TSA still groping children.

[RockSolid]

4 year old that "had a gun". lol

7 year old with cerebral palsy.

[Fenris]

That's because they're still looking for dangerous objects instead of dangerous people.

[markedward]

The problem isn't necessarily in the thing about it being children. (If you were trying to sneak a bomb or whatever onto a plane... how would you do it? Would you sneak it on board via a man between the ages of 20-50? Who happens to fit the stereotype of someone 'middle eastern'? Or would you do it through the persons least to be initially suspected, i.e. children and the elderly? Not that it works, but they're at least being consistent in subjecting everyone to screening.) The problem isn't necessarily who the TSA subjects to screening.

The problem is the sheer incompetence on how the TSA handles anything. The majority of these stories have the same two types of issues arising.

1. The latter story about the kid with CP shows the TSA's complete ineptitude in the agent's ability to interact with people. Immensely stupid indecency toward human beings, ranging from adult males, to adult females, to children, to elders, to the disabled. The agents make no use of reason to determine how to approach an individual human being, failing to even comprehend that they have feelings and emotions and even disabilities or illnesses, and that while they might require a leg brace or a wheel chair or a diaper, they just might not be a 'terrorist'.

2. The first story about the kid who was allowed past the security checkpoint and then was required to come back for additional screening. Not the fact that a kid had to be searched, but that they don't understand that if she was a suspect with a weapon being passed off, yet they allowed her past the gate for any amount of time, that means everyone beyond the gate is now a suspect. So do they do the logical thing and shut down all flights and lock down the airport to find the alleged weapon the kid could have passed off to anyone after she first made it through the security checkpoint? No. They hassle just the kid, whereas the alleged weapon could have already made it onto planes. The TSA isn't succeeding in guaranteeing safety if they can't see the gaping holes in their own common sense like this.

[jongoodman]

The problem is the sheer incompetence on how the TSA handles anything. The majority of these stories have the same two types of issues arising.

This. It is as if their agents are chosen from the bottom of the barrel.

[Dravenhawk]

Recently in LAX TSA agents were taking bribes to look the other way while drug smugglers passed illicit cargo through the xray machine. It is only a matter of time before TSA is bribed by real bad guys to look the other way while a case full of bombs and weapons are passed through for a bribe. This is really frightening.

Source LA times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...-feds-say.html

Dravenhawk

[Warrior4God]

I'll believe the TSA is doing their jobs well when they aren't afraid to inspect people of Middle Eastern descent, as they often avoid doing such because they don't want to look like they're "profiling" anybody. Great, so they're willing to put political correctness brownie points ahead of safety. By the way, so that people don't twist what I'm saying, I'm not indicating that all people of Middle Eastern descent are terrorists. But neither are all little old ladies, babies in diapers, people with cerebral palsy, etc. If those folks can be inspected for safety purposes, so can some dude named Mohammed.

[Fenris]

Recently in LAX TSA agents were taking bribes to look the other way while drug smugglers passed illicit cargo through the xray machine. It is only a matter of time before TSA is bribed by real bad guys to look the other way while a case full of bombs and weapons are passed through for a bribe. This is really frightening.

I think it's even more likely that some Jihadist gets themselves hired by the TSA and lets contraband through. Which is even more frightening.

[Orendorf]

That's because they're still looking for dangerous objects instead of dangerous people.

That is one of the best summaries I've ever read. Right on brother

[keck553]

That's because they're still looking for dangerous objects instead of dangerous people.

Bingo. Now we know why it's safe to fly El Al. It's not because of political correctness.

[Jeanne D]

That's because they're still looking for dangerous objects instead of dangerous people.

Well now you have to be careful not to offend anyone.

Jeanne

[Warrior4God]

Well now you have to be careful not to offend anyone.

Jeanne

Too late for that, I'm sure!

[tim_from_pa]

This. It is as if their agents are chosen from the bottom of the barrel.

Not "as if". They "are" chosen from the bottom of the barrel. Such goons cannot hold a normal job; well, maybe drug trading or other criminal stuff, or maybe illegal porn trading. This is scary times we live in.

[MoreMercy]

4 year old that "had a gun". lol

7 year old with cerebral palsy.

Perverts working for the TSA, not the TSA.

[Bandit]

I think the real problem is that too many people (TSA agents included) either can't, or are afraid to, think for themselves. A litle girl is a little girl; she is not a terrorist. This whole thing reminds me of the "zero tolerance" policy of drugs in school, which because of some unthinking teachers lead to the labeling of a young school girl as a drug dealer simply because she gave a sugar pill to another student. What the "powers that be" want is total compliance; they don't want anyone with the ability and willingness to think for themselves. (In other words, blindly follow the rules.)