The TSA wouldn’t know security if it bit them in the ass.
I was in Washington, D.C. recently for the White House Correspondents Dinner and as I left Reagan National I was flagged for additional security screening. Really? I was wearing a seersucker suit, bow tie and white bucs. The most threatening thing about me is that I might be afraid you’d get some dirt on me and give you a dirty look.
At the gate the TSA was conducting secondary screening before we got on the flight and they selected a very handsome young man with blonde hair, button down shirt and khaki pants.
In Atlanta when I walked passed security I noticed a young woman in one of those mechanized wheelchairs for the seriously disabled with her arms out by her side and her head flopped over over as TSA gave her a good patdown.
This is insanity. Everyone gets all upset about the mere mention of racial profiling and calls people racist for even suggesting that it be a part of law enforcement in any way. I can see your point, but if any one of you can point out where a paraplegic, white guy in a seersucker suit or East Coast prepster ever blew up a plane I will shut up.
Meanwhile, security lets someone on a No Fly list get on a plane and taxi down the runway to Dubai!
I want to feel secured when I go to the airport, not hassled, not coddled and certainly not amazed at the rampant incompetence and laziness of our security systems.
Feel free to provide your vitriol in the comments. I have never once suggested that security pull aside all people that look exactly like the terrorist mug shots we see on TV, I’ve just suggested to stop profiling people that we have NEVER seen a mug shot of on TV for blowing up anything.
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Long before the TSA existed, my uncle apparently matched the profile of a highjacker. I can only think it was because he looked like Matlock. As a result, he loathed traveling via airplane.