And they seem to be jumping on the "underpants bomber" incident as an opportunity (if they didn't stage it in the first place) to make the country even more a police state with even more draconian laws. Are they trying to drive the airlines out of business? That said my only experience with the TSA wasn't all that bad. I recall trying to take my driver's license out of the folder in my wallet and the agent said "ah, you don't need to do that" and on the return trip I forgot I had my cellphone clipped on my pants which set off the alarm going through the thing and the manager asked "that's probably your phone. Here, let me run it through for you." IOW, there are actually some TSA agents who don't want to look like assholes.
I'm less worried about the TSA than I am about corporatism sponsored by the yuppie MBAs who are doing it "because we can." seekliberation wrote: > Yes, our security is marked by incompetence. I don't know if you're aware of > the author Robert Baer, but he has a few books out regarding his experiences > in the CIA during the 80's and 90's. If you read his books, you'll see that > the CIA lost almost all of its best agents at gathering information in > foreign countries during the 90's. He claims the reason is because careerism > and political correctness began to overtake the whole system. People who > could not do their job were hired for 'politically correct' reasons. Women, > and people of all races would be hired in order to have a balanced group of > individuals, regardless of their overall ability to perform. Meanwhile, many > people who were really good agents resigned because they were disgusted with > how the system was working. > > I can say the same is true with the armed forces as well. The armed forces > have turned into a career factory rather than defense force. It often > strikes me as funny that the republicans praise the military so much. It > seems they don't realize there are so many in the military who try very > little to win the war, but rather try to achieve the next rank and retire > with a successful career. > > I don't know much about TSA, or the FBI but i'm sure homeland security is run > by similar people who are more career oriented than they are at actually > doing their job. > > seekliberation > > --- In [email protected], "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > >> From what I've read, U.S. security is marked >> by incompetence - the system doesn't work. Do >> you feel safe having Janet Napolitano as the >> Secretary of Homeland Security? >> >> What's up with that? >> >> "The first duty of the president of the United >> States is to provide security for its people..." >> >> > > > >
