Posted on 02/04/2011 5:17:04 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
While checking in for my flight this morning in Nashville, TN I saw a man, (light skinned, bald, 5'7", 220lbs) taking photographs of the people standing in line at the airline ticket counter and then walking over to where he could see people standing in line waiting to have their ID and boarding passes checked at the first TSA station and taking a couple more pictures.
Red flags and bells went off in my head like crazy. The guy wasn't taking pictures like you would take pictures of your family standing in line. No, he wasn't looking to get vacation photos to post on facebook and he wasn't a professional photographer (inexpensive camera and he was not setting up shots). I watched him for a minute taking photos and then watched him go into the restroom that could be seen from the TSA ID checkpoint.
So, being a good citizen concerned with safety, I immediately went to the first TSA agent and told them what happened. You would think that they would immediately call someone over and see what the heck this guy was doing, but, no, the supervisor they called over was more concerned with dealing with the lady who had misplaced her driver's license. After a moment, he FINALLY listened to my story and seemed to be only mildly interested and not concerned at all. So, to be sure that maybe I hadn't just given possibly vital information to a moron who would be too stupid to follow up, I told two more supervisors. Since I had to catch my flight, I could do no more.
Maybe I was overreacting, but I think that the guy just might be collecting info for something bad.
Any other Freepers seen anything strange lately?
The terrorist act in that Russian airport where the perp brought in a suitcase explosive and lit it in a group of people before his luggage was checked by security, could easily happen in the US.
It probably will happen while the TSA agents are strip searching an American baby’s diaper and arguing with the mom over her bottle of formula, sticking their hands in a four year old’s underwear or grabbing an granny’s croch and breasts because her pace maker set off the metal detector. The terrorist who arranges the bombing will have probably traveled, unobstructed, over the Mexican border with his explosives/nukes.
The man you saw could have been casing to see where his pals should lite up the suitcase for maximum slaughter Regardless, people are permitted to take photographs in terminals and TSA was too busy with the tasks listed above rather than performing security, to bother to check out why the man you reported was taking pictures.
The other issue is this. Had TSA not been molesting innocent Americans in a senseless security system designed for political correctness, people would not have taken them to court over their sensitivity to people recording the abusive actions of agents. One stupid action on the part of the government leads to a multitude of stupid reactions. With terrorism, that is not comforting at all.
This sounds a little like some of the details of the Airport mystery shops that come through my email frequently.
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