al Qaeda brags about overcoming american security

In a web posting today, the al Qaeda group displayed a picture of Abdulmutallab, calling him a hero who "overcame legendary American intelligence which showed its fragility, putting its nose in the ground, using all of what they spent in new security techniques against them."

http://tinyurl.com/ylybzqs

No danger on Sunday flight — just an ill passenger

This is security & safety?

Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound flight that was attacked on Christmas Day....a businessman who was sick and posed no security threat....the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger — just an ill traveler who spent too much time in the bathroom.

http://tinyurl.com/yewkf8g

2 detained for watching "The Kingdom"

"Two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for Phoenix were detained and questioned by federal anti-terrorism authorities before they were released, the FBI said Sunday."

"A nearby passenger also observed one of men watching what appeared to be footage of a suicide bombing, but was actually a scene from the 2007 movie "The Kingdom."

http://tinyurl.com/y892o7n

Urgent! Call to action

Contact your Senators and Representatives and let them know that you disagree with TSA's latest crazy knee-jerk polices. We can not continue to all them to erode our liberty's in the name of "security"

Please also post your dissatisfaction on the TSA (official) Blog: http://tinyurl.com/tsa122709

Eight Years Later...

The government has spent about $45 billion dollars of your money, since Sept. 11, 2001, on aviation security. Do you fell safer? Or do you feel that most of it has been wasted? Please post your comments!

"We're wasting immense amounts of time and manpower searching through people's bags for little knives and pointy objects, and taking harmless liquids away from people,” says Patrick Smith, a commercial pilot ..."That doesn't make us safer...."

http://tinyurl.com/qckzoj

Make sure you bring your Papers to the Airport

WSJ: Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125012447548327753.html

Do you trust the airlines with your personal information? How did we get to this point? Why we watching our liberty and freedom be slowly eroded?

Virtual Strip Search?

Hello, and welcome to the TSA Watch Blog! This is my very first blog post. While I am not much of a writer, I hope that you overlook my spelling, grammar, punctuation, and many other faults and find this blog to be informative, though provoking, and that it will increase discussion about a very important issue: The delicate balance between SAFETY and LIBERTY; we CAN have both.

There has been much discussion about the new "Virtual Strip Search" machines. TSA recently rolled them out at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. These machines are capable of seeing through all of your clothing including undergarments.

Even the ultra liberal European Union Parliament has denounced this technology as a "serious impact on the fundamental rights of citizens." Of course the ever powerful TSA has decided that anyone who doesn't want to be subjected to a virtual strip search may instead be frisked. Really? In the United States of America, a citizen can be forced to either be subjected to a "Virtual Strip Search" or be forced to be "Frisked" in order to board a passenger flight on a commercial airline? Is this what our fore fathers fought and died for?