How long will TSA be around? Forever?
Dec 24, 2006, 10:34 am
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Originally Posted by ND Sol
So I will ask you once again (with your new word), have you had anyone arrested for "disrupting" the checkpoint and was that person convicted based on your testimony?
Originally Posted by whatsinyourbag
Dec 24, 2006, 10:38 am
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I think you have to work at a checkpoint before any of this can happen. I know we take a lot on faith on this board, but nothing I've written seen so far strikes me as being from someone who works anywhere near an airport, let alone near a checkpoint.
Dec 24, 2006, 10:39 am
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Which leads me to believe.. that the abuse is only one way.. TSA abusing
innocent passengers.
Dec 24, 2006, 11:02 am
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As said earlier this seems to be a case of TSA "management's" lock-down & CYA mentality seizing the day.
Dec 24, 2006, 11:16 am
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Dec 24, 2006, 7:19 pm
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Arrests mean nothing without convictions.
Dec 24, 2006, 8:51 pm
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Arrests at checkpoints probably trigger the same kind of arousal the Kwik-E-Mart security guard gets when he chases away pre-teens trading baseball cards outside the store... Or the rent-a-cop who pulls over Ice Cold in the video below... 
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Dec 24, 2006, 9:24 pm
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Spiff - drop the "lying" from KIP'S description and I'd agree he's tooo stooopid to LIE
Und "Vat's in Yur Bak" - you vould haf made an "ausgesneichnet geheimstats polezei" I va chust followink ORDERZ... (I assume you switch your brain off when you go to work? Got any rationale for most of the current idiocy since flight decks were made BULLETPROOF? Now, not to totally cast a shadow over TSA - they have -now- a single function - keep BOMBS off aircraft (since for guns and knives, the passengers can and will do as good a job at security. If someone finds a way to put a bomb in a factory sealed pop can let me know)
Und "Vat's in Yur Bak" - you vould haf made an "ausgesneichnet geheimstats polezei" I va chust followink ORDERZ... (I assume you switch your brain off when you go to work? Got any rationale for most of the current idiocy since flight decks were made BULLETPROOF? Now, not to totally cast a shadow over TSA - they have -now- a single function - keep BOMBS off aircraft (since for guns and knives, the passengers can and will do as good a job at security. If someone finds a way to put a bomb in a factory sealed pop can let me know)
Dec 24, 2006, 9:49 pm
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Ergo, Kip is a liar and an idiot.
Dec 25, 2006, 11:01 am
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"It's not the ounces. It's the container we're after.." -- Kip Hawley, TSA Chief
This statement was made when empty containers were allowed through the
security check-points, but liquids were not.
Does he even read the "so called" policies before making statements?
He is liar alright.. and very bad at it too.... too bad there are people
out there who still believe him.
Dec 25, 2006, 11:07 am
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He is nothing more than a department press spokesman. Administration 'fraidycats/neocons/etc. make the "policy" and he's trotted out to [very poorly] "defend" it.
Dec 25, 2006, 11:08 am
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