The Glade 4.0

First it was the TSA and Planes, then Trains now...
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15725 ... -statewide

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Jesus christ. **** OFF, TSA.

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Isn't that what police, state troopers, sheriffs, etc. are already for?

We're from the government and we're here to help.

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Have they caught a terrorist yet?

These teams have been conducting their random searches for, what, less than a week? They've already caught just as many terrorists as the TSA in the airports have, in a decade.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

For every bus station bathroom stall they search, it will deter a terrorist from hiding there.

I feel the tides a change... to facist police state.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I wonder why the Obama administration hates poor people?

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Well they know that Black people will never protest against Obama, so they don't have to cater to them. (not all Blacks are poor, but many are)

It's merely a person desperately trying to justify a job that should never have been created in the first place.

Most poor people in the United States are white, Lex.

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Correction: about half of poor people in the United States are white (if you define poor as in poverty)




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in ... mographics

I agree. It's about time we eliminate the office of the presidency.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

You remember those rather heated arguments we had around here when the TSA introduced mandatory backscatter and/or groping? Because I can remember several people around here who torched everyone who complained about the TSA because air travel was voluntary and ostensibly that meant you were volunteering for anything the TSA wants to do to you just by not using alternate long-distance transportation. I also remember those same people berating anyone who suggested that the TSA was going to start pulling this **** with trains and buses. Those were the good old days.

I'm going to predict that taxi services will be hit next, followed eventually by some kind of background check or similar for renewing/obtaining a driver's license. 10th amendment be damned on the latter. They'll just take hostages threaten to withhold highway funds unless the states comply "voluntarily".

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

It's your choice to leave your house and travel somewhere... *tries to create a trolling statement and fails miserably*

Holy ****, mark your calendar!

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From the OP:



So.. Asking people to call authorities if they see something suspicious is suddenly the harbinger of a police state or whatever the currently fashionable hystrionics are just because it's the TSA and has to do with terrorism?

What exactly is the problem here?

Let me list a couple: It's a colossal waste of money and not likely to catch any terrorists.

Those are the problems. I don't see anything in there about them implementing air travel measures on buses or trains, and if they did, so what? The problem with airport security measures is that they're overpriced and a major inconvenience, not that they're somehow intruding upon you.

Like FarSky said, that's what Troopers, Deputies, and cops are already there for. The problem isn't someone doing this; it's that its expensive and unnecessary.

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