I hate flying. I hate the TSA Bullshit, which doesn’t help the fact that I’m stuck in one seat with little room to wander for several hours. My least favorite part of a flight is when the door is opened and everybody piles into the aisles, and I’m generally trapped in my seat as others exit.
Flying with a firearm sucks worse. Of course I’d prefer just to leave my gun holstered and take my seat. Sheeple tend to get bent out of shape about this notion, they come up with all sorts of bullshit reasons, from Explosive Decompression (hint: Goldfinger was a MOVIE, not real life) to notions that planes are crowded places…of course I carry everywhere which includes buses, theaters, tourist attractions, major cities, et al. Lots of other people do too, guess what, no blood in the streets.
And then there’s a story like this.
The pilot J.K. Gilman was informed of the hijacking and was aware that Robert Denisco, a Brinks guard was sitting in First Class wearing plain clothes. Capt. Gilman quickly used the telephone to ask a First Class fight attendant to tell Denisco what was going on and to, “tell him I said to go back and shoot that Bastard!”
Spoiler alert: This story takes place in 1970, so the bastard got shot!
Yeah, if we lift the ban on weapons on planes it means the bad guys can bring weapons on planes. But when your plane is hijacked by terrorists with box cutters you can shoot the bastards!
And note that the TSA couldn’t find their own ass with two hands and a map, let alone terrorists smuggling dangerous stuff on planes.
Sorry flights are NOT safe from terrorists, can you please stop fucking with non-terrorists?
I’ve largely stayed away from the TSA debate. I make it a point to drive, so I’ve yet to deal with them. I recognize that the TSA is violating civil rights and setting a bad precedent for government search, but I also am cognizant of the reality that we can’t have planes flying into buildings. As such, I haven’t formed an opinion on what to do, exactly.
That being said, I recently spoke with an old friend from high school, who now works for the TSA at O’Hare. I asked if he was the one who fondles all the passengers, and he said he did. I tried to broach the subject about all the unpleasantness and controversy, and he stated that the airlines hated the TSA and wish they would disappear, but the real problem is that the flying public is just so stupid.
So, really, Weerd, stop being so stupid.
As for me, I’ll keep driving! 😉
Heh, I can see that. flying out of Boston there was a woman in front of us who was DRIPPING with cheap jewelry and it was setting of the metal detectors, and she had to take it all off. Its not like Metal detectors is a NEW thing.
Still the bottom line is no matter how the whole 4th Amendment issue goes, even if the TSA wasn’t a horrendous human rights violation, and people totally didn’t mind being nude-o-scoped, and nut-tugged, it would STILL be a colossal waste of money because the TSA has NEVER stopped a terrorist attack, and terrorists like the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, and the time-square car bomber all totally waltzed straight through TSA security, and the only reason why nobody was harmed in their attacks was because they were incompetent in their plans.
Furthermore when supervisors test the system by attempting to smuggle contraband through security the tests fail more frequently than they succeed.
So while there are lots of pants-shitting idiots flying the friendly skies, the members of the TSA have no room to talk! 🙂
Anyone who thinks someone could hijack a jet with a knife is a total idiot; that stunt only works once.
If some dumbass tried it now, I guarantee the SOB would be mobbed, knocked down, and stomped to death within a couple of minutes, regardless who gets cut in the process.