Multiple Layers Of Stupidity: TSA Clears Notorious Domestic Terrorist For Pre-Check
Per Keith Lang at The Hill, the TSA cleared a known domestic terrorist for Pre-Check expedited security. When a TSA worker recognized the name of the apparently notorious but unnamed domestic terrorist, this worker reported this to a supervisor -- who directed the known terrorist through the Pre-Check lane anyway.
Yes, we're so much safer!
Clearly, just as the TSA is pretend security, the Pre-Check program is merely a program to separate many travelers from their money -- the $85 fee non-frequent travelers must pay to be "vetted" by the TSA.
As Lisa Simeone puts it at TSA News Blog, "another passenger learns about the scam of Pre-Check the hard way." From a woman who identifies herself as Trish24, comment originally left [on TSA News Blog] last month, February 2, 2015:
"I may never fly again and I am serious thank you TSA. I was TSA prechecked but my hands got wanded and supposedly something showed up. My carryons were totally dumped out including my wallet I was taken to a room for full pat down..breast, groin they reached inside my pants...degrading, humiliating and frightening..I am a 63-year-old woman with high blood pressure, they are lucky I didn't stroke out! As I tried o repack my carryons and tuck in my shirt I heard the agents state that I was the fifth false positive that morning and they knew the wand was defective. Not going back to RSA Fort Meyers!"
The TSA is a show of force, to demonstrate the ruling class' superiority over the citizenry. The DHS is redundant to both the U.S. military and other federal law enforcement agencies, and it is one of an increasing number of federal agencies that exercise military-like authority without military discipline.
Cousin Dave at March 20, 2015 6:51 AM
Actually, the Federal Air Transport, Air Security Service (F.A.T.A.S.S.), is 'Security Theater', it is designed to give the illusion that the government is protecting us, while not actually going to all the trouble of actually doing beneficial things.
I worked for a security company years ago and 3 officers were assigned to guard a room full of nice young ladies who had been told by some idiot they called about his delinquent payment "I'm gonna come down there with my shotgun and kill all of you." or words to that effect. They had the three of us sitting in the hallways, completely unarmed and I mean not so much as a flashlight (metal flashlights, even my Mini-Maglite, were deemed "WEAPONS" by the company). In fact we didn't even have cell-phones to call the cops. They kept us there for 3 days while the installed electronic locks on the door to the office. I should mention that the door in question was IN A GLASS WALL! I actually had one of those ladies say "We all feel so much safer with you here". I didn't have the heart to tell her, 'Don't, because if a guy shows up with a gun I'm gonna bolt down the stairs and call the cops from the lobby.'
My purpose was not to keep those women safe, it was to convince them that the company cared about them and that they should keep coming to a blatantly unsafe workplace despite the threats of someone who might harm some or all of them. Sadly, like most of the sheep wandering America today, they bought it.
warhawke223 at March 20, 2015 8:41 AM
metal flashlights, even my Mini-Maglite, were deemed "WEAPONS" by the company
Ok, I've know for a while that the 5 D cell Maglites could make a respectable truncheon. But the mini??
I carry something similar. And I've gotten it past the TSA...
I R A Darth Aggie at March 20, 2015 10:50 AM
Deeb.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at March 21, 2015 9:56 AM
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