For someone who claims to fly alot - ignorance is pretty glaring.
Yes, liquids CAN be seen on the scanner. Have you never seen a bag get opened and searched, because liquids were discovered? My backpack was searched because I didn’t take out my travel-sized bottles of Listerine out in put them in a separate baggie. So, that ‘fact’ is obviously incorrect.
Cleaning people and everyone working on the secure side of the airport all have a security background check peformed prior to starting their job. It’s a requirement, and it’s also the law. They also pass through security just like anyone else (albeit through a separate and much shorter line - just like Flight Crew) before starting their jobs. How do I know? I have family members who work for the airlines. I also have had a background check as part of my job.
Aircrew have their bags scanned, just like anyone else (Have you really flown in the past 10 years?). How you can state the obviously incorrect ‘facts’ sure blows your credability out of the water.
Do you have a better suggestion as how to handle this situation? Or, do you intend to invent more ‘facts’?
Fact.
If what you said was true (big if), then you should know they “saw” the label on the bottle, not the contents.
Clear liquids can't be seen.
I always keep my clear bottle of hand sanitizer on my person or in my bag . .have done for years, and never once was it discovered. Not once. Ever.
Asked my neighbor, an Assistant Special Agent with TSA’s Office of Security Assessments, why they never discover it (thinking incompetence), and found out they can't see it.
Illegals work in secure areas, or haven't you been paying attention:
“ICE arrests 42 illegal aliens working at Dulles International Airport
WASHINGTON - This morning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 42 men illegally present in the country at Dulles International Airport as part of a critical infrastructure protection (CIP) operation. ICE agents, with support of airport security agencies, arrested the illegal aliens just INSIDE the airport grounds at a checkpoint established to verify the identity and immigration status of workers entering a service gate.”
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/0808/080813washington.htm
“Eight years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the pre-Olympic, Salt Lake City Airport raid which resulted in 69 illegal aliens being indicted for document fraud and identity theft, illegal aliens continue to work at American airports.
The most recent arrests occurred at the Stewart International Airport in New York where 12 employees of Empire Warehouse Solutions were arrested.
Illegal aliens from Mexico, Peru, Chile, Guatemala and El Salvador were found to have used forged Social Security and “green” cards to obtain their jobs and security badges.
At the time the illegal aliens originally received their security badges, which was five years after the 9/11 attack on the United States, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was still not conducting immigration checks.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-aliens-arrested-while-working-at-new-york-airport#ixzz1szlUZlfg
“In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport.
The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located about 60 miles north of New York City. Stewart is a major passenger airport for the state’s mid-Hudson region that also handles large quantities of cargo and serves as a military field.
The illegal aliens all had security badges approved by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/12/tsa-clears-illegal-aliens-work-ny-airport/
Of course, as they say, none are as blind as those that refuse to see. . .
Oh, how about those crack TSA employees keeping you from carrying that butter-knife on-board the jet when the airlines ISSUE you a steel knife and fork with your first class meal?
How about the combat wounded veteran given the hard-over search because some drop-out mouth-breather TSA goon is “badge heavy” and wants to push people around? (Isn't it enough the veteran lost a limb).
How bout taking a baggie of 3 oz of this and that, combine with a baggie from another passenger an there you go. . .so much for making people carry no more than 3oz per bottle. . .sheesh. Oh, and what do the TSA dim bulbs do with the confiscated liquids? They throw then all into the same trash can at the checkpoint. . .so much for the threat of combining those dangerous chemicals found in shampoo.
How about those pilots with the firearms on-board, making them go through security and get groped (some airports have dropped that practice but most have not). Really keeps people safe.
How about those TSA perverts man-handling old people and ignoring muslimes? Really makes things safe when TSA blinds themselves to the real threat. You say we can't profile, wonderful, so abuse the innocent just to prove you won't profile, thereby giving the terrorist a pass. Yup, makes us all that safer. . .double sheesh.
Could go on and on with examples but even you get the point.
TSA is a monumental waste of money and it a jobs program for idiots that get a kick out of groping old people and molesting young children. . or is it the other way around. . .no matter, still applies to TSA.
You are willfully blind to the gaping holes in this kabuki theater.
You MUST work for TSA. . .you simply must.
Saaay. . . is that you, Blogger Bob?
(http://blog.tsa.gov/2008/01/meet-our-bloggers_29.html)
Have a nice day.
“My backpack” says all we need to know.
Wonder how the illegal aliens that have been found working the flight lines got their “security” clearances?