Forward Motion 411
Search
  • Making College Count
    • Getting In
    • Campus Life
    • Getting Ahead
    • So You're Graduating...
    • Graduate Life
  • Life Coaching/ Motivation
    • Removing Roadblocks
    • Life Coaching
  • The Home Front
    • Recipes
    • Organize Your Life
    • Holistic Health
    • Fitness
    • Crafts and Hacks
    • Baby Time
    • Trollolol
  • Mediation
    • Mediation FAQs
    • Family Conflict
    • Corporate Conflict
    • Post-Divorce Survival Guide
  • Finances and Credit
    • Personal Finances
    • Your Good Credit
  • Contact Page
  • Contracted Services
  • The Shoppe

TSA - Flights Without Rights

8/22/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
You hear all of the horror stories about the TSA. You've watched the video where they search tiny kids. You've shaken your head over their "Naked Machines" used to screen you for contraband. You've probably put up with their rudeness if you've flown many times. And yet they haven't caught even one terrorist? They can't report the interruption of one terrorist activity? 

And yet we  - the American public - justify their presence and the enormous budget it takes to feed this unionized peacekeeper. And we say that, in general, we think they are doing a good job. We don't mind taking off our shoes, jackets, belts, etc.  We rarely talk about the thefts and inappropriate behaviors for which TSA agents have been convicted.  But we also haven't really thought about what it means to be detained by the TSA. They are not officers of the law, so you have no rights when detained - no right to make a phone call, no right to counsel, no right to any of your Constitutional rights. This has never felt so bothersome before reading this article. It is written by a young man who was recently detained. 

Follow the link to the article and see if it doesn't make you think a bit about rights we have willingly handed over in the name of national security and how people are treated at airports by TSA despite the fact that no terrorists have ever been caught.

0 Comments

    Categories

    All
    Abraham Lincoln
    Angry Animals
    Arrested Development
    Ate My Halloween Candy
    Babies!!
    Baby Gangnam Style!
    Blurred Lines Or Bizarre Borders?
    Cats
    Coachella
    Corgi Flips Over Snow
    Crazy Funny
    Dogs
    Dogs Who Should Be Ashamed
    In Which State Do You Belong?
    Man Advice In A Crisis
    Monkeying Around With Alcohol
    Monkeys!!!
    Mugshots
    Prickly Pears
    Shameful Cats
    Super Bowl And Punxsutawney Phil
    Truisms
    TSA - Flights Without Rights
    Work Humor
    Wwii

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    December 2019
    July 2019
    March 2017
    January 2017
    July 2016
    April 2016
    September 2015
    February 2015
    October 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    Subscribe to our newsletter