It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
Sounds to me like the authorities just admitted that the pat downs are sexual abuse, seeing as she's being charged with a felony.
Originally posted by clintdelicious
reply to post by SFA437
People cant afford to hire a private plane though im afraid. The hwole if you dont like it dont fly argument is so ridiculous and stupid. Would you really refuse to see family on the other side of America ever just because you dont like the security and want to make a point by not traveling? Ofcoarse not, nowerdays travel by plane is essential, you cant do the distances any other way. We have no other choice and have to fly, we dont have the choice to choose not to fly if we dont like it.
Originally posted by incrediblelousminds
Dont like the TSA?
NO one is forcing you to fly on commercial airlines.
Here is PROOF that a 61 year old Grandma has more cojones than all of you put together!
Originally posted by CaptChaos
Originally posted by clintdelicious
reply to post by SFA437
People cant afford to hire a private plane though im afraid. The hwole if you dont like it dont fly argument is so ridiculous and stupid. Would you really refuse to see family on the other side of America ever just because you dont like the security and want to make a point by not traveling? Ofcoarse not, nowerdays travel by plane is essential, you cant do the distances any other way. We have no other choice and have to fly, we dont have the choice to choose not to fly if we dont like it.
I'm not that old, and I can remember driving from CT to FL at the drop of a hat, back in the 70s......even then my parents told us how great it was to have I-95, because they used to do it on Route 1, with stoplights every quarter mile.
Travel by plane is NOT "essential nowerdays," It is a luxury. Thirty years ago, only MIck Jagger and other JET SET types were on airplanes. Since when did it become so ESSENTIAL to your life?
As a boat captain, I have probably taken more international flights than all you guys put together. I've been out of the game for seven years, and I can't believe how insane it has become in that short of a time. I will only travel by boat or my own airplane, now. Does that make you bozos feel any SAFER? I, the TERRORIST, won't be there to infringe on your SAFETY, yet I will sail or fly right into your FATHERLAND, wait, I mean HOMELAND. Whoops. Not Fatherland, no Nazi stuff here.
Next time I'm in the airport and some homo TSA highschool dropout reject tries to grab my junk, well, I will just give him a purple nurple on the most painful nurple.. Derp.
Unfortunately, I will be the ONLY one. The rest of you will post on here how you saw me get slammed in jail and a felony conviction for doing the right thing. Then you will go back to watching Jersey Shore.
EVERYONE HAS TO DO IT!!!!
Otherwise you are all a million times more cowardly than the "Monday morning quarterbacks"
Here is PROOF that a 61 year old Grandma has more cojones than all of you put together!
And, sorry if this is beyond the Manners and Decorum, to call a whole group of people COWARDS. I know no one will ever even see this post.....
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Originally posted by incrediblelousminds
Dont like the TSA?
NO one is forcing you to fly on commercial airlines.
Yah that worked out great for the Germans too....
Originally posted by kykweer
reply to post by Lostinthedarkness
A thread about TSA... Check
Flags?... Check
Stars?... Check
But seriously... I wish america had no security at all so we can go back to terrorism and drug trafficking.
edit on 16-7-2011 by kykweer because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sdocpublishing
reply to post by timidgal
I try to be loving and compassionate but I can only assume you work for the TSA.
They can earn a paycheck in many ways. F*** the TSA
AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO JUSTIFY WHAT THEY DO!
I try to be loving and compassionate...
...but I can only assume you work for the TSA.
They can earn a paycheck in many ways. F*** the TSA
Originally posted by 2012srb
[i]reply to post by timidgal
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm no sheeple. I got fired for my principles. Don't assume we are cowards.
Apparently, you don't understand the frustration of the masses.
Sometimes it takes a mob to bring about change.
See Revolutionary War.
Boston Tea Party.
Originally posted by Kharron
reply to post by timidgal
You don't suppose that people maybe have a choice what line of work they go into? Yours is a weak excuse, it just doesn't fly in a free country - or what used to be a free country.
Khar
Originally posted by SFA437
But keep playing THEIR game by THEIR rules. Keep going on about 4th Amendment issues that don't apply and sexual assaults that aren't. DON'T take the time to educate yourself and prattle on and on while not making any effort whatsoever to change the system by the sole means it can be changed.
I choose differently
If people woke up and realized HOW to change the system...
Originally posted by soaringhawk
reply to post by jacktorrance
Instead they feel up little girls, old men with prosthetic legs and removing adult diapers.
TSA is a joke. Anyone that works for them is a blind fool. So is anyone that sides with TSA.
Originally posted by Tetrarch42
While the actions of the TSA are difficult to justify, they do not give free reign to individuals to harm TSA agents. If you have an issue with something like the TSA you have political and social outlets to air your concerns, like the founding fathers intended when they attempted to guarantee the right to free expression and a just democracy. Anyone advocating action like what this woman did don't really understand the point of the American experiment at all.edit on 16-7-2011 by Tetrarch42 because: (no reason given)