Whitehouse Petition: Require the TSA to Follow the Law!
Jul 11, 2012, 1:29 pm
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Whitehouse Petition: Require the TSA to Follow the Law!
Did anyone here sign this petition?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...w-law/tffCTwDd
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...w-law/tffCTwDd
In July 2011, a federal appeals court ruled that the Transportation Security Administration had to conduct a notice-and-comment rulemaking on its policy of using "Advanced Imaging Technology" for primary screening at airports. TSA was supposed to publish the policy in the Federal Register, take comments from the public, and justify its policy based on public input. The court told TSA to do all this "promptly." A year later, TSA has not even started that public process. Defying the court, the TSA has not satisfied public concerns about privacy, about costs and delays, security weaknesses, and the potential health effects of these machines. If the government is going to "body-scan" Americans at U.S. airports, President Obama should force the TSA to begin the public process the court ordered.
Jul 11, 2012, 1:39 pm
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President Obama has always been a strong supporter of the TSA. I doubt he'll do anything to keep the TSA in check. This one will be up to either a successor administration or the courts to take care of.
*Note for the edit: While I have a very strong recollection of seeing Obama say something to the effect of, "They can take the bus," as it relates to flyers unhappy with screening measures, I've been unable to find a source video, and no one else here seems to remember it. I think I'm just losing my mind.
*Note for the edit: While I have a very strong recollection of seeing Obama say something to the effect of, "They can take the bus," as it relates to flyers unhappy with screening measures, I've been unable to find a source video, and no one else here seems to remember it. I think I'm just losing my mind.
Last edited by T.J. Bender; Jul 12, 2012 at 11:45 am Reason: See above
Jul 11, 2012, 1:39 pm
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I did but I doubt we'll see or hear anything. We're not a minority group that he needs to get elected nor have a lobby like the AARP or UAW.
Jul 11, 2012, 4:50 pm
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Agree 100%.
Jul 11, 2012, 6:12 pm
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Jul 11, 2012, 6:42 pm
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Shouldn't the people who got the case before the appeals court, now, 1 year later, re-petition the court to take a "stronger stand"?
[In Brown vs. BOE (re segregation in public schools), which the Supreme Court held to be unconstitutional, might have stayed that way, had they not (later) stated that their ruling be implemented "with all deliberate speed".]
[In Brown vs. BOE (re segregation in public schools), which the Supreme Court held to be unconstitutional, might have stayed that way, had they not (later) stated that their ruling be implemented "with all deliberate speed".]
Jul 11, 2012, 7:40 pm
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Do you have a source on that? I'd like to see it. (Admittedly a little skeptical that those words were ever spoken by Obama, and if so, suspecting there's more to the story. He doesn't tend to say much about the TSA, and something like that would be pretty sound byte worthy.)
Jul 11, 2012, 8:58 pm
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For the life of me, I can't find a source. All I have to go on is my memory, and I clearly recall seeing Obama on TV fielding a question about the "don't touch my junk" incident by saying that, "...if they don't like it, they can take/ride the bus." If I'm mistaken, I apologize for going from memory instead of sourcing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce0Wk8z3EqI
(Admittedly just barely related to the thread at hand...)
Jul 11, 2012, 9:38 pm
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No Administration is going to keep the TSA in check given the problem is not the Administration, not Congress, nor even the Courts. The problem is too few Americans willing to just accept that terrorism is a criminal nuisance and too many Americans buying into the "anything for security" mantra without realizing that "anythin for security" is a far greater danger than terrorism in the US is to the way of life.
Jul 12, 2012, 4:58 am
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If it gets enough signatures to trigger a response, they'll just do what they did with the last TSA partition. Send it to Pistole who will vomit out something claiming that the TSA doesn't have to follow what Congress or the courts say (because it's all SSI and the courts/congress don't have the jurisdiction to see SSI).