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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTSA to expedite airport security screening for $100 fee
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/tsa-to-expedite-airport-security-screening-for-100-fee/Those who wish to avoid body scanners and pat-downs at airports can pay $100 to opt into a Transportation Security Administration expedited security screening program.
Its pay to play, aviation analyst Michael Boyd said on MSNBC. I dont know how much it is going to do for security, but is a one time fee as far as I know.
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This should PROVE once and for all what a FREAKIN scam and stupid the TSA security is. Basically they are taking a Bribe!
Ian David
(69,059 posts)guardian
(2,282 posts)The TSA is a joke and a waste of money.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)This idiocy proves it's theater...period.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The Elite Rich Frequent Flyer Program. Brought to you by the 1%--low income, middle class need not apply--you don't have a prayer. We pretend it's for 'Homeland Security'--but that's not even an inside joke. It's inside and outside. And we don't care.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)flyers can side step procedure.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)There... Real security does not get expedited by a 100 dollar fee.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)South Park totally destroyed the invasiveness of the TSA last night - disturbing episode but highly worth watching.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)Someone getting rich off the people.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)"Security" can be bought for a hundred dollars?
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)BadgerKid
(4,554 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)That's right. Resign.
Otherwise, America will regard you as the Nazi animals that you are.
You're committing treason against American liberty. Selling us out for a fucking paycheck. You are subhuman scum by simply existing.
Fuck the TSA.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)What will. So any "terrorist" who waits long enough to be on the "good" list can one day take a bomb on a plane without being checked. This whole thing is a scam. If we are to believe the "attacks" of 9/11 happened like they said, why not check subways, trains, buses. More damage can happen with a "suicider" on a bus in downtown NY at 5:00pm than any "terrorist" on a plane. Or 5 bombers in the subways all going off at the same time in different locations. More death and destruction on land than in the sky. Why are planes the dangerous ones, but yet trains, buses, and subways, no one checks your bags. No one takes off their shoes.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I think you're against it, but your post leaves a bit of a doubt.
Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)The wealthy and the upper middle class can afford this the rest of us can't, pretty soon there will be a law where we have to bow to rich people.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Oh, And Sarah Palin made rape victims pay for their rape kits too when she was governor. I wonder if they still do that in Alaska.
But we can all just close our eyes while it's happening and that will make it all better.
DFW
(54,426 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)And the "I'm only working there to make a living" is a variation on the "I was only following orders" line - that didn't work then and doesn't work now.
If you work for the TSA you should turn in your tin foil badge.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Devil_Fish
(1,664 posts)Freekin wounderful.