After sexual assault and theft, the TSA’s favorite pastime is blaming others, preferably its victims, for its atrocities, incompetence, and snafus.
Guess who’s responsible for the looooonnnnggg lines at the TSA’s checkpoints. Passengers! That’s right: those wretches waiting hours for the TSA’s gate-rape should fault themselves for the delay. If only such morons would study the TSA’s endless, picayune, changeable (remember when the bozos prohibited snow-globes?), arbitrary (“Even if an item is generally permitted, it may be subject to additional screening or not allowed through the checkpoint if it triggers an alarm during the screening process, appears to have been tampered with, or poses other security [sic for ‘insanely paranoiac’] concerns. … The final decision rests with the TSA officer [sic for ‘perverts and thieves’] on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint” [original emphasis]), and utterly nonsensical rules and regulations, then adjust themselves and their bags accordingly, checkpoints would move as smoothly as a politician pocketing a bribe.
Ah, but with lines “snaking through doorways, around corners, and finally into a hallway, a far distance away from the TSA check,” the agency is trotting out other excuses, too, besides witless travelers: “Passenger volume is up by 15 percent, just in the last three years. But in that same time, the TSA’s workforce shrunk by 10 percent. The TSA says that’s because it asked Congress to authorize less staff than years past thinking the Pre-Check program [which ‘expedites security screening for registered travelers’] would take off.” And one of the TSA’s spokesliars added, “We actually have fewer TSA officers [sic for ‘perverts and thieves’] working [sic] now than we did a year ago, two years ago, three years ago. And that’s because as we launched TSA PreCheck, we expected more passengers to sign up for that … And so our budget request from Congress was less money for fewer officers [sic for ‘perverts, etc.’].”
Yep, forecasting and meeting demand is tough—so tough that Leviathan ought to leave such pursuits to entrepreneurs. Imagine a restaurateur complaining about volume being up by 15 percent in the last three years.
Meanwhile, in yet another demonstration of its jaw-dropping imbecility, the TSA refused to allow 3000 checked bags onto planes at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when its scanners malfunctioned. And so “the airlines planned to have the baggage driven to nearby airports, including San Diego and Los Angeles, to be screened and then flown to its destinations.”
Contemplate the delicious, overwhelming lunacy here—and the tacit admission that the TSA’s “security” is a total sham. Luggage the agency condemned as too dangerous for planes without first X-raying it can be loaded onto trucks with huge diesel tanks and turned loose on public highways.
Love it!
6:59 am on May 14, 2016
