Donna - please post back and let us know what happened they should not have cameras up on poles looking over your fence - that's why you put the fence up in the first place.
Dave, can you let us know what city/state you live in? Would be very interested to know the outcome of this. Your situation is my biggest fear. I've made a point of buying houses with 8 foot board on board privacy fences with no neighbors windows looking into my backyard. I'm a bit of a privacy hound. Thankfully my current neighbors who share the one shared side of my 8 foot fence are nice people who also like privacy so we've got agreements to call each other if we have contractors that will be on the roof, trees, etc. But I shudder to think what life would be like if they were like your neighbor. I think there need to be laws against this type of invasion of privacy. If you have a private backyard that no one can see into, having someone put a camera up on a roof or pole just to look into your private backyard is an invasion of your privacy and your peaceful enjoyment of your home. I would hope the city and the law would be on your side. Please let us know how it goes.
Anyone notice it is the TSA Agent as a separate individual and not the TSA themselves that are suing? I think that says something - namely that the TSA knows what they do is a violation of our rights.
Secondly, has anyone ever really stepped back and looked at some of this a bit more logically. For instance, how much explosive to really take down a plane. Seriously folks, it would take a LOT. A small explosive device might blow a small hole in the plane but oxygen masks would deploy and the pilot would bring the plane down to a level where it didn't require pressurization. Planes have been safely landed in these kinds of circumstances before. Smaller and powerful devices hidden on a person are EXTREMELY difficult because the components needed are difficult to properly transport and compbine. At best you get a fizzled failed effort like the shoe bomber - whose powder explosives would not have been detected by the porno-scanners anyway. C4 explosive would need to be transported in a large brick size or in even larger quantity to do enough damage. And C4 consistency is more like semi-hard putty or clay. A light pat down like they used to do back in the day is sufficient to detect this amount of hard clay like material. Seriously - they don't need to poke you in the smeggegy to figure this out - it would be obvious you were "packing" so to speak. They need to focus more on the baggage - both carry on and what goes in the hold and this includes all the unscanned cargo. What we have here folks is really bad case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
As far as Ms. Alkon - thank God someone has the "er" balls to stand up to the TSA and not to bow down to this attempt to intimidate her into silence. The TSA needs to be abolished - not security - just the TSA.
there are other technologies that can be used and have been used both in Europe and even in Florida (iris scanning, etc.) that provide fast reliable security without violating someone's modesty or personal space. However the TSA with former goverment TSA officials lobbying their porno-scanners completely overlooked our rights and selected a technology that is ineffective, dangerous, and a violation of our personal privacy as US citizens.
And lastly for all those bozos who keep saying flying is a priviledge if you don't like it don't fly - get your facts straight. It's NOT a privilege it is a right. Secondly, many of us have no choice as it is required by our jobs.
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Donna - please post back and let us know what happened they should not have cameras up on poles looking over your fence - that's why you put the fence up in the first place.
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Vanessa - you need to go back on your medication honey. Best of luck to you.
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Dave, can you let us know what city/state you live in? Would be very interested to know the outcome of this. Your situation is my biggest fear. I've made a point of buying houses with 8 foot board on board privacy fences with no neighbors windows looking into my backyard. I'm a bit of a privacy hound. Thankfully my current neighbors who share the one shared side of my 8 foot fence are nice people who also like privacy so we've got agreements to call each other if we have contractors that will be on the roof, trees, etc. But I shudder to think what life would be like if they were like your neighbor. I think there need to be laws against this type of invasion of privacy. If you have a private backyard that no one can see into, having someone put a camera up on a roof or pole just to look into your private backyard is an invasion of your privacy and your peaceful enjoyment of your home. I would hope the city and the law would be on your side. Please let us know how it goes.
Seriously.
Anyone notice it is the TSA Agent as a separate individual and not the TSA themselves that are suing? I think that says something - namely that the TSA knows what they do is a violation of our rights.
Secondly, has anyone ever really stepped back and looked at some of this a bit more logically. For instance, how much explosive to really take down a plane. Seriously folks, it would take a LOT. A small explosive device might blow a small hole in the plane but oxygen masks would deploy and the pilot would bring the plane down to a level where it didn't require pressurization. Planes have been safely landed in these kinds of circumstances before. Smaller and powerful devices hidden on a person are EXTREMELY difficult because the components needed are difficult to properly transport and compbine. At best you get a fizzled failed effort like the shoe bomber - whose powder explosives would not have been detected by the porno-scanners anyway. C4 explosive would need to be transported in a large brick size or in even larger quantity to do enough damage. And C4 consistency is more like semi-hard putty or clay. A light pat down like they used to do back in the day is sufficient to detect this amount of hard clay like material. Seriously - they don't need to poke you in the smeggegy to figure this out - it would be obvious you were "packing" so to speak. They need to focus more on the baggage - both carry on and what goes in the hold and this includes all the unscanned cargo. What we have here folks is really bad case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
As far as Ms. Alkon - thank God someone has the "er" balls to stand up to the TSA and not to bow down to this attempt to intimidate her into silence. The TSA needs to be abolished - not security - just the TSA.
there are other technologies that can be used and have been used both in Europe and even in Florida (iris scanning, etc.) that provide fast reliable security without violating someone's modesty or personal space. However the TSA with former goverment TSA officials lobbying their porno-scanners completely overlooked our rights and selected a technology that is ineffective, dangerous, and a violation of our personal privacy as US citizens.
And lastly for all those bozos who keep saying flying is a priviledge if you don't like it don't fly - get your facts straight. It's NOT a privilege it is a right. Secondly, many of us have no choice as it is required by our jobs.