New warrantless screening procedures by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) aim to be more invasive than ever. Will Americans stand for this level of travel restrictions? Naturally they will. Like the NSA, the TSA seeks to obliterate freedoms all Americans valued a little more than a decade ago under the guise of offering ‘security’ or ‘safety’.
The TSA argument goes like this: before going anywhere near an airplane (or lots of other forms of transportation), you must divulge:
- personal details such as your travel history
- vehicle registrations
- employment information
- frequent flier info
- physical characteristics
- property ownership records
- and tax ID numbers
Otherwise, you may not be allowed to travel. Once the TSA has your information, if they decide they don’t like something about, for example, the vehicle you own, or your tax history, or some other “identifier” linked to DHS databases, you may not be allowed to travel. This is all necessary because if the TSA doesn’t know this information before you go near a vehicle, you are probably a terrorist. Or you might be. Or not. But they will treat you as if you ARE a terrorist if you fail to enthusiastically open up your private life to virtually untrained, poorly managed and essentially untrustworthy strangers. If you object, you are probably a terrorist and a threat to the safety of those around you.
“I think the best way to look at it is as a pre-crime assessment every time you fly,” said Edward Hasbrouck to the New York Times. Hasbrouck is a consultant to the Identity Project, one of the groups that oppose the prescreening initiatives. “The default will be the highest, most intrusive level of search, and anything less will be conditioned on providing some additional information in some fashion.”
It is astonishing that the public has been hoodwinked into accepting invasive body-scans, customs interrogations and random airport groping, but this new, unwarranted and aggressive pre-screening is the logical consequence of the public’s passive reaction to the sudden, malignant growth of the TSA, justified by a fear-mongering administration.
Source: New York Times
why aren’t thier uniforms brown shirts and pants like Hilter’s squads
Why is it that we all are allowing this? have they weakened us so much that we are willing to accept this blatant violation of our privacy? If everyone just stayed home for one day, no flying, this would stop. Imagine what would happen if every conservative in the country just stayed home from everything. No school, work, or travel. Gas, shopping, etc. Quickly the govt and their donors would get the message. But we will never do anything but complain, We have become very weak and the govt will not stop until they have destroyed all of our freedoms.
but, the saudi’s are exempt
YEAH AND ALL MUSLIMS.
Glad I don’t fly!
Those guys are so not security.
One less cretin groping airline passengers. I feel bad for the man and his family, but I feel worse for America and our civil liberties.