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Sat Dec-03-11 07:35 PM
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| 19. Which is why I don't fly. |
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I'll drive. It takes longer, costs about the same factoring in food, lodging, and gasoline. Yet, I am not harassed, for my own safety. In the end, a clean wash in my book.
We should have followed through with our campaign promises to get rid of the PATRIOT ACT. The we should have followed up by abolishing the TSA instead of embracing them as vital to the security of the nation. PFUI. The ones I've seen couldn't secure the latch on a lunch box.
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| -85-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK |
Judi Lynn |
Dec-03-11 02:21 PM |
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Wow. How have we fallen into this weird universe. It seems like |
The Wielding Truth |
Dec-03-11 02:26 PM |
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Yes |
Enthusiast |
Dec-04-11 03:56 AM |
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How? Fear. People are so afraid of everything nowadays. |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:15 PM |
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That was criminal behavior on the part of the TSA. Period. n/t |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Dec-03-11 02:28 PM |
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Unless the story is BS |
oberliner |
Dec-03-11 02:40 PM |
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... Transportation Security Administration said in a statement Saturday that no strip search was |
struggle4progress |
Dec-04-11 01:01 PM |
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Ahhh...so she was playing the "Granny card" because Sonny didn't get her to the |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:17 PM |
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Granny card right, son is an arse |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:44 AM |
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Seriously - it wasn't the fault of TSA that she missed the flight - |
hedgehog |
Dec-03-11 02:29 PM |
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The point is that even a pat down of an 85 year old is absurd. |
Marnie |
Dec-03-11 08:07 PM |
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Do you support profiling passengers based on age? |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:15 AM |
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wheels up time is not boarding time people |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:46 AM |
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I thought the headline said "85 year old says she was stripped searched by JFK" |
deutsey |
Dec-03-11 02:29 PM |
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The age is about right--if that was Chapter One of her memoirs! nt |
MADem |
Dec-03-11 02:58 PM |
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Ow. |
Jackpine Radical |
Dec-04-11 12:10 PM |
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lol |
dipsydoodle |
Dec-04-11 12:35 PM |
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Once I was injured and needed a wheelchair to go throught |
BlueToTheBone |
Dec-03-11 02:36 PM |
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Extraordinarily disturbing that the administration would allow such blatant violations of |
indepat |
Dec-03-11 02:43 PM |
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see... |
shanti |
Dec-06-11 02:07 AM |
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Don't complain |
JJW |
Dec-03-11 02:48 PM |
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LOL |
gtar100 |
Dec-03-11 04:14 PM |
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If she had been "profiled" this never would have happened to her. |
MADem |
Dec-03-11 02:55 PM |
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She WAS profiled. Asking not to go through the scanner put her in a suspicious category.. |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 03:06 AM |
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What I am saying, though, is that if she had been profiled in the ILLEGAL fashion, |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 06:23 AM |
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Sorry, what you call being "honest here," I call several other things, none of which are positive. |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 06:19 PM |
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I am gobsmacked myself, because you spent all that effort yelling at me |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 08:09 PM |
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Lol, exerting constitutional rights now makes one suspicious. Awesome. Nt |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:17 PM |
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IMO we should all put up with it rather than presume |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:09 PM |
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Oh, profiling--the illegal kind that they use in Israel and elsewhere--goes way beyond that. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:26 PM |
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Where does this info come from? |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 02:28 PM |
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You mean the datamining? |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 02:33 PM |
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racial profiling is discrimination and we shouldn't take tips from countries |
La Lioness Priyanka |
Dec-05-11 04:19 PM |
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I've seen shocking stuff... |
SoapBox |
Dec-03-11 03:11 PM |
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to flight attendant |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:15 AM |
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It sounds like the govt is trying to kill the airline industry. nt |
valerief |
Dec-03-11 03:35 PM |
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TSA and their corporate backers could really give a shit. |
gtar100 |
Dec-03-11 04:10 PM |
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Pathetic ...like scared little rats ...fear the terrorist ....fuck that fear shit! ... |
L0oniX |
Dec-03-11 04:48 PM |
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+1 |
Dawson Leery |
Dec-03-11 06:58 PM |
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+1, completely agree. |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:18 PM |
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So, how many terrorist plots have been interrupted by TSA? |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-03-11 04:51 PM |
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Not plots as such, but |
hedgehog |
Dec-04-11 02:41 PM |
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Remarkably consistent numbers |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-04-11 03:32 PM |
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it's texas |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:51 PM |
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Yes, but it's remarkably consistent for 'rare' events |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-05-11 06:25 AM |
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It makes perfect sense actually. If you have say, 20 guns among |
hedgehog |
Dec-05-11 08:18 AM |
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I think America has gone into Paranoid Schizophrenia |
lovuian |
Dec-03-11 05:19 PM |
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lovuian |
Diclotican |
Dec-04-11 05:17 AM |
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lovuian |
Diclotican |
Dec-04-11 05:18 AM |
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diclotican, come visit, don't let exaggerations stop you! |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:59 PM |
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pitohui |
Diclotican |
Dec-05-11 06:50 AM |
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Dioclotcan you get it |
lovuian |
Dec-05-11 11:41 PM |
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I think Paranoid Schizophrenics are more sane |
bloom |
Dec-04-11 09:54 AM |
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Which is why I don't fly. |
SavWriter |
Dec-03-11 07:35 PM |
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TSA victims unite! nt |
kgnu_fan |
Dec-03-11 09:03 PM |
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How believable is this story? |
oberliner |
Dec-03-11 09:24 PM |
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At some point, the vast number of people who keep complaining |
ThomCat |
Dec-03-11 11:52 PM |
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That is true |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 04:25 AM |
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It is also possible she is telling the absolute truth. |
ThomCat |
Dec-04-11 08:23 PM |
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TSA is Government. Would you like a short list of Government |
Downwinder |
Dec-04-11 03:15 AM |
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There is a pretty long list of random people making stuff up as well |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 04:23 AM |
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correct |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:19 AM |
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If her mom was dying, wouldn't the ticket be recently bought? |
glowing |
Dec-04-11 06:53 AM |
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correct but |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:51 AM |
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Dec-04-11 07:26 AM |
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I see your post downthread as well |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:13 AM |
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There is the preconceived desire to find the TSA wrong |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:12 PM |
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the story is not even remotely believable |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 06:02 PM |
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Is this acceptable so long as it's done for our "safety"? n/t |
The Northerner |
Dec-04-11 02:49 AM |
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If you were innocent, you wouldn't even ask that question. TERRA! TERRA! TERRA! |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 03:26 AM |
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BS on so many things... |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:13 AM |
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Hey, not to thread hijack--for whom can I get a gate pass? |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 06:31 AM |
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How To Get a Gate Pass at the Airport |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:12 AM |
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I will just have to try for the "slightly different rules" scenario, then. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 11:34 AM |
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I don't think special accomodations are made for rubes |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 12:42 PM |
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I'm of the "If you don't ask, you're sure not to get" school of thought. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:11 PM |
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Alien |
demicritic |
Dec-04-11 07:05 AM |
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Must be a |
femrap |
Dec-04-11 12:58 PM |
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At what age should one be exempt? |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:08 PM |
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Enhanced patdowns are punitive. They are intended to be so unpleasant that |
tblue37 |
Dec-04-11 01:48 PM |
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How does TSA know that there was not strip search? |
LisaL |
Dec-04-11 03:37 PM |
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that what she SAYS, all right |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:44 PM |
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this is just stupid. But then I was groped by TSA when accompanied by my sis-in-law & two teenagers |
wordpix |
Dec-04-11 08:08 PM |
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so TSA should only grope people who look atypically american? |
La Lioness Priyanka |
Dec-05-11 04:14 PM |
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Dec-04-11 08:27 PM |
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Micro-infringements> |
survivorista |
Dec-06-11 01:54 AM |
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