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Posted by BusMgr on Wed Dec 21 04:08:39 2011, in response to Re: TSA Screening at Penn Station Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Dec 20 09:19:08 2011. The whole point of getting the TSA out of the airport and into train stations and bus terminals, is to further condition the traveling public to OBEY.That's probably the point. Indeed, the TSA had nicknamed their program "VIPR" (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) presumably to scare the public into compliance with the vision of a dangerous snake that can inject lethal venom into those it does not like. True terror inspiration from the government to control the people. But in fact most TSA employees are not law enforcement agents. They can inspect, and not much more. If there is a violation such TSA employees must call for a law enforcement officer if there is a need to enforce a law. Now with respect to aviation, TSA has relevant regulations. 49 C.F.R. § 1540.107(a) specifically states that "No individual may enter a sterile area or board an aircraft without submitting to the screening and inspection of his or her person and accessible property in accordance with the procedures being applied to control access to that area or aircraft under this subchapter." But there are no parallel provisions relating to obligations of passengers using any other mode of transportation. If Amtrak requires passengers to submit to inspection as part of Amtrak's terms of transportation then there may be legitimacy for excluding passengers who refuse to consent. But as far as I can tell, TSA cannot, on its own, exclude a passenger. (Recall the incident in Savannah, Ga., where TSA employees screened passengers entering a passenger station after alighting from a train . . . afterwards Amtrak barred TSA from its passenger stations.) In the end, TSA cannot screen railroad passengers. The passenger railroad system works only because there are so many entrances and exits to the system and the trains, and the very essence of passenger railroads (and mass transit systems) is the ability to move masses quickly. Funneling passengers through security would destroy those systems. The efforts of TSA to the contrary are window dressing to appease those who want who are scared to leave their own homes (and who misjudge the relative risk of terror against slipping in the shower), and to keep the proles impotent. |
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