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Old 01-02-2011, 09:41 AM
 
Location: SC
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YIKES! Look at this?

TSA photocopies a mans credit cards and other personal documents

How in the world can this happen and people not have their credit used and I.D. stolen by TSA staff????? This is WAY WAY WAY out of control!

I think if everyone of us isn't on the phone to our congressman and senators and local legisators at least on a weekly basis INSISTING that this invasive behavior be STOPPED IMMEDIATELY we aren't doing our duty as good American citizens. WE should do it on a daily basis and also call into local radio talk shows etc and tell everyone. This has got to stop.
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Old 01-02-2011, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Northeast
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Well, one good thing the terrorist won't be able to hate us for our freedoms since we are losing most of them anyhoo
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Old 01-02-2011, 10:48 AM
 
Location: SC
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Sorry there was no article with that YouTube video but I'm sure tomorrow or the next day there will be something on World Net Daily or the Drudge Report or Info Wars before it gradually makes it to mainstream media. Up until now this is what the TSA has been premitted and not permitted to do. I don't think photo copying and swiping credit cards has ever been standard procedure.

Airport Screening - Are TSA Searches Going Too Far? - WSJ.com
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Old 01-02-2011, 10:54 AM
 
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Sorry there was no article with that YouTube video but I'm sure tomorrow or the next day there will be something on World Net Daily or the Drudge Report or Info Wars before it gradually makes it to mainstream media. Up until now this is what the TSA has been premitted and not permitted to do. I don't think photo copying and swiping credit cards has ever been standard procedure.

Airport Screening - Are TSA Searches Going Too Far? - WSJ.com
Oh yes indeed, if you hear/read it on Whacked Nutz Daily, Drudge or Infowars you can take
it to the bank as it must be gospel. Yep indeed, you betcha....
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Old 01-02-2011, 10:55 AM
 
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Like all government agencies...give em an inch and they will take a mile.

Let's hold the incoming congress to the peoples mandate of smaller government and <snip> <snip> the budgets of these busy-body bureaucracies.
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Old 01-02-2011, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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As soon as passengers opt to stay home (or drive or train) rather than fly the airlines will start losing BIG money. Then airport management will realize the error of their ways and dump TSA.
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Old 01-02-2011, 11:00 AM
 
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As soon as passengers opt to stay home (or drive or train) rather than fly the airlines will start losing BIG money. Then airport management will realize the error of their ways and dump TSA.
Yep and allow terrorists to fly at will....great idea!
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Old 01-02-2011, 11:02 AM
 
Location: SC
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Even worse than that, some of you may be aware that they have infra-red technology now with powerful scanners designed to scan through trucks or vans and through the siding of homes to pick up RFID chips and to see inside your home. There has been a plan to convert USPS postal trucks for this purpose.

Imagine how this can be abused ,,,,not to mention how dangerous this would be to the driver and operator of the scanner..(considering now it has finally dawned on the aiport TSA workers that being exposed to radiation from the the naked body scanners all day long might not be healthful and they are trying to unionize because of it ).

With these types of scanners they could A) tell if you are at home or not. B)Any crook who got this info could easily break into your house and rob you if they could determine nobody was home. C)If your driver's license is chipped anyone with a scanner could locate where your wallet is. D) the new appliances will supposedly be chipped so they should easily be able to determine what appliances you have and what if any are worth taking.

I think this technology and the audacity of Homeland Security to use it this way will do more harm than good for everyone concerned-- including their employees.
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Old 01-02-2011, 11:07 AM
 
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Even worse than that, some of you may be aware that they have infra-red technology now with powerful scanners designed to scan through trucks or vans and through the siding of homes to pick up RFID chips and to see inside your home. There has been a plan to convert USPS postal trucks for this purpose.

Imagine how this can be abused ,,,,not to mention how dangerous this would be to the driver and operator of the scanner..(considering now it has finally dawned on the aiport TSA workers that being exposed to radiation from the the naked body scanners all day long might not be healthful and they are trying to unionize because of it ).

With these types of scanners they could A) tell if you are at home or not. B)Any crook who got this info could easily break into your house and rob you if they could determine nobody was home. C)If your driver's license is chipped anyone with a scanner could locate where your wallet is. D) the new appliances will supposedly be chipped so they should easily be able to determine what appliances you have and what if any are worth taking.

I think this technology and the audacity of Homeland Security to use it this way will do more harm than good for everyone concerned-- including their employees.
Here's a little advice for you, quit listening to Alex Jones and Glenn Beck...
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Old 01-02-2011, 11:28 AM
 
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As soon as passengers opt to stay home (or drive or train) rather than fly the airlines will start losing BIG money. Then airport management will realize the error of their ways and dump TSA.
I don't think so ... they're already doing everything they can to implode the economy .. killing the airlines will just add another private industry to the list to be swallowed up by the Federal Reser ... err ... Federal Government.
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