Heroic Airport Security Professionals Foil Would-Be Terrorist

[Aikibiker]

While I think it is good that this journalist was turned around and sent home I believe that the manner in which it was done was in very poor taste. The reference in the article to the detaining of a foreign born wife to one of our service men and denying her infant child food and medical care is just maddening. Anyone that does that to an infant should not just loose their job but face criminal charges.

I subscribe to the philosophy that one should be polite to everyone you meet, but have a plan to kill everyone. Being polite is as or even more important then being able to defeat someone in close combat. That is a good way to avoid the necessity for violence and leads to an all around happier life for everyone involved. These TSA officials were anything but polite.

I hear a lot of people on this board and others complaining about the TSA and Homeland Security. It seems rather obvious that complaining on the internet will have no effect. How about joining the TSA and working from within to make positive change. Just about everyone on this board seems very intelligent and appears to know how to be polite. Let's take that beyond the computer and lead the rest of the nation by example.

So, anyone know how to join the TSA?

 

[Tim Burke]

So, anyone know how to join the TSA?

Just what I aspire to be, one of Norm Mineta's underlings. I'd love to harass 30-something females from allied countries! Does Nicole Kidman fly? Could I harass US born little old ladies then, too? And Medal of Honor recipients? You have to watch those guys with MoHs... they are dangerous. Just don't make me confront any Islamic males between the ages of 15 & 40... they are too too scary. If I get a note from my doctor, will they waive the requirement for the lobotomy?

 

[Aikibiker]

Just what I aspire to be, one of Norm Mineta's underlings. I'd love to harass 30-something females from allied countries! Does Nicole Kidman fly? Could I harass US born little old ladies then, too? And Medal of Honor recipients? You have to watch those guys with MoHs... they are dangerous. Just don't make me confront any Islamic males between the ages of 15 & 40... they are too too scary. If I get a note from my doctor, will they waive the requirement for the lobotomy?

If you see problems with the system get off your lazy butt and work on changing it.

Since it is highly unlikely that President Bush is going appoint you to a cabinet position, or if he did that congress would confirm your appointment, your options are kind of limited. My suggestion that people on this board join the TSA and attempt to fix the problems from within is perfectly valid and actually stands a chance of succeeding.

 

[Tim Burke]

I have a job, thank you very much. Besides, I couldn't pay my mortgages on the salary of a TSA minion. If you think that the problems with the TSA are going to be corrected by THR members joining, then you don't have my experience with bureaucracies.

 

[Jeff White]

The best thing you can do to fix TSA is to disband it. It was a stupid idea to think that you could take these people and make them professionals by making them government employees.

TSA is a sick joke on the travelling public. We are mistreating a journalist who tried to enter the country on the wrong visa, but we don't give a hoot about what crosses the Mexican and Canadian border on foot. Do they really think al-Queda would bring a SADM into the country in the baggage of an Austrailian journalist, when they could walk it into the country undetected and be picked up by sleeper agents on this side of the border and driven anywhere in the US?

Jeff

 

[Norton]

I don't have a problem with the fact that she broke the rules, got caught and got turned away. I mean, hey, rules are rules, right?

But while the TSA is stemming this little trickle from a harmless Australian female, who is doing anything about the flood of illegal immigration across our southern border? It's much easier to pick on easy targets such as this woman instead of dealing with the tough problem of what amounts to an open border between the US and Mexico.

This has nothing to do with the minions at the customs counters or even the Border Patrol agents who are working as hard as they can given the limited resources allocated to them.

It's about policy at the governmental level that continues to allow this kind of crap to continue.

 

[rick_reno]

Heroic Airport security

They should have hauled her terrorist butt out to the end of the Santa Monica pier, thrown her off and told her to swim home. Teach these terrorists a lesson.

 

[Bainx]

oooow......aaaaaaah..... this one ranks right up there with the one where the airport security folks made the mother drink three bottles of her breast milk to prove it was not an explosive, in order to board the plane.
And the one where the same type of morons took an old mans G.I. Joe miniature plastic rifles stating that they were following procedure.

Good goin and keep up the good work. Hope Ridge give you the medals you so desparately deserve.