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If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care about something that has the potential to save your life? I've never understood the mindset, frankly. If they'd have been in the right place at the right time, the Boston bombing could have been prevented. We live in a complicated world. Strangers are trying to annihilate us. I wish they'd walk around with portable metal detectors. Might get some illegal guns off the streets.
Must have been a slow news day at the N.Y. Times, the L.A. Times covered this back in 2011.
TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore
Roving security teams increasingly visit train stations, subways and other mass transit sites to deter terrorism. Critics say it's largely political theater. ->TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore - Los Angeles Times
The problem is, the TSA and groups like Viper Squads were set up by the Democrats as a jobs program after 9/11. If you remember all of the Dems after 9/11 running around like roaches at a Motel 6 scared and yelling, "Save us President Bush the Muslims are coming."
Now anyone who has flown over the past decade know these TSA agents are incompetent, are unemployable in the private sector and are a joke. They don't profile so it's a waste of money. Name one terrorist they have been caught or one terrorist plot they have broken up ?
Ask any in law enforcement who have worked with the VIPR squads and they will tell you they are a joke.
Since they don't profile and if they were to jack up someone who looks like a terrorist from the Middle East they know that Eric Holder would be all over them so they pick out white 80 year old grandmothers and 8 year old white girls to strip search.
But it's gone beyond the airports. Rest areas along the interstate, truck scales, rodeos and shopping malls ! AMTRAK police had to kick Viper squads off of trains because they were jacking up everyone on the train.
And during the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings where was the Viper Squads ? Not in Boston but jacking up and touching the junk of bull riders at a rodeo at Cody, Wyoming !
Now anyone who has gone through the pleasant experience of flying El Al airlines noticed that nobody touches your junk, not one finger is laid upon you and at worse you might be asked a few simple questions. Why is that ? They profile.
We are becoming a police state. The federal government keeps track of who you called and who called you. The IRS targets you if your a conservative. The TSA falls under the Department of Homeland Security and Big Sis can't explain to Congress why they purchased 1.5 billions rounds of small arms ammunition for.