TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed
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#2Any intelligent and sufficiently motivated individual could bypass airport security with a weapon. Why does it exist?
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Why? They backed down.
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Kudos? Texas blinked and the bill isn't going to pass. The TSA would have been ripped to shreds by the airline industry had this passed and the TSA actually tried to cancel flights.
When are we going to get someone with balls to stand up to this egregious destruction of personal rights?
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Kudos? Texas blinked and the bill isn't going to pass. The TSA would have been ripped to shreds by the airline industry had this passed and the TSA actually tried to cancel flights. When are we going to get someone with balls to stand up to this egregious destruction of personal rights?
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#7The american people could never easily spot totalitarian acts by the government. The 'destruction of personal rights' is all over the country and all over multiple areas of life.
It's time for everyone to make a stand, not just Texas.
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#8...would have had to shut down Texas airports as it “could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”
They already can't do it now, but that doesn't keep them from shutting down airports.
Edit: wrote that last part wrong - I meant we don't see them shutting down airports now.
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#9The commenter "seeker" asks the question: "Since when can the TSA cancel flights in airports that they neither own or manage? Last I checked, most of the large Texas airports were owned and managed by cities in which they reside."
Who does own these airports?
I think the TSA is bluffing implying that they can directly cancel flights, but they certainly have the power to deny anyone past security such that there are no passengers to fly.
That sounds like a terribly chaotic situation.
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Kudos? Texas blinked and the bill isn't going to pass. The TSA would have been ripped to shreds by the airline industry had this passed and the TSA actually tried to cancel flights. When are we going to get someone with balls to stand up to this egregious destruction of personal rights?
No need to cancel flights. A better TSA response would have been to just not let those you want to pat down board.