TSA now indoctrinating the children
Dec 23, 2010 | 7:23 pm
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TSA now indoctrinating the children
Was in line at the Denver security check point yesterday (12/22),
right in front of a family with 2 small children (age = approx. (4-7).
A female TSA agent was wandering through the lined-up and waiting
crowd handing out little (4" round) yellow "Junior TSA Agent" stickers
to all the pint-sized travelers.
I just stood there, shaking my head thinking of these good little
"Hitler Youth" . . . wondering what the heck their parents were
even thinking (or NOT thinking) in letting their kids accept these
little indoctrination stickers.
And to think that our tax dollars are being used for the indoctrination
of our OWN children!
God help us all . . .
right in front of a family with 2 small children (age = approx. (4-7).
A female TSA agent was wandering through the lined-up and waiting
crowd handing out little (4" round) yellow "Junior TSA Agent" stickers
to all the pint-sized travelers.
I just stood there, shaking my head thinking of these good little
"Hitler Youth" . . . wondering what the heck their parents were
even thinking (or NOT thinking) in letting their kids accept these
little indoctrination stickers.
And to think that our tax dollars are being used for the indoctrination
of our OWN children!
God help us all . . .
Dec 23, 2010 | 7:31 pm
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This happened to me a couple times at BWI. I largely let it ago as the people were trying to be nice for once. Not much different than the guy that gives smiley stickers to the kids. He couldn't read it anyway. I took it off the first chance I could.
I've educated my son in other ways what a travesty TSA is. He even yelled "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" at the checkpoint.
I've educated my son in other ways what a travesty TSA is. He even yelled "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" at the checkpoint.
Dec 23, 2010 | 7:59 pm
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This happened to me a couple times at BWI. I largely let it ago as the people were trying to be nice for once. Not much different than the guy that gives smiley stickers to the kids. He couldn't read it anyway. I took it off the first chance I could.
I've educated my son in other ways what a travesty TSA is. He even yelled "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" at the checkpoint.
I've educated my son in other ways what a travesty TSA is. He even yelled "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" at the checkpoint.
Dec 23, 2010 | 8:12 pm
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Dec 23, 2010 | 8:35 pm
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And just how much did these stickers bilk me not of my tax dollars? 
C'mon TSA, you can tell me-I won't tell the Inspector General's office. Honest, I won't-promise.
Putzerim
C'mon TSA, you can tell me-I won't tell the Inspector General's office. Honest, I won't-promise.Putzerim
Dec 23, 2010 | 9:37 pm
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Dec 23, 2010 | 10:12 pm
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You know, bank tellers, grocery checkers, nurses, everybody seems to want to give my kid a sticker. I took one for him from a TSA agent (he didn't want it!) a year ago, back pre-pornoscanners. You've got a point, and I think I'd chuck it now, but don't be too hard on the parents. It's a sticker-giving world out there, and we're habituated.
Dec 23, 2010 | 11:37 pm
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Not just STICKERS... Remember when the individ. airlines were more than happy to give little fliers their metal logo insignia, usually in some wing morphage? Our kids had so many of these badges they looked like Mexican generals when they wore them all.
Phoebepontiac, it's also Grandparents who're habituated! But just try to get some of those "wings" nowadays.
But I digress, as the elderly are wont to do. Back into the fray...
Phoebepontiac, it's also Grandparents who're habituated! But just try to get some of those "wings" nowadays.
But I digress, as the elderly are wont to do. Back into the fray...
Dec 24, 2010 | 3:49 am
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Isn't unsolicited touch battering?
My recommended response to others is to state "I'm now going to touch you the way you just touched my child". Imagine how well that goes over with, hair-messers, arm-touchers, and cheek-pinchers.
My recommended response to others is to state "I'm now going to touch you the way you just touched my child". Imagine how well that goes over with, hair-messers, arm-touchers, and cheek-pinchers.
Dec 24, 2010 | 9:53 am
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Concerned parents (and grandparents) should also be aware that TSA screeners have been showing up at schools.
The fingerprint session is just plain creepy.
Dec 24, 2010 | 10:15 am
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As a foreigner I had to give up my Fingerprints to enter the country, but doesn't it require some legit reason to collect fingerprints?
Next a DNA sampling demo?
Dec 24, 2010 | 10:38 am
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