tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4321463509563066862..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Airport security, Kurt Cobain, and the Fourth AmendmentGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-52998535489658152022014-11-12T02:03:45.031-06:002014-11-12T02:03:45.031-06:00Security pat downs are quite humiliating. They nee...Security pat downs are quite humiliating. They need some even more reformed means of security that are at least less humiliating then pat downs. <a href="http://www.easyparkinggatwick.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">airport parking gatwick</a>carlagracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00662091021960640076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-69556214109283493192014-09-15T09:14:11.096-05:002014-09-15T09:14:11.096-05:00That is true in reality, the best security comes f...That is true in reality, the best security comes from passengers themselves and alert airline staff, not from the army of underpaid bureaucrats pretending to keep us safe at the airport entrance. <a href="http://www.britanniaairportparking.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">meet and greet parking Gatwick south</a> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465543864465672820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-20374386208896658562010-09-21T01:02:32.424-05:002010-09-21T01:02:32.424-05:00Scott, I'm glad you had a great holiday.
Just...Scott, I'm glad you had a great holiday.<br /><br />Just wanted to say, if, when I attempt to visit the US next week, I make such a comment to the border security officials as you did, I will almost certainly be escorted to a small room and interogated for a while by the nice men with latex gloves.<br /><br />And I daren't mention where my husband is, otherwise I get the border official's personal opinion on how stupid I am and how my husband is the scum of the earth. <br /><br />Apparently they would rather criticise me and my family, than welcome me and my money into the state.sunray's wenchhttp://www.helium.com/items/1641834-living-unconventional-lifestylesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-34741465639512277322010-09-20T23:00:24.425-05:002010-09-20T23:00:24.425-05:00Screw fat people! Fat bastards shouldn't have ...Screw fat people! Fat bastards shouldn't have jobs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-48903427924800452572010-09-20T09:24:05.969-05:002010-09-20T09:24:05.969-05:00Re: the Soviet Union. The second amendment booster...Re: the Soviet Union. The second amendment boosters still don't seem to see the irony. Right after September 11th you gave away your rights because you were comfortable with Bush, and apparently had no foresight whatsoever. Then you became uncomfortable with the next President and worried about what you had given away. It's exactly how the Third Reich and the Soviet Union came about. You had a large group of citizens who were scared and were willing to sacrifice anything to feel safe. It's why our prisons overflow. It's why we sell so many guns. None of these things have been shown to statistically make us any safer, but they let us feel like we have control.<br /><br />If you drive a car or are obese worrying about terrorists or police invasions of your home is ridiculous. Those are just boogeymen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-72531170075915043102010-09-20T06:39:57.465-05:002010-09-20T06:39:57.465-05:00Doug, on pay, see here. Google around on TSA's...Doug, on pay, see <a href="http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Security_Screener,_Airline/Hourly_Rate" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Google around on TSA's problems and you'll find high employee turnover is one of their big ones.<br /><br />At a time when a lot of people don't have jobs, pay may be less a factor in turnover, but at $11-$16 per hour they're not exactly raking it in.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-62516094128509676632010-09-19T19:05:27.920-05:002010-09-19T19:05:27.920-05:00Nice writing, S - enjoyed it!Nice writing, S - enjoyed it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29952770393210002752010-09-19T18:32:00.406-05:002010-09-19T18:32:00.406-05:00"the army of underpaid bureaucrats"
Why..."the army of underpaid bureaucrats"<br /><br />Why do you say they are underpaid? They have federal jobs with good benefits, and they apparently don't have to work very hard.Doug Duncannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23774392237213817472010-09-19T14:24:04.740-05:002010-09-19T14:24:04.740-05:00It is nice that people have jobs but they would be...It is nice that people have jobs but they would be better put to use in a security capacity training bomb/drug sniffing dogs. I asked about this in one of my classes and was told it costs a fortune to train a dog and that DFW only has three. THREE? I am like you have got to be kidding. But just like the way our troops are fighting in Af. and Iraq with their hands tied behind their backs, our huge beaurcracy seems unable to think outsde the box and find creative effective new approaches to those things that have proven ineffective.<br />As far as the Airport Security goes, I am afraid we have to compromise that or quit flying. The gov. knew about the threats of terrorists flying planes into buildings way before it happened and we did nothing to prevent it. An ounce of prevention is like a pound of cure. Dogs I say Dogs!!E V Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02011447941815460126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-76896036266555872742010-09-19T12:56:42.802-05:002010-09-19T12:56:42.802-05:00Airport security is an open, vicious joke amongst ...Airport security is an open, vicious joke amongst pilots and flight attendants. Go to a bar frequented by airline folks, grab a beer, and sit back and listen to the convo. If the people the 'security' guys are trying to protect (and they ARE usually quite stunningly over-weight)have such scathing contempt for them, how can we view them with anything less than disdain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-24121418088245577182010-09-19T09:24:51.242-05:002010-09-19T09:24:51.242-05:00Anon, I never thought Americans would quake in fea...Anon, I never thought Americans would quake in fear and so willingly give up our basic rights to a higher authority that is viewed with suspicion. I envisioned a national, united voice that would firmly reject the path that we have taken. After 9/11 I respected President Bush urging people to go about business as usual. That turned out to be impossible when everything around us changed and not for the better.<br />There was no unity. When tested our nation proved to be incredibly weak. Freedoms couldn’t be given away quickly enough. A rise in the terrorism alert, real or political, whips the majority back in line and cowering for government protection.<br />We have become prisoners in our own country. Getting out of the US also carries complications and approval. We are equipped with a passport that allows our government to track us anywhere in the world. We lost manicure scissors in customs and boarded a cruise ship filled with steak knives and other items that would made my tiny scissors laughable if intended as a weapon. <br />Where has freedom gone? We have given it away. We have the equivalent of 15 states behind bars and the rest of us are locked in the country without proper documentation to get out. Maybe border traffic at the Rio Grande will become a two lane road of activity with people going both directions.<br />There are many screams of returning to the Constitution but few actions to indicate this is the direction that our country wants to go. Instead I see a sea of people that carry an air of entitlement and expect government to be custom tailored to their personal needs. Selective freedom with no compromise and no respect for our fellow Americans is a far cry from Constitutional freedom.<br />When the chips were down the weak outnumbered the strong and gave up essential freedoms in the hysteria for personal protection. Problems are not solved when fear is running amok. It is a great disappointment to see the giving away of the very things other counties fight to achieve. I don’t think there is any going back. That would require a different breed of people.<br />Welcome home, Scott. Isn't it amazing how small the US becomes when traveling abroad?Angeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00323251252533007308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-77880875930915920492010-09-18T22:47:07.060-05:002010-09-18T22:47:07.060-05:00Instead of focusing on the dead 92 year old, it mi...Instead of focusing on the dead 92 year old, it might help to remember the quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:<br />"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." <br /><br />If those who have soiled the 4th amendment had reason to actually fear death when crossing a threshold (instead of just faking a fear for show), then maybe the 4th might make a return.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3070893913172446112010-09-18T21:48:33.706-05:002010-09-18T21:48:33.706-05:00Patrick,
Their weight could have much to do with ...Patrick,<br /><br />Their weight could have much to do with our security. If they have to actually respond (and remember customs inspectors - now known as CBP officers thanks to some moronic staffer in Congress - are law enforcement positions) to a security issue that extra 100 pounds just might be the difference between life or death - mine and hers (or him). Any more questions? :~)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-44520044733660370372010-09-18T16:28:35.247-05:002010-09-18T16:28:35.247-05:00Welcome home, I'm sure the break was therapeut...Welcome home, I'm sure the break was therapeutic.Prison Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03651611135066437902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78330703782826271752010-09-18T13:48:07.088-05:002010-09-18T13:48:07.088-05:00I don't know, Patrick, but they've got som...I don't know, Patrick, but they've got some big boys working there.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23189160552440818602010-09-18T12:50:26.312-05:002010-09-18T12:50:26.312-05:00What does the weight of airport security bureaucra...What does the weight of airport security bureaucrats have to do with anything?Patrick Stecknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58229476108465471722010-09-18T10:26:07.241-05:002010-09-18T10:26:07.241-05:00Liberals and conservatives agreeing on a t-shirt d...Liberals and conservatives agreeing on a t-shirt differently.<br />Interesting......<br />Maybe we are all on same side after all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78088823059444910722010-09-18T10:04:33.582-05:002010-09-18T10:04:33.582-05:00Scott, Rev. Charles here.
Welcome back to the US o...Scott, Rev. Charles here.<br />Welcome back to the US of A. Security checks and all. Interesting tale you told there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com