TSA invading Boston subway system
Jun 2, 2014, 7:02 pm
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Thank you for illustrating my point so nicely. NFL and MLB fans can choose to stay away from games if management is going to treat them as though they're dangerous felons entering a prison. And yet they don't.
Along the same lines, I was appalled to read that all guests to my alma mater's commencement will be screened. Ah, you must be thinking, there's some high profile speaker. Yeah: the CEO of DuPont.
I wonder if DHS has lent its expertise to college commencements as well.
Our nation has gone insane.
Along the same lines, I was appalled to read that all guests to my alma mater's commencement will be screened. Ah, you must be thinking, there's some high profile speaker. Yeah: the CEO of DuPont.
I wonder if DHS has lent its expertise to college commencements as well.
Our nation has gone insane.
Jun 3, 2014, 12:54 pm
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Thank you for illustrating my point so nicely. NFL and MLB fans can choose to stay away from games if management is going to treat them as though they're dangerous felons entering a prison. And yet they don't.
Along the same lines, I was appalled to read that all guests to my alma mater's commencement will be screened. Ah, you must be thinking, there's some high profile speaker. Yeah: the CEO of DuPont.
I wonder if DHS has lent its expertise to college commencements as well.
Our nation has gone insane.
Along the same lines, I was appalled to read that all guests to my alma mater's commencement will be screened. Ah, you must be thinking, there's some high profile speaker. Yeah: the CEO of DuPont.
I wonder if DHS has lent its expertise to college commencements as well.
Our nation has gone insane.
Chemicals=Liquids
You see where this is going. Makes perfect sense to me.[/Sarcasm]
I'm heading over to the Scooper Bowl now. If the TSA is there, I'm heading back out.
Mike
Jun 3, 2014, 3:54 pm
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Heads up if you're boarding at Central. From my outbound train I saw the Transit Police and TSA thugs setting up their magic terrorist-detection table at the center inbound entrance. Of course the two secondary entrances 50 feet away were thug-free. My blood nearly boiled.
Jun 4, 2014, 4:27 am
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A quick walk through a metal detector with nothing but passive rent-a-cops around is what's been going on for years and very unobtrusive and not bad. It's the nonsense the tsa is doing creeping outward with the insta-porn machines, the fondlings, the useless swabs, and their false sense of entitlement. People can choose whether or not to go to a game, they can choose whether or not to fly. They can't really choose whether or not to go to work.
For that reason, I wish that Chertoff had been successful in getting NJ Transit to buy backscatter machines.
Jun 4, 2014, 4:29 am
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Is ice cream a liquid or gel?
Heads up if you're boarding at Central. From my outbound train I saw the Transit Police and TSA thugs setting up their magic terrorist-detection table at the center inbound entrance. Of course the two secondary entrances 50 feet away were thug-free. My blood nearly boiled.
Heads up if you're boarding at Central. From my outbound train I saw the Transit Police and TSA thugs setting up their magic terrorist-detection table at the center inbound entrance. Of course the two secondary entrances 50 feet away were thug-free. My blood nearly boiled.
Jun 10, 2014, 1:28 pm
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Ahhhhh, so that explains the empty ballparks nationwide as MLB, in bed with DHS, is rolling out metal detectors at all 30 stadiums. All those fans who have had enough of being treated as prisoners merely to attend a ballgame.
You underestimate what Americans will put up with in the name of "security."
You underestimate what Americans will put up with in the name of "security."
Nov 26, 2016, 4:43 pm
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Did they allow people to decline? What kind of search?
PS Avoidability is rather more complicated when you're disabled.
Nov 26, 2016, 6:14 pm
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In general police do not have the authority to search a person while in the transit system. They can search a bag but not your small purse, jacket or person without reasonable suspicion. TSA is not restricted in the same way when deployed.
Nov 28, 2016, 6:41 am
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In NYC Subway NYPD uses the mod one eyeball with gloved hand to look into packages at entrances with a folding table.
When NYPD is deployed with TSA, TSO's use a portable ETD at said folding table. I never see the cops without TSO's use any devices, even four footed types.
The PSA made on trains say "large packages are subject to search" in my personal experience "large" is defined by the Officer no matter who they work for. My messenger bag, when I'm only have that, to my rollaboard has been selected for inspection.
When NYPD is deployed with TSA, TSO's use a portable ETD at said folding table. I never see the cops without TSO's use any devices, even four footed types.
The PSA made on trains say "large packages are subject to search" in my personal experience "large" is defined by the Officer no matter who they work for. My messenger bag, when I'm only have that, to my rollaboard has been selected for inspection.