Yet ANOTHER watch list that TSA has…
Pushy fliers may show up on TSA’s radar
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Airline passengers who get frustrated and kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener could find themselves in a little-known Homeland Security database.
The Transportation Security Administration says it is keeping records of people who make its screeners feel threatened as part of an effort to prevent workplace violence. Privacy advocates fear the database could feed government watch lists and subject innocent people to extra airport screening.
A TSA report says the database can include names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of people involved in airport incidents, including aggressors, victims and witnesses.
Incidents in the database include threats, bullying or verbal abuse, remarks about death or violence, brandishing a real or fake weapon, intentionally scaring workers or excessive displays of anger such as punching a wall or kicking equipment, the report says.
The database was created in late 2007… Read the rest of the article HERE.
Huh??? 2007 and it’s just now being made public? WTF??? So, bottom line, if you’re ‘mean’ to a TSA screener (and that is totally up to TSA’s discretion) you can end up on THIS list too…
Ya know, this just makes me wonder how many OTHER lists there are out there, and how many of them each of us are on…
Lemme see- Retired Military, shooter, Christian, so I’m at least on DHS home grown terrorist list; I have had issues/filed complaints with TSA over screeners in the past three years, so I’m on that one too; Maybe that explains why I’ve had my bags searched the last two trips… BOTH ways… I’m a conservative and blog, so I’m probably on at least one of the Administration’s lists… I’m on a restricted travel list because of my job…
Sigh… I think I’m just gonna go crawl in a hole and pull the hole in after me!
Somebody wake me up when this crap is over…
It looks as if you’ll be staying home or driving for your next vacation…
However, there is a bright spot. TSA is so incompetent that they no doubt have transposed SSN numbers when they entered yours so some other traveler is going to be pulled out of line, interrogated and F’ed with.
You then would be free to fly the friendly skies again!
Another day, another watch list.
That list thing is going to be as huge as Obama’s government and there won’t be many muslims on it either. Amazing.
More reasons not to fly.
I don’t fly much, but I flew to see my son last Easter. I noticed a little sign at the Houston airport – “Please don’t spit on the TSA screeners.” I thought that was a little odd and wondered why the sign??
After going through the screening, I was amazed they hadn’t drowned in saliva.
LL- Yeah, but that whole work thinge has me travelling pillar to post and back again…
SR- Yep… dammit
ADM- Bet there won’t be a one, because THAT would be profiling…
Fuzzy- Don’t remind me.
Paw- Yep…
They should remember that we are capable of making Lists of our own.
Of course, considering the INCOMPETENCY of the federal government in general. . .
. . .that WOULDN’T be the same “whatever” list that the Times Square bomber DIDN’T make it on.
Because, after all, that would require ACTUAL WORK.
You fucking inCOMpetent feds.
BZ
All police states fail eventually. Some day, that TSA crap will go away too. It’d be nice if it happened in my lifetime, but it will take place given enough time.
Well at least you can’t complain that no one cares about you 🙂
Stretch/BZ/Anon- Agreed!
Julie- Thanks, I think… 🙂
They search your bags because you’re too good looking!
Mrs. C- If THAT is true, they need glasses 🙂
You’re much too modest!
Yep, this is why I drive. Not fly to my destination. Plus I get to see Gods country from the ground,along with its people.
And I’ve meet some very interesting people this way.