TSA looks to Walmart

[Hoosier]

I can't be the only one who thought of 1984

[Irving]

The reporter asked Janet if she felt anything "Big Brothery" about seeing her face on a monitor all over. Janet actually laughed and laughed about the comment. The reporter also asked Janet if she thought that this was like East Germany asking the citizens to tattle on each other all the time. Janet didn't like that one at all and said something stupid along the lines of "Oh, not at all. We're just asking citizens to report anything out of the ordinary that they might be seeing."

Anyone interested in hearing the actual report, because I'm sure I'm getting stuff wrong, can just go to www.cpr.org and find it there.

[Pistol Packing Preacher]

I am reporting all of you!

[TFOGGER]

Stuart, when I saw the title to this, the following continuation of your title came in to my mind:

....for better quality employees.....


While awareness of one's surroundings is an admirable trait, I think the TSA should concentrate on doing things that will make an actual difference in air/train/port security, rather than trying to draft the (rather dubious) employees of a private business to try to cast a bigger net. If everyone HAD common sense, and was motivated enough to take responsibility for their own safety, the TSA would have even less reason to exist than it does currently. Ms. Napolitano is anxious to be seen as doing SOMETHING, even if it's just more feel good bullshit security theater. Now, if only there were laws on the books to prevent outsiders with ill intent from entering our country illegally.....

[BPTactical]

What do you think the possibility is that "Aunt Janet" and associates are on the way to focusing on "Domestic Terrorists"?
Could WallyWorld be a testing platform to getting Joe Public to be the "eyes and ears" of TPTB?

[OneGuy67]

The TSA, like any other govt. bureaucracy, is trying to expand it's power and job security. I don't see it as left or right, just the nature of the beast. When will we, as a people, put a stop to these intrusions into our civil rights?

The director of TSA was in Pueblo a few months ago conducting a tour of the Pueblo Army Depot and related trains and expressed his desire to have TSA conduct the training and security for the trains and ALL related transportation. I do see him pushing to take over other transportation related segments of the federal government like the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Amtrack, and others.

That concerns me greatly.

[BPTactical]

The director of TSA was in Pueblo a few months ago conducting a tour of the Pueblo Army Depot and related trains and expressed his desire to have TSA conduct the training and security for the trains and ALL related transportation. I do see him pushing to take over other transportation related segments of the federal government like the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Amtrack, and others.

That concerns me greatly.

So you could conceivably envision TSA over ALL forms of transportation? Great, gonna have to get groped just to drive to work or get on the bus.

Is this going to be the "Civilian Security Force" that Oboingo has touted?

[hurley842002]

So you could conceivably envision TSA over ALL forms of transportation? Great, gonna have to get groped just to drive to work or get on the bus.

Is this going to be the "Civilian Security Force" that Oboingo has touted?

There was a time I would have said "when it gets to that point, the Gov will have problems", anymore I don't trust that the majority of "The People", would even object, and THAT'S what scares me.

[2ndAmendment]

I reported this yesterday to the TSA and got no response back.....al-Qa'ida man with what look like a bag of fertilizer in his shopping kart and a suit on that was to big for him.....Could of swore I saw c4 under there.

[Irving]

Just this morning I heard a report about a young man who walked onto an airport tarmac, climbed up an airplane's running gear, stowed away in the compartment in a flight from South Carolina to Boston, then fell to his death when the running gear opened above Boston.

Now, I swore that this happened a few months back in another part of the world (I want to say China), and I'm not 100% sure if this is new or not. Either way, my question is Was the TSA too busy fingering toddlers to notice a kid walk onto a run way off the street and climb into the belly of an airplane? I would expect this kind of atrocious failure from the TSA, but not Walmart. This makes me really sad. Perhaps everyone was too busy watching The Janet Hour playing on 10,000 different monitors through out the airport to see something or say something?