as recently posted by The Queen of Snark (in part)
(…) In the wake of the Istanbul bombings, the people in charge of wrapping the world in foam padding are trying to figure out more ways to make us perfectly safe. Apparently this will put a security checkpoint at the edge of the airport grounds to screen you before you get to the security checkpoint inside which will screen you to get on the plane. It’s screeners all the way down!
(…)
…and if they move screening back to the airport access road, they set off a truck bomb in the traffic jam rather than a backpack bomb in the terminal.
The reductio ad absurdum of this, of course, is to avoid creating the security bottlenecks that make such target-rich environments by putting a TSA checkpoint outside every front door in America.
(and here’s the money line)
There’s just no practical way to nerf the world.
The TSA will gladly search every American as they leave the front door. For the Children!
That way they can bloat the agency and it’s budget to the size they really want.
Posted by KM | July 1, 2016, 8:09 amIsn’t TSA an abbreviation for uneducated Gestapo?
Posted by guffaw1952 | July 1, 2016, 8:11 amProbably….the Gestapo had standards. The TSA apparently doesn’t have any.
Posted by KM | July 1, 2016, 5:56 pmBut they are skilled at beating up frightened disabled young women:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/disabled-woman-beaten-bloody-by-tsa-agents-after-becoming-confused-and-afraid-at-security-checkpoint/
Posted by ProudHillbilly | July 1, 2016, 6:17 pmNope, but they ARE determined to fix the LAST attempt… sigh
Posted by Old NFO | July 1, 2016, 7:39 pm