Comments on: TSA launches blog, passengers scream in comments

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has launched a public blog, fueling a flurry of angry comments from passengers.

[ittesi259]

Not all TSA's fault

People blast "TSA Policy" for their issues on boarding airplanes...but in my own observation at airports, the problem is people did not heed the airlines advice on arrival times or didn't bother reading instructions that came with their tickets.

I believe the appropriate response to the above specific scenarios is "Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part".

Of course I knew about the Lithium Battery changes before my friend (a TSA screener of 5 years) so like all organizations there is a communications problem.

[JoeF2]

It IS their fault

For example, in early January, I flew in from Europe. I was screened there already, so why in the world did I have to go through security here again??? Do they really think it is possible to get something to blow up a plane at customs???
The long lines actually resulted in me missing my connecting flight...

[Had_to_be_said]

Maybe not ALL their fault...

...after all, our idiot-President (along with his supporters) has repeatedly referred to the ENTIRELY BOGUS, and UTTERLY-DEBUNKED, inflight-liquid-bomb-assembly-terrorist-plot FRAUD (and, even, claimed credit for preventing it), over, ...and over, ...and over. He fairly routinely uses this SHAM as one of his, many, ongoing justifications for turning the United States into a totalitarian police-state. In fact, Bush actually referred to this, particular, HOKUM again... just a couple of days ago in his LAST (thank God) "State of the Nation" speech. Either, he literally doesnt know reality, from delusion, at this point (entirely possible, based upon the amount of "medications" he has reputedly been-on during his Presidency)... Or, he still hopes that by simply lying enough times, to the American-People, that they will finally, actually, begin believing this complete-nonsense... again.

So... Id say... it is entirely possible that the incompetent TSA-bureaucrats, and airport-screeners, are just following this psychotic-buffoons lead... and not, just taking advantage of this "security" situation to satisfy their own, personal, power-trips. Maybe...

[USDecliningDollar]

Meanwhile - up and down at the US Canadian / Mexican borders ...

Zero protection at the Canadian and Mexican borders. Tons of drugs are driven across the border - daily. So TSA is protecting us at the airports how? In the midst of driving the tons of drugs across the border, it is certainly within the realm of possibility that someone could put in a few surface to air missiles, RPGs, shoulder launched missiles, etc. which could bring down practically any plane at any airport, any day of the week.

Meanwhile, TSA screens my blond haired, blue eyed, <5ft < 100lb wife 2 times on the way to the plane. On another trip my father who is wheelchair bound for all but the shortest of walks in practically strip searched right there at TSA. And now, for a price - at many airports, you can purchase a "Clear" card which guarantees a < 2 min security line wait.

At DIA in Denver - over half of the airport workers are from East African countries such as Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eretria - etc. all of which just baffles me beyond belief.