TSA "Pilot Program" re: Paper Products
May 3, 2017, 4:29 pm
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I vote we all pick a day, maybe an entire week, that we refuse to comply with the TSA's ridiculous requests... At some point the people need to say ENOUGH! Before we are all having to give hair and blood samples at checkin...
May 3, 2017, 5:56 pm
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The paper initiative is supposedly explained. Sort of. It was a pilot program that's going to go national and now it might just be a TSA-approved program by a private contractor that will not migrate to all airports.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...148384019.html
I wonder if this is somehow tied to bonuses (which apparently run in the thousands, even for those fairly low in rank). Perhaps Kelly has told his FSDs that their bonuses will be tied to their airport's Red Team tests - or whichever airport comes up with a new procedure that impresses the public or, better yet, improves the Red Team score.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...148384019.html
I wonder if this is somehow tied to bonuses (which apparently run in the thousands, even for those fairly low in rank). Perhaps Kelly has told his FSDs that their bonuses will be tied to their airport's Red Team tests - or whichever airport comes up with a new procedure that impresses the public or, better yet, improves the Red Team score.
May 3, 2017, 6:24 pm
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It's pretty obvious to me that they're actively looking for drugs, cash, and child porn. "Looking for explosives" is a transparent excuse for any of this - a proper ETD swab or explosives sniffing canine would pick up real explosives far more efficiently than a TSO manually pawing through any of these items.
May 3, 2017, 6:32 pm
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Two things
1. TSA is reactionary, so I would tend to support your assesment about war on Food & Paper.
2. In my experience it appears Airport screeners do not want to do things like pat downs, bag checks, deal with animals that alarm. The lack of interest is taken out on the traveler via the yelling and barking by the screener demanding that tic tacs and pocket lint removed from pockets
1. TSA is reactionary, so I would tend to support your assesment about war on Food & Paper.
2. In my experience it appears Airport screeners do not want to do things like pat downs, bag checks, deal with animals that alarm. The lack of interest is taken out on the traveler via the yelling and barking by the screener demanding that tic tacs and pocket lint removed from pockets
May 3, 2017, 7:19 pm
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May 3, 2017, 7:50 pm
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Why ever remove the items you are being yelled at remove?
May 3, 2017, 8:05 pm
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The paper initiative is supposedly explained. Sort of. It was a pilot program that's going to go national and now it might just be a TSA-approved program by a private contractor that will not migrate to all airports.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...148384019.html
I wonder if this is somehow tied to bonuses (which apparently run in the thousands, even for those fairly low in rank). Perhaps Kelly has told his FSDs that their bonuses will be tied to their airport's Red Team tests - or whichever airport comes up with a new procedure that impresses the public or, better yet, improves the Red Team score.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...148384019.html
I wonder if this is somehow tied to bonuses (which apparently run in the thousands, even for those fairly low in rank). Perhaps Kelly has told his FSDs that their bonuses will be tied to their airport's Red Team tests - or whichever airport comes up with a new procedure that impresses the public or, better yet, improves the Red Team score.
May 3, 2017, 8:27 pm
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Quite clever, isn't it? TSA rolls out a test program at an airport with private screening. When the pax start screaming, TSA suspends the test and implies that the local private security screwed things up and TSA came in to save the day and restore order.
May 4, 2017, 2:56 am
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@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
May 4, 2017, 5:05 am
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Moreover, I'd point out that the TSA's pattern of behavior has persisted across three separate presidential administrations.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
TSA screeners choose to wear TSA insignia. No one forces them to debase themselves.
If the contractor said anything TSA would likely retaliate claiming they released SSI.
May 4, 2017, 5:33 am
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Moreover, I'd point out that the TSA's pattern of behavior has persisted across three separate presidential administrations.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
May 4, 2017, 6:08 am
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May 4, 2017, 7:58 am
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Moreover, I'd point out that the TSA's pattern of behavior has persisted across three separate presidential administrations.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.
@chollie: And the irony is that as far as I can tell, doing that doesn't save them much (if any) face rendering it a farcical exercise. Of course, I'm looking at this from the PoV of a jaded traveler who views the TSA patch as a badge of shame for anyone unfortunate enough to wear it, so I probably don't have the least biased perspective on this out there.
With that said, it does occur to me that if the contractor did their homework and made sure they had a paper trail they could make the TSA look pretty bad in turn...particularly if a local TV station or newspaper was game for working with them with spinning it.