Your Tax Dollars at Work: Home-Made Posters Explaining Why The TSA Was Created

Yesterday, I flew to D.C. from the Dayton, Ohio airport. This poster was on display right after the security check.

Reason.com on the Transportation Security Administration.

Comments

[Rich]

Somehow I doubt it was made at home, if you catch my drift.

[Joe M]

Awww, the TSA is so cute and cuddly-wuddly.

[Parents Rights > Marine Patrio]

How ironic - first Obama tries to change 9/11 from a day of remembering that MUSLIM JIHADIS attacked us into a day celebrating LIBERAL-LOVEFEST-ACORN work, all while working to make sure terrorists have more rights than business people who fly - and yet his Govt. goons in the airport don't heistate a nanosecond when it comes to "remembering 9/11.

Why am I not surprised?!?!

[Tomcat1066]

And just think, that poster only cost TSA $3.6 million. That's a hell of a deal!

[dennis]

Listen lady, if you don't like it when we grab your breasts, you hate America.

[Euler]

I thought the reason they're here is because they failed high school and were too stupid for the police force.

[JW]

Drink!

[sage]

I thought the reason they're here is because they failed high school and were too stupid for the police force.

Wow, that is stupid. We're talking almost too stupid to live.

[Joe M]

You know, for a poster called "reason," ...

[Joe M]

Damn it JW, you beat me.

[Attorney]

Not that I have any great love for the TSA, but ...

are we sure that any tax dollars were involved in creating this thing? It looks like something the local kiddies might have done as an "art" project.

[{^}]

I LOVE IT!

[Warty]

It won 1st prize at the science fair, you assholes.

[Michael]

I hope those pictures were all cut out with confiscated scissors and not newly purchased pairs. Somebody should show this to Yosi Sergeant in hopes it might have a Scared Straight type of effect.

[John-David]

The TSA is irrelevant, since the Rapture is happening today.

[Attorney]

The TSA is irrelevant, since the Rapture is happening today.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Brian Courts]

are we sure that any tax dollars were involved in creating this thing? It looks like something the local kiddies might have done as an "art" project.

Perhaps not, but co-opting kiddies into producing government propaganda, though a time-worn tradition, is even worse than spending tax dollars.

[Andrew S.]

Ah, TSA. The very definition of a government program that feels the need to go further and further to justify their own existence.

Just once -- just once! I'd like someone to explain to me how the TSA has made us any safer than the private security that was in place on 9/10/2001 did. Nothing the TSA has done would've prevented 9/11. Nothing. We continue to be told that planes would be blown out of the sky repeatedly if the TSA didn't exist even though there hadn't been a bomb brought aboard a jet in the US since... 1962? And that was in the days before there was any security at all.

I dislike the TSA more than the IRS. Which really says a lot.

(plus.. you ever see the TSA's joke of a blog?)

(I'm ranting here. Sorry)

[Rimfax]

Drink!!!

[MikeP]

Why is "reason" written in orange?

[Ska]

The TSA is just shilling for Gillespie.

[Parents Rights > Marine Patrio]

dennis | September 21, 2009, 1:40pm | #

Listen lady, if you don't like it when we grab your breasts, you hate America.

@ Dennis - ROFL!!! Now I have coffee all over the keyboard!!!

[SugarFree]

From John-David's link:

Around two years ago someone sent me a link to a MP3 that The Lord used to rock my spiritual perception of the world and this life, upside down.

[John Tagliaferro]

The TSA is just shilling for Gillespie.

If that were true Reason would be in leather.

They are shilling for Big Welch.

[P Brooks]

The TSA is irrelevant, since the Rapture is happening today.

Sweet.

Does this mean I don't have to bother paying my American Express bill?

[John Tagliaferro]

Does this mean I don't have to bother paying my American Express bill?

Depends on if you are leaving or staying.

[SugarFree]

The selective amnesia is amazing:

And was Bush compared to Hitler at some point? Was he compared to Hitler in a way that was broad and public enough to be included as a primary conservative talking point in line with taxes?

I mean, I can believe the comparison happened, because sometimes people are jackasses, I just don't remember it. And I'm in California.

[Joe M]

If it wasn't for the TSA, we'd all be BURNING IN JET FUEL.

[dennis]

P Brooks, you'll only get out of your bill if American Express is made up of Fundies.

[creech]

With locked and reinforced cockpit doors, terrorists can no longer commandeer planes and fly them into buildings. At best, with lax TSA security, they could blow up a plane and that would kill several hundred people. So TSA spends millions of dollars, and wastes the time of millions of travelers, to stop some very small chance of terrorism. What, are terrorists so stupid they are going to target airplanes when their suicide bombers can attack all sorts of unprotected targets and get the same result? They could disguise a truck as a news van and detonate a bomb outside the Cowboys stadium as fans are leaving the game. Or have a suitcase bomb on
board a subway car at Times Square during rush hour. That these things haven't happened might lead one to conclude there are no terrorists out there targetting U.S. soft targets, or that undercover intelligence work is far, far more effective than one supposes.

[Jamie]

I'm no fan of the TSA, but what proof do we have that this was made using US tax dollars? It's much more plausible to think that it was made at home by some scrap-booking employee.

The poster likely took a few hours to create, required access to an Internet-connected PC with a printer, and art supplies. A TSA employee isn't going to haul this stuff into work and be scheduled "crafting time" by his/her supervisor.

[Pro Libertate]

As we speak, people are deleting all instances of Bushitler from the Intertubials.

[Troy]

The TSA is irrelevant, since the Rapture is happening today.

Woohoo. I got out of paying my student loans!!!!

[P Brooks]

The TSA is saving and creating jobs!

You people are insatiable.

[{^}]

"The selective amnesia is amazing:"

That "Model Behaviors" ad chick is awesomely hawt!

[GILMORE]

No portrait of the shah of iran... maybe a copy of the sykes-picot agreement?

[TallDave]

Joe M | September 21, 2009, 2:19pm | #
If it wasn't for the TSA, we'd all be BURNING IN JET FUEL.

stop stealing my lines

[Abdul]

Stop giving TSA a hard time.

What would you even put on a poster over at the Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, or Commerce?

[24AheadDotCom]

Excellent job by Reason!

Wait, scratch that: another excellent job by Reason!

[{^}]

WTF, Lonewacko???

[GILMORE]

Ahh! Lonewacko. I missed you so. I was just complaining we didnt see much of you recently. Now we've had enough. Go away for another few weeks and STFU.

[T]

What would you even put on a poster over at the Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, or Commerce?

Agriculture: A dollar sign, to represent ag subsidies, the most enduring part of American agricultural policy.

Transportation: A dollar sign, to represent how we use transportation funds to erode federalism.

Commerce: A dollar sign, because the business of America is business, and that ain't happening unless somebody's getting paid in good old Federal Reserve Notes.

Any other questions?

[Huh?]

I thought it was the Village Idiot Removal Act of 2002.

[Abdul]

Nice job T. But what would represent treasury?

I think it's a toss up between a dollar sign and a 1040.

[T]

I think it's a toss up between a dollar sign and a 1040.

A gun and a dollar sign surrounded by the words "Just give us the damn money and nobody gets hurt".

[Timon19]

Those of us from Actual Ohio only claim WPAFB as our own. The rest is Occupied Indiana.

[anonymous]

So did the NEA pay for this, um, "art"?

[Rich]

It's much more plausible to think that it was planned at three five-person-committee two-hour-long meetings involving lawyers and procurement specialists and then made at home by some scrap-booking employee.

[TrickyVic]

"""So TSA spends millions of dollars, and wastes the time of millions of travelers, to stop some very small chance of terrorism"""

What should you expect when government says, and we expect, that any terrorism is too much. If you had greater chances at winning powerball lotto over a terrorist act, it would still be too much of a chance.

Compared to what we are spending on the military to prevent another attack here, the TSA is a drop in the bucket.

[zoltan]

Shouldn't it be "The Reason for 9/11"?

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[Jumbie]

We should have a hit and run contest to come up with posters that REALLY explain the reason the TSA exists.

[Michael Ejercito]

What should you expect when government says, and we expect, that any terrorism is too much. If you had greater chances at winning powerball lotto over a terrorist act, it would still be too much of a chance.

The odds of a girl being abducted and being kept as a sex slave for eighteen years is even lower.

Are you implying that we simply ignore child abductions?

[Andrew S.]

Michael Ejercito -- No, we don't ignore that. But at the same time, we also don't force all people to undergo mandatory police sweeps of their homes on an occasional basis on the off chance that they might have abducted a girl and are keeping her as a sex slave.

Nobody's really saying "we want no security". Like I said above: Security's fine. But give me realistic security. The security we had on 9/10/01 would keep us just as safe in the skies as we are today, but with far less 4th Amendment issues and other government nonsense.