I agree completely. This Chinese student living here on US beneficence and had the nerve to ruin Christmas travel plans for thousands. To see some real dumb comments read the 24 comments for this story. Nearly all cut him slack and ignore how much he screwed up other people’s lives that day
Never mind the TSA security agent who left his post! Damn people, get a grip!
We have TSA agents asleep at their posts pictued by passengers coming off planes , at DFW a security post was left unattended for up to two hours and all we can bitch about is what this dolt did to interrupt some holiday travel plans?
True we should do exactly what the law requires for his actions but let’s make sure the main reason it happened in the first place was because a nimrod posing as a professional security agent had to take a powder and his superiors couldn’t be bothered to make sure a backup was available and ready to act if, God forbid, the agent was doing his job and had a stroke while manning his post.
At the arriving passenger exit poit at JAX, I have never seen any less than two agents manning the exit hallway access. Additionally, the airport police have a manned station there as well.
I guess I will post a different point of view. I don’t think he should be charged or punished at all. The guard left his post for a minute and this guy walked by. The TSA is just upset because this exposed their incompetence. If they would spend half the time they did tracking down this guy on questioning and investigating jihadi’s boarding airplanes we would be much safer. But as usual the TSA allows jihadi’s to board planes at will and spends their resources tracking down non terrorists.