Our friends in the TSA are back in the news. This time it doesn’t have anything to do with molesting nuns or children, tearing some poor dude’s colostomy bag (twice!), confiscating nail clippers (get back! or I’ll give you a hangnail you’ll never forget!) or toothpaste (happened to me..), or irradiating innocent people for the privilege of wedging themselves into a seat designed for 5 year old malnourished midgets.
This time, it’s (one of) the authors of the legislation that created that agency full of inept sadistic voyeurs who brings the TSA into the news. It seems he regrets his efforts of several years ago.
a decade after the TSA was created following the September 11 attacks, the author of the legislation that established the massive agency grades its performance at “D-.”
“The whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats,” said Rep. John Mica (R. -Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
Unfortunately, that’s far from unusual with a government agency.
Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”
“Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of [shoe-bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” Mica said.
“It’s an agency that is always one step out of step,” Mica said.
He nails it. All of the incidents above were dealt with by passengers on those flights. The perpetrators exited those aircraft looking somewhat worse for the wear. This is in following with the actions on United flight 93 on September 11, 2001.
The people on that flight learned of a completely new threat, one that was not foreseen by any aviation security agencies in the government, and were able to neutralize it with the resources at hand. The time elapsed from when the threat first presented itself (not when the flight 93 passengers actually learned of it) to the time it was neutralized was approximately 109 minutes. That is less than two hours.
The TSA can’t get its collective caca together after ten years.
At this point, all the TSA really needs to do is make sure no large bombs or guns get on a commercial passenger flight (should be really easy), and the passengers have shown they are more than capable of taking care of themselves. Thoroughly. With great vigor and gusto.
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