Former employee: the TSA is a fraud

TSA Adept AgentsRight-thinking individuals already knew this.  It’s not in any form news of an actual kind.

The article, here from the New York Post, does — however — affirm what we already knew about the TSA: it’s all “style” (and I utilize that word so rather loosely) over substance because the TSA is completely style and class-less.

Salient snippets include:

A LOT of what we do is make-believe.

But since most TSA supervisors are too daft to actually supervise, bending the rules is easy to do.

[I like this guy already; I enjoy utilizing the word “daft” as well. -BZ]

Did you know you don’t need a high-school diploma or GED to work as a security screener? These are the same screeners that TSA chief John Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refer to as a first-class first line of defense in the war on terror.

These are the employees who could never keep a job in the private sector. I wouldn’t trust them to walk my dog.

Most TSA screeners know their job is a complete joke. Their goal is to use this as a stepping stone to another government agency.

We work in a culture where common sense has no place. All but a very few TSA personnel know they’re employed by a bottom-of-the-barrel agency.

Every time you read about a TSA horror story, it’s usually about a screener doing what he or she is instructed to do.

Supervisors play absolutely no role in day-to-day functions except to tell you not to chew gum. Gum chewing is a huge issue with management. I once saw a supervisor make an officer open his mouth to prove he had a mint and not a piece of gum.

One screener didn’t come to work for four weeks. When he finally reappeared, he asked for another week off. The answer was no. So what did this brainiac decide to do? He took another week off — and didn’t get terminated.

People have been caught falling asleep on the job. They get written up, it’s put in their file, and that’s it.

New hires see how bad it is working there, and, believe it or not, TSA does manage to hire some pretty decent people. They just don’t last because they can get a normal job.

Best line of the entire article?

Anyone boarding an aircraft should feel maybe only a teeny tiny bit safer than if there were no TSA at all.

There!  Now, ladies and gentlemen, don’t you feel absolutely buoyed by the incredibly diligent, pertinent, logical and safe application of the TSA authorities as applied to the screening of American citizens on aircraft throughout the United States?

Anyone need a colonoscopy?  I know where you can get them, cheap.

Muslims, al Qaeda, Pakistanis, young Middle Eastern men with a terrorist history need not apply.

BZ

P.S.

— TSA scanner fraud here.
— The TSA itself is a fraud.
— General TSA fraud.
— TSA incompetence on video.
— Searching grandma; finding nothing.

The list is endless.

 

 

Illegals training illegals to fly: okay by TSA!

THIS is how irreparably-broken your government is:

The TSA let twenty-five ILLEGAL ALIENS attend a flight school RUN by an illegal alien!

From CNSNews.com:

“Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The illegal-alien flight-school attendees including eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.

Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot’s licenses.”

But that’s not the best part.  This is:

“Stephen Lord, who is the GAO’s director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified about the matter Wednesday in Rogers’ subcommittee. Rogers asked him: “Isn’t it true that, based on your report, the Transportation Security Administration cannot assure the American people that foreign terrorists are not in this country learning how to fly airplanes, yes or no?”

Lord responded: “At this time, no.”

If you doubt the veracity of this story, then please click on the US government’s own GAO report here.

Let there be no mistake: we’re no safer now — with our diminished freedoms, government-paid crotch-grabbers, aerial drones over our own cities and the massive “Homeland Security” apparatus — than we were on September 10th of 2001.  The GAO report just said so.

Let me remind you all: just who has stopped devices from going off in US civilian aircraft recently?  That’s right: regular American citizens like you and me.  NOT the TSA Grope Squads in our airports.

This is an abortion on toast, ladies and gentlemen.  We lose our freedoms, and acquire our repressive TSA colonoscopies if we wish to fly and, better yet (o joyous day), TSA wants to add these physical intrusions to trains, buses and local transit.  Next up to bid?  You guessed it: checkpoints on our national highways.  Where you’ll have to show your ID, but illegals won’t.

This, however, should make you feel ever-so-much better:

“A GAO official told CNSNews.com that, based on their names, none of the 25 illegal aliens who attended the flight school appeared to be from Muslim countries. Instead, they had Latin American names.”

Just because many Middle Eastern men are readily confused with Mexicans and other “swarthy” individuals completely precludes terrorists from daring — the temerity of them! — to actually utilize a false name.

I’m certainly assuaged.

Aren’t you?

BZ

P.S.
Here is TSA at its finest.

My prior post on TSA incompetence here.