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looks like something is going to be done about it, they said something on the news about changing the way younger kids are checked? anyone see that?

also, I probably need to apologize, I think I got a bit..stronger? in my words than I intended. I have had a very difficult week and I think I may have shown it in this thread. I apologize for that. I'm gonna so sewing today and relax.

well, according to the article, they got their authority from the Judge. I'm not saying I like this...this is part of the reason I homeschool my kids...but understand that these kids often bring alcohol into the dances. Apparently, there had been problems at the school, thus the security co already on the premises. The school felt the kids needed to be searched, the judge didn't disagree with that, instead told a private company how to do business...who to hire and pay! and no one here has mentioned it in those terms either! none of the kids said they were harmed after the TSA certified person was brought on either...and I can't find where it was proven that anything actually happened before that, just that the girls said so. Sorry, I'm not saying anything didn't happen, but I'm also not saying something did....I've seen lives damaged because a girl got mad at someone for some reason and cried "foul".

If you read beyond the headline, and on to the article it wasn't the TSA it was a TSA certified person. Just as I can be a Red Cross certified CPR person, that does not mean I work for the RC. I do not see anywhere in the article that the person worked for the TSA, looks to me like the judge said "you get to pay for this person". I think that the silly girls thought they were going to cry SH and get someone fired and get some $(which unfortunately often works) and instead probably got all of their friends po'd instead. Honestly, TSA though???

I'm pretty sure it's not the TSA taking over high school proms....many high schools have metal detectors at their front doors already don't they, this is simply doing it at the prom, what's the difference?

honestly, I'm not being rude, just truthful.....

I live just north of San Antonio (a few miles)...We don't do trollies....nor busses....honestly, "we don't believe in no mass transit her'bouts"....now horses....eh, maybe, "we likes our trucks, the bigger the better!"

a train or bus ride takes over a day just to get out of TX, this isn't a surprise, it's what they've been saying for a couple of years they were going to do. The best thing that can happen is for TX to kick the TSA out, then for other states to follow us.

So your solution is "don't like it--don't shop in malls" Really? Instead of trying to stop the TSA's illegal actions by doing what we can (writing congressmen/senators/state officials and opposing in legal manners this breach of our God given rights) your suggestion is avoid those places where they could be conceivably set up.

First, you're presenting a hypothetical scenario, and I'm responding to a hypothetical scenario. And yes, during said hypothetical scenario you would of course be sending letters and such, I'm simply giving you other options for shopping during said 'crack down'.

so here's the question, you say you need to go shopping once in a while...why would you need to go to a mall where they would conceivably set up such 'check points' ?

other options:

strip centers; actually becoming more popular, safer (not so much of a 'target' as far as terrorism and such goes)
shop online for brands and sizes you are familiar with
shop local
shop etsy, and such, you get one of a kind, you support mostly stay at home moms trying to make a buck