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I'm speechless

Lasjayhawk

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Kansas has a bill to put a limit on the TSA groping of travelers

Here is a link to an article: http://www.travelerstoday.com/artic...as-considers-putting-limits-tsa-pat-downs.htm that includes comments from some that are against the bill. But I'm gonna give you the FUMQ (fair use money quote)

"I think it's a waste of our time," said Rep. Louis Ruiz, D-Kansas City. "We have law enforcement officers at every level that may abuse their powers. Are we going to make laws for all of them, too?" :eek:

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SFCRetired

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Just to add fuel to the fire: When I flew from the United States, a supposedly free country, to China, a totalitarian nation, I was subjected to being felt by another male in places that only my wife and doctor have any need to touch. Coming the other way, from China to the United States, I was subjected to a lot less of this sort of idiocy until I got to the United States.

Funny that, outside the United States, El Al does not subject its passengers to these humiliating searches and, to my knowledge, no El Al flight has ever been either bombed or hijacked.
 

77zach

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Just to add fuel to the fire: When I flew from the United States, a supposedly free country, to China, a totalitarian nation, I was subjected to being felt by another male in places that only my wife and doctor have any need to touch. Coming the other way, from China to the United States, I was subjected to a lot less of this sort of idiocy until I got to the United States.

Funny that, outside the United States, El Al does not subject its passengers to these humiliating searches and, to my knowledge, no El Al flight has ever been either bombed or hijacked.

I'm immune to nationalism and have traveled abroad. At this point, many nations are freer than the U.S. The two things that separate the U.S from other countries (in a good way) are some states maintain the right to bear arms reasonably well, and we also have political free speech nation wide. If we didn't have those, I'm convinced this country would be North Korea on steroids.

Did you fly domestically in China? No security where I went. None. Nada. Zip. Amazing that they have the right to travel unmolested........ I hear the Amerikan (sic) slave in the background wearing his NFL jersey, "But I have the right to fly SAFE!"
 

OC for ME

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There are very few countries other than the US that have a wide variety of cultures. The vast, very vast, majority of countries are homogenous societies/cultures. The US culture has retarded to a point that is not conducive to domestic commercial air travel as it was back in the day.

A plurality of our fellow citizens have traded security for liberty. :banghead:
 
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