http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/2...-Metro-Systems
There are almost 900 comments on the expansion of the TSA into all forms of public transport. Nearly all are anti-TSA and there are some very interesting ones. I don't see the alleged overwhelming public support for the TSA on Slashdot. A must read for any members of the resistance or other "domestic extremists". Here are some highlights:
Originally Posted by _Sprocket
As Bruce Schneier notes, people are bad at identifying threats. There is a real threat from terrorists. We've seen it. But people are really bad at understanding and properly quantifying the threat. And part of that is we can't actually count how many terrorist plots are in play / being thwarted / being re-worked. If we had such a metric, we could definitively say what is working and what isn't. Ignoring that metric would be the willful ignorance you're talking about.
Originally Posted by NoSig
They have been given an unlimited budget to perform a task that is already performed by other agencies. The outcome of that is that they need to be seen to be doing something with all that money, yet there is nothing sensible for them to do. So we get full body scanners, gropings and inspections to determine if you are carrying shampoo.
Originally Posted by DrVomact
On the pretext of one very effective attack that has a very low possibility of being repeated, and a clutch of amateurish failed attempts to blow up a few airplanes, our Beloved Leaders have conditioned the mindless populace to abject obedience, no matter what humiliating and pointless harassment they are subjected to (in the name of the "war on terror", of course). This harassment has a purpose: it is designed to accustom the people to being controlled. As we know, there is nothing more effective than an external threat to justify any repressive government actions, no matter how repugnant it ought to be to a people who are free in spirit. Bin Laden handed the elite bureaucrats of the U.S. government all the justification it needed to destroy the fundamental dignity and freedom of the American people. It would not be so bad if said people would stop bending over and hand their molesters the vaseline.
Originally Posted by imric
Hell, they've already DONE that, with no fake bombs at all. Commuter travel IS disrupted. It takes longer for everybody to get to their destination, and there are much fewer that will travel at all. Expect that trend to continue, BTW. The TSA will never ease restrictions on passengers, as they officially 'believe' that they are keeping us safe. Eventually, traveling will be SO safe that nobody will be able to do it.