Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indiana's Melvin Carraway Bounced From Job Heading TSA

11:09 please tell us, Oh Learned One, what Mel Car...

2015-06-05T17:05:56.299-05:00

11:09 please tell us, Oh Learned One, what Mel Carraway did as ISP Superintendent that was "outstanding".

He was a token. What about the corruption scandle with his buddy, Mr. Johnson???

Anon 1131: Ignorance is bliss, right? It is mere...

2015-06-03T13:35:15.126-05:00

Anon 1131: Ignorance is bliss, right? It is merely a report by Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald about U Chicago Prof. Robert Pape's study showing that suicide bombings have a little to do with foreign occupations. For more direct understanding of Osama's reasons for 9/11--though I am not fully convinced it was not a Mossad/CIA/Saudi job--read his fatwa. US bombing of Iraq, US use of military bases in Saudi Arabia, and US support of Israeli occupation of Palestine. Sun Tzu says know your enemies. I happen to think my own personal enemy is the US government because of its meddling in the affairs of the Middle East and its meddling with my private parts when I fly.

hey eric....if you're reading anything from Sa...

2015-06-03T11:31:25.293-05:00

hey eric....if you're reading anything from Salon you're getting it wrong. If you enjoy spin, lies, conspiracy, trash, and liberal ignorance, salon is where i'd start.

Has nothing to do with Carraway and everything to ...

2015-06-02T20:08:06.359-05:00

Has nothing to do with Carraway and everything to do with "perception".

'No, the TSA and its so-called “security circus” — which seems so much more like a carnival in the bright glare of the red team revelations — is meant to make us feel safer. That’s the real job of the TSA,' writes Christopher Elliott. "It’s a $7 billion-a-year show put on for you.'

http://fortune.com/2015/06/02/the-tea-airport-security-problems/

All the security theater in the world yet no one a...

2015-06-02T16:58:07.552-05:00

All the security theater in the world yet no one accepts the obvious.

http://www.salon.com/2010/10/12/terrorism_28/

Nobody needs an on-board hijacker anymore. A sophi...

2015-06-02T12:50:10.248-05:00

Nobody needs an on-board hijacker anymore. A sophisticated computer hack can take control of an airplane remotely and fly it like a drone.

Anonymous at 11:09 - the consummate professional? ...

2015-06-02T12:27:35.840-05:00

Anonymous at 11:09 - the consummate professional? Maybe at pushing paper locally, but he's in over his head by a mile with the TSA.

TSA exists solely to mess with Americans. Riddle me this - why do I have to show ID to board a plane? When I first started traveling for business in the 1980's, I had to take the place of a co-worker at a conference. I just used his ticket. Easy peasy - just like a friend giving me a concert ticket. So why can't I do that now with airlines? Meaning, if I pass security screening, what the heck difference does it make who I am? OK, ok, I'm not Fred SMith, but you can tell I'm not carrying a bomb, wtf does the government care?

"I wonder if it will be any different under H...

2015-06-02T12:24:48.377-05:00

"I wonder if it will be any different under Hogsett."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Oh I just laughed so hard I nearly .... oh never mind.....

"the fact that we've had no airplane terrorist attacks since 9/11 is not due to the TSA's security theater"

DING!! Reinforcing that cockpit door prevents intrusion to the pilot controls. That plus arming pilots would have been the way to prevent future hijackings. Of course Obama had to backdoor ban armed pilots (he spiked an armed pilots test program).
Now how to prevent a pilot from going off the rails and turning the aircraft into a lawn jart like what happened to the Lufthansa subsidiary ... can you prevent that? You can have pilots undergo all the expensive psych exams and a determined liar can fool anyone.

The Spanish attack was against trains - and anyone who rides Amtrak knows there are no security barriers to go through to board Amtrak. If DHS/TSA were really serious about transport security, there would be airport style barriers at train stations. But since TSA's whole premise is a gentle pat on the head with a "there there it's all okay now" combined with a "Papers, please" mentality it is not.

Mel Carraway was an outstanding Police Superintend...

2015-06-02T11:09:13.977-05:00

Mel Carraway was an outstanding Police Superintendent. These are political shots and the TSA problem was not created by him but he is the scapegoat. I had the pleasure of working with him in Indiana and he is the consummate professional.

There were no terrorist airplane attacks on 9/11.

2015-06-02T10:41:59.417-05:00

There were no terrorist airplane attacks on 9/11.

Boy oh boy. Our association with Brizzi is just a...

2015-06-02T08:57:06.492-05:00

Boy oh boy. Our association with Brizzi is just a gift that keeps on giving. His professional failures come back to haunt us with depressing regularity. Just like that guy Massillamany, who keep getting cited for drunk driving. We elevate the weakest, sorriest chumps to positions of power. Garrison on the radio preaching to us about Jesus and moral backbone while beating down innocent homeowners in the street. Township trustees who steal all the poor money. Judges that don’t have their own act together. Drunk, speeding cops. Local politicians on the take. Developers who are really crooksters. Slush funds, tif zones. Teachers and coaches who are trying to get laid. I’m really getting tired of people in trusted positions betraying our trust and then assuming their privilege will keep them out of jail, that they’ll keep their jobs, and that their pensions are secure. I don’t think this guy ought to be running the TSA. I don’t think Brizzi should have kept his law license. I don’t think Garrison has anything left to say. And I think we need politicians and developers who are in collusion to be prosecuted. I’m not happy about the way our taxes are being spent. Indianapolis is going down the toilet. And these big law firm movers and shakers screw us over time and time again. I wonder if it will be any different under Hogsett.

IMHO, the fact that we've had no airplane terr...

2015-06-02T08:47:47.897-05:00

IMHO, the fact that we've had no airplane terrorist attacks since 9/11 is not due to the TSA's security theater, but to the fact that terrorist attacks have moved to other targets.

Otherwise the TSA's inability to detect "threats" would mean something.

TSA is about harassing the citizens, instituting m...

2015-06-02T07:39:31.924-05:00

TSA is about harassing the citizens, instituting martial law, and creating a mentality in Americans that they are not free to travel.

TSA doesn't have a thing to do with explosives or hijackers.

If TSA sucks at finding explosives, it's because they have no interest in looking for them. TSA merely seeks to degrade and delay every traveler.

We had metal detectors on 9/11. Every person who flew on or prior to 9/11 had to go through one. Security was exactly the same on 9/11 as it is today. People are merely humiliated now every time they travel.