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K466
01-06-2011, 09:38 AM
I've written a nearly 4,000 word article on the problems with the TSA and the solution (free markets!). I hope it will be useful in persuading people to demand the TSA is abolished and replaced by free markets. Share it with as many as you can.


Tackling Airline Secuirty and the TSA (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978877569)

BTW, any critiques are welcome.

In Liberty,

Matthew

Krugerrand
01-06-2011, 10:03 AM
If a picture is worth a thousand words, I can match your article:
http://yesbuthowever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tsa-300x225.jpg
http://libertyhaven.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/tsa_groping1.jpg?w=360&h=286
http://www.dba-oracle.com/images/tsa_profiling.jpg
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0910/my-first-cavity-search-pedo-bear-demotivational-poster-1256536030.jpg
http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/imagespaidtotouchyourjunk_small.jpg

Krugerrand
01-06-2011, 10:07 AM
BTW - excellent article!

K466
01-06-2011, 01:06 PM
If a picture is worth a thousand words, I can match your article:

LOL cheater! Thanks for the comments!

dannno
01-06-2011, 01:40 PM
Wow!!


Current Policies Result in More Deaths

Since airliners and airports are not able to compete and offer different security measures suitable for those who find the TSA measures unacceptable, the current situation results in more people reverting to driving, which is statistically deadlier than flying. Steven Horwitz, a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, agrees:

“Driving is much more dangerous than flying, as you are far more likely to be killed in an automobile accident mile-for-mile than you are in an airplane... The result will be that the new TSA procedures will kill more Americans on the highway”

A study [PDF]by researchers from the Cornell Univerity found that following new TSA procedures implemented in late 2002, resulted in 129 additional traffic fatalities in the fourth quarter of that year. This, as Nate Silver pointed out, is a rate equivalent to four fully loaded Boeing 737's crashing each year.

It's hard to measure this kind of statistic precisely, but it is certain that the TSA's security policies- however many lives they do manage to protect- also result in some unnecessary deaths. Current policies result in more deaths than there would be if the the TSA faced real competition.

K466
01-11-2011, 08:45 AM
Wow!!

That really surprised me as well, but it makes sense. More people drive under than TSA monopoly than would under a free market, leading to more deaths.

VBRonPaulFan
01-11-2011, 10:45 AM
That really surprised me as well, but it makes sense. More people drive under than TSA monopoly than would under a free market, leading to more deaths.

Should have been obvious. I absolutely refuse to fly now.

That was a really great article and whoever wrote it did an awesome job of deconstructing and marginalizing all the silly statist arguments for the TSA

K466
01-11-2011, 11:25 AM
Thanks VBRonPaulFan! (I'm the author).