But the TSA's job is not to protect you. That organization's job is to ensure their own paychecks.
Former Congressman Bob Barr’s Liberty Guard organization has filed a lawsuit against the TSA after the federal agency refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request that sought to discover whether or not the TSA temporarily amended its security policies for political reasons during the height of the national opt out day protest in late 2010.
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As we documented at the time, body scanners at major airports like Newark International were roped off and sat idle for the day, preventing people from being able to join the protest by opting out.
At the nation’s busiest airport, Atlanta-Hartsfield, there was,”limited, if any, use of the controversial full-body scanners,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Later reports confirmed that, the TSA had “backed down and resorted to using the old screening procedures — metal detectors and less-intrusive pat-downs.”
The TSA even mockingly suggested that “What some protesters threatened as an opt out day has turned into a TSA appreciation day.”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bob-barr-files-lawsuit-against-tsa-over-drudge-controversy.html
The TSA has access to legal mechanisms by way of DHS to request of Youtube (a Google, that is, NSA, asset) that Youtube delete or restrict videos which are represented to, uh, threaten national security or something, but which turn out to be merely critical of the TSA and thus threaten their paychecks and their empire. Here is one that shows how the naked body scanners are completely useless, a video that Youtube then made age-restricted despite there being nothing salacious or mature about it:
So those body scanners do absolutely nothing (but enrich Michael Chertoff) AND they cause cancer. Great idea.
After being called out, Youtube then de-restricted the video. You no longer have to log in and affirm that you are 18 years of age to watch it.
And then when journalists sought to get a comment from TSA about that very video, they were "strongly cautioned" not to pursue the story:
It seems the TSA isn't so happy about the dissemination of a blogger's contention that you can sneak dangerous stuff through security by placing it along the side of your body. The blogger says reporters complained that the TSA tried to get them not to write about the story.
In an email to the blogger posted at TSA Out of Our Pants, one reporter wrote "I received an email from the TSA saying they would 'strongly caution' me against covering the story. They say you're a man that "clearly has an agenda" and should 'not be aided by the mainstream media.' "
A writer at Smarter Travel also says the TSA "strongly cautioned" her not to write about the story, but she did anyway.http://consumerist.com/2012/03/reporters-tsa-strongly-cautions-against-writing-about-security-loophole.html
I've no idea what country these losers over at DHS and the TSA think they're living in, but it is definitely not in keeping with American values (albeit in suspended animation for the past ten years) to have government employees (who simply aren't cut of the cloth necessary to catch the terriss) presume to look their masters in the eye, much less "strongly caution" them not to cover a story that proves that TSA is 100% staffed by dead weight who do absolutely nothing.
The TSA serves no function, and its employees don't want anyone discovering this. That is why they don't comply with FOIA requests. It's not for national security, my little dream child.
A return to first principles in this country entails recognizing that civil servants are precisely that. They are not "leaders" and they are not "authorities," no matter what high falutin' title they choose to print on their business cards. They are the hired help, nothing more, and their function is to tend to the proper functioning of the mutual defense association.
Do you remember the good ol' days of the exaltation of government, back in the days of Ike or Kennedy or Nixon, where people didn't just bust a gut and roll their eyes at that feckless band of goofs in Washington?
I've spent seven years pointing out the terriss, and I didn't even get whacked yet. The fairy queens did all the heavy lifting for you. Now go catch the bad men.
