Breaching The Security Puppet Show Takes Only An IQ Over The School Speed Limit
We see evidence of this over and over again -- last with baggage handlers at JFK stealing from people's bags. (Elementary logic moment: If you can remove stuff, you can put stuff in.)
The latest is example is a bit of gun smuggling. An Atlanta baggage handler apparently helped another man smuggle guns on a flight, using a "buddy pass."
From WSBTV:
According the complaint, Harvey, the employee, bypassed TSA security and brought the smuggler the guns.The FBI believes a total of 18 guns bypassed security and ended up on a carryon baggage aboard a Delta Airlines flight to New York.
The complaint alleges that the undercover officer was supplied a total of 129 guns, including and AK 47 and an AR 15.
It is not yet clear if all those guns were also smuggled onto a flight.
The breach is one of the biggest security breaches in recent years, according to affidavit details.
One of the biggest they've discovered.
While some lady is busy checking your labia for explosives in a ridiculous pretense of security that's actually just a jobs program for unskilled workers, a way to accustom us to having our bodies and constitutional rights violated, and a nice source of big bucks for all the people and companies in the lobbying chain.
Have you seen the latest list of stuff that the TSA has confiscated? You know, this is where they are trying to convince us what a great job they are doing?
The headline item is the barrel of a small, antique cannon. Despite the shape, it is really just a huge chunk of metal. Wow, I feel so much safer, I mean, someone might have dropped that on my toe. I mean, even if you had gunpowder and a cannon ball, the thing is in no shape to shoot anything, plus it's missing the rest of the cannon - the carriage and other essential parts.
Various "inert grenades" - paper weights, part of a halloween costume, etc. Meh.
Marijuana - funny, I thought TSA was about security, not law enforcement. Meh.
Swords and knives and guns, well...that's the official TSA job. However, I am on record as thinking that weapons on board should be allowed - indeed, encouraged. No terrorist is going to attack a plane if there is a chance that a bunch of the passengers are armed. But that is a different discussion.
a_random_guy at December 23, 2014 1:00 AM
Once they got in -- as in the case of all bureaucratic installments -- it was easy to "forget" their initial mission.
Got uniform -- will abuse people (many who often otherwise wouldn't give them a second look). Fun! Satisfying! Plus you get a paycheck for violating people!
Amy Alkon at December 23, 2014 8:18 AM
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