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Congress Wants Your TSA Stories

McGruber writes "Transportation Security Administration (TSA) program challenges and failures will be the focus of a joint hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on Monday, March 26, 2012. The Hearing is titled 'TSA Oversight Part III: Effective Security or Security Theater?' Bruce Schneier is scheduled to be a witness at this hearing. Additional information on the hearing is posted on the oversight committee's website. The Congressmen who serve on these committees are soliciting questions from the public to ask TSA officials at the hearing ... provided the public is willing to submit their questions via Facebook."

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  1. Re:via Facebook only? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "... it's how everyone under about 30 communicates."

    No, it is how everyone who is stupid communicates.

    You are obviously in that set of people.

    Not all of us are.

    You will learn to call those who are not "sir" and "boss" and
    in the end you will call all of them "master", because they will BE
    your master, motherfucker.

    Now get down on your knees and lick my boots.

  2. Re:Questions by Obfuscant · · Score: 0, Troll

    People will get up and defend themselves so unless would-be attackers come heavily armed there won't be a repeat.

    The last few attempts have been bombs. When a terrorist gets up and goes into the lavatory, there is nobody else around him to notice that he's assembling and detonating a bomb. Yes, for aircraft takeover attempts, the passengers will use what few defensive and offensive weapons they can make to stop the takeover, but bombs are a different story. Had the shoe bomber been smart enough to go to the bathroom before trying to light his shoes off, he might have been successful.

    What I want to know is why the TSA isn't installing anti-aircraft guns around airports to take care of the bird menace!

    Because birds aren't aircraft?

    But I understand what you are trying to say. Airports with bird problems do. Like this, or this. The problem is talked about here, for just one example.

    Even so, the conservationists are often opposed to such things, saying the birds have the right to be there and yada yada yada and if a plane runs into one it's the planes fault.

  3. Re:via Facebook only? by Obfuscant · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think the complaint was that Facebook was the ONLY option.

    Facebook isn't the only option.

    In your analogy... Why would you have a problem if you could ONLY vote at Walmart?

    Personally, I wouldn't. My analogy was correct, however, by saying "one of the polling places", because facebook isn't the only way people have of communicating with their congressmen.

  4. Re:via Facebook only? by The+Dancing+Panda · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm just going to poke my head in here...You understand that you're being retarded, right?