TSA wrecks Texas caribou hunters meat

The Anchorage Daily News ^ | May 31st | Craig Medred

[ContentiousObjector]

David Williams says his packaged caribou meat was cut open and damaged by airport security personnel. (Photo by DAVID WILLIAMS)

[Jesse]

Your tax dollars at work. TSA doesn't have near enough to do, so they screw around trying to play Joe Friday.

And still, I know of at least three ways to get some bad stuff on an airliner that TSA never checks. Window dressing for the sheeple.

[Marine Inspector]

Window dressing for the sheeple.

Agreed. I work at one of the busiest airports in the US and security is no better now, then it was prior to 9/11.

[lone star annie]

These TSA people do nothing but harass people. My last trip one of these types told me to take off my jacket. When I informed the screener that it was not a jacket, but a top to a pantsuit she demanded I take off the belt. Well it was twisted and if I removed it, it would have ripped my top. Then she insisted that I take off my shoes.

This was to serve no other purpose than to harass me. This TSA thing was totally worthless.

[ContentiousObjector]

the TSA in Houston all look like they were recurited off the set of 'Deliverance' and the TSA in Los Angeles behave like gang members.

Not exactly reassuring is it.

[Marine Inspector]

This TSA thing was totally worthless.

I'm not so sure about that.

Before the TSA, the screeners were scummy looking high school drop outs or Somalian refugees.

Today the screeners are clean cut and have a higher grasp of the English language.

So now, we are being harassed by a higher class screener.

[FreedomCalls]

TSA is due to fire lay off 6000 of its lazy incompetant slugs finest workers by September 2003 according to this press release.

[spectr17]

Unbelievable.

At the SCI (Safari Club International) convention in Reno this year TSA was using the new gunpowder residue sniffer machines. With most of the gun dealers and hunt exhibitors leaving Sunday it was a LONG painful line.

[ContentiousObjector]

Today the screeners are clean cut and have a higher grasp of the English language.

You have not been to LAX recently have you...

Ebonics isn't typically associated with a high grasp of the english language, I can understand broken African continental english, I can't understand ebonics. I will take a guy from Somolia trying to earn a living over "Bling, Bling"

[ContentiousObjector]

I guess they will just have to go back on welfare

[Marine Inspector]

I will take a guy from Somolia trying to earn a living over "Bling, Bling"

LOL, I'd say I would agree.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I suspect PETA.

[Squantos]

Those sniffers don't detect squat they are "probable cause" generators........if the rental wannabe doesn't like the look of ya they trip it........then detail search based on that.

I was at Sandia Labs when those were first being pushed on our EOD teams as explosive sniffers. They didn't work then, later or even years later well enough to depend on.

If it wasn't a certified explosive detector dog's snoot that picked up the scent then it is a PC generator....nothing more.

Hope yer doing well 17.......ain't seen ya around for awhile. Stay Safe !

[bybybill]

Well, now we know how to get the explosives in, just label it Moose Meat

[SAJ]

Naturally, I'm certain that you meant to say 'a higher-class moron'

And, you are of course entirely correct.

[Electron Wizard]

The system is working AS PLANNED.

The Gore Commission, formed after the flight 800 explosion, proposed several regulations that were watered down due to protests from the usual suspects. One that was finally implemented was something called CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System). It was a profiling system that had the unfortunate property of being accurate. This lead to complaints and protests from Arab groups and the FAA started backing away from those procedures designed to investigate passengers flagged by CAPPS. They finally achieved their goal, which was ZERO complaints per year from all Arab passengers.

On 9/11, CAPPS flagged the majority of the hijackers. However, nothing was done to investigate any of them, because there was no method of doing so without alerting them that they had been flagged, and that might lead to a complaint. They couldn’t even ask them a simple question, like “Why are all of you carrying box cutters?”

After 9/11, the government was caught in a quandary. How do they appear to be doing something about airline security, when all of the hijackers fit a specific profile, yet they don’t want to be accused of “profiling?” Why, you design a system that is so incompetent and overbearing that all kinds of people are inconvenienced and burdened. Then if a special interest group was to complain, you could point at those other people and say, “We’re not ‘profiling’, look at what that grandma in a wheelchair went through!”

In fact, this newspaper story about a white guy from Texas being shafted (that’s right, I’m “profiling” in assuming that a hunter and fisherman from Texas that travels to Alaska regularly to hunt, is white, and everyone that reads the story will assume the same thing) is just what the FAA likes to see. It’s free publicity and helps keep the Arab special interest groups off their back.

[Smokin' Joe]

Who has the boxcutters now?

[JudgemAll]

Yeah, as if explosives "liked" to be frozen.

[American in Israel]

Seems to me if you wanted to search a box of meat you could use an airport xray screener real easy. From the slices on the picture a lot of the meat wrappers were cut but never pryed open or the paper would have torn. This was clearly harassment, and deliberate destruction of the passengers property.

I have flown in and out of airports a lot, and airport security is just a dog and pony show. The only Airport security I have seen that had an ounce of common sense was El Al. But then they profile.

One would think if they were serious about terrorism they would put a little effort into hiring serious screeners, not acne prone bored teenagers with a badge.

I have wondered many a time, if screening is not their focus, what is?

[4Freedom]

Did you know that a prospective TSA Screener, who had 'dropped-out' of high school, didn't even need a GED as long as they had at least 1 year of security experience?

Some of these "higher class", high school drop-outs are earning more than college graduates, but they're still real stupid. Real, real stupid.