Posted on 12/17/2010 11:24:41 AM PST by FS11
Gaping Holes in Airline Security: Secret Tests At LAX, O'Hare, Newark Show TSA Screeners Missed Guns, Bombs
Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight.
He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston.
"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Maybe it was not missed. Perhaps the enemy has infiltrated the TSA.
Iranian-Americans aren’t to be profiled. They fit the profile of those who cannot be singled out.
I need to get me one of them ceramic, baby snub-nose Glocks.
They had to be government workers. It only makes things worse.
TSA will be a joke until they decide they should start targeting terrorists instead of focusing on social exercises in pc. It’s the same thing the left is trying to do to the military.
While they were waving Farid Seif through, they were busy frisking me and scrutinizing my wife’s cosmetics.
I spent last week on 6 different commercial aircraft and passed through 5 different international airports and didn’t find any commonality at all between the different TSA procedures. Some were so lax it was laughable. Actually, I lied. There was some commonality. No passengers had shoes on.
They are in the "teaching people to follow government orders" business. And I think they do a damn fine job.
Oh hell that’s easy. The guy looks middle eastern.
They get a pass.
This is nothing but appeasement.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Big Sis’ system is still working.
But they know who wears Fruit of the Loom.
Hey I want one of those “snub nosed Glocks”. Must be a new model :-)
No surprise here!!! TSA are busy feeling breasts and crotches! Go to NY, check out the TSA agents, its doubtful that many are even citizens, you’d think you’re in a third world country.
Bingo! The mere idea that some GED earning, 8-hour trained, recently hired government works program employee is the centurion who will vigilantly protect us night and day from highly motivated, clandestine, cunning zealots hell bent on mass murder is absurd to the core.
I hate to sound like a broken record (or a CD for you kiddies who don’t remember them – or the God-given freedoms all those folks died to try to preserve for you) but here I go again!
The TSA began hijacking our freedoms the day they started the “security” crap at the airports many years ago. Some of us bi**hed about it then but didn’t get much response. Fedzilla was conditioning us to accept more and more restrictions on our freedoms from day one.
But, of course, say you, didn’t their system of NOT PROFILING do a splendid job by keeping those 19 muzzies off planes on 9-11? Goodness, if they hadn’t been stopped, they might have killed over 3,000 people, knocked down buildings and...
Oh, never mind.
It begs a question of anyone who has a real-world grip on how governments — ALL governments — operate:
“Did anyone really think the situation would get better for the traveling public?”
Having said that, this airport “training” of the public is essential to the success of Obozo’s planned National Defense Corps street patrols. Can you say “You VILL show me your papers” in ebonics?
“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” (William Pitt, 1759 1806)
They were busy singing “holiday” songs.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/12/singing_tsa_agents_serenade_pa.html
Disband the TSA
The missed the guns and bombs but got every single perky boob, tight butt, urinary catheter, toy, cracker box, and toddler genital.
Hurray!
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