More TSA insanity
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When I was a firefighter back in the '90s, our overreaching government agency OSHA, decided to re-write the vertical rules for firefighters. One of the 'improvements' to our safety would have required us to wear Nomex skivvies. It was justified by saying that any fabric in contact with our bodies must be fire resistant or we would be in unreasonable danger.
When a public hearing was held by OSHA on the subject in somewhere in California, a union delegate was sent from one of the locals (the who, what, where details are long gone from my memory) to bring up a particular question; does the regulation cover undies that cover girl firefighter’s pleasant parts? And does that include the string that is used to pull her tampax? The hearing kinda fell apart after that question, was adjourned and was never re-scheduled. The proposed reg. died that day.
Now we have this: http://www.prisonplanet.com/sanitary-towel-prompts-tsa-to-grope-sexual-assault-victim.html
Is it only fair? Or maybe instead of exposing the ladies, they could train their agents to simply do a 'sniff test'?
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Date: 26/11/10 20:03 (UTC)The media (and certain pressure groups) are intent on focusing on the TSA. Why not previously? What has changed, besides the specific engineering of certain stories?
Really, every time someone mentions the abuse of power by authorities you get nothing more than reaction: all sorts of justifications for the 'imperfect' system in an attempt to soothe our anxiety. But if that same complaint is coupled with a barrage of media focus, you can, alternatively, create a popular movement which will harm or benefit whatever power you're trying to attack / enrich.
How absurd that, in the midst of this economic downturn-and-hijacking by the bankers, the TSA becomes a justified point of outrage able to mobilize reaction. How embarrassing for the entire nation.
http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal (http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal)
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Date: 26/11/10 20:46 (UTC)1. TSA Security now uses THE FRONT OF THEIR HANDS when they used to use the back
2. Full body scanners are more common, exposing us to radiation
I agree that the media can make anything an issue (and can also suppress any issue, to a point), but I've had a problem with TSA all along, so I just don't mind right now.
P.S. Using red Herrings just makes me yawn. You are talking about bankers WHY?
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Date: 27/11/10 03:42 (UTC)Because the media isn't in any serious fashion. This kind of thing isn't seriously critiqued, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld)
UBS, engaged in a tax evasion fraud worth 20Bn, gets off for 780Mn and the whistleblower who broke the case is the only individual who ends up in jail for it. Furthermore, UBS was the 12th greatest donor to Obama's campaign in 2008.
I think its slightly more important that our government is engaged in graft at this level, than the problematic TSA issues (which are largely related to poor standrads which the right wing, in a bid to privatize the system, have refused to allow be fixed: http://open.salon.com/blog/ron_moore/2010/11/16/who_is_behind_the_tsa_pat-down_controversy (http://open.salon.com/blog/ron_moore/2010/11/16/who_is_behind_the_tsa_pat-down_controversy) - further attempts for graft, btw!).
If its not more important, it at least deserves comparable air-time.
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Date: 26/11/10 23:18 (UTC)Hmmmmmm....what does that say? It says, maybe, that people know when they are being violated when the violation is physical. But when the violation is financial, well, people cannot see it as clearly and/or do not f e e l it. Afterall, monies are less physical and more theoretical...my empolyer does not pay me in CASH, my employer pays me by check & in some cases employers pay by a debit card of sorts. How funny :x
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Date: 27/11/10 03:35 (UTC)For the media, money is far more material than physical harassment.
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Date: 26/11/10 21:19 (UTC)We should have two airlines. Ones where no one is checked and ones where everyone is searched. You get to choose which ones to fly.
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Date: 27/11/10 00:12 (UTC)If no one is checked terrorists would get to hijack exactly 1 plane, after that all the passengers would be packing themselves and any would be terrorist would be a very unhappy camper assuming he even survived to reach the ground again.
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Date: 28/11/10 07:48 (UTC)Ultimately the only way to be sure requires teaching them to not want to die.
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Date: 27/11/10 04:56 (UTC)"last person to play Kamikaze in the USA was not a Muslim........"
And he wasn't very newsworthy either, because he didn't kill 3000 Americans.
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Date: 30/11/10 00:47 (UTC)i support a dual system of taxation for liberals and fiscal conservatives. those who want more governmental cradle to gravism get to pay for it via higher tax rates. the others like me get to opt out. what could be fairer?
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