President Barack Obama meets with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration Administrator John S. Pistole, right, in the Oval Office to discuss transportation security.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Program would cut out private-run companies
With security lines at airports yet again growing and concerns about full body scanners rampant, traveler frustration is again reaching a tipping point. The Transportation Security Administration recognizes this and is … once again … dusting off the idea of a trusted traveler program.
TSA Administrator John S. Pistole wants to change the airport security checkpoint experience to enable “known travelers” to have expedited screening.
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No!
We're U.S. citizens, and we never should have put up with the TSA's creepy, thuggish behavoir in the first place. Stop treating us like prisoners.
We pay our taxes. In fact, we pay your saleries. You have a lot of gall to treat us, your employers, with such raw contempt.
No more. If you think someone's a bad person, charge them with a crime. Otherwise, keep your hands and your irradiation machines to yourselves.
With a federal secret clearance and law enforcement credentials why the heck do I have to take of my friggin shoes & get irradiated. The TSA is a major boondoggle. The fact that they ask me if I am armed while they are shaking me down let's me know they also know what a waste of time it is.
This farce has been going on for years. Now TSA will again apparently go through the motions of putting in place a trusted traveller program, but only to fend off the latest outrage ove rtheir inefficiency, hoping to placate the complainants until the furot dies down, and then go back to "business as (inefficiently) normal." Government can only do two things reasonably well, said Milton Friedman many years ago, i.e., conduct war (though one could dispute that, given the government's record during the post-9/11 period) and cause inflation. They certainly can't set up an efficient trusted traveller program.
Why doesn't your Constitution apply when you get in your car or try to get on a plane? Because we don't demand it! We don't demand it because we haven't studied it enough to know how to use it. Every Government Official has taken an Oath to support the Constitution, and they can all be held individually responsible, but only if we know how to enforce it upon them.