Is There Anyone Who Believes This Wasn't TSA Power-tripping?
Lisa Simeone has a blog item on TSANewsBlog about a disabled elderly man who missed his flight after TSA thuggos detained him and wouldn't let his stepdaughter plug in his pacemaker. Quoting her (via a WHOtv piece by Aaron Brilbeck):
"When I tried to walk towards him they surrounded me and told me I couldn't touch him and I said I need . . . I told them like five times I needed to plug him in so that he didn't lose his battery life," Tonya Gahagan said, "and they adamantly said I could not."
Lisa writes:
And why couldn't she? Because those electrical outlets are special. They can be used only for screening purposes, not for, oh, say, saving a man's life.Just think of the possibilities: a whole cadre of elderly disabled people from Florida, like Meza, could be armed to the teeth and descend on a checkpoint en masse, all claiming that the batteries to their oxygen machines have run out. Why, if the TSA let them all plug their weaponized machines into the outlets, everything could go kaboom!
We can't allow that. Not in the Land of the Free.
Sigh … and somehow, this won't even make a dent in anyone's efforts to get this useless, incompetent organization banned.
Patrick at July 23, 2012 6:47 AM
I'm waiting for someone to die in TSA custody. It's bound to happen soon.
Cousin Dave at July 23, 2012 6:53 PM
For all you regular readers of the Goddess' blog you can skip past this post. I'm going to post my regular rant about not needing the TSA. For all you new readers, please read it carefully and refute any statement or misstatement. ;-)
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The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!
The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.
The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.
Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.
The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.
At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.
The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?
The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.
If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.
There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.
If I'm getting this wrong, please let me know.
Jim P. at July 24, 2012 7:54 PM
@ cousin dave: As I also believe it will happen, and it may change something. But I do not wish it, it could be my mom or yours.
@jim P. I agree with you for hijacking with knife or shoe bomb and panty bomb. But as improbable it is, if the terrorist manage a real weapon (assault rifle for instance), I don't think the other passengers stand a chance. The best thing is to have the pilot locked in the cockpit. That's enough.
nico@hou at July 26, 2012 9:58 PM
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