Watch Your Bags....TSA is Now Planting "Evidence"
Jan 21, 2010, 10:27 pm
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Jan 21, 2010, 10:42 pm
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Jan 21, 2010, 10:45 pm
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Jan 21, 2010, 10:52 pm
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Read about it in her own words in the Michigan Daily
It appears our good friends at the TSA didn't immediately take corrective action and this TSA was not a low life TSO. He trains (or rather did) TSOs to be low lives and now there is no doubt in anyone's mind that TSA is going well beyond the pale of their "administrative" search. They are shaking down Americans without a warrant for things that have absolutely nothing to do with airport/airline security.
And I thought the ACLU told us they weren't overstepping. http://www.aclu.org/national-securit...fter-aclu-sues
Why Blogger Bog has this man not been arraigned? Why?
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Jan 21, 2010, 11:03 pm
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Jan 21, 2010, 11:30 pm
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Yep, sure he did. He got fired from his jobs. This is not appropriate to do touching with her personal items. It's not good for him at all. He could be more serious trouble with TSA manager. He can't be touching the valuable items and it will have to keep away from another lady. He will get fired from airport. HE will never work for federal government.
Jan 21, 2010, 11:45 pm
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Yes, he could be arrested for that. He will be charges for tampering the evidence. HE cannot be allowed to touching with another young girls. He will get very extremely serious trouble at work. So unfortunately, TSA will eventually to get arrested him for now.
Jan 22, 2010, 2:11 am
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What bothers me beyond the obvious is TSA spokeshole davis uses that privacy clasuse a little to much to cover TSA perverbal arse when it needs to but has no problems splashing travelers names all over the place for even the most minor things. I hope one day someone just lays her and TSA out for that as is such BS its not funny.
Jan 22, 2010, 2:51 am
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I always wait, but many over zealous screeners bark orders to go through the "golden arches". I respond in a calm polite voice that "I prefer to wait, as according to the frequent airport announcements, I am required to keep my possessions under my control/sight at all times." At least 60% of the time there is a caustic grunt, "don't you trust us", or some variation there of, for which I remain silent. However, I do seem to get additional screening 20% of the these times, although there are no alarm issues with me or my carryon possesions.
File a complaint each and every time you receive additional harassment without probable cause.
Jan 22, 2010, 6:48 am
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While I have a great deal of sympathy for the young lady and her ordeal, when I read this sentence in The Michigan Daily,
my heart sank. She is buying into the propaganda.
As passengers and patrons of airports, we have a lot of responsibility to comply with airline security. Our safety depends directly on how well we follow the rules. This same standard needs to be applied to the staff.
Jan 22, 2010, 7:40 am
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They pretty well had to - it even made NPR this morning (though just in the sense of "a screener learned not to joke at the checkpoint" - so NPR is still lapdog for the agency).
Or IAD where I had a liittle "discussion" with the screener one day over this.
Or IAD where I had a liittle "discussion" with the screener one day over this.
Jan 22, 2010, 8:49 am
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Wow, that's far out
Passengers get locked up for much less than that. Am curious about the comments in the TSA blog.
Hope she is suing the heck out of the TSA and the guy himself.
Scarily enough she could have easily ended up in jail: If the guy would have called a LEO and not admitted the joke then she would be bye, bye an added entry on the TSA.gov's list of things they found at the checkpoint and that's it.
Hope she is suing the heck out of the TSA and the guy himself.
Scarily enough she could have easily ended up in jail: If the guy would have called a LEO and not admitted the joke then she would be bye, bye an added entry on the TSA.gov's list of things they found at the checkpoint and that's it.