John, remember when Tom Daschle said "You can't professionalize unless you federalize", as in "making airline screeners into government-employee trained apes"?
I have somewhere an article - I blogged about it a long time ago - about a guy whose under-10 son was denied access to an airline flight b/c his name came up on the no-fly list. The child's name was the same as a REAL, bona-fide security risk person who WAS on the no-fly list, but b/c we're talking about government here, they couldn't see the difference and thus deemed this little tot a risky passenger choice.
I'll bet a little judicious Googlage would find many such stories. Hell, there's probably websites and blogs that deal with this sort of stoopidity.
Oh, but Lord a-mighty, we can't give Ahmed an extra patdown... but better check Grandma's colostomy bag - she might be hiding a bomb in there.
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Interesting indeed that I sent a link to this to Hawley at his published email address. His email is being refused ... HAHAHAHAHA wonder why.
And then less than five minutes later I got a hit from Ft. George Meade.
Maybe they will be kind enough to pass my message on to him.
This is a side-effect of turning airline screeners into government employees... instant brain damage and an inflated sense of self-worth.
It's the Free Market at it's best. You get what you pay for ....
The TSA isn't "free market"; it's run by the government. Right?
John, remember when Tom Daschle said "You can't professionalize unless you federalize", as in "making airline screeners into government-employee trained apes"?
I have somewhere an article - I blogged about it a long time ago - about a guy whose under-10 son was denied access to an airline flight b/c his name came up on the no-fly list. The child's name was the same as a REAL, bona-fide security risk person who WAS on the no-fly list, but b/c we're talking about government here, they couldn't see the difference and thus deemed this little tot a risky passenger choice.
I'll bet a little judicious Googlage would find many such stories. Hell, there's probably websites and blogs that deal with this sort of stoopidity.
Oh, but Lord a-mighty, we can't give Ahmed an extra patdown... but better check Grandma's colostomy bag - she might be hiding a bomb in there.
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