After a Trillion Dollars poured into the rat hole that is TSA, it still can't buy a clue.
Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of TSA agents I have met in my travels across this country genuinely believe they are making the skies safer for us. A few are just picking up a paycheck. A handful have power issues. And, a few are stealing our shit while we get wanded.
But, it's the inane directives and processes coming down from the TSA mothership that gives all the well-meaning agents a black eye. Confiscating holiday snow globes, cupcakes and insulin pumps. Patting down 90-year grandmothers and 6-year old children.
The newest? Deporting a couple of Irishmen at LAX after TSA reviewed Tweets from one that said he planned to "destroy America."
Except "destroy" is British slang for "get drunk."
As a Gizmodo UK writer said: "it's a little amazing and a lot disconcerting that the DHS mess up your holiday because it never learned its context clues."
Context indeed.
Thanks to my friend Josh Schamberger for the catch!
I feel so safe.
Posted by: Tim Morrissey | February 02, 2012 at 08:02
Bingo! That explains why the No-Fly list has doubled since Xmas 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16861183
If they cut out booze in this country it would prevent the Irish and Aussies from causing such fear. On the other hand, at the present rate everyone will be on the No-Fly list by 2020 and there will be no-one allowed to fly. Trains are much better to party on anyway!
Posted by: Bill Baker | February 02, 2012 at 13:39