Posted on 02/13/2017 3:12:28 PM PST by Resettozero
The bigger government gets, the harder it is to keep tabs on everything.
Nowhere is that more obvious than at the Transportation Security Administration.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find an American that doesn’t have a gripe with the TSA.
Here’s the latest unflattering moment from the beleaguered administration.
From Washington Examiner:
Twelve current and former Transportation Security Administration employees are facing charges they smuggled millions of dollars in cocaine through airport security in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Department of Justice announced Monday the six people named participated in a conspiracy to move 20 tons of cocaine through the San Juan airport. The scheme lasted from 1998 until 2016, according to DOJ.
According to the statement, a drug mule would bring cocaine to the airport and drop it off with a baggage handler with connections to the cartel.
(Excerpt) Read more at sarahpalin.com ...
“The scheme lasted from 1998 until 2016”
TSA was created in 2001.
Maybe they were just Customs agents back in ‘98. ‘99. and ‘01?
Bush’s fault.
The TSA should be the TDS (Transporting Drugs Safely). The group of little fascists couldn’t get a job anywhere else and seem to delight in causing grief to passengers. To top it off, the idiots in government allowed them to become unionized. What a pathetic joke. This “make-jobs” program is an incredible waste of resources
TSA hired almost all of the “screeners” that the private concerns employed before the birth of the TSA.
Most were/are scum bags.
I always tell the TSA guy not to smile while patting my upper thigh.
Never get a positive reaction from them.
The American Airlines ramp rats used to like to take weekend jaunts to San Juan. I always wondered if the trips were just to go to the beach.
So..., much..., WINNING!
Lock ‘em up. Accept no plea bargains. (Up to me, I execute them)
I think a 20-30 year sentence is sufficient, as long as there is not time off for good behavior.
Serve the full time and let it be a lesson to others.
Yeah, and now they’re federal officers charged with manhandling the general public. This is a concept directly lifted from the Nazi Sturmabteilung, who were often “disaffected” youth (”scum bags,” to use your term) given authority in 1932, and (initially) charged with setting up checkpoints in front of private businesses.
The process changed the Sturmabteilung members, and also changed the general German public, setting the stage for the eventual totalitarian nightmare that became Nazi Germany.
A similar process has been documented in the Stanford prison experiments, the Russian red revolution, Cambodia’s revolution, and more.
That process is the POINT of the TSA. Available evidence — from failed alertness tests, to failure of TSA agents to do anything useful during actual attacks on airports, to the smuggling story in this thread — overwhelmingly shows that the TSA is incapable or uninterested in providing actual security. For now, their only function is to aggrandize their members, and intimidate the general public. We know, from history, from academic studies, from common sense, where that road leads.
Hopefully, General Kelly can stop our nation’s progress down that road.
It has always been my opinion that TSA agents are recruited from those sitting on curbs with their feet in the gutter. They are low bred scum.
I look for a “counseling” and paid time off and get their jobs back. TSA agents have been getting away with everything with few job losses. They steal everything but a red hot stove and nothing is done. Citizens have tracked them to their residence to get their I-phones back.
Yup - what an adult wants to put up his nose is none of the government's business.
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That process is the POINT of the TSA. Available evidence — from failed alertness tests, to failure of TSA agents to do anything useful during actual attacks on airports, to the smuggling story in this thread — overwhelmingly shows that the TSA is incapable or uninterested in providing actual security. For now, their only function is to aggrandize their members, and intimidate the general public. We know, from history, from academic studies, from common sense, where that road leads.
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Wait!? I bloated, ineffective, federal bureaucracy fails to do the job it was illegally crafted to accomplish (unless that job was to grow federal power and size)? And, some people thought they would bring ‘security’...by NOT profiling but, instead, strip-searching nuns & children??
No sh!t? Next you’ll be telling me the NSA doesn’t violate our 4th A. Rights /s
Sure Mr. “I had to violate the Constitution to protect the Constitution” knew that outright as he continued his “compassionate Conservatism” with our sieve-like borders....and now, we have a small (growing?) list of ‘lone-wolves’ of the Muslim persuasion (sleeper cells?).
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