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Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation
OverTheGeicoE writes "Over a month after Sen. Rand Paul announced his desire to pull the plug on TSA, he has finally released his legislation that he tweets will 'abolish the #TSA & establish a passengers "Bill of Rights."' Although the tweet sounds radical, the press release describing his proposed legislation is much less so. 'Abolition' really means privatization; one of Paul's proposals would simply force all screenings to be conducted by private screeners. The proposed changes in the 'passenger Bill of Rights' appear to involve slight modifications to existing screening methods at best. Many of his 'rights' are already guaranteed under current law, like the right to opt-out of body scanning. Others can only vaguely be described as rights, like 'expansion of canine screening.' Here's to the new boss..."
The Towers were actually designed to withstand a direct hit by a 727... the largest common aircraft at the time of their design.
Why they didn't is a matter of speculation for government-contracted (of course!) engineers and conspiracy theorists.
One thing working in the conspiracy theorists' favor is the fact (discovered by reputable scientists with expertise in the subject and no conflict of interest, and independently verified) that the dust from the buildings contained bits of high-tech thermite. Not your everyday garage variety, either, but real high-tech stuff that is usually only available to government and military.
This privatization of the TSA will only serve to hand tax dollars to private companies with zero return.
In all cases, when government does a task themselves, you don't have to worry about waste corporations' demand for profit. Waste is only introduced when private for-profit corporations are brought in. Corporations just can't compete against government.
This is why sending mail via government costs pennies, while sending mail via UPS or FedEx costs $10 or more. Privatization only makes things wasteful and inefficient because companies can't compete when they have to make a profit.
We need to make sure people understand that socialism is a better solution than private corporations when solving societal problems, and we need to make sure to give more power to government in solving social problems, since private industry simply cannot solve social problems.
You're a moron.
Not only is what you typed just incredibly wrong, the point to privatizing the TSA is two fold:
One: When you add choice, better, saner solutions will prevail over time (hopefully).
Two: Private entities are vulnerable to getting their asses sued. Private entities can't lock you up without cause.
By the way: Pearl Harbor might be a good analogy, but probably not quite in the way you thought.
It is not conspiracy theory anymore: historical records clearly show that Pearl Harbor was not only anticipated well in advance, but was welcomed by U.S. and European politicians as an excuse to get the U.S. involved in the war.
FDR, in particular, is well-known to have wanted US involvement (despite disapproval of the idea by citizens and Congress). He is on record as having revealed in discussions that he wanted to be involved in the war so that he could be seen as a hero and have a say in dividing up the spoils when it was over.
"No. There isn't. Being an Alex Jones listener and reader of his site, I've perused nearly all the information of 9/11. NOBODY has produced a single crystallography scan that indicates thermite detection. Well maybe ONE person has, but in science one is not enough. There needs to be independent verification by multiple scientists. That does not exist."
Well, guess what? I am NOT an Alex Jones listener. I have never listened to his shows. Not one.
I provided a link to a research paper. If you can refute it, please do so. Until then, you have no argument to make. Arguing with ME about it is completely pointless.
And there isn't anything "clearly" about it. The 9/11 Commission report is nothing but a joke. The later NIST report ignores many important factors. But perhaps most important of all:
NIST has offered exactly zero evidence that anything about this paper is false. The only argument NIST has made is that the parties involved (reputable industry and university scientists) cannot "prove" that the samples came from where they claim. Which is about the most ridiculous of weak arguments that they could make. Nobody has shown that these people have an axe to grind. They simply found something interesting and studied it.
And when challenged to repeat the study using their own personnel and their own samples, NIST refused.
NOBODY -- not government, engineers, or scientists -- have even tried to offer a single shred of evidence in refutation. So the burden of evidence has so far been met.
And just by the way: the people who found this also found that nobody wanted to touch their story. Then they contacted Alex Jones for assistance. So his later involvement is anything but surprising. It is not exactly as if he had anything to do with it in the beginning.