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Belgium attacks: more proof that the TSA is useless

Lisa Simeone — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:22:49 +0000

The bomb attacks in Belgium today -- three of them, two at different locations in the airport and one in the subway -- present in high relief yet more proof of what some us have been pointing out for years: the TSA is a charade. The TSA does not and cannot and will never prevent terror attacks. All the pre-boarding bullying, harassing, scanning, and groping doesn't make a damn bit of difference, because -- duh -- people can set off bombs anywhere, not just on a plane.

TSA finally issues “rule” on body scanners, ignores public

Lisa Simeone — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:24:20 +0000

On the righthand side of this blog, you’ll see this paragraph:

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TSA goons steal woman’s shoes, bracelet at BWI

Lisa Simeone — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:50:25 +0000

In the never-ending saga of TSA theft and stupidity — and did I say theft? — we have the latest episode (that we know of): at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, the goons saw yet another tasty treat they wanted to sample. So they pretended that said items were dangerous and confiscated them — er, sorry, encouraged the passenger to give them up. (As we know, since they tell us all the time, especially at their main propaganda organ, they don’t confiscate anything.) From the story in the Baltimore Sun:

Frederick Douglass wouldn’t have put up with the TSA

Lisa Simeone — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:01:49 +0000

by Lisa Simeone

Great American orator, scholar, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was born sometime in February of 1818 and died on this date, February 20th, in 1895. Among the many brilliant, fiery speeches he gave and essays he wrote, none have been more often excerpted and quoted than these lines, which apply today every bit as much as they did in his time. I’ve quoted them often, but never enough. So it’s fitting that I take this opportunity to commemorate him and do it again:

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Ask TSA by Susan Richart

Lisa Simeone — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:30:34 +0000

As TSA News readers know, the Transportation Security Administration has a nifty new “training academy” in Glynco, Georgia. Supposedly all new TSA hires from across the country, including Hawaii and Alaska, will attend this academy for two weeks of training (replacing the current four weeks of in-house local airport training), and all current TSA employees will be sent for additional training.

Chris Bray wrote about it

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Yelp censors comments critical of TSA

Lisa Simeone — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:53:03 +0000

A few weeks ago fellow TSA crusader Jim Bovard told me that there were all these TSA reviews on Yelp. I was surprised, given that I think of Yelp only in terms of hotel, restaurant, and other business reviews. He gave me a link to reviews of the TSA at Chicago O'Hare (ORD), but I soon discovered that there are several different pages of Yelp TSA reviews.

So I posted one, under the name “Lisa S.”

Another elderly woman abused by the TSA

Lisa Simeone — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:26:33 +0000

In Portland, Oregon, at the same airport where John Brennan was arrested, the TSA has abused yet another elderly woman. Harriette Charney, age 90, was “asked” to go into a private room with the blue shirts, where they then “asked” her to take off her blouse and her bra. She complied. According to her son Alan Charney as quoted in this report by KATU:

Another court order the TSA will ignore

Lisa Simeone — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:00:17 +0000

Everyone keeps sending me links to this story, but I saw it when it first came out last week and decided not to write about it because it isn’t news. It’s the same old same old. I can’t see how it means anything significant in our fight against the TSA.

Please sign this fab TSA petition

Lisa Simeone — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:20:03 +0000

Come on, folks, let’s get this up to at least 150 signatures. If we do, it’ll go live on the main White House petition site. It was written by our perennially creative contributor Chris Bray.

TSA snoops in passenger’s bag, finds money, calls DEA to take it

Lisa Simeone — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:21:15 +0000

From the Washington Post comes this story of not only another instance of TSA abuse, but the TSA's bragging about said abuse.