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Personally, I don't fly if I don't have to. The cost of flights has nothing to do with it. The way things are now, I feel threatened in an airport. Especially

by Canada 12y ago

Personally, I don't fly if I don't have to. The cost of flights has nothing to do with it. The way things are now, I feel threatened in an airport. Especially a US airport, though Canadian ones aren't much better. I feel a heightened possibility that my valuables be stolen from me. That it's done under the color of law makes it even worse than being in a rough neighborhood. Some may say this is unreasonable, but I know two people who've been stolen from by TSA. I'd rather drive 8 hours than be subjected to a warrantless search.

nhstanley 12y ago
Do you know they were stolen from by the TSA, or by baggage handlers? Getting rid of the TSA wouldn't solve the latter problem.
- coldpie 12y ago
  TSA theft happens all the time. They have the ability to take stuff from passengers basically with impunity. What are you doing to do, start a row in the security line? http://rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/ http://rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/
- ctdonath 12y ago
  As a matter of TSA policy. They're directed & empowered to take things which are harmless (save for absurdly extraordinary efforts with minute operational payoff), under the threat of "give this up or lose your paid ticket".
- Canada 12y ago
  On case is someone I know directly, the other is a friend of a friend who I haven't met personally. Both alledged thefts were of jewelry in carry on, so if the allegations are true then it was TSA. We are forced to divest ourselves of metalic objects and then put them through an xray, out of our sight, operated by a low class, unaccountable workforce. Going through there gives me this mix of feelings: anxiety from being on my guard, fear that I may lose costly property, anger towards whose who designed this awful system and the liars who enable it, pity for the poor losers who work in it, and despair that Americans allow themselves to be treated this way - like chattel.

by Canada 12y ago

nhstanley 12y ago

Do you know they were stolen from by the TSA, or by baggage handlers? Getting rid of the TSA wouldn't solve the latter problem.

coldpie 12y ago
TSA theft happens all the time. They have the ability to take stuff from passengers basically with impunity. What are you doing to do, start a row in the security line? http://rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/ http://rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/
ctdonath 12y ago
As a matter of TSA policy. They're directed & empowered to take things which are harmless (save for absurdly extraordinary efforts with minute operational payoff), under the threat of "give this up or lose your paid ticket".
Canada 12y ago
On case is someone I know directly, the other is a friend of a friend who I haven't met personally. Both alledged thefts were of jewelry in carry on, so if the allegations are true then it was TSA. We are forced to divest ourselves of metalic objects and then put them through an xray, out of our sight, operated by a low class, unaccountable workforce. Going through there gives me this mix of feelings: anxiety from being on my guard, fear that I may lose costly property, anger towards whose who designed this awful system and the liars who enable it, pity for the poor losers who work in it, and despair that Americans allow themselves to be treated this way - like chattel.