Another entry in the "Laugh at Government" file!! This one is a doozy!!
What with all their rapt staring at computer screens and peoples' naked bodies I bet you thought the TSA was actually concerned with basic, commonsensical security?
Think again!
ALL THIS TIME THE TSA HAS NOT EVEN BEEN BOTHERING TO CHECK IF THE PERSON PRESENTING ID ACTUALLY HAS A VALID PLANE TICKET, IN HIS NAME, ON THAT DAY!! Some guy has been flying around without valid tickets for, apparently, quite some time and the TSA has been waving him right through!
These government doofuses can't find their own butts with two hands -- but they dictatorially insist on the right to fondle yours!
BTW, I just found out that the new TSA scanner radiation COOKED the electronics of my $4000 medical device. I've never had a problem with this device with normal xray machines nor any previous scanner. When I called to report the device was going haywire the customer assistant on the phone immediately asked me if I had been through a new TSA scanner recently. "Just a few minutes ago", I said. Soooo I have begun requesting the TSA agents grope me! Seriously, if their scanner can COOK electronics it is entirely too dangerous to be used on people without DECADES of good scientific study. It is VERY likely going to turn out to be a cause of cancer and perhaps other medical problems. Obviously, the government has NOT conducted such a long term study and, frankly, you are a fool if you let them experiment on you or your loved ones with their body scanner. Consider that it took literally DECADES to statistically prove that smoking or high cholesterol KILLS.
Anyway, with this sort of gross incompetence continuing, don't you think it is a farce to continue the pretense that "the government" is competent? Of course not! Let's hire more TSA agents!!! Yeah, THAT's the ticket!!!
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/07/olajide-oluwaseun-noibi?fsrc=nlw|gul|07-05-11|gulliver
Free flights for everyone!
Jul 2nd 2011, 21:02 by N.B. | MINNEAPOLIS
ON WEDNESDAY, the FBI arrested Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a 24-year-old Nigerian American man, at Los Angeles International Airport. Federal agents watched as Mr Noibi allegedly tried to convince a Delta Air Lines employee to let him on to a plane to Atlanta even though his boarding pass was, as the New York Times reported, "issued in another person's name and was for a flight that had departed a day earlier." That might seem like a bold move, but using another person's boarding pass had reportedly worked for Mr Noibi in the past: earlier that week, he allegedly "stowed away" (not in the wheelwell, but comfortably in coach) on a Virgin America flight from New York to Los Angeles. He now faces criminal charges.
Mr Noibi was noticed on the New York-Los Angeles flight not because of his allegedly fraudulent document but rather because he was emanating extremely unpleasant body odour. ... Investigators now believe that Mr Noibi may have been travelling around the country for some time using boarding passes that did not belong to him.
It seems like a story custom-designed to make those of us who have spent cumulative days of our lives in airport security lines wonder what the purpose of all that screening was. If Mr Noibi could fly under other people's names, using other people's boarding passes, why are we suffering through the indignities of "enhanced" pat-downs and full-body scanners?
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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