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DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-just-sell-your-dhs-stock? dept.

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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  1. Popular vote by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe I speak for many Americans when I say my comment is "Go away."

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    1. Re:Popular vote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There was recent poll (on CNN I believe), that claimed people in general were satisfied with the TSA (note that some of them dont fly at all, and have never experienced the TSA, but decided to vote)

    2. Re:Popular vote by seepho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      People have opinions on subjects they're ignorant of? Surely you jest.

    3. Re:Popular vote by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The majority also supported the roundup of Japanese-americans during WW2, depriving them of their liberty, property, and right to a jury trial. That doesn't make the majority's trampeling of individual rights okay, either then or now.

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  2. Re:This is going to get ugly by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They don't have to beat the TSA. They can blow themselves up in the queue for the scanner and have pretty much the same effect.

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