This is the third time that the few remaining decent TSA workers have exposed TSA management for these illegal profiling schemes. These front line TSA screeners have also spoken out against the corrupt management that is forcing them to engage in this sick circus. They know as well as anyone else that groping a six year old and strip searching Grandma doesn't keep anyone safe and only hands another victory to Al Qaeda.
There is plenty of evidence, including these three profiling incidents and the mass firings of screeners in Ft. Myers, Hawaii and Ft Lauderdale, that much of TSA management has become populated with perverse and corrupt people and no one is a better witness to this than the TSA workers who expose these managers. If this is not stopped at this point the decent screeners who dislike being ordered to grope and humiliate passengers needlessly will quit and the thugs managing the agency will fill their ranks with abusive bullies. At that point security will become unbearable and America will be in very bad place.
The behavior detection program has been shown to be hocus-pocus used to conceal a drug interdiction scheme. Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that TSA can train a fast food worker to read minds in six weeks?
This is the third major incident in this program in a year involving racial profiling and harassment, illegal interrogations and unlawful searches and there have been others that received less exposure. TSA investigated themselves in the incidents in Newark and Hawaii and found they were innocent. No one was fired or prosecuted for their illegal searches and harassment of innocent people. What a surprise.
Where does this stupidity stop?
In the past two months 35 TSA workers fired or arrested and 66 more disciplined for misconduct on the job. A known pedophile, Thomas Harkins, was exposed in May but remains employed as a TSA Supervisor in Philadelphia. There were a total of 97 TSA workers arrested in the last 20 months including 12 arrested for child sex crimes, over 26 for theft, 12 for smuggling contraband through security and one for murder.
This is precisely the problem with TSA, no accountability when they exceed their authority and those in management are never fired. Even police are subject to prosecution by victims. Not so for TSA employees and this must change.
The TSA management and screeners responsible for this illegal activity should be prosecuted and the agency sued for billions.
TSA needs to be held to the same standards of accountability as other agencies and those responsible for this excessive overreach and corruption prosecuted by the next Congress.
The TSA is a bunch of mall-cop rejects run by a cabal of overpaid fascist politicians under the direction of head Nazi Eva Braun wannabe Janet Napolitano, AKA "Big Sis". It may be noted that passenger checks are "administrative" in nature so as to avoid violating the Fourth Amendment. It is clear that the TSA is has severely trampled the Constitution by using the searches as a means to catch common criminals instead of terrorists. The TSA and Homeland Security need to be abolished to restore the rights of American citizens.
I was one of those school kids in Boston in the 70s who had to suffer through court-ordered busing. After having gangs of white people rocking my police-escorted bus, chanting that they didn't want any n***ers in their neighborhood, I arrived home where the evening news informed me that I had gotten it all wrong. The protesters weren't racist they were political. They didn't hate me because I was black, they just didn't want the courts forcing them to send their kids away while simultaneously forcing me into their neighborhood. They were kind of on my side since I would naturally be better off in my own neighborhood with my own. Good to see Boston has progressed!
And I had to walk through gauntlets of huge, black kids calling me a "honky" and demanding my lunch money, pencils, and paper every day. What's your point? Is it that you are the only person who didn't enjoy forced de-segregation? Or that you are only a racist today because of the actions of others, long ago in your childhood?
Isn't there some kind of difference between a few crazy fools, killing for recognition, and a complete religious ideology that condones and even supports this kind of killing, in the name of the almighty Allah????
baileyccc: You are obviously extremely ignorant. 99% of Muslims are not terrorists. Only a minute fraction of the 1.2 Billion Muslims are terrorists.
And Muslim is not a Nationality such as Swedes, it is a religion. There are Swedish Muslims, American Muslims, Turkish Muslims, Arabic Muslims, etc.
Most are no different than any other group of people who want to live in peace, have shelter, food, and the other necessities of life.
I personally know and interact with Muslims who are wonderful, loving and kind people. I have no interest in their religion, however, I respect them for who they are.
My advice to bigots like you is to get to know some Muslims and perhaps you will see how wrong you are. I have interacted with every race, religion, and ethnicity you can think of and have not found anyone of them to be any better or worse than any of them.
It is an individual thing; there are good and bad in every race, religion, and ethnicity, and that is the reality of our world.
bailey you seem to confuse religion with race. And since Islam is practiced in practically every nation on this planet by people of just about every race your comment is ludicrous.
Profiling? Hasn't anyone noticed the bad guys don't wear signs or tatoos or something to tell all what they are?So, do any of you have any credible suggestions on how to tell the bad guys apart BEFORE they maim and kill?
Sure. The pattern they fit by appearance, where they come from, their age group - all means "Sorry, an extra minute of your time, please". And if I were a member of these categories, I wouldn't mind at all because I'd want to be safe, too.
..so if a doctor at the airport is wearing a pair of sweat pants/tee shirt and he's anglo-saxon should the doctor be profiled for what the doctor's wearing? of course not..but if he's a person of color who's a doctor wearing the same clothing and he's profiled? Is that RIGHT for the TSA to pull and question the person of color who is wearing the exact same clothing? It's profiling based upon race..
Case and point..
..profling based upon clothing and race is WRONG period..especially if two doctors(one anglo saxon and another is not) are dressed the same at the airport and are both wearing sweat pants and a white tea shirt..and the only one whose profiled is the non anglo-saxon- person of color..
..we can try to PRETEND..that profiling is NOT a issue in AMERICA..and blame others for whining who have been profiled based upon clothing & race..so until it happens to YOU..you have no idea what being PROFILED based upon race and other adjectives feels like..
..there's a friend of mine..who is a house hold name .. drives a 2013 BMW(yea you can purchased).. a cop was following him for about a mile and then pulled him over.. the cop never said why he stopped him for.. the cop ask for the driver's license and insurance confirmation papers.. ran the information and then the cop asked one other question.."do you have a bill of sales for this vehicle?"
..my friend answer the cop.. you see the vehicle is REGISTERED to me and I have insurance and a valid License I don't need to present a bill of sale....which answers your QUESTION..now what was I pulled over for? The cop never stated why..
The cop told my friend you are free to go..my friend filed a compliant against the officer.. he audio taped the conversation between he and the cop..and the cop didn't know it..with SMART VEHICLES you have the option..audio and video options are becoming standard with smart vehicles.. this is why Cops nowaways HATE cell phones when they acost someone which can show how cops over step their authorities..and LIE about it later and blame the alleged offender..
You're as full of crap here as you are on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin stories.
It kind of sounds like you have something against white, Anglo-Saxons.
Police base suspicions on statistics far more than they do race. It's not their fault that statistics may be affected more by one race or another.
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There is plenty of evidence, including these three profiling incidents and the mass firings of screeners in Ft. Myers, Hawaii and Ft Lauderdale, that much of TSA management has become populated with perverse and corrupt people and no one is a better witness to this than the TSA workers who expose these managers. If this is not stopped at this point the decent screeners who dislike being ordered to grope and humiliate passengers needlessly will quit and the thugs managing the agency will fill their ranks with abusive bullies. At that point security will become unbearable and America will be in very bad place.
The behavior detection program has been shown to be hocus-pocus used to conceal a drug interdiction scheme. Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that TSA can train a fast food worker to read minds in six weeks?
This is the third major incident in this program in a year involving racial profiling and harassment, illegal interrogations and unlawful searches and there have been others that received less exposure. TSA investigated themselves in the incidents in Newark and Hawaii and found they were innocent. No one was fired or prosecuted for their illegal searches and harassment of innocent people. What a surprise.
Where does this stupidity stop?
In the past two months 35 TSA workers fired or arrested and 66 more disciplined for misconduct on the job. A known pedophile, Thomas Harkins, was exposed in May but remains employed as a TSA Supervisor in Philadelphia. There were a total of 97 TSA workers arrested in the last 20 months including 12 arrested for child sex crimes, over 26 for theft, 12 for smuggling contraband through security and one for murder.
This is precisely the problem with TSA, no accountability when they exceed their authority and those in management are never fired. Even police are subject to prosecution by victims. Not so for TSA employees and this must change.
The TSA management and screeners responsible for this illegal activity should be prosecuted and the agency sued for billions.
TSA needs to be held to the same standards of accountability as other agencies and those responsible for this excessive overreach and corruption prosecuted by the next Congress.
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Isn't there some kind of difference between a few crazy fools, killing for recognition, and a complete religious ideology that condones and even supports this kind of killing, in the name of the almighty Allah????
And Muslim is not a Nationality such as Swedes, it is a religion. There are Swedish Muslims, American Muslims, Turkish Muslims, Arabic Muslims, etc.
Most are no different than any other group of people who want to live in peace, have shelter, food, and the other necessities of life.
I personally know and interact with Muslims who are wonderful, loving and kind people. I have no interest in their religion, however, I respect them for who they are.
My advice to bigots like you is to get to know some Muslims and perhaps you will see how wrong you are. I have interacted with every race, religion, and ethnicity you can think of and have not found anyone of them to be any better or worse than any of them.
It is an individual thing; there are good and bad in every race, religion, and ethnicity, and that is the reality of our world.
And if I were a member of these categories, I wouldn't mind at all because I'd want to be safe, too.
What does smuggling drugs or anything else have to do with airline safety?
Case and point..
..profling based upon clothing and race is WRONG period..especially if two doctors(one anglo saxon and another is not) are dressed the same at the airport and are both wearing sweat pants and a white tea shirt..and the only one whose profiled is the non anglo-saxon- person of color..
..we can try to PRETEND..that profiling is NOT a issue in AMERICA..and blame others for whining who have been profiled based upon clothing & race..so until it happens to YOU..you have no idea what being PROFILED based upon race and other adjectives feels like..
..there's a friend of mine..who is a house hold name .. drives a 2013 BMW(yea you can purchased).. a cop was following him for about a mile and then pulled him over.. the cop never said why he stopped him for.. the cop ask for the driver's license and insurance confirmation papers.. ran the information and then the cop asked one other question.."do you have a bill of sales for this vehicle?"
..my friend answer the cop.. you see the vehicle is REGISTERED to me and I have insurance and a valid License I don't need to present a bill of sale....which answers your QUESTION..now what was I pulled over for? The cop never stated why..
The cop told my friend you are free to go..my friend filed a compliant against the officer.. he audio taped the conversation between he and the cop..and the cop didn't know it..with SMART VEHICLES you have the option..audio and video options are becoming standard with smart vehicles.. this is why Cops nowaways HATE cell phones when they acost someone which can show how cops over step their authorities..and LIE about it later and blame the alleged offender..
You're as full of crap here as you are on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin stories.
It kind of sounds like you have something against white, Anglo-Saxons.
Police base suspicions on statistics far more than they do race. It's not their fault that statistics may be affected more by one race or another.
Have a nice day, young man.