Authored by James Bovard, op-ed via USAToday.com,
Federal groping-on-steroids is not making flying safer. TSA is a farce and a menace, and should be privatized...
On the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump derided the Transportation Security Administration as a “total disaster.” But his administration is making TSA more intrusive and abusive while its 42,000 screeners remain as incompetent as ever.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents are now authorized to effectively play with passengers genitals as part of new pat-down procedures. US airport security procedures are being overhauled to allow TSA agents to pat-down everybody passing through security – and the new pat-down instructions issued to agents include more intimate “comprehensive” techniques.
As a result of a study, which found that weapons routinely make it past airport security, the TSA is introducing “more rigorous” and “comprehensive” physical inspections at airports around the country, according to Bloomberg. The security agency, which until now had the option of using five different types of physical pat-downs in the screening line, is eliminating the "options" and replacing them with a single, universal method which would involve heavier groping.
A record number of firearms was discovered in carry-on bags in the U.S. in 2016, according to the Transportation Security Administration. In total, 3,391 firearms were found in carry-on bags at TSA checkpoints across the country -- averaging more than nine per day - an amazing 28% rise from 2015 and a shocking 250% increase since President Obama first took office.
Guns were discovered in 238 airports across America with Atlanta the highest...
Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Three recent stories regarding three government agencies — the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) — show why we should oppose big government for practical, as well as philosophical, reasons.