USA TSA: Signs You Might Be a Terrorist

[Adam Jensen]

I'm a ramp agent.

I don't get screened at all when I come into work.

Millions of passengers a day go through screening, but if you want to smuggle shit onto an airplane, the best way to do it, is to be a ramp agent. You can tell that TSA is bullshit because I do not get searched, ever. I can bring whatever I want in a backpack to the baggage room where the checked baggage comes after going through the detection machines and the sorters. I have access to the airplanes, to their cabins, their cockpits and their cargo bins. I have access to the panels, the interior of the landing gear wells. I never get searched. I could have a kbar in my backpack and no one would know.

Meanwhile if I put on my backpack and go up to the gate, that's a "security violation and a thirty day suspension." Okay, but I can bring my backpack to the baggage room?

Sure, they got cameras all over the place. I can easily get at a bag while being out of view of a camera. The baggage carts get in the way, the equipment and machinery gets in the way.

But I can't take a backpack upstairs to the gate, away from the checked luggage and aircraft.

It's so stupid.

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You know what didn't happen from 1903 through Sept 10, 2011? An event like Sept 11. That's over 100 years without an incident like that, so why on earth are you giving TSA credit for 14 years after without one?

[Sierra85]

I'm a ramp agent.

I don't get screened at all when I come into work.

I have access to the airplanes, to their cabins, their cockpits and their cargo bins. I have access to the panels, the interior of the landing gear wells.

I never get searched.

this whole post is slightly terrifying, but i believe you. The question is why are passangers put through so much crap when these ramp agents get a pass. I'm sure this is how alot of international drug trafficking is done..

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this whole post is slightly terrifying, but i believe you. The question is why are passangers put through so much crap when these ramp agents get a pass. I'm sure this is how alot of international drug trafficking is done..

They get screened before the emplyoment the damage they can cause is not necessary related to the stuff they can bring into the airport so its not really that big of an issue.

[Adam Jensen]

this whole post is slightly terrifying, but i believe you. The question is why are passangers put through so much crap when these ramp agents get a pass. I'm sure this is how alot of international drug trafficking is done..

That is exactly my question. I mean I had to go through a background check, but that's not hard. So long as you clear that, you're free to do as you please. If Al Qaeda or the drug cartels or someone else with ill intent just found some gullible little shit who had a clean record, what's to stop an airline from hiring him? Not a background check. And that's the hardest part to get past. Once he's in, he's got free access with nothing between him and the bags but a locked door his badge can open.

[glo]

You know what didn't happen from 1903 through Sept 10, 2011? An event like Sept 11. That's over 100 years without an incident like that, so why on earth are you giving TSA credit for 14 years after without one?

Probably because of the countless attempts since then that were thwarted by security?

[Elim Garak]

That is exactly my question. I mean I had to go through a background check, but that's not hard. So long as you clear that, you're free to do as you please. If Al Qaeda or the drug cartels or someone else with ill intent just found some gullible little shit who had a clean record, what's to stop an airline from hiring him? Not a background check. And that's the hardest part to get past. Once he's in, he's got free access with nothing between him and the bags but a locked door his badge can open.

Not to mention that you might be recruited after you pass the security check. Those ~72 virgins might come in handy.

[Bigbamboozal]

Dear people. Terrorists won. You changed your entire way of life. Turns out the price of freedom was...freedom.
Guess we'll all shuffle through the airport shoeless like a bunch of prisoners while constant suspicion is applied to everyone in a ridiculously haphazard fashion, by people under qualified with too much power.
Seems like a giant fail to me.
I didn't see moo'ing on the list...so next time you shuffle on through, just moo a little like the cattle we are.
Should get you right through

[glo]

Dear people. Terrorists won. You changed your entire way of life. Turns out the price of freedom was...freedom.
Guess we'll all shuffle through the airport shoeless like a bunch of prisoners while constant suspicion is applied to everyone in a ridiculously haphazard fashion, by people under qualified with too much power.
Seems like a giant fail to me.
I didn't see moo'ing on the list...so next time you shuffle on through, just moo a little like the cattle we are.
Should get you right through

Oh please, nobody lost freedom. Last time I checked, airports aren't public property, and they're certainly not a right or public transportation. If you don't like it, don't fly.

[Adam Jensen]

Oh please, nobody lost freedom. Last time I checked, airports aren't public property, and they're certainly not a right or public transportation. If you don't like it, don't fly.

Airports, the major ones in the US anyways, are owned by the city/state.

Mine is owned by the city of Portland.

So it very much is public property.

But you're right that it isn't public transportation or a right.

[glo]

Airports, the major ones in the US anyways, are owned by the city/state.

Mine is owned by the city of Portland.

So it very much is public property.

But you're right that it isn't public transportation or a right.

That's not how public property works. Try using that logic after breaking into the Pentagon at 4am. Tax funded property =! public property.