Underscoring this, a former Clinton Administration NTSB hack was asked by CBS last week-end on whether the public should be concerned that the administration wants as TSA chief a proven liar who has abused his position in the past. The response typifies the intellectual and ethical sludge that exists inside the Beltway:
"I think Southers, from having gone through this examination of his mistake is going to be very tough on access to private records."
Tow that good party line, guy. Honesty and integrity are secondary. Liars are always great to have in tough jobs. Lack of values is a Beltway hallmark. Heck, one of the 9/11 Commission members today told MSNBC that security is just great. We're more secure than ever. The Secretary of Homeland Security initially blurted out that the "system worked."
Wonder if the folks on that Delta flight believe it. So, what is the problem? Clearly, it's the pack of clowns in Washington.
Forget Body Scanners. Call Moline & Order A Real Security Device. We can scan all the bodies on earth. But as long as these Washington clowns are in control, we're still unsafe. So, we got to clean house. Here's the most advanced technology for the purpose, and it needs to be installed throughout the Beltway.
It needs to be applied to the top offices of the TSA, and the HSA as well. It needs to be used all along Connecticut Avenue - shoving out the installed lobbyists and alphabet groups of the kind that support having liars in top TSA jobs. It needs to be operated to simply bulldoze out the negligent sludge that have let our security be at the mercy of Muslim Terror.
We can scan all the bodies on earth. But as long as these Washington clowns are in control, we're still unsafe. So, we got to clean house.
Or they'll clean it for us.
The #1 security investment now might be a couple of Catepillar D-7s to bulldoze out the special-interest slime along Connecticut Avenue that works so hard to make sure that politics take priority over security.
Remember this the next time you fly.
Regards,
MikeL
MikeL - 14 years ago
Here's the reason: Aviation Security is sloppy because the people entrusted at the top are not only sloppy, they're negligent. And they're enthusiastically supported by phalanxes of connected lobbyists, former administration hacks, and proven-incompetent political appointees.
Get real, y'all. Take a look at the billions spent since 9/11. Read all the garbage put out by TSA Administrators since 9/11. Then, all it took was a snot-nosed kid and his buddies from Nigeria to give the lie to the contention that aviation security has been "multi-layered" and effective all these years.
We Can Fix It. If We Invest In The Right Equipment Now. The giant din from the Peanut Gallery is now that we need lots and lots of Full Body Scanners, and we need' em tout suite. They're magic, don't Ya know. It's the latest dodge from the incompetents running AVSEC. Not a question as to whether they work. Worse, no real questions if they would have caught the intended bomber. There's some indication he may have attached the explosives to his leg after boarding.
But the call for body scan machines will do just the trick to bamboozle the public into thinking that our Homeland Security folks are on the case - regardless of the fact that they're the ones whose incompetence let the 25 December event unfold in the first place.
Security Devices To Deal With The Core Problem. Possibly, no week in history since the immediate days after 9/11 has proven just how vulnerable this nation is to terrorism. Or, how security-negligent our leaders are. Worse, no week since 9/11 has demonstrated as clearly that politics, not security, are the top priority.
And, that's what we need to fix ASAP, before some other Muslim terrorist scum blows a bunch of planes, airports, electrical grids, schools, and water supplies to Kingdom Come, while bored TSA people sit in airport back rooms watching electronically-naked people go through screening.
As usual, the TSA management jumped to the terrorist attack like trained seals at Barnum & Bailey, with pathetic amateur reactions (don't read a book an hour from landing, etc., turn off your laptop, etc.) and we had the usual oh-so-Roosevelt-after-Pearl-Harbor proclamations from just-off-the-golf-course Obama. As if bad aviation security is a big surprise. We have politicians scrambling around trying to make political hand grenades out of the security failures that they've created, tolerated, and actually nurtured. Not my fault - it was yours.
Wouldn't Hire Him To Babysit. But TSA Administrator? No Problem. We had 300 nearly people killed by a terrorist who found little problem in getting though what has been trumpeted as eight years of advanced "layered" security. Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, now being lavished with sycophant awards from the airport consulting set, went on TV to tell us that full body scanners would have prevented the event - blissfully failing to refer to all the times as the TSA hack-in-charge he declared how good our AVSEC was. Never mentioned then that the system was short on such contraptions.
But now Hawley has a potential Obama Administration replacement. Erroll Southers. FBI background, even. Only a couple of problems. First, he had some major ethical problems 22 years ago in illegally using FBI resources to investigate his ex-wife's boyfriend. But the problem isn't just 22 years old. It's current, in that Mr. Southers has now been found lying to congress on the matter - under oath - last November. Incredibly, Obama defends the guy.
Get this. We have what may be increasing terrorist activity - not only on AVSEC but the rest of our infrastructure, and the Obama administration has no problem nominating a TSA head who two decades ago couldn't handle the pressure from his ex-wife without breaking the law, and two months ago lied - yes, blatantly lied - under oath. That's the quality that the political hacks in Washington - generally on both sides of the aisle - want.
they'll clean it for us.
Continuing...
Underscoring this, a former Clinton Administration NTSB hack was asked by CBS last week-end on whether the public should be concerned that the administration wants as TSA chief a proven liar who has abused his position in the past. The response typifies the intellectual and ethical sludge that exists inside the Beltway:
"I think Southers, from having gone through this examination of his mistake is going to be very tough on access to private records."
Tow that good party line, guy. Honesty and integrity are secondary. Liars are always great to have in tough jobs. Lack of values is a Beltway hallmark. Heck, one of the 9/11 Commission members today told MSNBC that security is just great. We're more secure than ever. The Secretary of Homeland Security initially blurted out that the "system worked."
Wonder if the folks on that Delta flight believe it. So, what is the problem? Clearly, it's the pack of clowns in Washington.
Forget Body Scanners. Call Moline & Order A Real Security Device. We can scan all the bodies on earth. But as long as these Washington clowns are in control, we're still unsafe. So, we got to clean house. Here's the most advanced technology for the purpose, and it needs to be installed throughout the Beltway.
It needs to be applied to the top offices of the TSA, and the HSA as well. It needs to be used all along Connecticut Avenue - shoving out the installed lobbyists and alphabet groups of the kind that support having liars in top TSA jobs. It needs to be operated to simply bulldoze out the negligent sludge that have let our security be at the mercy of Muslim Terror.
We can scan all the bodies on earth. But as long as these Washington clowns are in control, we're still unsafe. So, we got to clean house.
Or they'll clean it for us.
The #1 security investment now might be a couple of Catepillar D-7s to bulldoze out the special-interest slime along Connecticut Avenue that works so hard to make sure that politics take priority over security.
Remember this the next time you fly.
Regards,
MikeL
Here's the reason: Aviation Security is sloppy because the people entrusted at the top are not only sloppy, they're negligent. And they're enthusiastically supported by phalanxes of connected lobbyists, former administration hacks, and proven-incompetent political appointees.
Get real, y'all. Take a look at the billions spent since 9/11. Read all the garbage put out by TSA Administrators since 9/11. Then, all it took was a snot-nosed kid and his buddies from Nigeria to give the lie to the contention that aviation security has been "multi-layered" and effective all these years.
We Can Fix It. If We Invest In The Right Equipment Now. The giant din from the Peanut Gallery is now that we need lots and lots of Full Body Scanners, and we need' em tout suite. They're magic, don't Ya know. It's the latest dodge from the incompetents running AVSEC. Not a question as to whether they work. Worse, no real questions if they would have caught the intended bomber. There's some indication he may have attached the explosives to his leg after boarding.
But the call for body scan machines will do just the trick to bamboozle the public into thinking that our Homeland Security folks are on the case - regardless of the fact that they're the ones whose incompetence let the 25 December event unfold in the first place.
Security Devices To Deal With The Core Problem. Possibly, no week in history since the immediate days after 9/11 has proven just how vulnerable this nation is to terrorism. Or, how security-negligent our leaders are. Worse, no week since 9/11 has demonstrated as clearly that politics, not security, are the top priority.
And, that's what we need to fix ASAP, before some other Muslim terrorist scum blows a bunch of planes, airports, electrical grids, schools, and water supplies to Kingdom Come, while bored TSA people sit in airport back rooms watching electronically-naked people go through screening.
As usual, the TSA management jumped to the terrorist attack like trained seals at Barnum & Bailey, with pathetic amateur reactions (don't read a book an hour from landing, etc., turn off your laptop, etc.) and we had the usual oh-so-Roosevelt-after-Pearl-Harbor proclamations from just-off-the-golf-course Obama. As if bad aviation security is a big surprise. We have politicians scrambling around trying to make political hand grenades out of the security failures that they've created, tolerated, and actually nurtured. Not my fault - it was yours.
Wouldn't Hire Him To Babysit. But TSA Administrator? No Problem. We had 300 nearly people killed by a terrorist who found little problem in getting though what has been trumpeted as eight years of advanced "layered" security. Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, now being lavished with sycophant awards from the airport consulting set, went on TV to tell us that full body scanners would have prevented the event - blissfully failing to refer to all the times as the TSA hack-in-charge he declared how good our AVSEC was. Never mentioned then that the system was short on such contraptions.
But now Hawley has a potential Obama Administration replacement. Erroll Southers. FBI background, even. Only a couple of problems. First, he had some major ethical problems 22 years ago in illegally using FBI resources to investigate his ex-wife's boyfriend. But the problem isn't just 22 years old. It's current, in that Mr. Southers has now been found lying to congress on the matter - under oath - last November. Incredibly, Obama defends the guy.
Get this. We have what may be increasing terrorist activity - not only on AVSEC but the rest of our infrastructure, and the Obama administration has no problem nominating a TSA head who two decades ago couldn't handle the pressure from his ex-wife without breaking the law, and two months ago lied - yes, blatantly lied - under oath. That's the quality that the political hacks in Washington - generally on both sides of the aisle - want.
I'll continue