Originally Posted by
Spiff
Spiff isn't very trusting of an agency with no accountability that maintains secret no-fly lists with way to get off the list and no actions taken against those who add names to the list without a good reason.
Until there is 100% accountability and transparency at the TSA, I'm happy to remain somewhat anonymous.
As to your "dumb" comment, I'll be happy to discuss engineering, chemistry, physics, material science, or just about any other subject with you or anyone else until the cows come home. Please, use big words and don't dumb things down in the slightest. I'm ready to play if you are.
Spiff, clearly your hard work and that of others in exposing the failures and shortcomings of the $6 billion a year federal jobs program that is the TSA is working, they are sending shills out to bemoan our criticism.
I have wondered what would happen if we took one of the above mentioned suburban soccer moms who say Oh, ANYTHING for safety" and sent her through the breast and crotch groping, give her athlete's foot from the filthy floors we have to walk on barefoot or in stocking feet and had a $100 bottle of her favorite perfume confiscated by the TSA if she would STILL be saying "Oh, ANYTHING for safety!"
I notice that the TSA posters are not responding to the fact that their agency is accountable to no one, their entire workings are hidden from their employers (US) and that their efficacy scores are pathetically low and screeners DO make stuff up as they go along.
--PP