Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener

OverTheGeicoE writes "TSA gets discussed on Slashdot from time to time, usually negatively. Have you ever wondered about the TSA screeners' perspective? Taking Sense Away is a blog, allegedly written by a former TSA screener, offering insider perspectives on TSA topics. For example, there's the Insider's TSA Dictionary, whose entries are frequently about the code screeners use to discuss attractive female passengers (like 'Code Red,' 'Fanny Pack,' and 'Hotel Bravo'). Another posting explains what goes on in private screening rooms, which the author claims is nothing compared to screener conduct in backscatter image operator rooms. Apparently what happens in the IO room stays in the IO room. Today's posting covers how TSA employees feel about working for 'a despised agency'. For many the answer is that they hate working for 'the laughing stock of America's security apparatus,' try to hide that they work for TSA, and want to transfer almost anywhere else ASAP."

Comments

Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings

[bit trollent]

Do people really not understand that guns can be taken across city and state boundaries?

There is no border between a retarded state like Texas and a sane one like New York. Somebody can simply buy a gun in Texas (using the gun show loophole if necessary) and drive it to any other state.

That means that effectively the entire United States has the same gun laws as the most permissive state.

I mean.. are people really so fucking stupid that they don't understand this??

Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings

[Samalie]

OK, I realize this is a slippery slope argument I'm making, but really?

I should have nukes then. The government does! Grenades, flame throwers, unmanned drones, full-auto weapons. Your argument poses no restriction other than "If the government has it, so should I".

And people think I'm crazy.

Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings

[geekoid]

Um, you know you got nothing, right?
United Kingdom

Violent crime rates in the UK
Includes all violence against the person, sexual offences, and robbery as violent crime.

The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

you got nothing. But hey, any lie to back your gun stance is ok. Twit.

Their category is broader. With all the industrialized countries that enforce strict gun controls, that's the best you can do?
Look at all the other stricter nations, and they to have less violent crime and homicides.

all of them.