Close down the TSA! In the atmosphere of politically correct authoritarianism in which we live, the TSA cannot focus on the actual source of the threat to air security, and so has opted for intrusive questioning and the unwarranted detaining of free citizens. This is madness. “Steve Gunn: Just say no when the TSA asks […]
TSA charged with racial profiling at Boston’s Logan Airport
Close down the TSA! In the atmosphere of politically correct authoritarianism in which we live, the TSA cannot focus on the actual source of the threat to air security, and so has apparently opted to zero in not only on “Middle Easterners,” but also on “Hispanics traveling to Miami, for instance, or blacks wearing baseball […]
Newark TSA allows woman who tested positive for explosive residue to board flight to Cleveland
Close down the TSA! “Security breaches at Newark Airport,” by Lisa Evers for Fox 5 News, August 6 (thanks to David): Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say United Airlines checkpoint operations at Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport were shut down Sunday after TSA and local authorities tried to find a passenger that wasn’t […]
U.S. on lookout for radical Christians with upgraded underwear bombs — no, wait…
Actually, oddly enough, it is Islamic jihadists who misunderstand Islam so spectacularly as to deploy these bombs. And U.S. officials will always be one step behind those who spend all their days plotting how to please their god through blood and murder. “US on lookout for terrorists using upgraded underwear bombs,” from the Associated Press, […]
Napolitano: “˜Historically” DHS Hasn’t Vetted U.S. Citizens Against No-Fly List Before They Take Flight Lessons
Oh, well, then, we should never ever vet them! “Napolitano: “˜Historically” DHS Hasn’t Vetted U.S. Citizens Against No-Fly List Before They Take Flight Lessons,” by Edwin Mora for CNS News, July 25 (thanks to Ron): (CNSNews.com) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers today that, historically, her department has chosen not to vet U.S. […]
U.S. flight schools still not screening foreign nationals, could be training jihad terrorists
Flight schools must not provide “flight training to a foreign student unless the Secretary of Homeland Security first determines that the student does not pose a threat to aviation or national security.” But actually to do this checking would be “Islamophobic.” And anyway, what could go wrong? “9/11 Flashback: US Flight Schools Still Unknowingly Training […]
Pamela Geller: Close down the TSA!
An idea whose time has come. “Close Down the TSA!,” by Pamela Geller in the American Thinker, July 10: It got hardly any notice in the mainstream media, but the New York Post did report on June 24 that “a JFK Airport terminal had to be evacuated and hundreds of passengers marched back through security […]
JFK Airport terminal evacuated and hundreds of passengers re-screened after Muslim TSA employee leaves metal detector unplugged
This happened a couple of weeks ago and no flights went down, but it could have been a test of how to get people through security with material that would otherwise be detected, which they could then stash somewhere and retrieve later if they had to be re-screened. Or it could just be an incompetent […]
Can we shut down the TSA now? Al-Qaeda doctors trained to implant bombs in humans
Look on the bright side: at least this would render the TSA useless. “Report: Al-Qaida doctors trained to implant bombs in humans,” from MSNBC, May 13 (thanks to Kenneth): Western intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaida doctors have been trained to implant bombs inside the bodies of suicide bombers, Britain’s Sunday Times reported. The doctors, thought […]
CIA thwarts new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot
Wait a minute. I thought al-Qaeda was “decimated” and the war on terror was over. This is all so confusing! “CIA thwarts new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot,” from AP, May 7 (thanks to Anne Crockett): WASHINGTON “” The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a […]