Archive for the ‘TSA’ Category

TSA at JFK Airport Permit Unscreened Travelers to Walk Through Security Checkpoint

Monday, February 20th, 2017

Do You Feel Safer Now??? -Image Courtesy: Meme-LOL.com

VIA: Washington Examiner


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Outrageous! Muslim TSA Screener Gropes a Catholic Nun

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

TSADo You Feel Safer Now? -Image: Amy Mek

“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.”
(I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.) -Thomas Jefferson

TSA Introduces New Checklist of Who May Be a Terrorist — Do You Feel Safer Now?

Saturday, March 28th, 2015

TSA Warning SignsDo You Feel Safer Now? –Image: The Intercept

TSA SearchTSA Screener Hire-a-Cop Gropes a Child, Which One of the Terrorist
Warning Signs Did he Fall Into??? –Image: Barracuda Brigade@Twitter

So What If the Department of Homeland Security Runs Out of Funds?

Monday, February 16th, 2015

DHS Organizational ChartU.S. Dept of Homeland Security Organizational Chart

Eleven days after the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and United 93 that crashed in Shanksville, PA the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) was founded, designated to coordinate and unify 22 separately funded federal departments and agencies with a budget in FY 2002 of $19.5 Billion, during FY 2015 this exploded to $38.2 Billion to Obama’s $41.2 Billion FY 2016 funding request

DHS from their own ‘Organizational Chart’ has too many subdivisions in too many disparate fields to operate effectively as CATO Institute in September, 2011 points out.

Agencies with responsibility for: Counterfeiting Investigations, Border Security, Disaster Preparedness, Federal Law Enforcement Training, Biological Warfare Defense, Health Affairs find themselves under the same Cabinet official.

This arrangement has not enhanced the governments competence or efficiency–Americans are not any safer because the head of DHS is simultaneously responsible for airport security and federal efforts to counter potential flu epidemics.

National defense is a key governmental responsibility but focusing too many resources on trying to defend every potential terrorist target is a recipe for wasteful spending. Our limited resources are better spent on investigating and arresting aspiring terrorists.

DHS responsibilities for aviation security, domestic surveillance and port security, have made it too easy for politicians to disguise pork barrel spending in red, white and blue–Politicians wanting to bring money home to their districts and as a result, DHS appropriations too often differ from what ought to be DHS priorities.

The Dept of Homeland Security should be abolished (or defunded) and its components reorganized into more practical groupings. The agencies tasked with immigration, border security and customs enforcement belong under the same oversight agency. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshals should be abolished and the federal government should end support for fusion centers–the remaining DHS organizations should return to their former parent agencies.

Terrorism remains a serious problem but policymakers ought to be more candid with the American public. Instead of pandering to fear and overreacting to every potential threat, Washington policymakers should keep the risk of terrorist attacks in perspective and focus public resources on cost-effective measures.

On the 16 November, 2010 I wrote here did you know, that the nations airports are not required to have TSA Screeners? The 2001 law creating the ‘Transportation Security Administration’ (TSA) gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of ‘Private Screeners’ subsequent to a 2 yr period.

Now with DHS funding on-hold and with a TSA (that everyone loves to hate) having humiliated travelers ever since they’ve been in existence, made children cry, trampled on the 4th Amendment–never forgetting the $30 Million of taxpayers dollars it wasted on ‘Puffers’ that didn’t work together with the roaming HCV Mobile Full Body XXX Scanners that government bureaucrats spent money on, that may without a warrant look into your home, other structures and underneath your clothing.

So what if the DHS runs out of funds (which would effectively defund the TSA) would this be such a bad thing or instead be an unanticipated victory for the Constitution?

Obama’s Watch: When Liberals are Left in Charge

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

TSADo You Feel Safer Now?

H/T: Peter Gauvin

Ryan-Murray House/Senate Budget Deal Betrayal of Conservative Principles

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

California RINOs That Supported Budget DealCalifornia RINO’s That Supported Budget Busting Betrayal
Guntrust@Twitter

TSA--Only In DCIn the Ryan-Muuray Budget “Deal” Americans Will Now Have to Pay More For This –Sen Rand Paul (R-KY)@Twitter

President Obama together with House Democrats and RINO’s reeling from low voter ratings, were eager to cut a budget deal that takes the heat off of them for not doing their jobs for the next two years which the Libertarian Party points out:

  • Continues to add $1 Trillion annually to the already out of control $17.2Trillion federal budget deficit;
  • Locks in continuous funding of ObamaCare;
  • Raises taxes, including an increase in TSA fees hidden federal taxes that will be tacked on to your airline tickets.

Republicans who pretend to ‘oppose ObamaCare’ promising to replace and defund it are allowing it to continue unchecked which has resulted in more than 5.5 Million Americans to lose their health insurance, raising premiums, deductibles and costing jobs.

Many in the House GOP have put off being good stewards of the public purse and have betrayed the principles which they’ve claimed. Former Reagan OMB Director David Stockman said on CNBC “Its the final surrender of the House Republican leadership to Beltway politics, kicking the can and ignoring the budget monster that’s hurtling down the road.”

Related: Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) “I Cannot Support Budget Deal” –Breitbart

Sen Mike Lee (R-UT) Opposes House-Senate Budget Deal

The Budget Deal and Why Were $17 Trillion+ In Debt

Natl Reconnaissance Office New Logo Claims: Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

Friday, December 6th, 2013

Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach

(FOX News) The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a new spy satellite last evening on ‘Mission NROL-39’ and the new tag line and logo are quite an eye opener.

“Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach.”

Isn’t that just a comforting thought, after all we’ve learned about the NSA spying on Americans together with the latest overreach by the TSA and Dept of Homeland Security recently announced practice changes.

When was the 4th Amendment repealed?

Related: What the Govt Could Do With All That Location Data –ACLU

Audit the IRS Rally, Wednesday, 19 June, 2013 U.S. Capitol Noon-2:00 PM

Monday, June 10th, 2013

Audit the IRSAudit The IRS Rally, Wednesday, 19 June, 2013 Washington DC

Big Sista’s DHS: Laptops & Cell Phones May Be Searched and Records Seized Without a Warrant

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Driving Over Constitution

(CBS News) Today we learned that more of our freedoms are under attack by the very federal employees that have taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.

According to a Dept of Homeland Security report, U.S. Border Agents have been instructed they should continue to search a travelers laptop, cell phone and/or any other electronic device and maintain copies of such data based on nothing more than a hunch.

When was the 4th Amendment repealed, which prohibits the intrusion and seizure by government agents of persons, houses, papers and personal effects without a warrant?

On the 30 May, I wrote here that Sen Ted Cruz, (R-TX) criticized the Obama Administration of not respecting the “Bill of Rights.”

Today we’ve learned how quickly Americans freedoms are being taken away by government central planners during Obama’s Watch, without as much as a whimper by most people.

Post-Sequester: DHS Authorizes TSA Uniform Perks, More Expensive Than USMC Uniforms

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

TSA Waste --The Kitchen CabinetTSA Uniform Perks More Expensive Than USMC Uniforms

More Govt Waste: Chief White House Calligrapher Gets Paid $96,725

H/T: The Kitchen Cabinet