Eat the TSA

This kind of thing really ticks me off:

In Chicago, people like Robert Perry are subjected to exhaustive security checks. He was patted down, his wheel chair was examined and his hands were swabbed, all in public view in a see-through room at the security checkpoint. Perry, 71, is not alone

“It’s humiliation,” Perry said.

Perry was also taken to a see-through room by a TSA agent when his artificial knee set off the metal detector.

“He yelled at me to get the belt off. ‘I told you to get the belt off.’ So I took the belt off. He ran his hands down over and pulled the pants down, they went down around my ankle,” Perry said.

At that point, Perry was standing in his underwear in public view. He asked to see a supervisor. That made things worse.

“She was yelling ‘I have power, I have power, I have power,” Perry said. The power to stop him from flying to Florida with his wife that day to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

I fly a lot and I think the TSA has taken this security thing a little too far (compounded by the fact that they are idiots).

100% of all airline terrorism is perpetrated by one group of people – Muslim men between the ages of 16 and 45 (100% – no other group has ever hijacked a plane).

Like hello you brainless ninnies – identify the bad guys and go after them.  Old men in wheelchairs, hipsters with body piercings, children – and any other demographic you can think of – do not hijack planes.  It is has never happened – ever.

Stop being politically correct and actually do your job and protect us.  Don’t torture obviously innocent people.  Don’t waste our time.  Let us bring liquids on airplanes – and leave us alone!

July 23rd, 2008 World News