You may want to read up on this “Tweeter” craze that the kids are using these days. As well, some lessons in modern slang might prove useful.
Otherwise, you will run the danger of being mocked by those rotten kids that keep running across your lawn.
I would be very happy to have it confirmed that this story is a hoax.
I personally think it would be critical for a security agent to be able to distinguish between credible threats and threats that can be ignored. Otherwise a lot of time is spent chasing down phantoms.
I’ve traveled all over the world and never had a problem entering a country. It would appear that the kids are the ones with the problem, as they don’t seem to be able to do that. Too bad for them. Perhaps they need to do a little growing up first.
I misspoke of course. It’s the CBP. Just assume that substitution.
And you consider this an acceptable status quo? I don’t really take much comfort in the easy comparison with Turkey. And when evaluating my own country’s policies, I take little comfort in “they do it too” or “they’re worse.” We should strive to create the standard in all things. And kicking out a couple of kids because of stupid tweets, costing them time, money, and pleasure, and denying my fellow Americans the benefit of their business is not something I want my government to be doing.
Interesting. We can always pick another TSA story if need be.
They were talking with their friends using popular cultural references (our own culture at that). They weren’t caught attacking G8 representatives at the airport. Just how far does the stick have to go up someone else’s ass before you wonder what it’s going to feel like when they get around to you?
The TSA couldn’t manage to stop an ACTUAL terrorist (Christmas underwear bomber) even when they were warned ahead of time. This was because of a spelling mistake. Imagine what a spelling mistake in a computer can do to the head of the TSA (John Pistole). He can probably unwind things back to sanity but what about some average citizen named John Mace. “it says here in our computer that you’re trying to bring 190 lbs of mace into the country”. “is that true? " hey boss, it says right on his passport that he weighs 190 lbs so this must be some kind of code”. Sir is this your real name? “our computers show you tweeted that you dumped a big load after that last taco bell run”. Where is this load now? “please step into this back room, we need to sort this out”.
Yes. Yes, I do. And it’s something I do want my government doing.
I think a lot of you are missing an important issue, and that is how DHS deals with someone trying to enter the country and someone already in the country. With the former, they really don’t have a lot of time to make a decision that might or might not cost lives. Think of all the similar types of tweets and such DHS looks at every single day for people already in the US, and how often does something like this happen? Almost never.
Stand in the middle of Main Street and yell: “I want to destroy America”, and probably nothing will happen. Do the same thing on flight from London to NYC, and it’s an entirely different matter.
The first tweet (about Monroe) was posted on the 3rd of January. The second tweet was posted on the 16th of January. So, they had between 1 and 3 weeks, depending on just which phrase the NSA actually flagged them for. They then had 24 hours to determine if these two idiots realistically posed any threat what so ever.
A system that trips a false positive this easily is either hideously hair triggered (in which case you will drown in false positives) or dreadfully designed (in which case you’ll be missing a lot of positives)
In total, you are spending between $120 and $200 billion a year for this. I find it amusing that you feel this sort of expense should not be more accurate.
Is this just because you don’t like the people in question, or you feel it is actually somehow defending you from some sort of threat?
Then todays youth are stupid if they choose to make slang expressions using words that have serious meanings. How about they decide to call a really rough handshake a “rape”? What happens when they say they are going to rape someone? Are we supposed to excuse it, or actually waste time assessing if they’re serious?
Buy a clue.
It looks like ABC News has confirmed the story.
Oh, did these tourists shout that out on the flight? That make this an entirely different matter, and Homeland Security were right to deport them.
What?
They did no such thing? John Mace just made that part up?
They just tweeted some slang to their friends which was grossly misinterpreted by some civil servant buffoons who are so out of touch as to be laughingstocks?
Never mind.
Now I’m just totally guessing at this point, but I betcha that the “information” that was uncovered was that these were just regular guys, and the homeland security buffoons had really screwed the pooch on this one due to their own stupidity. Therefore the only sensible course of action was to put the frighteners on the foreigners and send the problem as far away as possible.
Too bad that they forgot that news is able to travel across the Atlantic due to this newfangled thing called “the wireless”.
Stories like this would put me off visiting the US again. I hope if I ever do visit again nobody finds this comment and uses it to deny me access.
We’ve all seen what the TSA has done to people in this country. And I don’t see your logical behind differentiating between someone trying to enter the country and those who are already here. There are plenty of people already here who wish us harm.
The TSA has done nothing but spend large sums of money reacting to something after-the-fact. Every time something happens, a new protocol is added to the security system. There is no end to banned items with this type of system.
nobody said anything provocative on the plane. It was innocuous messages among friends.
This is not TSA.
And nobody yelled anything on Main Street, either. Those examples were given as extremes, but the incident in question is closer to the plane situation than to the Main St. one.
Ah, rudeness towards those with whom you disagree. Well done, you!
Why?