When I was in the Newark airport I saw a family of towel heads taking photos of the NYC skyline from the huge window in the terminal.
I thought to myself, “wow that is a good picture”
After they left I put my bag down and grabbed my camera and also took a picture of my favorite city’s skyline. Just after I clicked a picture an arab looking TSA agent came to me and told me:
“No pictures allowed! Put that camera away and move on now and I’ll pretend I saw nothing.” he demanded.
“TSA wastes our time and money.”
Now, remove the letters TSA and paste in the initials of pretty much any government agency.
The Founding Fathers saw it coming and tried to avert it with constitutional insights and protections, but there’s no such thing as a fool-proof system, and the United States, like pretty much every place in the world, is a nation of fools.
Which, of course, does nothing to excuse the TSA, which is setting new benchmarks for pointless silliness and egregious mischief.
Newark is a hole....
Remember coming back from trip to Seattle and pilot (who
apparaently been through this before) started riffing on the
clowns who worked there on why we were late getting into
gate
The TSA is a worthless agency filled with workers who could not make the cut anywhere else in the working world. It was staffed in a hurry with little attention for criminal records or basic qualifications. The was absolutely no reason to create another armed federal law enforcement agency when we already at least twenty or more. It is a make work program, at best, with a socialist agenda and a big brother attitude. It should be dissolved, the employees given competency tests, and any of the few who actually pass should be absorbed into the FBI.
The illusion of security. I did a trip to Brazil a couple of months ago. Coming back the "security" was an absolute joke. The flight attendants questioned me briefly about my carry on bag, but otherwise, aside from passing through a magnetometer, nothing. Same thing when I reached Charlotte at 5:30AM. Customs and Immigration both were a joke. I had to clear TSA before I boarded my final leg to KCHA. I did see a grandmother in a wheelchair and a 4 year old traveling with her being subjected to "enhanced security". Meanwhile 5 young Arab males passed through TSA "security" without them batting an eyelash.
The TSA is not worthless if the goal has been to fleece the American people and to train them to act like subservient peons in a third world police state. If that is the case then the TSA has been a stunning success.