Quotes for TSA
May 2, 2009 | 8:07 am
#32
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ
To bad someone didn't say this when they new uniforms were designed.
To bad someone didn't say this when they new uniforms were designed.
May 2, 2009 | 8:33 am
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
---------------John Stuart Mills
---------------John Stuart Mills
May 2, 2009 | 9:40 am
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"Harassment and inconsitency is our way of making you feel like we're doing something without actually having to provide any real aviation security." -- attr. to Kip Hawley
May 2, 2009 | 11:42 am
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You cannot professionalize unless you federalize. - Tom Daschle
May 2, 2009 | 3:30 pm
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the tsa: we even fail open book tests
the tsa: we can screw up a free lunch
the tsa: we can screw up a free lunch
May 2, 2009 | 5:40 pm
#41
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"Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God . . . . I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America." - Osama bin Laden
"Every American man is an enemy to us." - Osama bin Laden
"The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy." -- Osama bin Laden, at the wedding of his son in southern Kandahar about the 17 sailors who died suicide bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen
"Every American man is an enemy to us." - Osama bin Laden
"The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy." -- Osama bin Laden, at the wedding of his son in southern Kandahar about the 17 sailors who died suicide bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen
Ron White
May 4, 2009 | 12:07 am
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The quiz isn't really as hard as all that. No Googling should be required.
(1) Someone is wearing a piece of clothing that is usually associated with a particular religious group. Should they get treated differently at the checkpoint?
(2) Someone is wearing a t-shirt that says something you don't agree with. Is it okay to use your authority to stop them from getting through the checkpoint?
(3) Two passengers are discussing going to a political meeting for a group you don't like. Can you use your authority to stop them getting through the checkpoint?
(4) Someone has a cash box with cash in it. He's getting on a domestic flight. He doesn't have any knives, guns, or explosives, nor is there anything else about him that suggests he's a threat to aviation. Is it okay to interrogate him for 30 minutes in case he's a drug-runner and you get the "big catch"?
(5) You're having a boring day. Is it okay to use the authority of your uniform and badge to read people's documents, go through their wallets looking at credit cards, or play with their personal belongings in the checked baggage search area?
(6) A passenger has a really nice empty Starbucks thermos. Is it okay to declare that it's a randomly prohibited item so you can take it home?
(7) The Constitution doesn't explicitly state that people have a right to travel, to fly, or to own a bottle of water. It doesn't explicitly state that people have a right to refuse to be naked in front of strangers. Does that mean that people don't have such rights?
Not a hard quiz. In fact, all the answers are the same.
(1) Someone is wearing a piece of clothing that is usually associated with a particular religious group. Should they get treated differently at the checkpoint?
(2) Someone is wearing a t-shirt that says something you don't agree with. Is it okay to use your authority to stop them from getting through the checkpoint?
(3) Two passengers are discussing going to a political meeting for a group you don't like. Can you use your authority to stop them getting through the checkpoint?
(4) Someone has a cash box with cash in it. He's getting on a domestic flight. He doesn't have any knives, guns, or explosives, nor is there anything else about him that suggests he's a threat to aviation. Is it okay to interrogate him for 30 minutes in case he's a drug-runner and you get the "big catch"?
(5) You're having a boring day. Is it okay to use the authority of your uniform and badge to read people's documents, go through their wallets looking at credit cards, or play with their personal belongings in the checked baggage search area?
(6) A passenger has a really nice empty Starbucks thermos. Is it okay to declare that it's a randomly prohibited item so you can take it home?
(7) The Constitution doesn't explicitly state that people have a right to travel, to fly, or to own a bottle of water. It doesn't explicitly state that people have a right to refuse to be naked in front of strangers. Does that mean that people don't have such rights?
Not a hard quiz. In fact, all the answers are the same.