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The incoming Chairman of the House subcommittee which oversees TSA calls the entire screening process "a Kabuki dance" and the U.S. House already voted overwhel
by watchandwait 16y ago
The incoming Chairman of the House subcommittee which oversees TSA calls the entire screening process "a Kabuki dance" and the U.S. House already voted overwhelmingly 310-118 in June 2009 to ban the use of the scanners as the primary means of airport screening. Ron Paul is one voice among many and is hardly the first.
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/business-travel/2010/11/16/representative-mica-wants-tsa-out-of-airport-screening-business http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/business-travel/2010/11...
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705308568/House-passes-Chaffetz-amendment-limiting-whole-body-imaging.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705308568/House-passes-Ch...
- tptacek 16y agoI am hopeful that after a couple months of egregious overreach by the TSA, the bipartisan outcry will be enough to prompt action. I don't think that Paul's "enough is enough" position on this issue is itself far outside the mainstream (but: it is currently outside it). All I'm saying is, if there's an inference to be made about the legislative fate of the TSA's screening program from a Paul bill, it's probably not the inference we'd like to make.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoI think that if anything is going to happen, it'll be in the next month and a half. While people are traveling for the holidays, they just might get annoyed enough to precipitate some action. But if the jackbooted thugs can hold off any political action for that long, it'll fade away once the heavy travel days are past.