Sleep well America, the TSA in on the job.
Posted on 06/01/2009 7:30:19 AM PDT by george76
The next time you book a flight, make sure your name on the ticket is exactly the same as your ID.
Otherwise it could take some time to get on the plane.
The federal Transportation Security Administration is introducing a requirement that passenger names on tickets be exactly the same as the name on a government issued ID...
The move is designed to reduce the amount of travelers incorrectly identified with names similar to those on terrorist watch lists.
"We're doing some testing now, but we won't roll out the first phase until August," .
About 58,000 travelers have filed complaints with TSA’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, claiming in many cases they were denied or delayed boarding because of watch-list problems, or were chosen for secondary screening.
Elizabeth Davis of Boulder is one example of a passenger who might be delayed with the new rules.
Her ticket read "Elizabeth Davis" but her driver's license says "Elizabeth Van R. Davis."
"I just think things are getting a little bit ridiculous," said Martha Carr, a Denver resident whose ticket did not list her middle name.
"We flew into Oklahoma City in March, and I had my great-grandbaby with me, and I had to pull off his shoes! I think we're taking things too far with all this...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Sleep well America, the TSA in on the job.
I hope they check BHO’s ID carefully when he comes back from Egypt.
We get the choice of going with a truly secure system like El Al, and having the restrictions that come with it (no flight changes within 6 weeks, background checks required to fly, etc) or continue with our current stupidity. The public has voted, they prefer a somewhat inconvenient system with poor security to an extremely inconvenient system with excellent security.
Why don’t we advise the people who are having the problem to make their ticket name match their ID exactly?
Why does everyone need to do it?
Oh yeah, “Your papers, citizen?”
My driver’s license and passport both carry my middle name. My credit cards, including my corporate card, do not.
I am required to pay for the trip using a card that matches the name of the traveler by the booking software (I am not a “purchasing agent” in this system).
How the heck can I then match both the credit card and the ID names?
Stupid is as TSA does, sometimes.
We’re from the government, we’re to “help”.
Oh goody...
Interesting. To buy my airline ticket with a credit card (ever try to buy a ticket with cash recently?) the name includes my middle initial, but my ID spells out entire middle name. So which will be "valid"?
Next time...try the boat, train or car!
6 weeks is not doable for most buisness travel.
Somewhat inconvenient is better than extremely inconvenient.
Otherwize why bother? Drive or ride my Harley...
I tend to agree. I wish they'd allow concealed carry in airplanes for people with appropriate training, though.
I think concealed carry liscenses should be like driver's liscenses, with different classifications. Typical, everyday concealed carry, but then with special qualifications.
So if you're unlucky to be named Muff Littlestenowski or similar you might consider changing your name to Jim Little or Joe Lee. TSA really does stand for Totally Stupid A...........
The Transportation Security Administration hired a consultant, Hugh G. Rection, blame him for the idea. ;’) Thanks geo.
Those booger-eating morons are going to kill off the airlines. I refuse to fly them anymore.
Worth repeating.
that’s because they are looking for too many guys whose given name is Mohammad Hussein Jihad Kaboom Mushafaraffahalidil, who shortened it to “Moe Musha” when they got their drivers license...
There is no such word as "ridiculous" in the government dictionary.
A bureaucracy exists to expand.
Probably the number of them, too.
The agency should be replaced with private contractors using ex military.
Driving all day is easier than trying to fly 700 miles
Perhaps conservatives who were silent about these abuses when Bush was in power will finally start speaking out now that a Democrat is in the White House. Better late than never.
This is coming from Homeland Security which sets up up these guidelines and rules for id names.
My wife and a high % of her female and male relatives for some reason as teens and adults never liked their first name and went by their middle names. Then many of the females in that group would add an extra constant or vowel to their middle name that was now being used as their first name.
No problems until my wife and her relatives and a few million others with similiar unofficial name changes went to renew their driver’s licenses. If the name on the old drivers license didn’t match their social security number, she and that few million others couldn’t renew their driver’s licenses.
That meant a few trips to the local Social Security offices to get these ids saying the same thing. What made that really interesting was another slice of life living in illegal haven aka California. We couldn’t get an appointment for her to renew her Ca Driver’s license in Wino land due to all the illegals getting licenses inspite of Homeland Security. So I made DMV reservations for her in the Vallejo DMV, and we were in the Vallejo DMV when she was told to go to a social Security Office as they could not renew her driver’s license.
There were about 4 of us who spoke English at that SS office, my wife, myself, the receptionists and one very sharp young lady.
We got that young lady and she started the process, and we finished it a few weeks later at the local SS office. Then, we were able to get an appt with our Local DMV, and she was re licensed in about 5 minutes after acing the vision test.
This miss match of names apparently flagged any airline tickets she purchased. At every flight she was singled out, padded down and even given quizzes.
A few years ago, her mother died, and we made quick reservations to fly back the next day, which raised flags. On the way back to the midwest and the funeral, she again was singled out, padded down, and even questioned by the TSA lesbo re the books she was carrying. After a few questions from me to the TSA lesbo and her supervisors, she was allowed to head to the gate to board the plane with me. I poed both of them by asking if they like to scare blonde, fair skinned grand mothers, who only spoke American English. They said they were just following orders. I told them that since they were literary book people, they needed to read some books re the Nuremberg trials where the same rationale re following orders didn’t work.
On the return trip, again she was singled out as well as I was and we were taken to a room with no windows, a lot of machines and more lesbian TSA agents feeling up my wife. This was a spooky event, as we were herded down about 300 yards to the unmarked door into the windowless space, where other would be fliers were being basically insulted, stripped and patted down.
I basically had no hurdlesjust a couple of questions. Her inquisition stopped. when I took a few photos of her being padded down and some terse discussions with the local supervisor, who came running over after I took the pictures.
After that, I ended up on the no fly list with a few million other Anglo Saxon/Celts with the same first and last name.
I made a folder that had copies of my birth certificate, military discharge, NSG Top Secret Clearance, copy of former White House Clearance and other hard documentation. Via a suggestion from a friend with same first and last name, I added copies of my pre 9/11 passport and my post 9/11 passport. Later, we found out that all was needed for both of us were the copies of the passports.
Actually, from my point of view, the unknowing, non-regular-flying public is accepting eye-wash “security” that provides no real improvement in security. Heck, TSA can't even get it straight: DCA MUST place shoes directly on the coveyer-belt, other airports (ORD, DFW, STL, etc), shoes must be placed in the bins.
But that's just me. . .over 150K per year flier, international and domestic.
Try flying into Columbus, Ohio, Infidel! Your TSA Agent will be a Sommali, complete with tribal scars and doubtless, fresh from a fire-breathing sermon at his mosque.
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