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Monday, July 23, 2007

ABC 15: Security at Sky Harbor Sucks

Filed under: Border Security |

Here I am, going to board a plane at Sky Harbor in five days to fly to Michigan and begin a one-week vacation in The Old Digs, and then I read this. Investigator (read: Reporter) Lisa Fletcher writes:

It’s what we discovered in the middle of the night - TSA agents going away, and security guards taking over. It’s 4.5 hours - every night - when an employee badge becomes an all-access pass.
Night after night, our hidden cameras captured what security experts tell us is a disaster waiting to happen.
The X-ray machines were off, the metal detectors were closed, and bags with unknown contents were carried to the secure side of the airport where the planes are.
We watched as a security guard let people with purses, coolers and suitcases walk right through - bags unchecked.

The story goes on when ABC 15 finds documents which note that this s**t has been going on for TWO YEARS! Seeing that Phoenix is a “Sanctuary City,” where the cops are directed not to ask for immigration/citizenship status of people they pull over, I have to think that there are Illegals involved in this somewhere.
And this pisses me off! No wonder then why I’ve been seeing “CAR SEARCHES AT SKY HARBOR - MAY CAUSE DELAYS” written on the freeway monitors on my drive home. Pray for me as I travel.


UPDATE (1833 MST): The TSA lowers the boom. Like it’s going to do a lot of good….

COMMENTS

Sorry, Buddy, but this only shows what BS the TSA rules are. It’s designed to make us feel sage when it is a needly restriction on our freedoms. And we are sitting here complaining that they are ramming these rules down everyones throats 24/7?

The fact is, many of these rules are stupid and pointless. The one where they make you take off your shoes, even if they are flip flops, is freaking insane.

The only thing you have to worry about now is the over reaction they will give while covering their asses. They will probably do mandatory strip searches or something equally stupid.

Someday, I hope, we can look back on these times and laugh. But I think it’s gotten ridiculous and things need to change.

And I’ll find out come Saturday morning….:

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