TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If 'Groping Bill' Passed

It would appear that even the spinelessness of politicians is bigger in Taxas.

Texan meep.

To think that the TSA is somehow holding a better hand than the entire airline industry is ludicrous. Houston and Dallas are huge hubs worth billions of dollars of annual tax revenue.

In fact, I think it more likely (were Texas politicians willing to get off their knees) that it would be the TSA that would back down in their (IMO) illegal procedures. There is no way the current administration would allow the TSA to shut down Texas airports, groping law notwithstanding.

The TSA has a larger military.

Illegal procedures. heh.

Dude, bend over and take it like a man. Let them probe your "Don't Tread On Me" underwear.

Texas talks a lot of tough guy meep but whenever it is faced with an actual confrontation, it immediately pretends to be France. Texas needs to man up and start walking the walk it keeps talking about or sit down and shut the meep up.

This will re-spark the semiannual call for secession. This is the smoke and mirrors bullmeep bills that they throw up when they get tired of working on actual problems like the budget.

In other texas related news, there is talk of governor goodhair running for POTUS... hahaha, meep you all if he makes it in the white house.

If you fly, be thankful these guys are looking, and quit sniveling. If you don't like the precautions, take a train. WTF? I just flew to Texas & back, and the only "extreme" search I saw was on a trio of Arabic travelers (probably Sikh), who had to pat down their own head gear ("slap your hats!"), and the lady of the group had to be patted by a female agent. They didn't seem to be offended, but they were treated like criminals, even though they were riding in first class seats on the same flight as me. I went up to the patriarch of the family after a bit and told him how beautiful his wife's outfit was, and that I was proud to share a flight with them, as an American, and it changed their faces from worry to smiles.

That said, I'm still glad they searched those sand monkeys, and knew they were safe before we took off.

Safety is an illusion, BeachGoat. It is a very weak illusion at 39,000 feet, in an aluminum tube strapped to jet engines.

If Rick Perry becomes president, I'm moving to Canada.

Owned by TSA and Homeland Security.
NOT a nice existence.

There is also the idea we're orbiting the sun at 30 km/s second as the sun is traveling 200km/s hours trough the milky way while it is moving at 600 km/s.. yet we are relatively safe..

@Wotak

Safety is an illusion, BeachGoat. It is a very weak illusion at 39,000 feet, in an aluminum tube strapped to jet engines.

Safety is an illusion and trading privilages and freedoms for illusions is meeping dumb. Some people might be ok with that but those people are meeping dumb.

According to your logic, there is no safety, only the illusion of safety with the threat of danger constantly lurking. Considering the worst that can happen in terms of danger is death, witch also happens to be inevitable, hence futility of safety.

to sum it up.. safety is an illusion.. danger is reality and the worst that danger can do is inevitable.. So you can just destroy all your guns and meep trying to protect your family and keep them safe, because after all.. safety is an illusion and attempts at safety by restricting your children's freedom or other peoples ability to take your/your children's freedom with a furious barrage of hot lead is bound to fail..

Find us a nice neighborhood please, Heather

@Heather

Better some then none. At least they make enough of an effort to discourage a large number of disorganized idiots. I remember when any and all could walk right out on the tarmac in the 70's, no problem, no ID, anytime. There was maybe one or two mall cop looking guys around, and that was it for security. Way different today.
Just saying that if you don't like the efforts being made, take a train, car, or bus. Don't meep because someone is trying to save your life.

It has little to do with having your life saved, but lots to do being owned by
corporations and the state...oh.. and US interests.

@dameep

Let me simplify this further for your simple mind:

The greatest, most powerful force on this planet is nature. Nature is nothing more than chaos within the limitations of the laws of physical science. Within this system there exists a law that is greater and older than any shallow ideals you and your ilk think apply to your life and its existence within nature. That law is called: the survival of the fittest.

Now, man has attempted to elevate himself to a level within nature that would put him at the apex of nature and, in his retarded little mind, in control of not only his own fate but also kin control of nature. In doing so he has built tools and has used them to protect himself from his own physical shortcomings within this great biological system. In doing so he has stressed the very boundries of his own ecosystem to nearly the breaking point... and yet nature is still firmly at the helm of its own set of laws that will eventually erase most of the human progress that you see around you today by seeking equilibrium through the very laws that allowed man to exist in the first place.

Mans laws cannot protect you from the beautiful chaotic truth that is nature, nor can they protect you from mans social diseases and free choice. Safety is an illusion. Anything can happen at any moment and you are powerless to control that. Get over it and stop thinking that human laws, if enforced strictly enough, can protect you from forces greater than those laws and their creators and enforcers will ever be.

Be prepared for the worst, hope for the best and stop pretending that anything but your own strength, knowledge and will to survive are going to protect you. Life is a contest with a single natural law: survival of the fittest. Beyond that law, any illusion that you're living within, including the illusion of safety, can be cirmeepvented at any time by something as simple as free choice.

Danger is an illusion. Your odds of being taken out by a terrorist are approximately 1 in 8597364268795459545474.
Those odds change not one whit because of the TSA. But don't let that stop you from being terrorized, lest the terrorists win.
By all means be afraid. Be very afraid. Just hand all of the civil rights that define what America is to the man in the dark suit. The government will keep them safe for you until there are no more crazy people in the world and then you can have them back.
You don't distrust the government do you?

derp?

Why the meep do people care about the meep TSA? Going through airport security is, at worst, a minor inconvenience. Get a rage meep over something actually important, like the NSA wiretaps, the patriot act getting renewed AGAIN, or the fact that we have troops in 150+ nations. BUT NAH BRAH, MY HAVING A CAREFREE TRIP THROUGH THE AIRPORT IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT

THESE THINGS ARE NOT CONNECTED AT ALL. :sarcmark:

Ya'll are idiots. Texas is a meep for trying to pass a good bill that can't work because of the constitution. Meanwhile, what have your politicians done about it?

Well, our governor fired the elected leaders of Benton Harbor and shifted 1.8 billion in corporate tax responsibility onto the shoulders of the meeping Tea Partiers that put his nazi meep in office. So, the constitution is basically toothless.

state =/= federal

Mofo =/= Smarter than her meep.