TSA Surprise!

[Will E Worm]

Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Car, Subway, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane

Think you could avoid the TSA's body scanners and pat-downs by taking Amtrak? Think again. Even your daily commute isn't safe from TSA screenings. And because the TSA is working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, you may have your immigration status examined along with your "junk".

As part of the TSA's request for FY 2012 funding, TSA Administrator John Pistole told Congress last week that the TSA conducts 8,000 unannounced security screenings every year. These screenings, conducted with local law enforcement agencies as well as immigration, can be as simple as checking out cargo at a busy seaport. But more and more, they seem to involve giving airport-style pat-downs and screenings of unsuspecting passengers at bus terminals, ferries, and even subways.

These surprise visits are part of the TSA's VIPR program: Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response. The VIPR program first started doing searches in 2007, and has grown since then. Currently, the TSA only has 25 VIPR teams doing these impromptu searches: in 2012, it wants to get 12 more.

The searches are in the name of passenger security, and the TSA says it wants to prevent incidents like the 2004 Madrid train bombings. But if the airports' TSA searches miss security risks like large knives, loaded guns, and explosives, there's certainly the chance that screenings at train stations would be similarly flawed.

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TSA has to go.

 

[jod0565]

How many people have they "caught"?

Too lazy to reaf the article - if it has that figure in it.

 

[Will E Worm]

How many people have they "caught"?

Too lazy to reaf the article - if it has that figure in it.

A big fat zero.

 

[jod0565]

Apparently, I'm to lazy to spell, also.

Thanks, W.E.W.

 

[Death-Proof-69]

i wonder how much and for how long people will tolerate this bullshit...there's practically none of that yet in alaska fyi

 

[grower_boy]

This is downright ridiculous. Whatever happend to having a right to privacy when you've done nothing wrong?

 

[Death-Proof-69]

This is downright ridiculous. Whatever happend to having a right to privacy when you've done nothing wrong?

it switched from innocent until proven guilty to guilty until proven innocent...the old switcharoo, classic

 

[Juliuscaesar]

Maybe I'll wet myself on purpose when they search my junk..LOL, wonder if anyone has ever thought of that!

Also..

TSA agents take 6" plastic hammer from mentally disabled man..Bunch of fucking thugs!

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/new...at-detroit-metropolitan-airport-20110608-wpms

 

[Kingfisher]

Pistole needs to be fired and put in prison for being a major asshole.

 

[Will E Worm]

i wonder how much and for how long people will tolerate this bullshit...there's practically none of that yet in alaska fyi

I would hope not for much longer.

Then again people like to act like farm animals and just move down the line.

 

[Legzman]

...as we continue to lose even more freedom...