Off-Duty Police Officer Steals iPad From TSA Checkpoint 178
SpaceCadetTrav writes "A recent arrest report shows that an off-duty police officer from Fullerton, CA was arrested on felony grand theft charges for stealing an iPad at a TSA checkpoint in the Miami International Airport. The theft was captured on video surveillance last month and the officer was tracked down just before boarding her plane."
wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Looks like she thought she was employed by the TSA.
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Cops vs Smurfs. Whoever loses, we win.
On one hand, the only reason she was arrested is because TSOs aren't law enforcement officers. The blue wall of silence (standard practice whereby so-called "good cops" cover up for the misdeeds of bad cops) doesn't apply.
On the other hand, part of me thinks the TSA just hates competition.
On balance, good job, TSA. You've caught your first criminal in what, a decade? Congrats. Totally not worth the expense a
Re:wow (Score:5, Informative)
On balance, good job, TSA. You've caught your first criminal in what, a decade? Congrats.
Premature celebration. The TSA didn't even catch her. It was the Miami PD.
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Now if only Rockstar would come out with Grand Theft iPad: Miami
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Well, easier if you bring your own.
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TSA agents were quoted as saying, "Stop right there, criminal scum!"
A Surprise? (Score:2)
No surprise. Cops are people too, with all the usual failings.
At least this bad cop was arrested instead of "protecting their own", but let's see how he is prosecuted.
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Fuck that. I like fried chicken too. It's damned good... well some of it is. I've had not-so-good fried chicken... you gotta know what you're doing and do it right. Just this talk about fried chicken makes me want some. And Watermelon is good shit too. For that matter, I have even developed an appreciation for collard greens. If you want to bash on black people, go after something else. I like the food a lot.
Re:A Surprise? (Score:5, Insightful)
No surprise. Cops are people too, with all the usual failings.
At least this bad cop was arrested instead of "protecting their own", but let's see how he is prosecuted.
The fact that they are actually applying the law equally and not regarding the cop as above the law is the surprise.
If only they'd prosecute police brutality, corruption, and intimidation (particularly of anyone with a camera) with such fervency. Then they might stop looking so much like the thugs they're supposed to protect us from.
If that sounds too categorical, that's for a well-founded reason. The cops who don't abuse power themselves but keep silent when their co-workers do the same are equally guilty. They sometimes call it "the blue wall of silence". I call it the blue wall of cowardice. It is most unbecoming of such otherwise brave people.
Re:A Surprise? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a cop from California who got caught doing the crime in Florida. That's why.
The cover-their-own stuff happens in other cases because they broke the rules in their own district, thus it's their own department, staffed by their own co-workers, that has the authority to go after them. Yeah, it sounds like a massive ethics violation to me, too. IMO, when a cop is accused of something, it should be the next higher layer up in charge of the investigation (local cop? state investigation. state cop? federal investigation. federal cop? federal investigation from a different part of the country.) There's a reason people ask "who watches the watchers?".
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Another thieving thug with a badge. You're absolutely right -- no surprise.
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You apparently do not pay attention to what you read, "off-duty Fullerton police officer" was arrested by "Miami police", so emphatically not one of their own, not even the same state.
Re:Failings (Score:2)
...Cops are people too, with all the usual failings.
I disagree. Quality officers are supposed to be beyond the *usual* failings. It is quite clear than an officer who absconds with something feels differently about it than a civilian. The difference flows from their duty to honor. Low level officers who cannot maintain their duty are indeed people, sometimes nearing the limits of their capacity.
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Cops are like lawyers -- the bad ones give the 1% of the good ones a bad name.
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iPads are $800 now, not including whatever else was in the bag too (even though "grand" may be $2000, taking 3 things worth $300-$800 each becomes "grand" even though it's not over the Dollar limit) . Depending on jurisdiction that's grand theft quite easily. I'm sure there's other modifiers for being in a security location and FAA property as well. Much like getting in an honest ARGUMENT with a stewardess is a Federal crime for what would be barely disturbing the peace in an average bar.
"...She placed her bag of chicken over it" (Score:5, Interesting)
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People who don't want to pay 10 times the going rate for food?
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Most restaurants or bars I can get 22 oz of Sam Adams for $5 or less. Not sure where you go, even in the city. I also would never get beer at a game of any kind, they never have anything worth drinking. Plus there's a reason certain people have more money than others even though they don't necessarily make more. They don't pay more money if they don't have to.
Re:"...She placed her bag of chicken over it" (Score:4, Funny)
Who takes a bag of chicken to the airport?
People looking to steal an ipad.
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Well, I don't know if I'd call the story itself interesting, but it is candidate /. material on three points. (1) Slashdot readers do travel by air, probably with more tech bling than average, so this story could be a launching point for a discussion about protecting your geek toys. (2) Geeks enjoy a story that reminds them they're smarter than other classes of people, especially if that class *should* be screened for intelligence but isn't (e.g. cops). (3) People here seem to enjoy an NRA-style "cold-dead-
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"especially if that class *should* be screened for intelligence but isn't (e.g. cops)"
They are. Apparently if they've got too much of it, they don't get the job.
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He finished the search after about 15 minutes, leaving the interior upside down, shoe prints all over the seats. At the time, I was going to the gym daily, and had taken off my mp3 player only an hour earlier and placed in my console to charge. I get back into the car, drive back home, go for my mp3 player and lo -- the cop absolutely swipe
Re:"...She placed her bag of chicken over it" (Score:4, Insightful)
I had nothing to hide so of course I said yes to the search.
This was your first mistake.
Re:"Say no does no good." (Score:2)
Twice I've had my car searched by police. They asked permission, I said no. They said by me saying no that they had probable cause. I don't do drugs, there was nothing illegal in the car. It was a waste of their time bringing out the dogs and all the other cop cars that have to stop to gawk.
Say no does no good.
Well, if everyone said "no", they might be more selective on who they wasted their time on bringing out the dogs, etc.
I also doubt very much if refusal for permission to search is actually considered "probable cause" in most cases. If so, it would result in completely removing any protections against unreasonable search by the mere application of the magic words "May I search that?" There are many legitimate reasons for not wanting a search to be performed beyond not wanting the police to find incriminating
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You were really in the right place at the right time... for the cop.
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And doesn't realize airports, of all places, are now blanketed with CCTV. That's practically scary. Where's she been for the last decade?!?
Potential future Darwin Award nominee? I'll take bets.
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At $86k/a., she could afford one of her own. A Grand Theft conviction is going to lose her that gravy train so she won't be able to afford to buy one, and now (only now?!?) she knows what happens when she tries to steal one. Will she learn the lesson? Hmm ... Tough call. Can old dogs learn new tricks?
I expect cops to be a lot smarter and better vetted and traine
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The problem with "ethics" is that most ethics classes are about PERSONAL moral choices... when you start tying your ethical base to just the letter of the law then it's really not "ethics" it's just another form of mindless religion. That's why we can't legalize things because a vast majority of people in the armed forces, legal profession, and police equate "right equals legal" plus what the Bible says. Once you've rationalized away the basic christian rules like the ten commandments, "let your yes be yes
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I think the more interesting part is the fact that she makes $86k as a patrol officer. Holy shit.
And at the age of 25. I could understand it if it was someone with a generation of police experience, but a new graduate?
ObCaruzo (Score:2, Redundant)
So this time a watchman...
(puts on the glasses) ..was watched.
YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!
Grand Theft? (Score:1)
I'm inclined to believe that iPads are overpriced, but not to the extent that stealing one should qualify as grand theft. Did the owner have the "I Am Rich" app installed, or what am I missing?
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I had to look that up as well. Apparently in CA grand theft is for goods or labor valued over $400.
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Heh, screwed that up. This was in FL, not CA.
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I thought that was in Vice City...
Is this one of those places... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Hahahha. Oh, god, you kill me!
The Not So Real Surprise (Score:5, Interesting)
While checking through at the airport a few months back I was going through the standard scans. After placing my items in the bins (o so many bins, damn you electronic devices) I'm left to stand while they take a peek at my penis (to determine if it's worthy of flight).
The agent nearby asks me to keep an eye on my items as they pass through. I suppose if I'm busy watching my things they are free to do other things (like giggle at my pictures). I thought it was kinda odd because who in the right mind would dare defy the TSA under their noses. Still, nearly 20 seconds after the agent mentions me watching my belongings some chick snatches my ipad out of the bin and proceeds to start to walk off. Unfortunately, I can't leave my position of shame and I keep raising my voice while repeatedly saying, "HEY LADY, THAT IS MY IPAD." Eventually, when about 3 or 4 people are staring her down she sets in back in the bin and states she thought it was hers. Ignoring the fact that it was crammed between three other bins that had my possessions and I don't recall her actually picking up an ipad from her newly radioactive items.
In the end, I kept my things and the TSA laughed at my penis some more. Still, it's quite frightening how easy it really is to both nab someones things and then write off what you were attempting.
Re:The Not So Real Surprise (Score:5, Interesting)
I spent a little time as a TSA screener. Take it from me, most of them don't like their jobs and would rather be doing something else. They are barred from using their brains and are likely to lose their jobs if they do anything that resembles "sensible." The best way to get through a checkpoint is to quietly make it known that you know they don't like what they do or how they have to do it and that all you are interested in is getting out of their way and on to your destination. Also, it doesn't hurt to treat them like people and offer a little small talk. You will never see or meet the people making the real decisions. All you get to see are people who probably couldn't get a better job somewhere else.
And while it is known that TSA people have stolen things, it is actually quite difficult to do that. I know in my time there, things were pretty well watched. The real threat was and still is, the baggage handlers and civilians who go to the airports to steal luggage.
I'm a long way from defending the TSA, but I know what it's like to do things I didn't like doing. Searching people and their things is interesting at first, but after the first few days, it's meaningless and endless. If you think for a moment that someone's there snickering at your "whatever" you would be wrong. Only newbies would be like that.
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Since you completely missed the point of anything there and went on a random rant in reply...
What's the difference between a post apocalyptic thermonuclear wasteland and Kansas? At least among the rubble and mutants in the wasteland there is something to do!
In fact, the whole conversation seems so misplaced it seems like a robotext running on keywords. I believe it's worth a shot to give it a test, no?
As a TSA representative how many penis's have you witnessed? I want to compare it with the number of breast
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The best way to get through a checkpoint is to quietly make it known that you know they don't like what they do or how they have to do it and that all you are interested in is getting out of their way and on to your destination. Also, it doesn't hurt to treat them like people and offer a little small talk.
You know, I really have better things to do. I don't feel like offering small talk to people who do meaningless searches and enforce utterly pointless regulations (e.g. confiscating bottled water). The
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I don't give a damn whether or not they snicker. They are still violating my personal sovereignty for no damn good reason.
But your personal sovereignty is sooo small !!!
TSA will steal your stuff too (Score:2)
and cover for each other. According to a local Atlanta radio host he watched as one of the officers took an iPod and other items then left the area. When he tried to confront them they said he had gone home or such. In other words, if they want stuff they know to cover each other and intimidate the flying public with arrest.
http://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2011/06/tsa-stealing-from-passengers.html [blogspot.com]
http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-new-york/former-tsa-supervisor-at-newark-jailed-for-stealing-from-passengers [examiner.com]
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It's nice to know that Ben Franklin was so incredibly right:
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
We've done this to ourselves. We've given these goons so much money and power to make us all safe from terrrrusts, and now our liberty and our safety are greatly diminished.
Yet, recording police is still illegal someplaces. (Score:4, Insightful)
This is really the only argument that ever need to be voiced when arguing against laws that make it illegal to record police in public:
Who are Police? They are people. Some people do wrong things sometimes. Thus, some police break the law. Making it illegal for others to record the police only makes illegal behavior by corrupt police easier.
In this instance the officer was not on duty, but it shows that just because you are employed as a Police officer or Government agent doesn't mean your morals are always intact.
Mission accomplished (Score:2)
That's the general idea, yes.
Typical Cop (Score:2)
Kelly Mejia makes 86K$US/year and has been an patrol officer for 6 years. When confronted about the pad, she said she was going to keep it.
I have found that mo
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Fullerton Police Patrol Officer Kelly Mejia used the well-known stealing technique of placing a bag (in this case, a bag of chicken) http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mejia-Arrest.pdf [fullertonsfuture.org] over the item and then removing both. People steal cell phones using this method all the time. It happened to me on a bus in Kansas City, MO.
That is a very interesting arrest affidavit. Did you see the "Ethnicity" blank on the form they have in addition to the actual "Race" blank? It has two check boxes. "Hispanic" and "Not Hispanic".
Racially profile much, Florida?
Another day, another airport, another crime... (Score:5, Informative)
http://travelunderground.org/index.php?threads/list-of-tsa-crime-stories-since-december-2010-part-1.127/ [travelunderground.org]
http://travelunderground.org/index.php?threads/list-of-tsa-crime-stories-since-december-2010-part-2.128/ [travelunderground.org]
Granted this one wasn't actually committed by a TSO but as was mentioned above, airport security checkpoints are prime locations for theft because many seem (or are) deliberately designed to separate you from your belongings.
Tip: You are NOT required to use a TSA-friendly lock to lock your carry-on bag. Keep your valuables inside your bag as it goes through the X-ray and lock it with a secure, TSA-unfriendly lock. If you want to take your laptop out as they insist you have to (many have said they've left the laptop in the bag and the TSA troglodytes haven't said anything about it), lock it to your bag handle with a Kensington locking cable. These steps will help ensure that you're there to watch them if they claim to need to look through your belongings. It also helps prevent them from trying to force you into a private room for a gropedown by picking your bags up and walking off with them.
And yeah, this is a shameless plug, but the site in my sig is a good resource for tracking TSA civil-rights abuses and coordinating political action to fight back against them. There's good advice to be had for putting TSOs in their place at the checkpoint too.
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Let them know how you feel (Score:2)
http://www.ratemycop.com/index.php?st=CA&dept=13791 [ratemycop.com]
86K ? (Score:2)
I guess for me, the real shock is a cop can earn that much money. Even in California this figure is quite generous for someone with possibly an Associates degree (guessing, as most cops are in this range) and some time at a local academy (also normally hosted by community colleges).
There are people a lot better educated and arguably more productive to society making about that figure.
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There are people a lot better educated and arguably more productive to society making about that figure.
Yes, but do those people have "getting shot" on their list of likely risks while on the job?
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Yes, but do those people have "getting shot" on their list of likely risks while on the job?
You mean like taxi drivers?
The risk of "getting shot" as a police officer is not nearly as great as some people seem to think. Most officer fatalities come from car accidents. Most cabbie fatalities come from assaults.
career risks (Score:2)
A coworker's brother in law was Minnesota Highway Patrol. According to him, "there're very few people out there gunning for a cop, but there're a lot of BAD DRIVERS out there." I would take that as a confirmation...
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Like, for example, military personnel, for whom 85K is approximately the pay for an officer with 10+ years of service or an enlistee with about 20?
Cops are chumps compared to soldiers, sailors, or marines. They should certainly not be being paid more.
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Yes, just about every junior to mid-level officer (along with many many Non-Coms) in the Marine Corps.
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So we need to pay them more than $86k? Because she was more than willing to commit petty (and apparently grand) theft. Possibly would take bribes as well.
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IQ of cops. (Score:2)
How stupid doe she have to be to be a cop and try to steal something in the single area, which is not only probably videotaped, but the best videotaped area for sure, with the best cameras, and where videotapes will be definitely kept for some time?
FTA - She makes $86k/year as a PATROL officer? (Score:2)
Kelly Mejia has been working with the Fullerton Police Department for at least six years and earns about $86,000 per year as a patrol officer
What? Holy crap batman. I have no problem with cops getting paid, but $86k for a PATROL OFFICER? Wow... Guess that iPad was worth it, eh? Lol.
Was she a hottie (Score:2)
And was there a strip search involved that involved video?
What, that would be 10X more entertaining than the government ripping itself off.
Yes would have been here (Score:3)
If the item in question the officer allegedly stole was anything other than an iPad, would this story have been posted to slashdot?
Come on, it was a police officer stealing something at an airline checkpoint. Yes of course that would have been on Slashdot, lots of people here have a fundamental distrust of law enforcement and an (admittedly earned) burning hatred of airport security lines designed to separate you from your belongings.
My real question is why the hell anyone making $86k/year would risk throw
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My real question is why the hell anyone making $86k/year would risk throwing everything away to steal something she could have easily bought? She has problems I think beyond just one theft.
Not everyone becomes a thief to get loot/money. Hell, not everyone in general does stuff for the money. Haven't you ever given up / risked giving up the opportunity for a lot of money because there's something else you'd rather do? Your job isn't "everything", I hope. And never count the sunk cost, right?
Of course, she might have had a reason to think that particular iPad had valuable data on it, so the exercise might have been just for cash.
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she might have had a reason to think that particular iPad had valuable data on it
Are you kidding? Show me a single iPad that contains "valuable data."
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All the iPads owned by hot college girls who use the camera for its primary purpose (enabling remote gynecology).
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It was just a joke that, for you, lost something in translation. Next time I'll put tags around it so there won't be any confusion.
And I suspect I'm a bit older than you assume.
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Not everyone becomes a thief to get loot/money.
That was entirely the gp's point. They likely have a mental disorder which motivated the crime for a reason other than to benefit financially.
So you disagreed by agreeing and then turn it on its head by offering they may have done it for a reason other than the reason you first offered by disagreement. WTF?!?
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The point was to highlight the false dichotomy: wants money / has a mental disorder.
I'm reminded of the way the USSR categorised people who didn't love the state and all its glorious leaders as surely being mentally ill.
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Risk throwing everything away? She's a cop. She'll be given administrative leave while they figure out some way to keep her employed.
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News yes, front page news, no.
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It wasn't a simple theft, it was a Grand Theft. You know, because Apple products are Grand.
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Unless you're actually part of law enforcement (like a TSA agent), in which case it's like a shopping spree at Best Buy.
I don't question why slashdot posted this story because of it's loose association with technology, I question it because TSA stealing stuff is so commonplace, I would have thought it was simply an uninteresting fact of life at this point.
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Right and as private security they lack the legal authority to conduct the types of invasive searches they've been conducting. That's the domain of genuine LEOs.
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It's more like consent by contract.
You buy an airline ticket and agree to bend over.
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Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Insightful)
You'd have to be mentally defective to steal at an airport. They're the most tightly secured and monitored civilian areas.
No, you just have to think you're above the law. That the cop was wrong about this is the exception and not the rule.
The norm is that cops who break the law, including those who engage in unprovoked violence against innocent civilians, receive a paid vacation known as admistrative suspension.
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Interesting)
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I worked for TSA. I took time around my programming job to do it just for kicks for a couple months. I don't like TSA and I wanted to see why they do it. They work hard to bring in a paramilitary atmosphere. They're very open about it. They like to hire ex-military, security guards and people who have that security fetish.
Most aren't thieves but it happens. Laptops go through without being stolen. It's amazing how many people just toss them in with their clothes all the time. No case, no trying to keep it
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You'd have to be mentally defective to steal at an airport. They're the most tightly secured and monitored civilian areas.
Secure? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you're referring to secure from theft, then definitely not.
Example. I'm attempting to clear security in Houston. I'm selected for extra-secure security searching. So my stuff is extra security-secure, right?
If you said, "yes," you'd be wrong.
Actually, all my stuff is at the end of a conveyor 30 feet away. I'd like to keep an eye on it, but I've either got to look away for half a minute while being irradiated, or be distracted for even longer by some guy touching my junk. Do
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Re:News for nerds (Score:4, Insightful)
Show me a /.er that likes TSA, and I'll show you someone who doesn't belong here.
Distrust of government is associated with competence, technical or otherwise. And most of the folks on /. are people who are competent. Competent and or self-reliant people do not feel the need for government to protect them from themselves or imaginary threats. The competent person is capable of feeding and housing himself. He is capable of defending himself as well, when given the opportunity (not disarmed).
TSA is obviously abusing the 4th Amendment, morality, and good plain sense. TSA (and DoHS) is bad government. TSA needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the airports. DoHS needs to be eliminated and its duties returned to the Treasury Department.
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And most of the folks on /. are people who are competent. Competent and or self-reliant people do not feel the need for government to protect them from themselves or imaginary threats.
Imaginary threats, yes, but competence and self-reliance alone won't get you to realize that foreign terrorism is an imaginary threat. Most competent people I know don't care too much about it, it's an inconvenience when they want to fly somewhere, and if they're not busy thinking of other things, they might realize the line they're in to go through security is more vulnerable and has more bodies in it than the plane would. Even many of the incompetents I know laugh about fingernail clippers being banned.
Re:News for nerds (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think it's a matter of self-reliance, more of a matter of being intelligent enough to realize that the TSA is completely useless, a waste of tax dollars, and (as you said) rapes your constitutional rights.
However, I think most slashdotters are intelligent enough to realize that government is necessary. Nobody is or can be completely self-reliant. Good luck getting from California to New York without roads and bridges or airplanes, for example.
Most intelligent people realize that regulation is necessary. I see the occasional railing against the EPA, but these people are obviously too young to remember a US without the EPA. You young people can't imagine how dirty the air and public waterways were before the EPA. The air around a Monsanto plant was so toxic you literally could not breathe driving past one with your windows down (and few had AC in their cars back in those primitive times). Rivers and streams literally caught fire!
Government is necessary (but don't trust it). The TSA isn't.
The competent person is capable of feeding and housing himself
Not without help. You need land and tools to grow food, tools, labor, and materials to build a house on that land. You need society, and societies need governments. Anarchy results in monarchy.
Re:News for nerds (Score:5, Insightful)
It speaks about how even low IQ people crave for the single most innovative and powerful device thats bound to rewrite the complete history of computational devices. Obama farts? It's news if he have an iPad in his hand in the moment. Nuclear power plant flooding, is not news because nuclear power plants don't make/use iPads. Get with the program.
It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY. Then you have to go through the scanner, so you're separated from your goods for a bit. I'm all for poo-poo'ing an obvious appeal to fanboism for link-bait, but you don't really think that's something important to know?
Okay, here's how it matters for iPad owners:
- You'll lose sight of it.
- Activate the 'find' feature.
- Don't go to airplane mode until you're on the flight.
And for non iPad owners, but owners of other tablets or laptops...
- You'll lose sight of your gadget.
- Encrypt your device.
- You should see if there's a built in GPS that can phone home.
Again, I'm annoyed with Slashdot's use of Apple stories to serve ads, but I just flew recently and I think there's definitely a lot of 'it matters' here to discuss. I'm lucky in that my iPad didn't walk away from me during the security screening. I wasn't too worried about it because it's the cellular version and I have the 'find me' option activated on it. I didn't realize this until this article came about, but I put the iPad on Airplane Mode before we went through security. That was dumb Dumb DUMB of me! The 'find me' option wouldn't work!
This thread could easily be salvaged.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100407/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1503 [yahoo.com]
I've flown with mine in my bag numerous times and I've never had an issue.
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No doubt you're right, but I'm not confident the people they hire to run those checkpoints are fully up to speed.
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It also matters for anybody who travels with electronic devices. The TSA requires you to take your laptop (and tablet) out of your bag and put it on a little tray, out in the open and all by itself, to go through XRAY.
Not if you have it in a checkpoint safe bag. Those bags are made so that the laptop compartment can be laid flat before the bag goes through the x-ray. Saves a bunch of time.
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What? More like "ooh, shiny!".
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But it is something that matter!
It speaks about how even low IQ people crave electrolytes.
There, fixed that for you.
FTFY
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Yeah, arrest the feds for doing their job?
That'll work really well :P.
The next move will be several cops landing on the no fly list.
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Grand Theft TSA...You drive around various international airports on a golf cart and shoot/run over tourists and steal their luggage. Bonus points of they have any liquids greater than 8oz.