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Major U.S. Airports Consider Ditching TSA
Sixteen airports, including San Francisco and Kansas City International Airport, have already made the switch since 2002. One Orlando airport approved the change but still needs to select a contractor, and several others are reportedly seriously considering privatization. (www.foxbusiness.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
HOORAY!! Best news of 2010. Worth waiting for!! Arrogant TSA bureaucrats.
You get what you pay for! Common sense should be the number one rule.
the unions are full of crap, THE government workers union say that it wont work like that, they are the one that are full of CRAP.
@David: Except what the TSA keeps crowing is that it doesn't matter who the bodies are doing the screening - it is still every policy, procedure, technique, invasion that the TSA decides it will be. Basically, the TSA is saying "fine, have your non-government TSA workers, but they're still our puppets"
I don't see this as a good thing, honestly. Here is why: MCO dumps the TSA, hires private contractor. Private contractor follows all same TSA rules & procedures (because TSA tells them to). Now, the government can happily point at third party and say two things a) we aren't the ones violating your rights b) the successful terrorist plot wasn't our fault, he flew out of Orlando. All of this despite that they're doing exactly what the TSA people would be doing, because Homeland is run by Clueless "The System Worked!" Big Sister.
I want TSA out of my junk, out of my stuff, out of my airports (they're coming for small/GA fields - just a matter of time). We should hire private contractors to do the airport screenings. They're tested just like the TSA is tested right now - fake weapons, fake explosives, etc. Except right now, there is ZERO accountability. Eh, 70% failure rate? psh. If the contractor fails a certain threshold of penetration tests, they're fired.
Within the confines of the 4th amendment (which DHS is blatantly, flagrantly ignoring), they should be allowed to employ any amount of behavioral, racial, whatever profiling they need to keep the bad guys off the planes. This reactive BS of trying to screen for bad things instead of people who want to do bad things isn't making us any safer.
I don't see this as a good thing, honestly. Here is why: MCO dumps the TSA, hires private contractor. Private contractor follows all same TSA rules & procedures (because TSA tells them to). Now, the government can happily point at third party and say two things a) we aren't the ones violating your rights b) the successful terrorist plot wasn't our fault, he flew out of Orlando. All of this despite that they're doing exactly what the TSA people would be doing, because Homeland is run by Clueless "The System Worked!" Big Sister.
I want TSA out of my junk, out of my stuff, out of my airports (they're coming for small/GA fields - just a matter of time). We should hire private contractors to do the airport screenings. They're tested just like the TSA is tested right now - fake weapons, fake explosives, etc. Except right now, there is ZERO accountability. Eh, 70% failure rate? psh. If the contractor fails a certain threshold of penetration tests, they're fired.
Within the confines of the 4th amendment (which DHS is blatantly, flagrantly ignoring), they should be allowed to employ any amount of behavioral, racial, whatever profiling they need to keep the bad guys off the planes. This reactive BS of trying to screen for bad things instead of people who want to do bad things isn't making us any safer.
"But federal officials at the 457 TSA-regulated airports are unparalleled." Uhhh.. Noone can grope as good as we can?
"U.S. aviation security technology and procedures are driven by the latest intelligence and give us the best chance to detect and disrupt any potential threat, given the tools currently available" -- Meaning that since we don't have brains of our own, we have to use equipment?
"It's unclear whether privant screeners cost the TSA more. One independent report fount that private security contracts were 9 to 17 percent higher than the TSA's costs." -- But that 9to17 percent is being paid now... unlike union pensions which don't get factored in until it's too late (think UAW and government workers).
Ok... I'm tired of reading this crap and I'm sure you're tired of reading my rants. :)
Nobody knows more about getting into your junk, pants and pants-pockets than unions and government.
"U.S. aviation security technology and procedures are driven by the latest intelligence and give us the best chance to detect and disrupt any potential threat, given the tools currently available" -- Meaning that since we don't have brains of our own, we have to use equipment?
"It's unclear whether privant screeners cost the TSA more. One independent report fount that private security contracts were 9 to 17 percent higher than the TSA's costs." -- But that 9to17 percent is being paid now... unlike union pensions which don't get factored in until it's too late (think UAW and government workers).
Ok... I'm tired of reading this crap and I'm sure you're tired of reading my rants. :)
Nobody knows more about getting into your junk, pants and pants-pockets than unions and government.
Richard, excellent points, and I concede that private contractors may be worse based on your astute arguments. I was speaking out of vengeance. I hate the government intrusion and violation of rights. Good response.