The TSA does a miserable job when it comes to the things it is supposed to be doing – providing security at airports and on airplanes. The TSA does seem to be good at bullying people without guns and badges though, in the name of its agents who do have guns and badges. Oh, and lists too.
“They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” says Steven Frischling, one of the bloggers. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Trevino said in a statement that security directives “are not for public disclosure.”
“TSA’s Office of Inspections is currently investigating how the recent Security Directives were acquired and published by parties who should not have been privy to this information,” the statement said.
Frischling, a freelance travel writer and photographer in Connecticut who writes a blog for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, said the two agents who visited him arrived around 7 p.m. Tuesday, were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. They also threatened to get him fired from his KLM job and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job.
This sort of behavior by governments, when pervasive enough for long enough, leads to revolutions. Governments should protect life and liberty. Governments should not bully citizens because they have internal leaks. Organizations with internal leaks should probably a) re-examine the logic and ethics of internal policies or b) implement better internal security policies or c) do both. The problem here is that the federal government doesn’t get it and probably never will. You cannot improve security by making living conditions worse for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are destroying the economy or making people stand in herd lines and treating them like herd animals. You’re just pissing everyone off a little more each day and that is a recipe for long term fail.
Some of the idiotic directives make no sense at all. Someone explain the purpose of inflicting these foolish rules:
Passengers are also required to remain seated during the last hour of flights, and cannot access carry-on baggage or have blankets, pillows or other personal belongings on their lap during this time.
What the hell does this accomplish other than making everyone miserable? Generally speaking that is all the TSA has done during its existence. Western society is slowly but calmly ensuring its own demise by breeding and encouraging retarded memes to prevail. Once enough of us are miserable enough and have had enough of being mindlessly herded from point to point everything will burn and we’ll start over. I hope to God we find a way to keep the cretins from running things eventually.