Government Wants Your Feedback on the TSA

At any business I have ever worked at in my entire career, we have NEVER required people to identify themselves when attempting to gather opinions and enact reform.

Why the hell are they requiring people to use Facebook, rather than just anonymously posting their input?
 
Oh, for... Facebook? Really? Because only the good citizens who are on Facebook should be listened to by the oversight committee. :rolleyes:
 
Ducman69 said:
At any business I have ever worked at in my entire career, we have NEVER required people to identify themselves when attempting to gather opinions and enact reform.

Why the hell are they requiring people to use Facebook, rather than just anonymously posting their input?
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Maybe they are making a list or something?
 
NEVER complain about the TSA. I've heard horror stories. Basically if you complain, your name gets put on some list and they will make your life a living nightmare next time you have to go through. I would be very hesitant of using this feedback thing, it's probably a trap.

TSA stands for "The terroriSts hAve won".
 
Red Squirrel said:
NEVER complain about the TSA. I've heard horror stories. Basically if you complain, your name gets put on some list and they will make your life a living nightmare next time you have to go through. I would be very hesitant of using this feedback thing, it's probably a trap.

TSA stands for "The terroriSts hAve won".
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It probably is a trap, but your TSA meaning was weak sauce. Next! :D
 
I'm not surprised by this either, I've also noticed a lot of the major online news websites have already done the same to the their comments section under their articles. At first I didn't think nothing about it, but now after reading this it makes sense, they are gathering data.
 
Great, this will have a happy ending. I don't see this doing any good. Nothing will change at all. They want to give the image that they "care" when in reality they want more money for more agents.

I wish more airports would opt out of this and use their own people.
 
Maybe they should be upfront with the public.....get the information and then put the respondent on the no fly list automatically or maybe put them on the full body cavity search list. :D
 
I just flew across the country and it was relatively pain free, the TSA didn't seem too intrusive or anything, American Airlines on the other hand... :mad:
 
so out of the millions of folks that fly everyday, we here about 1 a month that has a TSA issue.

Dont really care. I have flown a ton since 9/11 and have yet to have a legitimate issue.
 
Disband the TSA

When you sacrifice Liberty for security, you get neither.

(The Backscatter rigs can be beaten by a loose fitting shirt.)
 
I know 2 people that are TSA, lets say a bucket of bolts are smarter.
 
Somebody in my family works for the TSA so I guess what I say don't matter.

I hear a lot of stupid things they do and stupid procedures and about %5 of them do extra stuff just for the lulz.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
NEVER complain about the TSA. I've heard horror stories. Basically if you complain, your name gets put on some list and they will make your life a living nightmare next time you have to go through. I would be very hesitant of using this feedback thing, it's probably a trap.

TSA stands for "The terroriSts hAve won".
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No! It's one of these:
Touching Someones Asshole
"Terrorist" Sexual Assulters
Tampon Sniffing Assholes (it was a diaper but, close enough!)
Tiresome Sucky Assholes
Tazering Sore Assholes

Or if you don't want to play by the rules: Totally backward uSeless over expensive child pornographer, old lady touching Assosiation that do fuck all for security and is full of morons that mostly need to be in prison. Or TSA to you and I. :D

As the "caught terrorists" is still 0 and they cost $8.1b per year, have increased thefts from luggage, along with the increased complaints about sexual assult, child molestation, harrasment, and the fact that they are totally corrupt and stupidly easy to bribe, means there is no reason to have them. Unless it's just more goverment corruption. If they were in china or russia people would laugh and talk about how they lived in a corrupt police state where the people were all supressed and how much that country sucked.

Someone should ask if the US really is a free democracy by allowing people to vote if they can getting rid of them. Or how many people they have caught for $81b, and what value they bring.
 
This reminds me of when President Obama went on Youtube and Change.org and asked Americans to submitt their concerns. In the end he just laughed in the face of any submission which he dissagreed with.
 
Thread winning quote of the day!

MrGuvernment said:
www.youtube.com

Search TSA

= all the feedback they need.
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/We should just have a cage match between all the Necons and the handful of Muslim extremists, they're the real enemies of life and freedom. Once they're done killing each other, the world will be a better place.

//Has there ever, in the history of this country, been a government agency which was enacted and later dissolved? Or are we in a "war on terror", FOREVER? How can that be? How did we make it the first 235 years without transforming into an Isreali / Soviet style police state?




http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/dont-be-terrorized

Don't Be Terrorized

You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder

Ronald Bailey | August 11, 2006


Yesterday, British authorities broke up an alleged terror plot to blow up as many as ten commercial airliners as they flew to the United States. In response, the Department of Homeland Security upped the alert level on commercial flights from Britain to "red" and boosted the alert to "orange" for all other flights. In a completely unscientific poll, AOL asked subscribers: "Are you changing your travel plans because of the raised threat level?" At mid-afternoon about a quarter of the respondents had said yes. Such polls do reflect the kinds of anxieties terrorist attacks, even those that have been stymied, provoke in the public.

But how afraid should Americans be of terrorist attacks? Not very, as some quick comparisons with other risks that we regularly run in our daily lives indicate. Your odds of dying of a specific cause in any year are calculated by dividing that year's population by the number of deaths by that cause in that year. Your lifetime odds of dying of a particular cause are calculated by dividing the one-year odds by the life expectancy of a person born in that year. For example, in 2003 about 45,000 Americans died in motor accidents out of population of 291,000,000. So, according to the National Safety Council this means your one-year odds of dying in a car accident is about one out of 6500. Therefore your lifetime probability (6500 ÷ 78 years life expectancy) of dying in a motor accident are about one in 83.

What about your chances of dying in an airplane crash? A one-year risk of one in 400,000 and one in 5,000 lifetime risk. What about walking across the street? A one-year risk of one in 48,500 and a lifetime risk of one in 625. Drowning? A one-year risk of one in 88,000 and a one in 1100 lifetime risk. In a fire? About the same risk as drowning. Murder? A one-year risk of one in 16,500 and a lifetime risk of one in 210. What about falling? Essentially the same as being murdered. And the proverbial being struck by lightning? A one-year risk of one in 6.2 million and a lifetime risk of one in 80,000. And what is the risk that you will die of a catastrophic asteroid strike? In 1994, astronomers calculated that the chance was one in 20,000. However, as they've gathered more data on the orbits of near earth objects, the lifetime risk has been reduced to one in 200,000 or more.

So how do these common risks compare to your risk of dying in a terrorist attack? To try to calculate those odds realistically, Michael Rothschild, a former business professor at the University of Wisconsin, worked out a couple of plausible scenarios. For example, he figured that if terrorists were to destroy entirely one of America's 40,000 shopping malls per week, your chances of being there at the wrong time would be about one in one million or more. Rothschild also estimated that if terrorists hijacked and crashed one of America's 18,000 commercial flights per week that your chance of being on the crashed plane would be one in 135,000.

Even if terrorists were able to pull off one attack per year on the scale of the 9/11 atrocity, that would mean your one-year risk would be one in 100,000 and your lifetime risk would be about one in 1300. (300,000,000 ÷ 3,000 = 100,000 ÷ 78 years = 1282) In other words, your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered.

So do these numbers comfort you? If not, that's a problem. Already, security measures—pervasive ID checkpoints, metal detectors, and phalanxes of security guards—increasingly clot the pathways of our public lives. It's easy to overreact when an atrocity takes place—to heed those who promise safety if only we will give the authorities the "tools" they want by surrendering to them some of our liberty. As President Franklin Roosevelt in his first inaugural speech said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself— nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." However, with risks this low there is no reason for us not to continue to live our lives as though terrorism doesn't matter—because it doesn't really matter. We ultimately vanquish terrorism when we refuse to be terrorized.
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"BBC Documentary, The Power of Nightmares"
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D677F7EAAEE3DD5
 
Facebook and the TSA in one sentence, ouch, time to cry. I had a horrible TSA experience in Charlotte because I opted out of the "X-ray" photo. First they put you on a chair like a child and tell you to "wait and sit down sir!". Then you wait and wait and feel ridiculous sitting there (the intention I assume). After being signaled over you assume position, but not for one freaking second before he commands you, I realized. What ever you do, don´t be ahead of the curve. First the agent tells you how and where to put your arms and feet, then you do it. At this point I was shouted in my face "get your hands down sir!". 2.73 seconds later "raise your arms sir!" (to the same position). And so the obese agent with mucus in the corners of his mouth starter searching me. I knew this was happening, it was the alternative I picked. They use the outside of their hands and unlike the German "TSA" at Munich, they do not touch your balls. After that they split apart my carry-on and everything inside it for 20 minutes, for I have had the audacity to chose the alternative to their standard practice and was therefore suspiciously in-compliant and potentially dangerous.
 
Wait people still fly? I switched to car. Now I'm on foot, literally kicking it old school.
 
while it it silly to use facebook, its not exactly hard to make a new account and post with that. :/
 
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