Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

TSA logic: Carry on water, get groped; run guns, get a pass


We've only been saying it for years. 

The bigger threat at airports, inasmuch as there is one, comes from the employees, not the passengers. Employees at all levels have unfettered access to airports and airplanes. They roam freely behind the scenes, from the so-called "sterile" area, beloved of TSA bureaucrats, to the planes themselves. Mechanics, baggage handlers, restaurant workers, service employees, you name it -- while we're standing in line and getting harassed, bullied, stripped, and groped, everyone else is getting a pass. 

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

TSA Blog: the Energizer Bunny of the Blabbosphere


As regular readers here know, the TSA Blog, a.k.a. Propaganda Central, is the official on-line mouthpiece of the Transportation Security Administration. (There are, of course, lots of other, humanoid mouthpieces, as well.)