TSA: Racist or Reasonable?

It's ironic that Big Brother will defend to the death their right to grope and fondle ordinary people who merely want to get from point A to point B, in the name of "protecting" us from people who overwhelmingly fall into the very groups they're worried about offending by "profiling."

It's as if all the intrusions are okay -- unless you happen to fall into one of the groups that historically have been responsible for the overwhelming majority of terrorism attempts. Then it's discriminatory.

Someone please explain how this makes sense.

-Rich
 
Framing. If anyone considers the question they have accepted the existence of the TSA.
 
Only middle aged white men should get pat down because everyone else is very sensitive and might get their jimmies rustled. Everyone else gets waved through.
 
PPC1052 said:
Congress questions TSA plan to use "behavioral screening plan", citing concerns of racial profiling.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2013/11/14/tsa-behavior-pistole-profiling/3529275/

Discuss.

(This may certainly end up as spin zone material.)
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Well it's actually spin zone reporting you are choosing to spin further. The GAO finds the program ineffective and costly. That is, it didn't work and cost $200m a year.

Congress was playing to their constituents thru the press as usual. The TSA is defending their budget and program. Everyone except for the GAO is playing the race card because this is America.
 
Plan to use? They've been using it going on 5-6 years now. They've pulled over a lot of innocent passengers for full searches (everything out of every bag), pat-downs/gropes, interrogations, and delays. Out of all that, I think they caught a couple of folks traveling with illicit drugs - and claimed that made the program "successful".

A waste for the poor passengers, a waste of tax money, but still heard on a radio interview today someone saying "it makes us safer so it must be worth it". :mad2:
 
Still waiting for people to just accept that
1) sometime bad stuff happens.
2) Not all bad things are worth the effort required to reduce/prevent them.
 
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