Posted on 06/25/2012 6:28:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Yep, just another fine permanent liberal institution GW “Baby” Bush gave us. What a freaking embarrassment. With conservatives like Baby Bush, who needs socialists?
TSA agent Alija Abdul Majed? Oh yeah, was just a simple mistake. /S
They are incompetents, morons and perverts..
This is such a farce - if it wasn’t a dry run. TSA as well as the airlines should be required to compensate all passengers for inconvenience and time lost. Professional people who fly, as opposed to TSA personnel, have meetings and agendas and require a dependable ETA.
Kabuki theater security, strictly for show.
Nailed it. The cynicism of the thing is simply breathtaking.
Dry run and he had to have conspirators. Those machines at minimum have 2 people operating them. One directs and the other stops if the machine beeps. It beeps at least 1/10 of the time. That they missed this through 200+ passengers is unbelievable.
In the 30’s in prewar Germany, there were a number of indications of the Nazi takeover of the Germany.
Yet, most Germans ignored them.
Are we any different?
The TSA creates the “feeling” of security, but in reality provides little to this end. A colossal waste of time and money the bad guys will simply find another high value target that is soft. Maybe a train or subway (Cyanide gas attack as in Japan or bombings in Madrid), blowing up a school as in Beslan, targeting buses as in London or Israel... It is impossible to protect everything valuable or vulnerable and at best the TSA will only push the threat elsewhere (assuming they are effective).
The real issue is radical Islam which today no one wants to mention anymore. America's patience is short and as soon as the average American realizes there is a cost associated with it, they will pull the plug. It's all about “feeling good” and when the ugly pictures come rolling in, it's only a matter of time before America's tone changes. America dos not forgive, it forgets and for a buck is willing to do business with those that want to kill us. We are not addressing the real issue and the clock is ticking until the next attack. I wonder what the MSM will say then? How long will America stay the course? Not long, and that's ultimately our undoing. Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Taiwan... we have proven to be fair weather allies that have no long term commitment nor are we consistent or even based on any principal, despite how we want to portray ourselves. Maybe the draft dodger Silvester Stalone can make another Rambo movie where we win, despite losing. We Americans are “incapable” of confronting the real issues. Our political process, a lack of a common vision or identity among our people, globalization and the growth of new emerging economies in China, India, Brazil combined with the fracture of an alliance that is useless in dealing with the current threats (NATO), an American people that is fat, lazy, ignorant and apathetic (this isn't the Greatest Generation today) is not something that makes us able to deal with the current threats. We're more worried about gays in the military than we are winning a war or even identifying what the threat is. We are unwilling to even call it what it is. For a time we came out swinging, killing bad guys in Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, Yemen... but that is coming to an end while in reality the ideology that wants to destroy us is still there. The death of OBL was the culmination and in reality the symbolic finale for us, like our bogus treaty in Vietnam where we declared victory, left and watched this country implode, while our enemies the Soviets moved in, we today declare our victory with the death of OBL and wind down a GWOT which we have renamed because it didn't “feel good.”
“Every electronic device in the house, even the surge protectors, have a green or red power light.
How much did we Taxpayers pay for these X-Ray machines again?”
Those machines have no visible indication of whether they are on or off so that terrorists won’t know if they are active or not. This was no doubt suggested by highly paid security consultants :)
Gee, that makes me feel better. LOL
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