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Originally Posted by Rochard
People are fucking idiots and believe anything they read. Read the first sentence:
I read this as "The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security" is conducting some "safety enforcement and awareness operation". Most likely they are going to be targeting transit buses - Greyhound, etc - which makes perfect sense being as we've had a fair amount of accidents involving passenger buses in the past two years. They are partnering with the TSA because security on public transportation is their area of concern.
We tend to think of the TSA as only having control in airports, but that's only their most visible area. From Wikipedia:
So this should come as no surprise really. Basically the TSA, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is going to be working with local law enforcement on a number of issues.
It's like the US is turning into Nazi Germany. |
I was going to post the same thing really. People are simply too fucking dumb though. I just went over this with someone else on this exact same story.
What happened here is DarkJedi gets his news from drudgereport or had this article forwarded or something to him from someone. And they said "OMG The TSA is doing this!" as the intro link to the article. So by the time DarkJedi reads the story he already has an opinion about it. When, as anyone can see plain as fucking day - the story DOES NOT STATE THAT. Just read the god damn article!
It's the main problem with society today. People get referenced to a story and the person referencing says "this story says this". So before the person even reads it - their mind is already made up on what the story says.
People need to learn something very basic when it comes to news and media outlets.
Correct way: Legitimize facts and then form an opinion.
Wrong way: Form an opinion and then try to legitimize it.
morons...