Originally Posted by
Spiff
Disagree. No cars should be searched without warrant or probable cause.
Disagree. It is no one's business why I am traveling. Anyone who thinks they need to know my reasons for travel can go to hell.
No one should ever have to ask permission to leave a country. Again, purpose of travel is no one's business but the traveler's.
Random harassment should never happen.
The TSA should have been destroyed long ago.
No thanks, waste of money.
Absolutely not. There is no need for this nonsense.
No one should ever receive haraSSSSment unless there is clear, probable cause to do so.
We're plenty safe. We don't need any of this additional nonsense in our lives and we should kick the scumbag organization called TSA out of our airports today.
That's about the only thing I can even come close to agreeing with you on.
Random harassment should never be used in a free society. Clear, probable cause should be the ONLY metric for additional harassment.
Except DHS/CBP already does require exit visas for US Nationals leaving the US via private planes. And Napolitano has stated to the news media that she is planning to do the same to private boats as well.
In the current incarnation the airlines use a system called APIS which the TSA compares to its "red list" er ahh I mean no fly list. Aw shucks lets just rename it to something we can all understand, and call it the McCarthy list.
As of May anyone leaving the US via the family Cessna must now file a record with the CPB using the eAPIS internet system, complete with PP precise dates of departure and returns (via internet, which doesn't exist on remote Canadian fishing lakes accessable only via seaplanes), and wait until CBP grants permission in the form of an email returned to you saying your wife, 12 year old and 8 year olds are not on the McCarthy list and you can fly. Their assinine rationale: You never know when your wife might be on the no fly list.
If only Kruschev and Stalin could see us now.