An Exceedingly Rare Bit of Truth From Habitual Liars

The TSA has been bragging for a couple of days now over a co-pilot for Southwest Airlines whose life it has ruined. The Thieves and Sexual Assailants discovered a “.380 caliber handgun … loaded with six bullets” when they rifled the poor guy’s bag at their unConstitutional checkpoint. Naturally, this “crime” of absent-mindedness with neither a victim nor motive saw the pilot arrested.

So far as I recall, no research has ever even been conducted to learn whether weapons aboard a plane help or hurt. It stands to reason they’d protect us aloft just as they do on the ground. Yet the TSA constantly plays on the urban myth that merely possessing a gun at 30,000 feet will end time and space as we know it. And this time, the agency’s histrionics over a forgetful pilot delayed his flight for four hours.

But that didn’t stop “Bart R. Johnson, TSA’s Upstate New York federal security director” from truthfully admitting, “This incident highlights the importance of what TSA and its dedicated security officers do each and every day in protecting the flying public…”

Yep, they horribly inconvenience hundreds of passengers to persecute a professional.