After September 11th, then Senate majority leader Tom Daschle absolutely insisted that airport screening be done by federal employees. "You can't professionalize if you don't Federalize." was the saying at the time. What a pile of horsesh*t.
I have observed TSA quite closely over the years and they are the perfect example of government incompetence. WTF is the point of wanding down a wheelchair-bound octagenarian with an oxygen tank? Please explain how taking nail clippers from the pilot makes the aircraft any safer?
Without delving in to how these idiots don't know their own rules on checked firearms, or why cigar cutters are not treated consistently from checkpoint to checkpoint, I recall a time when I really wanted to smack them all silly.
I was wearing an open overshirt going through the screening checkpoint and TSA moron "A" tells me I have to put the overshirt in a bucket and put it through the machine. I asked why, and he told me that "You're wearing it like a jacket, so it must go on the belt." I followed his moronic instructions, got to the other side, whereby TSA Moron "B" takes my shoes from the belt and sets them right on top of my shirt. I complained to TSA Moron "B" that he shouldn't treat my shirt like that, I didn't mind being screened, but treat my belongings with repect. TSA Moron "B" told me I shouldn't have put the shirt on the belt to begin with. Arrrgh!! I told him moron "A" told me I was required to, but moron "B" told me moron "A" would never have done that. Supervisor (TSA Moron "C") was sitting there watching nothing. Just sitting there, looking down at whatever was on his podium, oblivious to everything in the screening area that he was supervising. As I passed by, he may have even been napping, I commented "Great job, ain't it?"
In the private sector all three morons would be unemployed. Professionalize my ass.
So yesterday I ran across another TSA story that really had me pissed. A lady was selected for secondary screening and during that process, a TSA employee walked off with her toddler, literally took him away, to screen him separately.
You can read the entire account here: http://www.mybottlesup.com/tsa-agents-took-my-son/
I was infuriated.
Today -- I found out that the whole story was bullshit. The security video of her entire encounter with TSA has been posted online here: http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2009/10/response-to-tsa-agents-took-my-son.html
As much as I dislike TSA (who now, because they wear metal badges no longer have to go through screening themselves, yeah I'm real confident) the video tells me they handled this lady perfectly fine, can't imagine what put such a bug up her ass. It isn't necessary to make stuff up. They're asshats alright, but lying about them doesn't help.
Bureaucrats with badges are bad enough, bitches on Xanex can be worse.
