DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not

OverTheGeicoE writes "The motion to force DHS to start its public comment period is still working its way through the court (DHS: 'We're not stonewalling!', EPIC: 'Yes, you are!'). While we wait for the decision, Cato Institute's Jim Harper points out another way for the public to comment on body scanners, tsacomment.com. Even before this site existed, of course, the government was receiving public comment anyway in the form of passenger complaint letters, which they buried in their files. Even so, the public can get a chance to view those comments as the result of Freedom of Information Act requests. An FOIA request about pat-downs by governmentattic.org yielded hundreds of pages of letters to the government from 2010, including frequent reports of pat-down induced PTSD and sexual abuse trauma."

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Re:Popular vote

[X0563511]

This is not wikipedia.

Re:This is going to get ugly

[cpu6502]

>>>don't have any behavioral tells showing and you will get through. They have training for that sort of thing you know.

Training? Really??? Is that why the lockup moms in glass jails, just because she wanted to carry milk for her baby. Or why an SA agent forced a mom to demonstrate her breastfeeding device, else he would confiscate & trash it (thus costing her ~100 loss). Is that why an SA agent wrote, "Get your freak on girl" when he spied a virbrator in the luggage? Why they tackle people to the ground? Why they forced a woman into a backroom because she said, "No I don't want you sticking stuff in my water bottle," and drank it rather than submit to testing? Or detained a Ron Paul volunteer for carrying a treasurer's box filled with 4000 dollars (and theatened to arrest him for carrying drug money). Is that....

Never mind. I'm done. I could write pages of examples. The SA gorillas are not "trained" anything. They are barely above the level of high school dropout IQ. Just like the SA that rounded-up the jews and relocated them to ghettos.