What's next in police state America? Why armed TSA police of course!
Are you ready for an armed TSA?
The NY Times reported the union that represents the TSA renewed its push for armed agents at checkpoints of the nation's airports. Using a violent attack by a machete-wielding taxi driver in New Orleans as an excuse.
Another pilot allegedly crashed a plane on purpose with 150 people on board, why doesn't the TSA demand yearly psychological and polygraphs exams of pilots? Why don't they set up random DUI pre-flight checkpoints of pilots nationwide? What about tired pilots that fall asleep in the cockpit? Police state America knows pilots would strike and air transportation would come to a halt.
There's NO WAY OF KNOWING if your pilot has a mental illness in America.
In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration requires that pilots receive a physical exam from a flight surgeon annually or every six months depending upon the pilot's age. The International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency that sets global aviation standards, also requires that pilots receive a periodic medical exam, including a mental assessment. Technically, doctors are supposed to probe for mental problems, but pilots said that's usually not how it works. "There really is no mental health vetting," said John Gadzinski, a captain with a major U.S. airline and former Navy pilot. In 29 years of physicals from flight surgeons he's never once been asked about his mental health, he said.
Doug Moss, a Boeing 777 pilot for a major airline, said: "It is a very cursory inspection. If a pilot can just hold a reasonable conversation with a flight surgeon then that generally fulfills his square." There also is no confidential reporting, Gadzinski said. "If you had a mental health issue, you certainly wouldn't tell your flight surgeon about that because it goes right to the FAA," he said.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGA) represents 45,000 TSA officers nationwide. But the AFGE doesn't want all TSA agents armed, but rather a special law enforcement unit administered by the TSA. How many armed TSA agents do you think they want 10,000, 15,000 maybe 25,000?
We need more police in America don't we?
It's hard to put a precise number on America's private police but it would be fair to say that there's over 1.5 MILLION and growing.
America has almost ONE MILLION police officers, this doesn't include private police or security guards, which is larger than the 1.5 MILLION by most estimates. Private security guards have outnumbered police officers since the 1980s. The more than 1 million contract security officers, and guards work directly for U.S. corporations.
That means there's over 2.5 MILLION POLICE in the US with no signs of stopping!
"You can see the public police becoming like the public health system," said Thomas M. Seamon, a former deputy police commissioner for Philadelphia who is president of Hallcrest Systems Inc.
Public/private police becoming like America's public health system? In other words it will continue to grow unchecked and over-funded. All you have to do is mention the magic word 'TERROR' and taxpayer dollars flood in unabated.
Will TSA agents be given armored mine-resistant vehicles 'tanks' and automatic weapons? Of course they will.
J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said TSA officers are subjected to VERBAL and physical violence on a regular basis.
Soon Americans will be too intimated to berate or criticize TSA agents decked out in tactical gear.
"We are sickened by the mindlessness and ferocity of this attack on TSA officers," Cox said in a statement on the union website. "TSOs go to work every day to keep our nation safe from violent individuals who look to inflict harm on the flying public. All too often, TSOs become the targets of violence themselves, both VERBAL and physical."
"The security of TSOs and the flying public at checkpoints is a real concern," AFGE tweeted Monday. "We can't just keep repeating the same incident over & over."
We're sickened by the never-ending war on... wait for it... TERROR! It's just more B.S. our mass media is feeding the public. Arming TSA agents are you F***ing kidding me?
Ask yourselves who's more dangerous a 'terrorist' pilot or an armed TSA agent?
We're sickened by police killing Americans. In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people. During that same year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all. On a side note China's population is nearly 1.4 billion, America's is 333 million.
The DHS run TSA doesn't skip a beat in their attempt to arm every federal employee.
Below is a list of numerous armed govt agencies that DHS controls or has close ties to:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
United States Coast Guard (USCG)
Coast Guard Police (CGPD)
Department of Justice (USDOJ)
Drug Enforcement Administration (since 1973)
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (1968 – 73)
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930 – 68)
Bureau of Prohibition (1927 – 33)
Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (1966 – 68)
Department of State (DOS)
Department of Commerce (DOC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law EnforcementDepartment of Treasury
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division (IRS-CID)
United States Mint Police (USMP)
United States Treasury Police – merged into the US Secret Service Uniformed Division in 1986.
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Department of the Interior (USDI)
Other Major Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Central Intelligence Agency Security Protective Service (SPS)