Might end up being able to "legally" carry...

[Presumed_Lost]

... but effectively not be able to go ANYWHERE doing so. Kiss your knife good-bye forever... if you're lucky.


"TSA's VIPR program may be expanding. According to the Washington Times, 'TSA has always intended to expand beyond the confines of airport terminals. Its agents have been conducting more and more surprise groping sessions for women, children and the elderly in locations that have nothing to do with aviation.' In Tennessee earlier this month, bus passengers in Nashville and Knoxville were searched in addition to the truck searches discussed here previously. Earlier this year in Savannah, Georgia, TSA forced a group of train travelers, including young children, to be patted down. (They were getting off the train, not on.) Ferry passengers have also been targeted. According to TSA Administrator John Pistole's testimony before the Senate last June, 'TSA conducted more than 8,000 VIPR operations in the [previous] 12 months, including more than 3,700 operations in mass-transit and passenger-railroad venues.' He wants a 50% budget increase for VIPR for 2012. Imagine what TSA would do with the extra funding."


http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/1921254/tsas-vipr-bites-rail-bus-and-ferry-passengers

 

[the1911ninja]

fuck that, i want them to tell me EXACTLY what this has to do with my safety and then for them to show me there warrant to search me

 

[Minibear464]

So? Who cares if they find something? It doesn't matter if they find a legal knife on you.

 

[DeadFall27]

Wow....America, land of the free....Right??

 

[Mitchell Knives]

Don't submit to illegal searches.

 

[HeavyHanded]

Don't submit to illegal searches.

There's no such thing as an illegal search anymore - all searches are presumed legal until YOU prove otherwise after the fact.

"If you have nothing to hide, you won't mind this light-stick up your arse."

 

[DeadFall27]

There's no such thing as an illegal search anymore - all searches are presumed legal until YOU prove otherwise after the fact.

"If you have nothing to hide, you won't mind this light-stick up your arse."

Yes sir...

 

[glistam]

We'll see. A program like this expensive, and DHS like most branches isn't exactly rolling in dough these days.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Similar but different...

Bank of America decides that charging a $5 ATM usage fee was not a good idea. This proposed fee was a "feeler" that would have become BofA dogma if it weren't for public outrage. The same can be done now. It should have been done in the first place back in 2001.