Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
I personally find it ironic that the TSA is basically asking the public to do their jobs for them. On one hand they tell everyone how they can't be safe unless the TSA is there to violate people's rights with their brain dead policies and employees that are incompetent in every way possible. On the other hand, they are expanding themselves WAY beyond the sphere of "Travel" and asking the public to basically do their job for them. I'm in utter shock that a government program that was born from a knee jerk reaction to a tragedy has developed in this way. Okay, we all know I'm not surprised.

Lastly, Janet, the head of TSA, cited the example of the "alert New York citizen, who alerted police" to the parked car with smoke coming out of it as her example of how the public can help keep an eye out for terrorism. When the reporter asked for a specific example of what kinds of things the public should keep an eye out for, Janet responded with, Well, smoke coming out of a car for one thing, or something along those lines.

Great. Does that mean that every morning when I go warm up the car before my family gets into it, I'm going to be accosted by some irate, blue-shirted manager from the local 24 Hour Walmart? I sure hope not.

At least there was a decent amount of "the other side" displayed in the news piece. I'm happy about that.

Would you call the cops for someone breaking into you neighbors house? and / Or do something about it??
If no one speaks up .. the cops have nothing to work with . just like when some gangbanger shoots a child in the face. if no one points him to what do the cops have to work with ?

Sorry if my post is not perfect... I just got home from work after a couple cocktails.

I hope it makes sense.