Is It Wrong to Call The TSA Idiots?
Jun 20, 2009 | 10:16 am
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Jun 20, 2009 | 11:29 am
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I prefer to call the bad ones "feckless simpletons" or "feckless hacks" depending on the actions of the individual (i.e. spoken non-sense versus inane actions)
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Jun 20, 2009 | 12:37 pm
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For the ones that fancy themselves LEOs, Whacker is the generally accepted term.
Jun 20, 2009 | 8:51 pm
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Wish I had caught this thread earlier, and not trying to pick a fight with a FT mod, but comparing poorly managed federal security guards innappropiately confiscating items with the Holocaust is a bit much. Once they start confiscating gold dental work, then it sounds familiar.
Jun 21, 2009 | 12:25 am
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Wish I had caught this thread earlier, and not trying to pick a fight with a FT mod, but comparing poorly managed federal security guards innappropiately confiscating items with the Holocaust is a bit much. Once they start confiscating gold dental work, then it sounds familiar.
It evenly applies to anyone who expects to be exonerated for bad behavior because someone in a superior position told them to do something wrong.
Jun 21, 2009 | 2:40 am
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I'm too lazy to read the entire thread, but you are free to call any gov't employee who tells you that you can't call employees of their agency "idiots" idiots (with rare exceptions: e.g. judges in court). Not only are you free to do so, but any person who has to resort to that kind of "You can't call me an idiot because I get a paycheck from Y." is an idiot, has serious self-confidence problems, or is an elected official (implying that the electorate, as well as the official in question, is idiotic, something that is all-too-often true).
Jun 21, 2009 | 3:05 am
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Jun 21, 2009 | 5:59 am
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A Kip? Historically relevant, contextually accurate since it was under his reign of terror that made TSA what it is today and isn't the least bit offensive to folks who don't know either who or what Kip was. Good to use when talking to a TSO. "Hey, Kip, you think you could let me watch my belongings while you go through them?" Perfect.
Jun 21, 2009 | 11:00 am
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Reminds me of a t-shirt I used to wear ...It's not like making a terrorist threat.
Didn't we already go thru this with MKEBound a few years ago when it made national news?
If it's ok to call Kip Hawley an Idiot, surely it's ok to call a screener an idiot without fear of reprisal. Reprisal is an infringement on 1st amendment rights.
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Jun 21, 2009 | 11:19 am
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So some idiots at TSA may unilaterally decide the 1st amendment doesn't exist at airport checkpoints? Reminds me of a t-shirt I used to wear ...
It's not like making a terrorist threat.
Didn't we already go thru this with MKEBound a few years ago when it made national news?
If it's ok to call Kip Hawley an Idiot, surely it's ok to call a screener an idiot without fear of reprisal. Reprisal is an infringement on 1st amendment rights.
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Reminds me of a t-shirt I used to wear ...It's not like making a terrorist threat.
Didn't we already go thru this with MKEBound a few years ago when it made national news?
If it's ok to call Kip Hawley an Idiot, surely it's ok to call a screener an idiot without fear of reprisal. Reprisal is an infringement on 1st amendment rights.
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Jun 21, 2009 | 11:47 am
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(Hence one of the reasons TSAers should be careful in frowning upon management).
Jun 21, 2009 | 11:49 am
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This disgusting, un-American agency should be destroyed now before it becomes even more of a cancer to US society than it already is.
Jun 21, 2009 | 12:36 pm
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You are trying to diminish the principle because it is attached to a horrible period in history. That principle, however, is just as important if we are talking about Nazi war criminals or the TSO.
Claiming that you are exonerated of responsibility because someone higher up told you to do something wrong is, was, and always will be unacceptable.