If you could ask TSA two questions..

[stu_in_fl]

for travelling diver i think the baggage issue causes me the most annoyance. I dont really mind the security screaning & hand luggage searches although i dont feel they actually acomplish anything useful but:
- for checked in bags, now they have to be unlocked or use a TSA lock (which mine generally goes "missing" after a couple of flights): what increase in comlpaints of missing items in bags were reported after the "leave unlocked" policy was implemented and for those complaints do they feel it is the TSA staff or baggage handlers removing items ? As either case is extremely serious (criminals in secure zones), how do they plan to stop it from happening.

 

[Rhone Man]

Please can I have back the camera that your employees stole?

 

[bubba105]

From the Institue of Biosecurity:
"homegrown terrorism" - terrorist attacks perpetrated against Western democracies by their own citizens. Two of the three men recently arrested in a plot to reportedly attack a US airbase in Germany were German. Five of the seven suspects arrested in a domestic terrorist plot against Chicago’s Sears Tower in 2006 were from the US. The four men who carried out the 2005 London bombings resided in the United Kingdom. (Three were born in England; one was born in Jamaica and raised in London.) " Institute for Biosecurity Newsletter - Spring 2007



Muslims all. Also, all fit the age criteria.

 

[AbyssalPlains]

why do you routinely ask old grey haired ladies to step aside for a more complete search and let the people who actually look like the Al Queda cell members just pass through?

And what, exactly, do Al Quaeda cell members look like?

Not a question for TSA but the SB mods: Why do you let racist comments just pass through?

 

[AbyssalPlains]

Yes, the problem is that many are subjected to search at airports because of moslem extremists. It is they who created the problem and the rest of us who are being subjected to TSA. I haven't seen any moslem on the news talking about how the extremists should be condemned, not on ABC, NBC, BBC, CBS or Fox, if this has happened please tell me when, what day in the last ten years? Racial profiling would be the common sense way to go about having TSA do a more thorough job, not checking old people and children (which I've seen personaly).

If you're Al Quaeda and want to act smart, wouldn't you precisely use elderly people and children as vehicles for disruptive materials?

Terrorism isn't rocket science.

 

[tedtim]

By the way its Muslim not Moslem. Let me ask you this, where is the largest population of Muslims? Middle east? Nope Indonesia.

An area of the world that I suspect many, many diver really want to visit sometime during their diving lifetime.

 

[MentalMarine]

I am done arguing with anyone on the basis of demographics, I can live knowing we dont agree on that. I would like to return to the original point of this thread, if you would like to argue anything else start a post and have at it yourself.

The class was a good one today I got a lot of good answers to some of the questions, some were op sec of course but anyhow. I have a bunch of notes that I wrote and will share with you once I get home tonight.

 

[ianr33]

"Are you doing a less bad job than FEMA? "

 

[NorthWoodsDiver]

I want to know why I had to check my regs/lights/o2 analyzer and computers when I had all the manuals and proper paperwork with me that proved what it was and besides I was traveling home from one of the largest scuba destinations in the world. They claimed to not know what any of it was and had me check it than pay the 3rd bag charge. I was so irritated

Now with the decreased luggage allowances I assume a higher percentage of bags will be searched.

I would also like to know why I can walk on through security wearing several ounces of stainless steel body jewelry (both visible and not) without a second glance but a lady with nipple rings gets a hard time.

I dont know about other TSA agents but I have never seen with one who had common sense when it comes to scuba gear, for god sakes I had several diver cert cards with me, itinerary with dive related information and shop names, dive gear, the manuals for everything that could look like a bomb, and I didn't take a single ounce of gel/liguid/or other item that normally would get a second look. Yet the fins next to that little shinny thing with hoses must mean I carry explosives especially asking me 20 questions about what I plan to do in mexico or what I di (return flights).

the TSA should get training or a slide show or flash cards on all the sports and recreational activities that way they can easily identify a hockey stick or a canister light or a soccer ball from say a colt AR-15 or a MP5 or a Glock 9mm or a 35mm cannon or parts to a nuclear warhead.

I would be glad to help the TSA train people on these things ;-)

 

[tedtim]

...I would like to return to the original point of this thread, if you would like to argue anything else start a post and have at it yourself.

You are kidding us of course; after all, this is still ScubaBoard.

The class was a good one today I got a lot of good answers to some of the questions, some were op sec of course but anyhow. I have a bunch of notes that I wrote and will share with you once I get home tonight.

Looking forward to reading the answers you received.