As ridiculous as searching a 3 year old for contraband is, put yourself in the TSA officer's position. She's required to do a search on anyone when the gate beeps twice regardless of age. She would have probably been reprimanded for NOT searching the child.

The system is broken.

BUT

It's easy to find fault without proposing a solution, so what say you, sifters? How would you fix the problem?

Like you said, the system is broken. So let's get rid of the system. An easy solution would be to boycott flying until the TSA is removed from airports.

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

As ridiculous as searching a 3 year old for contraband is, put yourself in the TSA officer's position. She's required to do a search on anyone when the gate beeps twice regardless of age. She would have probably been reprimanded for NOT searching the child.
The system is broken.
BUT
It's easy to find fault without proposing a solution, so what say you, sifters? How would you fix the problem?


Just like you end a war, you end the TSA.

The problem with the system is that our government is more afraid of big business than it is of its citizens. Big business doesn't organize protests against the TSA, because it is a system that gives them security. They instead focus their ire on education, health care, social security and science, because a healthy, secure, educated, scientific society is huge a threat to their security.

Here is all we need to reset their priorities:

1) A public friendly media
2) An intelligent, well-informed voting citizenry
3) An abundance of tough, strong willed, principled politicians
4) A fair and impartial Supreme Court
5) Massive campaign finance reform
6) The end of corporate personhood
7) Billions upon billions of dollars

If we get started now, we may be able to get this done before the sun explodes.

@dystopianfuturetoday

I'm willing to contribute 4.6kg of revolution.

Awesome. I'm putting in 3734 kb per second, plus 69 cents I found in my couch cushions.

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