Posted on 11/19/2010 10:46:33 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Another day, another tale of the seeming absurdity of airport security. This one comes from a soldier coming home from Afghanistan on a military charter plane. The troops aboard the plane all went through security at Baghram Air Field, the soldier says in an email to RedState, passing through full-body scanners and having their bags inspected by bomb-sniffing dogs.
Yet when the plane stopped in Indianapolis to let 100 National Guard members off, the TSA insisted on re-searching all the passengers. “It’s probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons,” the soldier writes.
“All of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols,” though they weren’t loaded, and everyone had already been searched for ammo. Yet when the TSA found nail clippers on one of the soldiers, they insisted on confiscating them. “You can’t take those on the plane,” the TSA official said. “They can be used as a weapon.”
When the solider replied that he was permitted to take an actual weapon on the plane, the agent replied, "Yeah but you can’t use it to take over the plane. You don’t have bullets." Asked the soldier, "And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?" Apparently. He reboarded without them ... but with his weapon, along with 232 other gun-toting fliers.
If the number “13+” could fit between the TSA hands on that poster, it might get the point across a bit better?
Ensuring the gropee looked female is also more emotive if the revulsion “I” would desire to evoke with said poster.
Lance Cpl. Dawn Doyle, a Female Engagement Team member with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Regimental Combat Team 2, parry’s the rubber M16 training rifle used by Capt. Larry Iverson, Headquarters Company commanding officer, RCT-2, and follows through with a simulated horizontal butt-stroke July 3. Marines throughout the unit have been sustaining and training in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program in order to maintain a good state of physical conditioning as well as advance their belt.
Also, the plane pulled up to the gate to let some people off. If the remaining soldiers never left the plane, then why was TSA asking to screen them at all?
-PJ
Lance Cpl. Dawn Doyle, a Female Engagement Team member with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Regimental Combat Team 2, parry’s the rubber M16 training rifle used by Capt. Larry Iverson, Headquarters Company commanding officer, RCT-2, and follows through with a simulated horizontal butt-stroke July 3. Marines throughout the unit have been sustaining and training in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program in order to maintain a good state of physical conditioning as well as advance their belt.
Stories like this are why the word irony came into being.
The Obama Regime's favored Border Patrol long arm...
We’ve almost won! JUST ONE MORE HILL!
Red Alert! Lame Duck Bites! TSA is a divsersion.
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Harry Reid: I’m bringing the DREAM Act to the floor — for a standalone vote
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2629618/posts
“And in a Twitter message on Wednesday evening, his office said he would try to do so in the current session as a stand-alone bill.”
President Obama has made it clear: He wants Congress to deliver the DREAM Act
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630157/posts
SIX RINOs !
Michelle Malkin IDs The RINOs On The Dream Act Fence - Including John McCain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2629507/posts
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Still, the plane was CHARTERED for use by MILITARY PERSONNEL.
It was not in USE as a civilian plane, and, as another poster noted, the safest place in a civilian plane is next to an armed American Military man.
Obama and that homosexual freak running his “Homeland Security Department” (THANK you George Bush - that was a BRAINSTORM) are MANIACS. They are fascist statists pushing the peasant DELIBERATELY to see how far they can go with us.
The NEXT step is BODY CAVITY searches.
Any American who doesn’t GET what these maniacs are up to isn’t worthy of the name.
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