will respond to this incident by fixing this problem (ie- disbanding TSA and beginning prosecutions). Might be amusing to see what spin TSA’s Blogger Bob puts on this one. We’re already seeing multiple, inconsistent stories out of the feds.
January 23rd, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Carl-Bear, well I agree with your lack of optimism. But OTOH, Ted Kennedy was an authoritarian lover of all government control systems and that was a time when the public was even more quiescent than it is now. No motivation for change. Rand Paul already loathes the TSA, We the People are getting seriously pissed, and … well, we’re just closer to “interesting times” than we were even four or five years ago.
Do I really expect Congress to abolish the TSA any time soon? Nope. Do I think the Pauls, father and son, will use this to strike a PR blow against the police state? Already happening.
January 23rd, 2012 at 5:42 pm
my Doctor just ordered a colonoscopy for me … maybe I just need to go through a TSA checkpoint instead :)
January 24th, 2012 at 3:54 am
Senator Paul gives his side of the “detention” story.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/rand-paul-on-tsa-detainment-i-was-barked-at-do-not-leave-the-cubicle/#ixzz1kJnpX8SH
It does seem that if one isn’t rich and powerful one would not be escorted out of the airport without being groped or incarcerated.