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TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property
The plane moves me or I move the plane? writes "After years of people complaining about their luggage locks being broken in the name of the Transportation Security Administration, and after countless properly-stowed utilities and tools had been scrutinized from a paranoid point of view, an employee of the TSA (which is part of the Department of Homeland Security) has been captured with evidence of over $200,000 worth of stolen property he was selling on eBay. With the help of local police and the USPS, a search of his house found a great deal of property pilfered from the un-witnessed searches that occurred after luggage had been checked, where the rightful owner was not allowed. 'Among the items seized were 66 cameras, 31 laptop computers, 20 cell phones, 17 sets of electronic games, 13 pieces of jewelry, 12 GPS devices, 11 MP3 players, eight camera lenses, six video cameras and two DVD players, the affidavit said.'"
Ever sign a non-disclosure agreement? You've just signed away your constitutional right to free speech.
The Internet is generally stupid
There have been 0 completed acts of terrorism in the US since 2001
Fixed that for you. Don't think that 0 attacks on the news is for the terrorists' lack of trying.
---- Liquid was a patriot ----
Some of us have been forced to learn the ins and outs of this crap in more detail than we wish. If, like me, you travel with firearms, you'll learn that the FAA is statutorily in charge of what can and can't be checked and the TSA can't order me to do anything that violates FAA regs. FAA regs mandate that luggage with firearms must be locked. Period.
So the best way to sneak a bomb onto an airplane is to check it and declare that it's a firearm? Does anyone think about these rules before they're instituted?
And I protest every post advocating firearms. Traveling with them is even more unreasonable. Traveling by plane is bad enough without gun-toting pinheads wandering airports (apart from the TSA pinheads).
War as we knew it was obsolete
Nothing could beat complete denial
- Emily Haines
I say cut off both of his hands. He won't use them to steal again. Problem solved.
How ya like dat?
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective.
Oh really.
Well, I guess living in Mom's basement and playing World of Warcraft all day, then from that perspective, aircraft being crashed into 110 story buildings, killing nearly 2,800 people and directly impacting several million more would not have much impact. Too bad you weren't in NYC that day. Might have given you a different perspective on life.
So what freedoms have you lost?
== First cross river, then insult alligator.
If you were in charge of the TSA, what would you do?
Also note, if a suicide bomber or flyer gets through, thousands of people can die and billions of dollars worth of damage can be done.
It's easy to whine, bitch, and complain. It's a lot harder to improve things.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
I think people have common sense. If the government started shipping people off to extermination camps, people would get out their guns and use them - presuming that the liberals hadn't used the Nazi play-book and confiscated people's firearms first.