(From the TSA Watch List)
This incident perfectly illustrates just how incompetent the TSA is operating under the politically correct guidelines established by ex-DHS director Janet Napolitano. Phyllys Chesler, a noted Jewish writer, was spotted at JFK Airport by an eagle-eyed TSA guard reading a copy of...get this.... The Jewish Press. Here is what happened next.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/author-reading-the-jewish-press-stopped-at-jfk/2014/02/06/
One can only imagine that our hero in the TSA will probably get a cash bonus for narrowly averting the next 9-11. Meanwhile, while these boobs were giving the full Monty to Chesler, a tyrannosaurus rex could probably have walked right through the magnetometer, showed his boarding pass, proceeded on board, taken a seat on the plane, fastened his seat belt and ordered a cocktail.
Two points must be made here:
ReplyDelete1) How many old Jewish ladies have been found to be Sheheda suicide bombers other than Niqab cloaked Islamists women.
2) The TSA officials and employees may not have got the email from Eric Holder stating that religion is not appropriate to profile individuals. Or was that only Islamist religion that must not be profiled.
3) To make it easy for the TSA, using armbands for the Jewish travelers would help in moving the lines through the TSA checkpoints. Does this ring a bell?
Squid
Squid,
ReplyDeleteSee my latest. It rings a bell.
The problem, most likely, is not that the TSA or the two security agents involved have a profound anti-Jewish bias. The problem is,
ReplyDeletea) the sheer volume of regulations that are to be applied in such a situation are so long and detailed that nobody could be aware of more than a few of them, so in practice TSA agents are guided by a vague sense of what they've heard is the kind of thing they are supposed to be looking out for and anything that seems remotely out of the ordinary or exotic is instantly cause for suspicion, and,
b) the quality of people the TSA could hire was determined by who was out of work and willing to take such jobs in large numbers, which likely did not deliver a large number of people capable of thorough analysis and careful evaluations of what data is significant and what data is not.
Kind of like this comment.
ReplyDeleteWhat we need is for the Israelis to train us on how to do the job effectively.
I agree with both Siarlys and Gary on this topic. Yes, the TSA agent may have been anti-Semitic and abused his or her power by harassing an older lady, who posses no threat as a terrorist. So far, we have not heard anything about the incident in the media or if this agent has beeb removed from the job. Gary's point was made earlier, if it was a Muslim who was detined and profiled, it would have been addressed by CAIR and in the papers. And yes, the training for the TSA position is far from adequate for true security. I do not know if there is an extensive background check on potential agents, but if it is anything like the ACA navigators, the security will be compromised.
ReplyDeleteIt is behavior that needs to be profiled, not a Jewish magazine, read by an older lady who carries a bit more pounds (I hope Chesler doesn't read this). Israel trains its agents for a year, in behavioral profiling. The TSA trains agents for a two week period. The point is made here.
Squid