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Americans are paying billions to be humiliated with no increase in safety.- Quoting the Ground Zero mosque Imam, reported 3/21/04:
"He said there was an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause and there was no sign of the attacks ending unless there was a fundamental change in the world."...
- Airports can opt out of TSA and use private security.
11/15/10, "Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening," Washington Examiner, Byron York
"Did you know that the nation's airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints?
- The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners
- after a two-year period.
Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice. Mica, one of the authors of the original TSA bill, has recently
airports across the country consider utilizing the
Its specialty is what those critics "security theater" -- that is, a show of what appear to be stringent security measures designed to make passengers feel more secure
- written to the heads of more than 150 airports nationwide suggesting they opt out of TSA screening.
airports across the country consider utilizing the
- opt-out provision provided by law."
Its specialty is what those critics "security theater" -- that is, a show of what appear to be stringent security measures designed to make passengers feel more secure
- without providing real security.
- TSA, he says, is relying more on passenger humiliation
- most importantly, questioned before boarding planes.
- The problem is, they're doing it all wrong.
- "It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual.
- In a May 2010 letter to Department of Homeland Security ecretary Janet Napolitano, Mica noted that the GAO
- have flown on 24 different occasions, passing through security at eight SPOT airports."
- Federal agents nabbed him just before departure. Mica and other critics in Congress want to see quick and meaningful changes in the way TSA works. They go back to the days
- as most Democrats wanted, or private contractors, as most Republicans wanted.
- Democrats won and TSA has been growing ever since.
- TSA critics know a federal-to-private change won't solve all of the problems with airport security.
- Reference: "West must act to end jihad: Imam", 3/21/04, The Sun-Herald (Aus.), by Frank Walker.
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