Rand Paul isn’t ready to give up on his dream of destroying the TSA

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It's hard to take advice about how things should be run from a man who thinks de-segregation was an overreach by the federal government. When will the crazies get out of the way so real TSA reform can happen?

-Jason Clampet

… The Kentucky Republican said in an interview that he plans to refile legislation that would drastically scale back the Transportation Security Administration’s reach by privatizing security screening operations at airports and creating a series of passenger protections.

“I think we are going to,” Paul said when asked if he would take another crack at the oft-criticized agency. “We have two different bills, one to privatize the TSA and then we have another one which is a passenger bill of rights.”

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  • CondeNaste Traveler

    Come on SKIFT you are misleading your readers by calling Mr. Paul crazy by taking his comments out of context. He is not crazy to suggest why the TSA is a faliure and immorral . I suggest your readers to fully investigate both what Rand was referring to and discover the entire scope of where his comments were lifted from. Does SKIFT really believe the TSA wasn’t crazy putting a Presidential Cadinent who has served both in the US Military and servred as a Congressman for over 3 decades through a secondary Terrorist susupect screening? That is what crazy really is – The TSA out of control, over reaching, breaching their own policies ( search naked TSA photos leaks of private citizens on Youtube) further TSA is over budget and are a complete failure of accomplishing what theywere set out to do. Why does SKINT feel the TSA is doing its job using no common sense regarding who they herass and at many time traumatized innocent American travlers. What made me crasy is when I learned the TSA’s own record not too mention the many children and elederly who had been put through de humanizing pat downs that are often boarderline sexual molestation.

    For the attention deprived and un fact checking bloggers here is a handy Info Graphic I found over on Safe Travel and Relocation Services blog – that spells it out crystal clear (http://safetrs.com/tsa-info-graphic/). You will discover it has costed Americans 6 Million dollars per gun found by TSA that Zero had belonged to any Terrorists and over a record already of 25,000 security breaches with 7.8 billion dollars spent thus far. These are some of the actual statistics of the TSA failures. But it is worse! read the rest of the data culled directly from the lions mouth the TSA own reporting. http://safetrs.com/tsa-info-graphic/

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