[Scoundreller]

Yeah, we can’t make it look like we’re relaxing security, but if we charge you an application, sit on it, and make felons lives worse, that’s cool.

[sokoloff]

Looking over the felonies for which TSA PreCheck is unavailable, it doesn’t appear to a thoughtlessly compiled make-felons-suffer list: https://www.tsa.gov/disqualifying-offenses-factors

[Kye]

I can see it for Part C, but why A and B? If someone's been charged and done whatever was required to be free enough that they can fly, then that should be the end of it. Especially things on that list. If treason isn't enough for the government to execute them or lock them up and throw away the key, then it shouldn't matter to the TSA.

[sokoloff]

If you can’t see how felony conviction for having illegal explosives might reasonably preclude you from reduced security screening, I’m not sure anything I can say will convince you.

[Kye]

If you can't see how the government continuing to treat someone like a criminal after they've paid their debt to society is wrong, I'm not sure anything I can say will convince you.

[sokoloff]

Are they being treated like a criminal in this case? Or are they merely being treated as requiring standard (not reduced) security screening?

I’m far more concerned where felons are denied the right to vote or to bear arms than I am with them having to stand in the same security line as most people.

[Kye]

I'm against the TSA and its security theater on principle. Any gradient to the offense of its existence just adds insult to injury.

[iso1210]

So you should have a situation where someone who hasn't been caught with illegal explosives can pay some money and take those explosives on a plane?

That sounds sensible.