And Disband it YESTERDAY!
n the decade since U.S. Rep. John Mica helped create the Transportation Security Administration, the veteran Republican has gone from reluctant father to outright critic.
Few areas of TSA have dodged Mica’s scorn; he has attacked the $7.8 billion agency on issues ranging from wasteful spending to the intrusive pat-downs of passengers by airport-security workers.
But only recently has the Winter Park legislator made progress on his top goal: eliminating the roughly 52,000 TSA screeners nationwide in favor of those hired by private security companies.
I have NOTHING wrong with security. I have issues with government mandates that are direct violations of our rights, cost us a TON of money! (7.8 BILLION???? JESUS Jumped-up CHRIST! FOR WHAT?) all for nothing!
With Private security airlines and airports can compete by having more efficient, less-invasive security. Also Private security are accountable for RESULTS! Your 10-year-old gets his nuts cupped by a high school dropout who later gets busted for child porn charges, meanwhile several terrorists and contraband get through, and nothing is stopped….the whole agency gets scrapped…unless its run by Daddy .Gov, then they ask for more money!
And of course with the freedom to choose your own security, WHY would anybody hire the TSA?
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h/t to Erin who sent this to me!
If we were to implement performance-based employment for airport screeners, passengers would be given the screener jobs, (with a 100% detection and interdiction rate since Sep 12, 2001, it’s hard to fault those numbers!) and TSA employees would have to go back to making meth, picking peanuts out of elephant poop and collecting cans.
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“At a congressional hearing in February, TSA chief John Pistole said an internal study conducted by the agency found that private screening costs 3 percent to 9 percent more than federal screening. He said he saw no “clear and substantial advantage” to increasing the number of airports with private screeners.”
Imagine that, the guy who is in charge of the TSA says that a study by the TSA proves that the TSA is more efficient.
Will wonders never cease?
As someone who was subjected to a public groping by a very hostile TSA thug at Newark International Airport after one of her fellow thugs ran my plastic bottle of contact lens saline solution through some kind of rinky dink scanner and proclaimed it to be a possible explosive device I went from disliking the TSA to actively loathing it.
The experience was humiliating in the extreme and I was shocked to see my fellow passengers standing by and pretending nothing disturbing was going on as a gloating thug ran her hands over my breasts and down my thighs. Of course she found nothing suspicious but I didn’t even get an apology — just a nasty glare as she turned to the next hapless victim. Since when did we become a nation of cowering sheep who willingly give up our civil liberties in exchange for a false sense of being “kept safe?”
I would rather take the (very slim) chance of being blown to bits by a terrorist bomb than live as we do now under constant surveillence by an Orwellian Big Brother government.
I think that’s the biggest issue with the TSA, is we’re paying BILLIONS of dollars for incompetent work that violates our civil rights AND our personal dignity, and the masses do it without question, and even claim that somehow there are some unknown events that are happening that are being stopped by the TSA to help them waive the sheep-flag to those thugs in blue gloves.
Its shameful that the TSA does what they do, its appalling that we LET them with nary a protest.