The TSA fallacy

TSA is an acronym for the Transportation Security Administration, a division of Homeland Security. As I’ve written in the past on my political campaign website, here and here, I am singularly unimpressed with them. Why? Because, based on observation they are near worthless. The airport security is just a veneer to calm the public that no one can get anything hazardous past their checkpoints.

As you can see from this recent NBC TV news story, that isn’t true. I thought about this as a way to bypass TSA checkpoints years ago, but didn’t write about it. Why? If the wrong people hadn’t thought about it, I wasn’t about to help them.

In brief, it has been alleged that a man (who was too lazy to drive) took multiple flights, over a five year period, from Atlanta to New York with over 100 guns to sell on the black market, including at least one assault rifle and was not detected.

It wouldn’t take much effort for a pack of terrorists to destroy multiple planes over our cities in one go using this method. I’m surprised that it hasn’t happened.

TSA is so useless, only creating an illusion of security, that our enemies, could smuggle explosives in backpacks onto multiple planes using this method. They would detonate them over destination cities causing mass casualties and havoc!

It would be on the same or a larger scale as 9/11 when our security people fell asleep at the switch.

Now that it’s out, I am surprised that the American public seems to be disinterested and have gone back to their TV sets to be entertained

When it does, TSA will moan that they didn’t have enough billions of dollars to protect the public (or more accurately, their jobs) so need billions more. The Congressional fools will give it to them, and the public will go back to sleep.

This is a game of political musical chairs. No one wants to be caught sitting down when the music stops. One day it will.

Sad.