Category Archives: TSA
TSA out of control in St. Louis
Campaign for Liberty employee Steve Bierfeldt was detained and questioned by TSA in St. Louis. TSA Idiocy ensues. OMFG! “If you have nothing to hide…” Seriously? Ultimately, an FBI agent showed up, found out the money was from campaign contributions … Continue reading
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Why the TSA sucks: Reason 50,000
from USAToday: Fewer domestic passengers left the nation’s airports through the first seven months of 2008, with fewer flights filling the friendly skies. But while a bleak economic outlook may not perk up those numbers in the short term, the … Continue reading
10 more reasons the TSA sucks
From the Luggage Blog: 10 Worst TSA Employees of 2008 Stealing valuables, gross ignorance, petty tyranny, lethal incompetence and institutional failure. It’s all on display in this year end wrap up of the failure that is the TSA.
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TSA – Misses the "gunpowder", investigates wood flute.
More evidence of security theater: Last Thursday, December 5, I brought five ounces (140 grams) of old-fashioned black gunpowder to San Francisco airport. I also brought along a boarding pass for United flight 720 to Denver that I had created … Continue reading
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Common Sense at the TSA?
I’m shocked. Despite breathless reporting, it looks like someone at the TSA checkpoint in Kennedy Airport displayed an unusual level of common sense. Federal airport screeners found two grenades in the luggage of a man set to board a JetBlue … Continue reading
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TSA may relax liquid restrictions?
According to this article at the WSJ blog, the TSA is “testing” X-ray machine software that “…can detect liquid materials used in bomb-making…” The Transportation Security Administration will likely relax the restrictions on carrying liquids through airport security screening checkpoints … Continue reading
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Stupid TSA Tricks – Propaganda Department
I’m not a big fan of the TSA and they’re a frequent subject of mockery here. So I can’t pass up the opportunity to mock a comment left by “George_TSA” on a previous post. well, first of all, the poster … Continue reading
More TSA Stupidity – Banning Guns in Unsecured Areas of Airports
TSA weighs airport gun ban in unsecured areas. The Transportation Security Administration may allow airports to ban firearms from terminals, parking lots, roads and other airport areas where many states currently allow passengers to carry lethal weapons. Airport officials and … Continue reading
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Why The TSA Sucks – Reason 23
Because they hire rejects from other bureaucracies. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has fired Sonia Pitt, the former MnDOT emergency response executive who lost her state job for failing to return to Minnesota in the days after the I-35W … Continue reading
Why The TSA Sucks – Reason 326
TSA confiscates stuff that’s not dangerous. Explosive-Like Item Intercepted at Checkpoint For six long minutes on June 30, screening operations froze at Jackson-Evers International Airport’s West checkpoint in Mississippi as TSA investigated a suspicious item that appeared to be a … Continue reading
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