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Amtrak, with former Delta CEO at helm, wants to remind travelers how much they despise flying
Richard Anderson knows exactly why so many people hate air travel. And as the former chief executive of Delta Air Lines Inc., he appears ready to exploit each of those pain points in his new role as president and co-CEO of Amtrak. The railroad has launched a new advertising campaign focused heavily on why so many airlines have been despised by so many for so long. (www.dallasnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Just pray TSA doesn't get involved in rail travel.
TSA has been involved with Amtrak for quite a while. I'm aware that they have been searching bags at Chicago Union Station since 2012, maybe earlier. Plenty of YouTube videos show that. Even found some news articles about TSA assisting Amtrak PD in the northeast corridor recently.
Enjoys a lucrative career telling everyone how great airlines are. Leaves, starts a new career saying how crap airlines are.....Cynical, moi?
Cynical - but very true
Unfortunately the TSA have infiltrated some of the more visible stations (DC, NY Penn, etc) and have put the rail passengers through the same sort of do-nothing but highly invasive procedures we are forced to suffer at the airline checkin stations.
I long for the day when the TSA minions go back to work at McDonalds and they start to employ some behavior based analysis in the screening of passengers. If El-Al can do it without getting granny felt up then the US ought to be able to do it.
I long for the day when the TSA minions go back to work at McDonalds and they start to employ some behavior based analysis in the screening of passengers. If El-Al can do it without getting granny felt up then the US ought to be able to do it.
If we do what El-Al does, lawyers will be all over it because of profiling, racial or otherwise.
Your Constitutional rights end at the TSA checkpoint already... where is their reasonable suspicion for violating your 4th amendment rights there? what about your first amendment rights? can't picket and demonstrate in the TSA line.. certainly can't carry a gun (2nd gone) and likely they violate the 5th too given half a chance.
they'd probably violate the Third Amendment and put troops in your house if they wanted to do so...