Just When You Think the TSA Can’t Get Any More Ludicrous, Ebola Comes Along

The TSA sprang into action, albeit a few days late, when “the second Texas nurse confirmed with Ebola” flew home to Dallas after visiting her family in Ohio. The agency’s clowns “disinfect[ed] all the security checkpoints at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport as a precaution” yesterday.

Unfortunately, the lady had passed through the airport two days previously—and, according to Our Rulers at the CDC, “Ebola on dried on [sic] surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for [only] several hours.”

Hmmm. The Keystone Kops go Keystonier.

Mark Howell, one of the Kops’ multitude of tax-gobbling sponges and spokesliars, “noted,” “’It’s nothing official,’ … [because] the precaution wasn’t undertaken at the direction of the Centers for Disease Control. ‘It’s just something that our folks wanted to do, in an overabundance of caution.’”

Whoa! “An overabundance of caution”! I guess that beats the TSA’s usual “abundance of caution,” which level of alarm it gins up for such absurdities as a sock-monkey’s pistol, “a suspicious note…in a seat pocket onboard a … flight,” and confused, oblivious passengers (the Kops shut down “McNamara Terminal, in some capacity, for nearly 2 1/2 hours” in May after “a man who exited the secured gate area through the exit. After crossing the threshold at which you must re-screen through security to return, the suspect turned around, ‘ignored’ a TSA employee’s order to go back through security and walked away into the terminal…” Oh, the horror! The possible carnage without that “abundance of caution”!). It seems the TSA resorts to an “overabundance” of said “caution” when its silliness descends from merely futile to totally useless.

Then, too, this new-found concern for our health is rich, given that the TSA has done all it can to endanger prisoners’—sorry, passengers’ well-being. Whether forcing us to tread filthy, MRSA-infested airport floors in bare feet or sexually assaulting us with gloves that have groped other victims’ most intimate crannies, the Kops actively threaten us with contagion. Indeed, since “Airport pat-downs [sic for ‘molestation’] may raise infection risk,” shouldn’t Our Rulers finally, at long last, prohibit the TSA from pawing us?

Ah, but that would not only destroy their fun, it might slow the spread of Ebola and other diseases. Expect the TSA to continue its crimes—and its “overabundance of caution” after the fact.

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11:57 am on October 16, 2014