The Return of TSA Gate Screening?
Aug 29, 2005 | 4:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Mats
Bart, it actually is the TSA.
In Atlanta, Cincinnati, and a few other airports, International Passengers arrive at a midfield location. The exit from Customs and Immigration is in a sterile concourse. One must pass through the sterile concourse to get to the airport exit.
Since passengers have had access to their checked baggage during Customs, ALL passengers must pass through TSA screening--even if they're home already and just trying to leave the airport.
There is no shuttle bus, no secured way of taking non-transit passengers directly to the Landside area.
It's really stupid.
In Atlanta, Cincinnati, and a few other airports, International Passengers arrive at a midfield location. The exit from Customs and Immigration is in a sterile concourse. One must pass through the sterile concourse to get to the airport exit.
Since passengers have had access to their checked baggage during Customs, ALL passengers must pass through TSA screening--even if they're home already and just trying to leave the airport.
There is no shuttle bus, no secured way of taking non-transit passengers directly to the Landside area.
It's really stupid.
Aug 29, 2005 | 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
I might agree with you, but let's remember for a moment that until 9/11, the most catastrophic act of terrorism on American soil was the work of....white, protestant Americans.
We can add the Unibomber to that list. We can also had the legions of white supremists pledged to overthrow the US government violently and create a new order in America...and for what it's worth, let's toss in all those crazy Montana woodsman who range from the tax evaders to the violent armed bands who have done battle with the government already - any of whom are quite capable of and willing to attack and destroy instruments of government authority.
We can add the Unibomber to that list. We can also had the legions of white supremists pledged to overthrow the US government violently and create a new order in America...and for what it's worth, let's toss in all those crazy Montana woodsman who range from the tax evaders to the violent armed bands who have done battle with the government already - any of whom are quite capable of and willing to attack and destroy instruments of government authority.
Sep 6, 2005 | 8:30 pm
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"...TSA is in a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation..."
Damned right. Pull any inferences outta THAT one, folks? Personally, I wouldn't stick around in a lose/lose situation.
Still facing their cattle chutes and the sticky floors, are ya? Heeey... SOMEBODY'S got to do it.
Or so they want ya to think.
Damned right. Pull any inferences outta THAT one, folks? Personally, I wouldn't stick around in a lose/lose situation.
Still facing their cattle chutes and the sticky floors, are ya? Heeey... SOMEBODY'S got to do it.
Or so they want ya to think.
Sep 7, 2005 | 4:46 am
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Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
None of the groups you mentioned above have attacked transportation the way that non-Americans have. Those non-Americans have also vowed to destroy the West, while the right-wing nuts have gone silent. In fact, eco-terrorists worry the feds, but they have avoided transportation targets.
(Some late "Comrade" promised to bury us (i.e., "we will bury you), but that never happened, while he and his country were both buried before the 20th century ended.)... and if we expand this to attacks on transportation, then plenty of right-wing nuts and left-wing nuts have targetted transportation, airports and otherwise.
Sep 10, 2005 | 12:38 pm
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Sorry to sound flip about your 'lose/lose situation'. I'm glad there are still those out there who believe they are doing something useful, even laudable, at TSA checkpoints. That way I'll always feel better about myself, but I'll never be another morsel for the 'cattle chutes' via the gullet-intellect of an irksome ticket agent.
Enjoy those sticky floors, and remember: "Losing isn't everything unless it's the only thing possible..."
Enjoy those sticky floors, and remember: "Losing isn't everything unless it's the only thing possible..."