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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:25 pm
by thibodeaux
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:53 pm
by GORDON
Well maybe if we looked at h ow many terrorist attacks the TSA has actually stopped, maybe their existence will be justified.
So how many terrorist attacks have they stopped? Surely by now, after hundreds of millions of searches, hundreds of thousands of confiscated fingernail clippers and bottles of suntan lotion, and billions of dollars spent, it is at least in the hundreds, right?
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:38 pm
by thibodeaux
It's like Ernie walking around with the banana in his ear. Keeps the alligators away.
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:44 pm
by GORDON
I can't think of a thing the TSA is doing that would have stopped the 9/11 hijackers, especially considering the anecdote linked in the original post. So what the hell is the point?
Lock the cockpit door. Everyone casually walks by some dogs trained to detect the molecules of explosives. That's it. That would have stopped any hijacking I can think of that has actually happened.
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:27 am
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Well maybe if we looked at h ow many terrorist attacks the TSA has actually stopped, maybe their existence will be justified.
Shit, they TSA makes me want to bomb a goddamned airport. If they weren't around, something tells me my anger might subside.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:26 pm
by TPRJones
http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml
Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story reported, quite a few for felony offenses. In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.
We now have approximately 4,000 in the Federal Air Marshals Service, yet they have made an average of just 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. This comes out to an average of about one arrest a year per 1,000 employees.
Now, let me make that clear. Their thousands of employees are not making one arrest per year each. They are averaging slightly over four arrests each year by the entire agency. In other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. Let me repeat that: we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest.
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9aOYkkvJ4g
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:03 pm
by TheCatt
BUT WHAT IF YUOU NEED ONE AND THEIR ISNT ONE THERE?! !?>!
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:49 pm
by Malcolm
If we all received mandatory firearms & unarmed combat training in grade school, this would be a moot point.
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:40 am
by Malcolm
From here.
Grassley cited a July 2008 e-mail from an agency official that said, “any form of retaliation against an employee for raising a concern or complaint through any established process, formal or informal, is strictly prohibited.”
The TSA denies everything.
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:00 pm
by DoctorChaos
because it is illegal to retaliate at the TSA there is no need to maintain an office for complaints
makes perfect sense to me. And we don't need TSA because it is illegal to take weapons on a plane, mkay?