TSA Stealing iPads at DFW

And there it is. Great article.

[Sgt Beavis]

Well, every time I sent them - they were in locked containers. That a lone should deter them, but you're right. If they get stolen, I would HOPE all hell breaks loose.

Can you even check them in an unlocked container?

I thought locked containers had to have an approved TSA lock. One which THEY can open with their "special" keys...

BTW, more fuel to the fire..

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/01/hassling-innocent-tsas-specialty/2151061

Hassling the innocent is TSA's specialty
By: Gene Healy | 01/29/12 8:05 PM
Examiner Columnist Follow Him @genehealy
"Rand Paul has got to be on the 'Top 10 People TSA Would Be Smart to Leave Alone' list," National Review's Jonah Goldberg tweeted when news broke of the senator's run-in with the Transportation Security Administration at Nashville International Airport last week.

Kentucky's junior senator missed his flight when he refused a pat-down after a body scanner showed an "anomaly" on his knee.

Someone with a conspiratorial mind-set might suspect a little payback for the grilling Paul gave TSA Administrator John Pistole last summer over the agency's policy of giving the "freedom fondle" to innocent 6-year-old girls. But that assumes the TSA has enough on the ball to carry out even a minor conspiracy.

What Paul experienced was just the routine, pointless indignity that is the agency's stock in trade. While the terrorist threat has diminished radically, the Obama administration is busy expanding the agency's reach onto highways, sporting events and train stations.

Much has been made of the bizarre martial metaphors President Obama employed in his State of the Union last week, where he urged Americans to adopt the spirit of "unit cohesion" animating SEAL Team 6: "All that mattered that day was the mission. No one thought about politics. No one thought about themselves."

Yes, why can't America function as a highly trained military unit that obeys Obama's every command without questioning it?

What made the martial rhetoric even odder was that Obama's speech began with an admission that the country is, in fact, quite safe: "For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated."

The safety we enjoy owes very little to TSA's competence and a great deal to our adversary's incompetence. Terrorism expert and Cato Institute senior fellow John Mueller notes "the rather impressive inability of the terrorists [in post-9/11 cases] to create and set off a bomb."

Indeed, "the only method by which Islamic terrorists have managed to kill anyone at all in the United States since 9/11 has been through the firing of guns -- in the Little Rock and Fort Hood cases."

Even as the threat recedes, Obama's Department of Homeland Security -- of which TSA is a part -- is expanding the use of paramilitary checkpoints at home. In Leesburg, Fla., earlier this month, federal agents armed with semiautomatic weapons checked IDs in a training exercise at a local Social Security Administration office.

TSA VIPR teams -- for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response -- conducted over 9,300 random searches in 2011, on cruise ships, at NASCAR races, on buses, and at train stations.

The Los Angeles Times described one such search at the Charlotte, N.C, Amtrak station in January, in which "three federal air marshals in bulletproof vests and two officers trained to spot suspicious behavior watched closely as Seiko, a German shepherd, nosed [a fiftysomething lawyer's] trousers for chemical traces of a bomb."

"TSA officials say they have no proof that the roving [VIPR] teams have foiled any terrorist plots or thwarted any major threat to public safety," the L.A. Times noted. Still, TSA wants funding for a dozen more VIPR teams.

Contemplating "mission creep" in Obama's TSA suggests a different martial metaphor than those employed by our newly militaristic president last Tuesday. In his book "Wartime," Paul Fussell, a veteran of the Pacific theater in World War II, devotes a whole chapter to "petty harassment" by those in power -- which soldiers summed up with a salty term: "chickens--t."

"Frequent, unnecessary inspections," "insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances" -- it "can be recognized instantly," Fussell writes, because it never has anything to do with winning the war."

Examiner Columnist Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of "The Cult of the Presidency."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...#ixzz1l9kuSbR0

[ceyko]

I'd be interested to. I'm betting there is a whole different level of heat that comes down when a firearm is stolen..

Well, every time I sent them - they were in locked containers. That a lone should deter them, but you're right. If they get stolen, I would HOPE all hell breaks loose.

Can you even check them in an unlocked container?

[pr1042]

humans steal, this is suprising?

[onemeangixxer7502]

blah blah blah, TSA is evil... All true..

However, what kind of fuckin' idiot packs something valuable in their checked bag?

Why people check expensive items is still a mystery to me.

I'd be interested to hear the stats on firearms going missing vs. ipads, rolexes, etc.

I'm betting very few go missing

I'd be interested to. I'm betting there is a whole different level of heat that comes down when a firearm is stolen..

here we go again blaming the person and not the thief, cut a finger or his hand off and I bet he'd think twie about stealing more shit. Like I've been saying things being stolen from checked items would surprise you guys! its pretty commong especially over seas.

[Sgt Beavis]

I'd be interested to hear the stats on firearms going missing vs. ipads, rolexes, etc.

I'm betting very few go missing

I'd be interested to. I'm betting there is a whole different level of heat that comes down when a firearm is stolen..

[Cooter]

try flying with your pistol in your carry on

god bless.

I'd be interested to hear the stats on firearms going missing vs. ipads, rolexes, etc.

I'm betting very few go missing

[BERNIE MOSFET]

try flying with your pistol in your carry on

god bless.

Oh, they'll let you board the plane for a while at least.

[GhostTX]

Wow...maybe someone finally saw the light?

...
"For me, it was like zero chance of me thinking I'd get the iPad back," said Borna Mojra, an architecture student at the University of Texas at Arlington.
...
"If they're the guys who are protecting us and they're not, who am I going to trust next?" he asked.
...

[ELVIS]

Why people check expensive items is still a mystery to me.

every fucking ounce of this

blah blah blah, TSA is evil... All true..

However, what kind of fuckin' idiot packs something valuable in their checked bag?

Seriously. iPads are made to be slim and lightweight so they are easier to carry. The only thing I can think of is that it was still in the box and he was going to give it to someone as a gift. Still, he should have had it in his hands at all times if he were going into known TSA territory. I wouldn't trust those fuckers with a dollar, let alone an expensive piece of electronic equipment.

try flying with your pistol in your carry on

god bless.

[Wicked98Snake]

It's uncertain how many cases Dovel's arrest might solve, or whether the TSA will let him return to a trusted position.

Wait what?

[Ratt]

Why people check expensive items is still a mystery to me.

every fucking ounce of this

blah blah blah, TSA is evil... All true..

However, what kind of fuckin' idiot packs something valuable in their checked bag?

Seriously. iPads are made to be slim and lightweight so they are easier to carry. The only thing I can think of is that it was still in the box and he was going to give it to someone as a gift. Still, he should have had it in his hands at all times if he were going into known TSA territory. I wouldn't trust those fuckers with a dollar, let alone an expensive piece of electronic equipment.

[Sgt Beavis]

blah blah blah, TSA is evil... All true..

However, what kind of fuckin' idiot packs something valuable in their checked bag?

[Cooter]

Why people check expensive items is still a mystery to me.

every fucking ounce of this

[Alex]

Just imagine if these idiots were unionized, he would be back at work the next day.

And paid for that day off