Even The People Doing Pretend Security Sometimes Forget To Keep Up The Pretend That They're Doing Something Useful
TSA "security" news: Sea-Tac Airport will allow visitors without tickets for flights past security and into passenger-only areas.
Up to 50 visitors a day will be allowed to greet loved ones at the gate or see them off.
Jayme Deerwester writes at USA Today:
The Seattle Times reports that the Washington State airport is introducing the SEA Visitor Pass, a pilot program which would allow friends and family who pass a TSA screening to meet domestic flights. It will be the first time non-passengers have been allowed to venture beyond security checkpoints since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.The SEA Visitor Pass trial is restricted to domestic gates only from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, as not to overwhelm security personnel. The number of visitors will be capped at 50 per day. To take advantage of the program, visitors must apply online before 1:30 p.m. PT on the day before their arrival.
Those accepted will be notified by TSA via email and must provide photo ID to pick up their pass the next day. At that point, they will go through the same [POINTLESS! BULLSHIT!] security screening procedures as ticketed passengers.
Commenter jim p at the Seattle Times site:
This proves yet again that TSA simply does not trust their own screening systems and still thinks the mythical bad guys are so stupid they cannot obtain a fake ID.
These are the people who can grope an elderly lady's adult diaper like there's probable reason to think she's al-Zawahiri in drag -- while missing this sort of thing:
The TSA failed to spot two AK-47 assault-rifle magazines stowed in the luggage of a suspicious Yemeni national who was preparing to fly back to his homeland from JFK Airport on a one-way ticket, sources said.
Best comment about this new policy (at the Alaskans' Freedom To Travel Facebook page) is by Lavonne Jordheim Motznik: "You can bring grandpa but not water?"
“The TSA failed to spot two AK-47 assault-rifle magazines stowed in the luggage of a suspicious Yemeni national who was preparing to fly back to his homeland from JFK Airport on a one-way ticket, sources said.”
It isn’t the “magazines” you should be worrying about pilgrim.
Isab at November 12, 2018 1:51 AM
The glaring firearms errors in the New York Post article on the Yemeni national only serve to reinforce that journalists today know nothing about firearms and cannot write authoritatively on the subject. "Magazine clips?"
And, it seems the TSA did stop the two men, "Alkhanshli and his pal were stopped by the TSA because they had purchased one-way tickets to Yemen — long considered a red flag by counterterrorism officials."
The Customs and Border Protection agents, however, were the ones who found the 30-round magazines in the luggage after the TSA found above-the-legal-limit amounts of cash. These guys had a lot going on, it seems.
The magazines, by the way, were empty and, therefore, not dangerous and the TSA does not actively search for empty "magazine clips" in a passenger's luggage; nor are passengers required to declare empty rifle or pistol magazines.
As for the "suspicious Yemeni national," the person in question is a naturalized US citizen and is a resident of Tennessee, where he has a pistol permit.
Conan the Grammarian at November 12, 2018 5:16 AM
All this 'gun' stuff is just what Freudian psychologists call "compensation."
Crid at November 12, 2018 5:39 AM
Nah, not everything "means" something. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a Porsche is just a really nice car. And sometimes Jim just wants a second cup of coffee.
Conan the Grammarian at November 12, 2018 6:54 AM
"you should be worrying about pilgrim."
I know this and you know this.
Amy Alkon at November 12, 2018 7:35 AM
Dood. Joke. Because that guy... Nevahmind
Crid at November 12, 2018 7:40 AM
> All this 'gun' stuff is just what Freudian
> psychologists call "compensation."
Dick shaming is the first reflex of a feminine mind.
Snoopy at November 12, 2018 7:40 AM
Jesus. Guys, AWARENESS
Crid at November 12, 2018 7:41 AM
Tough room; Easter Island. Is this thing on? Come on, people, I hear you breathing.
Crid at November 12, 2018 7:42 AM
"It isn’t the 'magazines' you should be worrying about pilgrim. "
That struck me too... what where they going to do, hit someone over the head with one? Arms exporting and currency controls aren't really the TSA's bailiwick.
Cousin Dave at November 12, 2018 8:09 AM
The article even quotes the TSA spokeswoman saying, "The TSA does not require ammunition and/or empty magazine clips to be declared to the airline, and the TSA is not actively searching for [them] in checked luggage."
"Magazine clips?" You would expect a woman whose organization exists almost solely for the purpose is preventing weapons and explosives from getting onto a plane to be able to speak with some level of expertise about either of those things.
Conan the Grammarian at November 12, 2018 8:30 AM
This point has been made before, even to Professional TSA Apologist, "Knowing". You can ship ammunition by air, where it will not be screened to see if it is really an explosive. Ammunition is not an issue.
We are maintaining the TSA for the same reason we remain in the Middle East and overstayed in Vietnam: somebody would lose face.
Given the TSA's (horrible)^2 record, you should realize that there are and have been at least two guns in the air on US domestic flights right now that are not in the possession of LEOs - and that nothing will happen, today, either.
Careful stats analysis will probably show me to be far on the low side. Have at it if you wish.
Radwaste at November 12, 2018 9:02 AM
Well, the crickets loved that shit.
Can one person, ONE PERSON reading these words acknowledge the point? There in the back? Anyone?
Oh, shitfuck.
Grand Jury.
Mount Rushmore.
Crid at November 12, 2018 7:11 PM
Ha, Crid... Pelican Parts evidently has some areas of their Web site that I haven't explored yet, what with the constant need to keep replacing door-latch parts... As far as the "magazine clips", I never see those anymore, just the pocket in the seat back. Delta is ready when you are.
Ba-da-bing. I'll be here all week.
Cousin Dave at November 13, 2018 6:56 AM
It's mostly about easy it is to make the Orange Right dance on command.
Crid at November 13, 2018 11:10 AM
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