Monday, December 08, 2008

TSA (Totally Silly Assumptions)

What has the Transportation Security Administration accomplished since its knee jerk inception after the events of September 11, 2001?  Though their website makes claims of enhanced security for us poor, suffering, at the mercy of terrorists sheeple, their claims are dubious, though the TSA has spent billions to infuse a feeling of safety and security into the population.

Writing for the Christian Science Monitor, Becky Akers advocates, and rightly so, the end of the TSA in a piece titled End, don’t mend, the Transportation Security Administration.  From Akers’ piece.

The TSA has always been a political, not practical, response to 9/11. It hassles us at checkpoints not because of penetrating insights on security or some brilliant breakthrough, but because politicians handed it power. Specialists in security didn’t invent the TSA; the Bush administration imposed it on us. So we might hope the incoming president would abolish this absurd agency.

Unfortunately, Barack Obama wants to improve the TSA rather than send it packing. His suggestions for that improvement? Passengers still aren’t screened against a comprehensive terrorist watch list, his website proclaims. Such a list must be developed.

Why? The watch list has already kept Rep. John Lewis (D) of Georgia and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts off planes: Will a comprehensive list bar Republican congressmen, too? That’ll protect us about as well as unionizing screeners will – another change the campaigning Obama said he favors.

Posted by John Venlet on 12/08 at 03:26 PM
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