We understand the wickedness the TSA embodies when it sexually assaults us or those we love, when it preys on the physically weak, or when it steals ca. $7 billion annually from us without catching a single terrorist in its 15 years of existence.
But these crimes are just the tip of the TSA’s evil iceberg. The agency also condemns small towns and rural America to death.
Take Port Angeles, “a city in and the county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States. With a population of 19,038 as of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the county.” Unfortunately, the only airline that served the area, Kenmore Air, “abandoned service to” Port Angeles’ airport in November 2014. That left William R. Fairchild International without commercial service—and the TSA checkpoints with no serfs to grope. So the TSA jumped ship, too.
But now Port Angeles hopes to attract another airline to its tiny corner of the world. And it might, if the airline could operate small planes appropriate to the sparse customers. Alas, no plane can legally fly without the TSA’s hassling those customers first. Yet “it is not worthwhile for TSA to provide screenings for flights with small aircraft.” So the agency insists that any airline at Fairchild use “aircraft that hold at least 30 passengers… The Cessna C-208 Grand Caravans that SeaPort had proposed using and that Kenmore had flown to Port Angeles hold 8-10 passengers.”
Hilarious, isn’t it? The TSA’s gate-rape is demonstrably ineffective, yet Our Rulers require all commercial flights to submit to the agency’s abuse before taking off, but the TSA refuses to dispense said abuse. Talk about utter tyranny!
Port Angeles is not the only small town suffering this nonsense. Which naturally affords Our Rulers a chance to propose yet another law: the “TSA Fairness Act, would require the Transportation Security Administration to provide passenger and baggage screening to any airport that lost airline service after Jan. 1, 2013.”
Wouldn’t it be simpler to abolish the TSA?
2:17 pm on February 16, 2016
