http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/2136/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/senate_passes_bill_allowing_airports_evict_tsa_screeners <p>The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from aviation security altogether.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/senate_passes_bill_allowing_airports_evict_tsa_screeners#comments airports News Article Private airport screeners Transportation TSA Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:59:54 +0000 franimal19 19622 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/housewife_terrorized_911_flying_while_dark_skinned <p>Shoshana Hebshi, who describes herself as a "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife," was aggressively cuffed and detained from Frontier Airlines Flight 623, then strip-searched, for the apparent crime of being ambiguously "ethnic" and being seated next to two Indian guys she didn't know who got up to use the toilet.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/housewife_terrorized_911_flying_while_dark_skinned#comments airports News Article Police State Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:20:46 +0000 brill 14862 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/backlash_grows_over_tsas_naked_strip_searches_cnet_news <p>A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, say the new procedures--a choice of full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls "enhanced pat-downs"--go too far.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/backlash_grows_over_tsas_naked_strip_searches_cnet_news#comments airports enhanced patdaowns