Yes, I consider the TSA workers going through my baggage and property a violation of Civil Rights, the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution and an outrageous privacy invasion. I no more want TSA people in my baggage and property than I want a burglar in my home.I would rather take my chances with terrorists over TSA and government tyranny any day.
On more than one occasion I have had things pilfered from my checked baggage and now the TSA and airlines avoid responsibility and restitution to victims. We must do something, anything at all to combat this behavior.
Workers caught stealing today only face misdemeanor charges like a first time shoplifter taking a candy bar from a 7-11 store. That needs to change with state and federal laws that would make any theft of baggage or their contents a felony with a significant prison term when committed by a TSA worker against a traveler. Their special access to our personal property demands a punishment that deters such nefarious activity.
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On top of that, I checked a gun case for the same flight that was treated as ordinary luggage. It came out the baggage chute with everyone else's luggage, and could have easily been taken by somebody if I had been delayed on my way to the baggage claim. You and I probably think differently about transporting guns by plane Paul, but I found it absurd that a bottle of wine was viewed as a greater security risk than a firearm.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
And I've never even heard about the Bernsen case. Like the Duke LaCrosse accuser, anyone who falsely accuses another should face prosecution. It's disgusting. They never have to face the consequences for having lied. 23,000 of tax payers dollars were spent on the DNA tests that proved the DNA on the woman was from *others*.
Lets bring in experienced street cops by having them handle flight security in their off duty or vacation time. The current air marshals have little or no experience dealing with drunk, hostile or angry people and real cops do.
As for pre-flight screening have cops simply profile travelers by behavior for further review.
This frisk, fondle and rob TSA pattern is un-American.
Why do we allow non-Americans from countries hostile to the United States to fly on our airplanes? When we were at was with the Japanese we locked them all up citizens or not. That may seem extreme today but must we really have to allow them access to our airplanes?
We need to dust off the Fourth Amendment and re-activate out Bill of Rights. Searching loyal Americans like criminals and stealing their property is no solution to terrorism. A government treating their own citizens like criminals for merely traveling is terrorism.
Worse yet, why are they always pulling out older white ladies for an exhaustive body search yet are too cowardly to pull out ethnic-looking young men?