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Every year, millions of library books are either not returned, or returned late with overdue fees owing. There are tens of thousands of library scofflaws who deprive children of the ability to read these books, threatening their ability to learn and achieve, and even their very future.
TSA checks IDs routinely at airports around the country. They are in a unique position to identify library scofflaws and ensure they are brought to justice for this terrible harm they are causing to America's children. I think TSA should be provided with lists of library scofflaws (probably just their physical description and hometown should be enough), so that they can identify these people and ensure that a LEO detains them. Let's do it for the children! |
...and in their free time we can have the TSA make nutritious lunches for kids too (no liquids allowed)!
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Originally Posted by xyzzy
(Post 7217068)
...and in their free time we can have the TSA make nutritious lunches for kids too (no liquids allowed)!
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http://www.reason.org/airportpolicy2...hor-AMBE-45070
Bob Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Foundation.. Airport screening is an intrusion on personal liberty. In a free society, it should be nobody’s business where you go or who you are. Freedom of movement has been recognized by the Supreme Court as one of our basic liberties. It’s only because of the serious threat posed by today’s terrorists that we have agreed to this (we can hope, temporary) restriction on our freedom, in the interest of preventing further mass murders in the sky. To begin giving ordinary law-enforcement duties to TSA screeners is the first step on a slippery slope of considerably reduced liberty. I have friends in South Africa, and other friends who used to live there. They all remember the Pass Laws, in which people were required to carry a kind of internal passport. You could only travel between cities if government gave the OK in advance. We’re a long way from that, to be sure. But every time a non-terrorism responsibility gets added to TSA’s duties, we move one step closer. Adding non-security duties can't possibly make them perform better at their core responsibility. |
Originally Posted by gleff
(Post 7378012)
http://www.reason.org/airportpolicy2...hor-AMBE-45070
Bob Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Foundation.. To which I would add, TSA screeners do a poor enough job catching banned items going through their checkpoints. Adding non-security duties can't possibly make them perform better at their core responsibility. |
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