Who is running the TSA???
Michael Brown? New Orleans' Mayor Nagin, perhaps? Kofi Annan?
How else to account for the TSA giving serious consideration to allowing air passengers to once again carry on board small knives, scissors, corkscrews, box cutters, and other sharp and sharpened objects whose sole purpose is to pierce or cut things?
Their reasoning? To speed up the lines because people keep forgetting and are bringing these things aboard on their person or in their hand luggage.
If people, four years after 9/11, are still forgetting that these things aren't permitted on airplanes and stupid enough to be carrying them on them or in their hand luggage, not only do they deserve to have them confiscated, but they should also be strip searched, cavity searched (on general principles) and then sent to the back of the line and get searched again. Ah, heck: send 'em home to think on the error and stupidity of their ways, before being allowed to board any public carrier.
In all the years I've flown and my family has flown, not once has any of us needed a knife, razor blade in any form, or scissors. When the men wanted to shave, they used electric shavers. Knitters have small decorative rotary cutters with no exposed sharp edges that can accidentally or on purpose cut any one (though we might be able to bore non-knitters to death talking about our projects).
The only possible excuse anyone may have for carrying any of the objects that have been confiscated by TSA since the planes started flying again after 9/11 is if they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they've been holed up in cave somewhere without any access to any type of human contact or communication. And since the world's too damn small for that now, the only reason for anyone carrying such things is that they intend harm, or they're idiots. Neither should be allowed to fly.
Well, unless they're drugged unconscious, fully restrained, locked in a explosives-prooof box, and shipped in the cargo hold.
How else to account for the TSA giving serious consideration to allowing air passengers to once again carry on board small knives, scissors, corkscrews, box cutters, and other sharp and sharpened objects whose sole purpose is to pierce or cut things?
Their reasoning? To speed up the lines because people keep forgetting and are bringing these things aboard on their person or in their hand luggage.
If people, four years after 9/11, are still forgetting that these things aren't permitted on airplanes and stupid enough to be carrying them on them or in their hand luggage, not only do they deserve to have them confiscated, but they should also be strip searched, cavity searched (on general principles) and then sent to the back of the line and get searched again. Ah, heck: send 'em home to think on the error and stupidity of their ways, before being allowed to board any public carrier.
In all the years I've flown and my family has flown, not once has any of us needed a knife, razor blade in any form, or scissors. When the men wanted to shave, they used electric shavers. Knitters have small decorative rotary cutters with no exposed sharp edges that can accidentally or on purpose cut any one (though we might be able to bore non-knitters to death talking about our projects).
The only possible excuse anyone may have for carrying any of the objects that have been confiscated by TSA since the planes started flying again after 9/11 is if they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they've been holed up in cave somewhere without any access to any type of human contact or communication. And since the world's too damn small for that now, the only reason for anyone carrying such things is that they intend harm, or they're idiots. Neither should be allowed to fly.
Well, unless they're drugged unconscious, fully restrained, locked in a explosives-prooof box, and shipped in the cargo hold.
posted by Melissa at 5:03 PM
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