- - Washington Post: "The Intolerable TSA"
(https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/practical-travel-safety-security-issues/1025790-washington-post-intolerable-tsa.html)
AirlineBrat53
Dec 10, 2009 8:06 pm
"...you have put in charge of a vital function a bunch of strutting martinets whose combination of incompetence and arrogance staggers the human mind and makes them more of a danger to the traveling public than the terrorists they are supposed to be ferreting out. "
My my, it sounds like someone has finally spit out the Kool Aid and drank some pure mountain water and seen the light. Hallelujah!;)
polonius
Dec 11, 2009 10:48 am
Originally Posted by halls120
(Post 12964500)
As long as I'm not carrying a bomb or a weapon of any kind, why does the government need to know that I'm on an airplane?
Or to look at it another way: if we accept that the government has the right to know you are on a plane because you MIGHT be carrying a bomb despite having gone through security screening, then wouldn't that imply that we also must accept that the government has the right to know where you are and what you are doing AT ALL TIMES, especially given that most of the time you haven't undergone any sort of screening at all, and hence are even more likely to be carrying a bomb, and possibly into places with a lot more people (i.e., potential victims) than an airplane.
