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Senate Passes Bill Allowing Airports To Evict TSA Screeners

source: http://www.infowars.com/senate-passes-bill-allowing-airports-to-evict-tsa-screeners/

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Legislation could lead to despised federal agency being marginalized from aviation security

The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from aviation security altogether.

The bill was primarily concerned with how the Federal Aviation Authority would be funded for the next four years, but also included measures that would force the TSA to reconsider applications from airports to replace TSA workers with their own privately hired screeners.

“Security companies would have an easier time winning contracts to operate airport checkpoints,” reports Businessweek.

Following a massive nationwide backlash against the TSA’s invasive groping policies and its use of radiation-firing naked body scanners, linked by many prestigious health bodies to cancer, an increasing number of airports attempted to take responsibility for their own screening procedures by replacing TSA workers with privately hired personnel

Should airports choose to replace TSA screeners with their own private security, it would not only mean the screeners were better trained and more responsible for their actions, alleviating the problems of thefts and abuse by TSA workers, but it would also create tens of thousands of much needed jobs for the private sector.

“Some airport executives have argued that contract security personnel are more courteous than government workers,” reports CNN. “It was felt that a private contractor would provide friendlier customer service to the traveling public,” the head of a Roswell, New Mexico, airport wrote to Congress.”

A November 2010 poll found that the TSA’s “enhanced pat downs,” some of which include touching genitalia, angered 57% of regular adult fliers.
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13 comments // Senate Passes Bill Allowing Airports To Evict TSA Screeners

  • letsliveinpeace
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Paratus
  • Joeydee44
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      Joeydee44  

    • What they need is for James O'Keefe to dress up as a TSA agent and fondle somebody's grandmother on camera. That'll bring the TSA down in a heartbeat!

    • 4 months ago
  • Mitekillem1
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      Mitekillem1  

    • The great thing about capitalism and private industry is I can pay someone a huge amount of money, and they will do it. Like, if I owned some contraband, and wanted to pass it through the private security of an airport. All I need is $$$, and then I can get away with it.

      Maybe it's time I start thinking about how to buy my freedom back.

    • 4 months ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • Mitekillem1:

      Are you seriously suggesting that the TSA are above behavior of this type? You should talk to my wife who had items stolen from her checked luggage at BWI in Baltimore on a flight to Heathrow in London. Perhaps you did not hear recently of the $5k stolen from a passenger at screening by TSA.

    • 4 months ago
  • beachman707
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
  • jpvt
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      jpvt  

    • I have no love for the TSA, but I'm not sure I trust security corporations to run the show any better or be any less invasive than the TSA. What's more is the TSA, being a government run program has some inherent authority to it. Rent-a-cops have a lot less (it seems to me).

      Finally this sentence: "Should airports choose to replace TSA screeners with their own private security, it would not only mean the screeners were better trained and more responsible for their actions, alleviating the problems of thefts and abuse by TSA workers, but it would also create tens of thousands of much needed jobs for the private sector."

      This seems awfully subjective to me. What would make the screeners better trained and more responsible? I think it's pretty obvious by now that corporations cut all sorts of corners, and care only about the bottom line, so I'm not sure how that equates to being better trained and more responsible. It sounds like a wash to me.

      Even worse is the idea that it would create new jobs. This sounds like Republican nonsense if I've ever heard it. If you fire 20,000 TSA workers and create 20,000 "new" airport security jobs you haven't created any new jobs, you've just changed management.

      Like I said at the beginning, I don't care about the TSA. Maybe a change in management would be beneficial. But, just because something get privatized doesn't automatically make it better. To me this just sounds like big business Republicans finding out a way to give their buddies another avenue though which to make money

    • 4 months ago
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • GRC54
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      GRC54  

    • To my recollection wasn't the TSA brought into being when the Patriot Act was passed? Was it not to replace the private airport security that allowed 4 planes to get hijacked because the private security didn't care as they were paid minimum wages for their efforts. Some of the TSA workers probably should not be on the job as when you give a person power they tend to abuse it. Probably the airports are tired of paying high wages to the TSA for security as well. Look into it further.

    • 4 months ago
  • maasanova
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