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Democrat: Evicting TSA From Airports Could Cause New 9/11
Sheila Jackson Lee’s glib, surly and completely inaccurate response to new law
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee told a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing yesterday that the passage of a law which allows the nation’s airports to replace TSA screeners with private security personnel could cause a new 9/11-style attack.
Reacting to the Senate’s approval of the measure, which defies attempts by the Transportation Security Administration to block applications from airports attempting to replace TSA screeners, Lee stated, “My comment: we are looking forward to returning to 9/11.”
The Democrat’s statement is of course completely glib, ludicrous and without foundation. Replacing TSA workers with private security personnel will if anything increase the safety of traveling Americans because better trained screeners will be able to concentrate on genuine threats to security, and not 85-year-old women’s colostomy bags, baby’s diapers, and veterans with surgical implants.
Indeed, the TSA has cultivated a reputation of being proficient when it comes to harassing and abusing innocent Americans at checkpoints, while falling down on the job when it comes to missing loaded guns, swords, knives and other weapons.
On top of this, TSA workers have also been caught stealing cash, jewelry and expensive electronic items from travelers’ carry on bags on innumerable occasions.
Replacing TSA workers with privately hired screeners will not eradicate all these problems, but it will certainly be a step in the right direction. A greater number of Americans will also be more willing to travel in the knowledge that they won’t be treated like criminals and have their genitals fondled by uniformed goons.
“Some airport executives have argued that contract security personnel are more courteous than government workers,” reports CNN. “It was felt that a private contractor would provide friendlier customer service to the traveling public,” the head of a Roswell, New Mexico, airport wrote to Congress.”
Not to be outdone, Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Ill.) also waded in with his own stupid remarks in response to the bill’s passage.
With the TSA in charge of security at airports we are no safer now than when we could walk our guests or loved ones to the airport gate and wave goodbye to the plane, or wait at the gate and watch the airplane land before greeting our newly-arrived guests. There is no security – only harassment.
The TSA is totally and completely ineffective, costly and stupid – it is “security theater” – somewhat similar and as effective as our current voting and democratic process (which could be labeled as “government theater”).
Yet, not one Christian says a darn thing. The salt of the earth is not very salty anymore is it. What did Christ say about salt and what to do with it when it loses its savor? Pastors, Preachers, why not say, “Enough”? Why not ask your congregation to not fly and to write one letter every night for the next week or two to the airlines and tell them you will not be flying? Why not get off your lazy butts and do something to take back America? You are the problem, you and your idol 503c tax classifications. You have been hogtied, you have lost your flavor.