Jake
2010-08-31 15:03:53

Okay here’s the deal. I’m going to be very frank about this. You don’t know who is your enemy. Many of you say Muslims. Okay I get that, but with white people that are muslims like Jihad Jane and Daniel Patrick Boyd this muddies the water. You cannot by any law of the Constitution of the USA ask , “Do you belong to (insert name of religion)?” and refuse them air travel on those grounds. My question is how would you be able to tell who is a muslim or not. But then we also have to worry about other threats that do go on. There are other threats as well as the Neo Nazis and the Sovereign Citizen Whackos-such as a few that claim to belong to the Empire of Southern Wa. (yes they do travel quite frequently and they do stir up trouble, you just don’t hear about it). If there is no way you can determine those factors-for all you know they may be using “mules” which from an organized crime perspective does happen like a 80 year old granny with a pistol in her bra that her son forced her to take.

My other issue is that a majority of you guys really have no idea about aviation history or realize what’s going on. Arch Radish is quite correct in his thinking. If it was in checked baggage tons of knives, swords, and what not go through there all the time. Interestingly enough, mostly explosive materials or items that like drugs are the things that are detected down there. If there is no chemical detected there probably won’t be a pull over from what I understand. But I could be wrong. However,if detected, they checked and seen if they were not a threat and probably have tagged these people. TSA works with other forces in DHS and most likely gave their info to another agency, possibly to find out where these guys were heading to see if they could have got more of them, but the media (being as ridiculous as it is) said something and something had to be done.

And for the people who keep claiming TSA officers are stupid and hold up lines. Here’s something for you to think about. Watch the line instead of them. I’m a frequent traveler and I know a lot of officers (yes they are indeed officers) and I watch the lines and think to myself, “Are all these people retarded.” The Liquid ban has been in effect for 4 years and I still see have huge crap in their bag. Their answer is, “I didn’t know,” and that’s when there are announcements and signs that tell you what you should do. The lines aren’t being held up by TSA, it’s by your fellow passengers who don’t understand “gold is a metal” you have no idea how many times I’ve heard that; or the person every 40 minutes that wants to argue that “water isn’t a liquid.” “what is it? “water!” For the truth most TSA officers are prior military and usually vote republican (75% it has been counted have prior military service, active or retired). I have talked with many of them and they blame long lines on,” Stupid socialist sheep that can’t think for themselves,” and for someone who travels a majority of the time, I empathize with them because a majority of the passengers are (8 of 10) mentally deficient.

So when you talk about TSA mouth breathes, please don’t let it be the guy who saved your butt fighting in Afghanistan, because they already get that crap from the Commiecrats. Because the average TSA officer has to deal with ignorant clods all day and they don’t get paid much at all. Now TSA management? That’s another story…