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TSA Security Theatre 1

Jennifer Abel reads to us from the ACLU database of complaints about TSA cops copping feels, and then points out that:

The explanation is simple: TSA policy is to focus on genitalia at the expense of the security checks they should be doing. Last week, the House subcommittee on homeland security said the TSA was to blame in the death of a teenage stowaway who hid in the wheel-well of a parked airplane. (If a thoughtless teenager can do it, a terrorist with a bomb can, too.) TSA also fired or suspended 28 baggage screeners in Honolulu who weren’t screening checked bags for explosives. Checking the cargo hold’s contents, checking the plane itself – all take a back seat to checking what’s in our underwear, because only the latter lets the TSA live up to the motto that was posted in its training center shortly after its founding: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”

For a surfeit of skeevy screening stories, follow the link.

I’m glad my road warrior days appear to be over.

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  1. George

    September 22, 2011 at 11:46 am

    The sad reality is that security practiced by hires with the same qualifications and pay grade as a janitor or overweight man at the county courthouse could never have been more than just as we read. Unintentionally, al Qaeda — with its equivalent lack of savvy and manpower — just accidentally made things worse with its incompetent underwear bomber.
     
     

     
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