Originally posted by ModernAcademia
The TSA need an overhaul?
Sure why not, as well as the Army, FBI, CIA, DHS, Congress, Senate... where does it stop?

Don't forget society in general...scum are EVERYWHERE doing ALL jobs, in ALL classes, ALL races, ALL creeds, ALL countries....

So your right...why stop at the TSA, lets overhaul what really needs to be overhauled...PEOPLE!

This type of outrageous behavior from a federal employee is more evidence that the only group that needs to be watched are those in federal service. Watching the TSA with surveillance cameras, mind reading technology, psychological profiles, extensive monitoring of all aspects of personal life would be a must in my world.

This is where I would task the NSA to watch every federal employee and find the corrupt criminals and anyone engaged in pedophilia activity, or any criminal activity that endangers the public while wasting tax payer dollars on employees that belong in jail and not collecting a check for being allowed to be so criminal and corrupt while collecting tax dollars in the process.

We have the technology, we just need the will to admit that someone, some agency should be watching each and every single federal service employee. Weed out corruption and eliminate or reduce waste fraud and abuse. Begin bringing the many hidden criminals on federal payroll to trial and in time we will once again prove that we are a moral and just Nation.

We as a nation have lost our ability to trust those that are suppose to be our leaders and the examples for decent and moral behavior. Instead we have our own worst nightmare and I for one hope no one else has to become a victim to a preventable crime such as this incident reveals.

If there were really no place to hide what the TSA Agent did because if he knew everything he did and said was being recorded, the TSA representative would have been deterred. Instead, he played the system and was of course still too mentally challenged to pull off a criminal action without being caught. This brings TSA hiring standards into question. This is why cleaning house begins at home and right now our most trusted portions of government are broken and corrupt from within. I just know we could do better.

Thanks for the posting. It should give us all something to think about.

I say lock this guy up and throw away the key. Those body scanners are one of the worst idead ever, the are not used on children in some countries because it violates their pornography laws. In the US anything having to do with child porn is illegal (like making,selling,trading ect..). in other countries like the UK anything that produces a nude image of a child is illegal.

Your missing the simplicity of my point. All federal employees, soldiers, government officials, etc....are PEOPLE...they live among us, they are not some different breed of human. So your saying this group should get overhauled...well how do you do that when the next batch come from the same place with the same problems?

As for the scumbag worker, well unfortunatly there are people like him teaching our kids, preaching to kids, protecting kids, etc....and when you have a figure like 187 countries having file shared over 5.8 million naked pictures of kids under 13 in 2007 and 2008...in my mind, a whole hell of a lot of people need an overhaul.

Originally posted by zaiger
I say lock this guy up and throw away the key. Those body scanners are one of the worst idead ever, the are not used on children in some countries because it violates their pornography laws. In the US anything having to do with child porn is illegal (like making,selling,trading ect..). in other countries like the UK anything that produces a nude image of a child is illegal.

I'm not saying that what this guy did is ok, but I have always had a problem with "Statutory" rape. This girl, although underage in our country, was still willing and biologically able to have sex. Lock him up and throw away the key should be reserved for people that kidnap and/or forcibly rape someone. If it were my daughter, he would probably be begging to go to the safety of a jail, but there still has to be some difference between "forcible" or "violent" rape, and something like this.

Now as for TSA, they have what 15,000 employees or more? Surely they have this guy and several more on their payroll. They probably have tax evaders, and alcoholics, and even a murderer or thief or two. I don't think we can blame the organization for the individual.

As for the scanner, it is cumbersome, ridiculous, invasive, and ineffective, so it needs to go! The scanner does absolutely nothing to make you safer on an airplane. The shoe scanner, and the bomb sniffing dogs are equally ridiculous, because anybody with any experience in Chemistry, or Aviation, can beat or bypass all of these devices very easily.

For you score keepers:
Guy taking liberties with 14 year old girl = Sick, Someone tell her father
TSA having a criminal employee = Par for the course, fire him
3D scanner = Worthless, expensive, and invasive, ridiculous way to spend a couple of hundred grand!

Yeah, that makes a world of sense. Let's take any sex crime linked to the TSA and use it as an excuse to get rid of those HORRIBLE full body scanners!

Oh and to make this even more toungue in cheek - they forgot to say whether the accused was Muslim.

*blatant sarcasm off*

I was just about to post this, it's disgusting. The full-body scanners are messed up and should not be allowed, period.