Posted by deancameron on January 30, 2012 under The TSA, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! | 
The fine folks at your TSA delayed boarding and detained passengers after mistaking an insulin pump for a weapon at LAX.
The incident occured January 27, 2012 around 7:30am in Terminal 4.
What’s the saying about being a hammer and everything looking like nails?
Oh.
If you’re a hammer, the whole world looks like nails.
Here’s that link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/insulin-pump-lax-airport-security.html
Posted by deancameron on January 12, 2012 under Self-Promotion, The TSA, You're kidding me! |
According to THE HILL, the TSA collected $400,000 in spare change left by passengers in airports in 2011.
You can read the full article here.
There’s a small discussion on the site as to what should be done with the money. At this time, 1/3 of the people in the discussion think that the 400k should go to me, Dean Cameron. That may change. Who knows?
Posted by deancameron on December 24, 2011 under The TSA, Unreasonable Search?, USA PATRIOT ACT, You're kidding me! |
TSA Agent cites “frosting as security risk”.
Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-12-24/news/30555105_1_cupcake-tsa-airport-security
The victim of this fiasco (besides each and every one of us) sums it all up rather nicely:
“It’s not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake,’’ she said. “It’s about an encroachment on civil liberties. We’re just building up a resistance and tolerance to all these things they’re doing in the name of security, when it’s really theater. It is not keeping us safe.’’
Posted by deancameron on December 18, 2011 under The 'If I were a terrorist' game, The TSA, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! |
I don’t know if this is a joke. It seems like it might be… but I don’t think it is.
http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172-Security-Check-Point/dp/B0002CYTL2
This is the Playmobil Security Check Point for sale on Amazon.com.
Here is the best review. I wish I’d written it:
Thank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like. Sometimes it’s a hard lesson for kids to learn because not all pigs carry billy clubs and wear body armor. I applaud the people who created this toy for finally being hip to our changing times. Little children need to be aware that not all smiling faces and uniforms are friendly. I noticed that my child is now more interested in current events. Just the other day he asked me why we had to forfeit so much of our liberties and personal freedoms and I had to answer “well, it’s because the terrorists have already won”. Yes, they have won.
I also highly recommend the Playmobil “farm fencing” so you can take your escorted airline passenger away and fence him behind bars as if he were in Guantanamo Bay.
This has gotten horrible.
One of the things I’ve said about the TSA and everyone giving up their liberties for the feeling of security is that we know this stuff is wrong… invasive at the least, but our children are growing up in a world where, if they are NOT searched, they will think something is wrong.
Posted by deancameron on November 9, 2011 under U.S. Constitution, Unreasonable Search?, USA PATRIOT ACT, You're kidding me! |
We try to stay out of the good vs. bad president argument… we like to think that we haven’t had a good one since… Adams.
But come on now…
If George Bush had done this people would have had kittens.
Don’t you think we ought to be getting rid of an administration that thinks it can do anything it wants to its citizens?
From the article:
The government is arguing that people do not have a right to privacy while traveling on public roads. Police are allowed to physically follow people and even dig through their trash without a warrant, and the Obama administration says that the GPS technology amounts to the same surveillance method.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/police-able-put-gps-trackers-cars-without-warrant-204027866.html
Posted by deancameron on August 6, 2011 under Freedom Fighters, Good News, U.S. Constitution, USA PATRIOT ACT, You're kidding me! |
Every religion has a place in the US. Personally, I think they are all dangerous, racist, misogynistic and utterly awful, but if you get some sort of solace out of that stuff, go hog wild.
http://myfellowamerican.us/ wants you to understand that they are just as American as any other nutty group of people who believe weird stuff.
After the WTC attacks, there were people who thought that EVERYONE who subscribes to this particular group of wackadoodles were responsible for listening to their all-powerful being in the sky and flying the planes into the buildings.
That’s like saying all atheists are as awesome as Christopher Hitchens or all Catholics are pederasts.
Don’t make that mistake. There are a few Catholics who aren’t.
Posted by deancameron on June 7, 2011 under The 'If I were a terrorist' game, The TSA, U.S. Constitution, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! |
There are a couple of horrible things about this article about a more efficient “metal” detector.
http://gizmodo.com/5809441/security-checkpoint-of-the-future-could-mean-youll-get-groped-a-lot-less
The first is that the method of personal invasion is getting less intrusive and more “efficient”.
The second is the game of “If I were a terrorist” that is being played in the comments.
The game “If I were a terrorist” is an impossible game to play. It’s pointless and silly. Mainly it’s a game that the people who want to take away our freedoms want us to play. Don’t play it.
The game to play is “If I had the right to be secure in my person, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, and no Warrants issued, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized, what would that be like?”
Posted by deancameron on May 16, 2011 under U.S. Constitution, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! |
The Indiana Supremes are under the impression that the police can go into your home at any time. How utterly fascinating is that?
INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.
Read the entire article here:
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html
Posted by deancameron on April 26, 2011 under Self-Promotion, The TSA, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! |
The Guardian UK has been reviewing some leaked Guantanamo documents and one of them is a guide for interrogators; letting them know the things a terrorist will have on his person. One of them is the Casio F-91W wristwatch because it’s given to Al Queda trainees to make bombs and detonators or something…
Fly with this watch and enjoy a stop at Gitmo!
Read all the fun stuff here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-interrogators-al-qaida-taliban#the-sign-of-al-qaida
BUY THE WATCH HERE!!!.
A pack of three for your two terrorist buddies!
See you in the gulag!
Posted by deancameron on April 15, 2011 under The TSA, U.S. Constitution, Unreasonable Search?, You're kidding me! |
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/index.html
Washington (CNN) — Don’t like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.
Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.
CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 “behavioral indicators” that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially “high risk” passengers at the nation’s airports.
Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.
But one addresses passengers’ attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.
It reads: “Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.”
Read the complete article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/index.html
