http://exiledonline.com/blackwater-stop-acting-surprised/
The Blackwater defectors have filed a sworn deposition in federal court that Blackwater zapped Iraqis at random, aimed to kill Muslims anywhere and any time they could, paid little Baghdadi girls a dollar a head, so to speak, for sexual services and just generally behaved like cartoon baddies.

And these are the kind of people who own the kind of ‘business’ who would go for the TSA contract – and you want them turned loose on Citizens who would have no recourse under ANY current government contract to protect themselves from abuse?
Again- look up Corporo-fascism.
And if you say ‘that can’t happen here’ – then you are just like the Italians who said the same thing when Mussolini was going for power.

First of all, we’re paying billions of dollars to this agency — $8.1 billion in the new budget. Shouldn’t we be getting something for this?? I know my tax dollars have already funded slaughter, maiming, and torture in two wars, along with countless other hideous and immoral things, so I’m not a purist; I get it that a lot of our money is wasted and spent on things I deplore. But I’m not willing to roll over every single time.

Second, the point is that our rights are being violated. It doesn’t make anything better that they’re violated by a private secruity firm or a government one. And good grief, look at what private contractors have done in Iraq and Afganistan. Yeah, that’s worked out real well.

Basically, those working for contractors generally seem to actually care about the job they are doing, and actually have to report to somebody.

Meanwhile, TSA has shown time and again that they just don’t give a damn about passengers, and prefer to treat us like criminals. Further proof of this is their recent action to kill the contractor program: if it works, get rid of it to piss people off even more. :(

What? Privatization of ‘security forces’ in Italy is what Mussolini did. That is the epitome and framework of Italian Fascism. Mussolini corporatized most of Italy’s public works along with the security forces. Then state sponsored corporations could sic the security agency on corporations who were competing with them – and on the people supporting them. Mussolini called it ‘Corporo-fascism’. ie: let the private companies do the dirty work for you in subduing the nation. It’s easier because private companies don’t have to answer to ANYONE about abuses.

Anyone who even mentions privatizing a security force as large and powerful as this is asking for all hell to break loose in this country. You need to brush up on history. Seriously.

http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/%E2%80%9Cdo-i-have-the-right-to-refuse-this-search%E2%80%9D/

If you would also like to read a story about how I defeated the TSA and saved the world from a dangerous jar of olives check out this blog post

Earlier this year she had a hip replacement, so she now sets off the metal detectors. She carries a medical card explaining it, but every time we’ve flown together since then (several times now) she has been wanded in a MOST intrusive fashion – let’s just say people pay big money for the type of intimate physical contact these TSA agents have been perpetrating on her. Every inch of her body is touched, either by a stranger’s hands, or by a big metal implement.

In July we were returning from an international trip, with a connecting flight in Atlanta. The airport personnel in Copenhagen were perfectly pleasant – read her card, did a quick wanding, let her pass. In Atlanta, re-entering the secure area after going through customs, naturally she set off the alarm and was pulled aside to be wanded. The woman who wanded her was rude, unpleasant, snippy, and made her stand there for almost 30 minutes, with no shoes on, on a dirty floor, and wouldn’t let her sit down…and this was less than three months post-surgery, so standing for that long was painful for her.

When I attempted to intervene and get them to allow her to sit, or to at least give her some water (she was made to wait so long in the heat, she was getting dehydrated) I was told to stay back and NOT TALK TO HER! Huh?? Since when does having a metal hip make one a criminal that may not be SPOKEN TO, even by her family? She was in tears by the time the ordeal was over. We have resolved never to pass through Atlanta airport again.

@Jose – I had to laugh at your “lack of physical readiness” comment — great euphamism! I’ll go out on a limb and say what I think you mean: I too saw literally dozens of TSA agents standing around doing nothing, and the vast majority of them were overweight — some substantially — and didn’t look like they could chase a terrorst more than 10 feet before keeling over in cardiac arrest. My MOTHER with her new hip could probably run faster than many of them. And this is our front line?

There is no way this department will prevent terrorism given the structure and practices of the organization today.