Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) have introduced legislation that would abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) if enacted. The Utah senator has floated the idea before, but has now put together a bill to put forward in Congress.
“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives. Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees,” Lee told Fox News.
In a one-page press release on the subject, Lee’s office wrote, arguing against the continued reliance on TSA, “In addition to widespread allegations of employee misconduct and theft, a 2015 assessment found that TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosives and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings. The 95% failure rate was repeated in 2017 at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and repeat national tests that year were ‘in the ballpark’ of 80% failure rates.” more here
testicle-squeezing-assholes/granny-depends-checkers, get your ass out
I like the Archie Bunker solution.
Arm everyone who gets on the plane. That way, any hijacker knows he’s outgunned.
Just getting rid of the DEI hires would effectively abolish the TSA.
It’s about freakin’ time. I’m going to enjoy the wailing and gnashing of union crook teeth.
The TSA will forever stand as a testament to how the federal Government sticks it up the ass of the taxpayer.
YESSSSS!!!!!!!
Good!
Get rid of that bureaucratic behemoth.
Make “common sense” common again.
The only downside that I can see is, now where will all the village idiots go to become employed?
Seems like the pilots wreck the planes just fine on their own now anyway, no hijackers required…
Dont even have a cockpit. Just have drone pilots fly them from the ground. Pretty tough to hijack THAT.
But shoot the drone pilots if its a fatal accident for everyone else anyway so theyll still have a real stake in the game…
SNS,
There’s a book you might enjoy, “The Probability Broach” (L Neil Smith & Scott Bieser). On one page (no longer accessible on line), the protagonist, police Lt Bear, has to take a flight. At the check in, the desk clerks ask to see his gun & ammo. Not to take it, or place it in hold baggage, but to make sure the ammunition is aircraft regulation compliant; sub sonic frangible, so as to NOT punch through the side of the aircraft.
Thought you might enjoy that tidbit.
^^^ just kidding. I bracketed “JK above but it kicked it for some reason.
…And thats why you cant trust automation.
Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:19 at 10:19 am
“Not to take it, or place it in hold baggage, but to make sure the ammunition is aircraft regulation compliant; sub sonic frangible, so as to NOT punch through the side of the aircraft.”
See?
It CAN be done!
Thanks, T D R SAH N B W D V E SS!
I don’t fly anymore because of TSA.
GoB
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:35 at 10:35 am
“I don’t fly anymore because of TSA.”
…and I dont fly any more because of DEI.
Although TSA is DEI too…
Those tests where they got simulated weapons through weren’t fair. They probably dressed the testers up as Muslims.
But the important question is how successful were they at finding bottles of water.
“RadioMattM
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:41 at 10:41 am
“Those tests where they got simulated weapons through weren’t fair.”
…tests devised for a specific purpose rarely are.
A hundred years ago, when Sears was still mega-big and I was working in their auto center, word came about a HUGE judgement against the NATIONAL chain for something that happpened in NJ. Someone was running for re-election and decided “taking down Sears” (again, a huge chain at the time) would get him in the news good, so he dispatched “testers” around the State with rigged test to entrap inattentive Sears mechanics. They set them up GOOD, doing things like having testers come in complaining about a fading brake pedal after pouring brake fluid down the back of the master cylinder when there really wasnt anything wrong with the brakes, disconnecting the alternator in a hidden location and complaining about the light and low charge, things like that. They got some to fall for it, did a big prosecution and lots of splashy stuff about “defending the little guy”, the guy got elected and Sears lost MILLIONS because the original judge didnt even require a RECEIPT, so folks were coming into Sears stores all over the country including mine to claim money for work that wasnt bad and that they didnt have to prove was done in the FIRST place.
They got a reinterpritation and changed it to at least require a reciept, and when my manager announced that to the hundred person line in the showroom, after much bitching all but two of them left.
Testing be like that.
If they wanna get you, they will.
No body is perfect, and you can ALWAYS fool some of the people some of the time…
Thieves and Sexual Abusers. Lock them all up after firing them.
I’ve only flown once since 9/11 to my daughter’s wedding in Virginia Beach in Sept. 2013 and the next time I go back to visit them in Padukah, Kentucky and if Amtrak goes thru St. Louis, I’ll take the train. And have them pick me up for the 2 or 3 hr. drive to Kentucky. I used to love flying but not now and it’s because of TSA and DEI that I won’t fly anywhere anymore. Besides that, I love long train rides across the country.
The unconstitutional routine travelers are forced to submit to just to board a plane the last 24 years could have been mitigated by simply profiling. Not a single ‘terrorist’ has been caught by the TSA. I witnessed a tsa ‘agent’ molest my 87 yo father, forcing him while standing to remove his belt while he was holding his shoes and cane while the ‘agent’ felt him up, spending an inordinate amount of time focusing on my father’s crotch, the whole time proclaiming “but I have to, I have to sir!”. The tsa can’t disappear soon enough for me.
You cant entirely profile your security.
The Pam Am flight in Lockerbie was downed by an explosive a Muslim duped his retarded Irish sandshark girlfriend into unknowingly bringing aboard.
“The only downside that I can see is, now where will all the village idiots go to become employed?”
Plenty of available street corners around here for begging. I’m sure there are days they bring in more than I do. But I don’t have a drug habit to feed and don’t want to be out in the weather all the time.
I told a persistently annoying beggar with a dog on a leash, (came over two lanes to get my attention), that I will never give money to someone who has a dog with them.
Why, he asked.
1. If you can’t support your self, you have no business having a dog.
2. It’s cruel to keep a dog on a short leash in 0 to 100+ temps, out in all inclement weather, and inches away from death in traffic.
3. You’re just trying to manipulate people’s emotions with it – so you make me mad every time I see you out here with a dog.
4. He deserves better and I’m not going to give you any reason to keep doing it.
5. If you can’t agree with any of what I’ve said here, then you are too selfish to have a dog in the first place. Having a dog is a choice. One the dog doesn’t get to make with you.
When TSA was enacted it was the beginning of the Great Societal Nudge to the far Left progressive nightmare. Instead of simply profiling likely terrorists, the Left seized upon the Politically-Correct (precursor to Woke) clamor to uphold Muslim rights in the wake of 9/11, by punishing everyone. We’re more vulnerable today because of TSA.
Abigail – but TSA was promoted and supported by the GOP after their staged 9-11 attack.
About time! TSA is like a mask to protect you from Covid – just worthless, but it “feels” like it is working.
assholes
Oh no! How will we ever be safe if we get rid of mandatory security theater? 🙄
Years ago, my father worked for a federal law enforcement agency at SFO. This was maybe in the ‘70’s, long before TSA. (But he had nothing to do with airport security as we are discussing it here.)
The state wanted to test airport security. They were able to get all kinds of things through security without getting caught. The chief of the airport police, I think it was, was unhappy. He said it would have been “professional courtesy” for the state to let him know the test was going to take place. Somehow I doubt the results would have been the same.
SNS: of course I was being facetious in my previous comment, but I know what you mean.
Airline security should be the responsibility of the Airlines.
Mr. Liberty — I didn’t write anything about the GOP not also being responsible. I think we all know the GOP (as it was and tries still to be) and the DNC are opposite sides of the same uniparty coin, right?
Never been on a plane. Not going to start now.
” but TSA was promoted and supported by the GOP after their staged 9-11 attack.”
Oh, so it was the GOP. My aching head!!!!!!
As alluded to above, punching a bullet sized hole in a plane is not a deal. Punching six ain’t much of one. Hollywood has lied to you about this.
Do you really think that aluminum tube is all that pressure tight after a few thousand landings? The bleed air from the front stages of the engines is used to pressurize the cabin. There is a fair bit available. The mechanics worry more that the dump valves are working correctly to not over inflate the cabin.