TSA makes you suffer because it’s
afraid to do security right
by
Steve Cuozzo
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
9/27/2019 9:57:26 AM
Two airport experiences over 24 hours tell us all we need to know about America’s misplaced security priorities. On Sunday, a multiple-sclerosis-afflicted friend in her 60s who walks with a cane was subjected by a surly Transportation Security Administration officer in Kennebunkport, Maine, to a hostile carry-on bag search in full view of dozens of other travelers. He took so long to confiscate a jar of lemon curd that was one ounce “over the limit” that she nearly missed her flight. The next day, my wife and I flew home from Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. I braced for intense security that often includes tough questioning of fliers —
But we all must bow to the God of Political Correctness...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 9/27/2019 10:12:25 AM (No. 191026)
Recent interstate flights brought on the easiest, politest TSA walk-throughs ever, and with multiple metal parts inside, I am not an easy customer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 9/27/2019 10:31:20 AM (No. 191051)
The TSA and the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity were the two biggest mistakes G W Bush made.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 9/27/2019 10:32:53 AM (No. 191055)
What a bunch of jerks...and the people that set up the rules are just as bad if not worse...they will check the diaper on a baby, or the depends on a senior citizen, confiscate your hair shampoo and shaving cream, and take apart your wheelchair, but let a hijab wearing woman walk right on, or not even check an obviously muslim person in the name of PC...it's been a long time since I've flown anywhere and now, if I can't drive there, I don't go...I refuse to be fondled by some abc/xyz/whatever TSA agent....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/27/2019 11:10:59 AM (No. 191095)
I have not flown since all this nonsense. It used to be enjoyable in the 70's to jump on SW Airlines. The cockpit door was open, the stewardesses friendly and having a good time, donuts and coffee at the entrance, arrive 30 minutes before the flight, sit first come. It's no fun anymore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/27/2019 11:16:13 AM (No. 191100)
I've not flown since I retired, and have not missed it one bit! If you want to see what a democrat-envisioned government would look like, just look at TSA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/27/2019 11:22:44 AM (No. 191108)
I travel quite a bit...and quite a bit internationally. US "security" is the worst.
Americans love "security" - can't get enough of it, and are willing to trade whatever liberty necessary to gain more "bubble wrap". The system now is like the draft-time military. It employs hundreds of thousands, contractors and government workers, and purchases billions in equipment to ensure "security". It teaches these drones to be "police", to have a detached persona, to suspect everyone, to be sufficiently threatening to shut them up and down. Take off your shoes. Take off your belt. Let them see all your electronics. Don't carry a near empty tube of tooth paste. And get dragged them through multiple checks for "threatening" gum wrappers and tissue paper in your pockets. Scanned with a wand, and swabbed for explosives.
If you're flying internationally to the USA, Americans get taken aside for further TSA-directed checks, sometimes delayed (and it appears intentional) to be the last to board. You got "Pre"? Global Entry clearance? No matter...get over there.
Hey, America, you asked for it - now you're getting it in spades. Enjoy it!
BTW: If we change our way of life, the terrorists have won. Same as always, right?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/27/2019 11:34:46 AM (No. 191126)
TSA's core mission is among the most worthy of any federal agency in government, far more worthy than most but it has been hamstrung by democrats from its inception, which by the way, was by an act of Congress, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, that passed with a veto-proof majority. DHS wasn't even created until a year after TSA, which was then absorbed from the Transportation Dept. The big mistake Bush made was similar to what President Trump has done in keeping holder-over democrats in his administration. Norm Mineta was Bush's Secretary of Transportation in 2001. Mineta, a former Japanese internee as a child during WWII, forbade any policies or procedures that would appear to single out Muslims, the logical target group in the realm of aviation security, both domestic and international. Imagine trying to apply an Israeli-like security system where you cannot single out Muslims for rigorous questioning and screening with high technology scanners. Besides, the scope of air travel in the U.S. (number of flights and passenger emplanements) drarfs that of Israel by orders of magnitude such that adopting their methods, which rely most heavily on multiple screening interviews, and would create politically untenable delays at our checkpoints. President Trump has yet to reverse the aviation security policies and prohibitions set up under Bush/Mineta and compounded by the Obama administration and additional acts of Congress but this is where Trump having to focus on the democrats trying to hamstring him, if not off him, cuts into what he might have accomplished early in his administration. TSA as an organization is as good or as bad as the laws, policies, and the politically appointed leadership guiding it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jacksin5 9/27/2019 12:29:04 PM (No. 191193)
There's an airport in Kennebunkport, Maine?
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Another remedy brought on by knee-jerk reaction to 9-11. It's no news to most of us that the TSA is a government jobs program for the terminally unemployable, the rude and the stupid.