A Connecticut man has been arrested after exchanging words and punching a TSA screener at a security checkpoint at Indianapolis International Airport.Mr. Christina, a grateful Republic thanks you. And to TSA
According to a report from airport police, John A. Christina, 51, Simsbury, Conn., was charged with battery as a misdemeanor in connection with the incident about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Concourse B checkpoint.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Punch a TSA screener day
Forget "Opt Out" day; via The Big Guy, we see passengers already taking sterner measures:
goons screeners who are "just following orders", it appears that the citizens of this Republic are still citizens, not subjects. Some of them, at least.
Get your $100 worth (should be the amount of bail)......
ReplyDeleteBail was $150. He will probably have to pay a fine. Say, $1000 to be on the really high side. That is a lot less than $11,000... if you see what I am getting at here.
ReplyDeleteSo on the one side of this spectrum we have "touchy feely" and a safer flight....on the other side of the spectrum we have "our rights" (?) being upheld and no TSA and about a 90% chance of getting blown out of the air.....I choose the touchy feely.
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." If you refer to rights, clearly stated (in this case) in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, as "rights," is it any wonder we are at this state?
ReplyDeleteThe TSA doesn't do a blessed thing but abuse power and waste money. I think the only terrorist attacks the they've stopped have been, um, NONE. Underwear bomber, shoe bomber, the recent printer cartridge bombs, all got through "security." They all origionated in other countries, too. And they all were stopped by private citizens or companies. There are numerous other ways that we could be providing security that don't involve such security theater, or at least aren't so Orwellian. At this point, I would rather risk giving everyone on board baseball bats to fly the friendly skies than to keep funding the farce that is the TSA.
"...on the other side of the spectrum we have "our rights" (?) being upheld and no TSA and about a 90% chance of getting blown out of the air..."
ReplyDelete90%? Sir, you appear to be hysterical. I would like to help, but I am at a loss as to what to suggest.
Yeah that 90% struck me as just a WEE bit high :)
ReplyDeleteSteve, you wouldn't happen to work for the TSA, would you?
ReplyDeleteSteve,
ReplyDeleteYour ignorance of security is overshadowed by your feeble grasp of the concept of freedom.
Since both subjects require only the smallest skills in reason to comprehend, I fear there is no help for you.
Remember, if you happen to be on the jury if it goes to trial, he's not guilty. Jury nullification is a wonderful thing.
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