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67 out 70 airport security tests end up in failure

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The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration was reassigned late Monday after an inspector general's report revealed that undercover agents were able to sneak fake explosives and banned weapons through checkpoints as part of an investigation that revealed a massive, system-wide security failure at America's airports.
Homeland Security officials confirmed to Fox News earlier Monday that TSA screeners failed 67 out of 70 tests -- or 96 percent -- carried out by special Department of Homeland Security investigators known as "red teams."

Acting TSA head reassigned after watchdog report reveals airport security failings | Fox News
http://www.buzzfeed.com/husseinkesvani/united-airlines-tahera-ahmad-outrage#.stvKrkABP

I am not surprised that 67 out 70 tests involving explosives and guns end up in failures. I am surprised that at the same time an unopened can is considered to be a weapon in the hands of a Muslim woman.
How TSA and airlines address the problem of security risks: a defenseless Muslim woman is being attacked be a flight attendant and a white passenger for asking an unopened can of soda.
How TSA and airlines should address the problem: work on existing security systems, make decisions based on objective reasons instead of discriminating against certain groups of passengers.
 
Acting TSA head reassigned after watchdog report reveals airport security failings | Fox News
http://www.buzzfeed.com/husseinkesvani/united-airlines-tahera-ahmad-outrage#.stvKrkABP

I am not surprised that 67 out 70 tests involving explosives and guns end up in failures. I am surprised that at the same time an unopened can is considered to be a weapon in the hands of a Muslim woman.
How TSA and airlines address the problem of security risks: a defenseless Muslim woman is being attacked be a flight attendant and a white passenger for asking an unopened can of soda.
How TSA and airlines should address the problem: work on existing security systems, make decisions based on objective reasons instead of discriminating against certain groups of passengers.

I think the TSA's job is to make Americans FEEL safer. That's my first thought. The second is that they've gotten complacent. And, finally, that as long as we're allowed carryons, the numbers will be poor.

As to your example of a woman with a can, no sympathy here. If you need a damned tin can to fly in an airplane, stay home.
 
The TSA is a collosal failure, a waste of 75 billion and counting and has only served as an inconvenience, having never made me feel safer.
 
These test failed because they were not conducted by little old ladies or children.
 
I think the TSA's job is to make Americans FEEL safer. That's my first thought. The second is that they've gotten complacent. And, finally, that as long as we're allowed carryons, the numbers will be poor.

As to your example of a woman with a can, no sympathy here. If you need a damned tin can to fly in an airplane, stay home.

Here are some additional details in the second story that will probably make you more sympathetic. She asked a flight attendant for an unopened can of soda and was refused while the man, sitting just next to her, received an unopened can of beer. What is the difference between those two passengers? He is a white Christian male. She is a Muslim woman. The reasons for unequal treatment are quite obvious in this case.

Muslim Cleric Denied Unopened Soda on United Flight Because She Could
 
Here are some additional details in the second story that will probably make you more sympathetic. She asked a flight attendant for an unopened can of soda and was refused while the man, sitting just next to her, received an unopened can of beer. What is the difference between those two passengers? He is a white Christian male. She is a Muslim woman. The reasons for unequal treatment are quite obvious in this case.

Muslim Cleric Denied Unopened Soda on United Flight Because She Could

Thanks for this. I actually thought she was trying to BRING one on the plane. My bad. Stupid rule. But we seem to have plenty of those...
 
It is just normal government incompetence. We have it in the Vet Administration, IRS. State Dept, military, etc. etc. etc. Give the bureaucrats a chance; have fewer of them. It certainly can't hurt anything.
 
It is just normal government incompetence. We have it in the Vet Administration, IRS. State Dept, military, etc. etc. etc. Give the bureaucrats a chance; have fewer of them. It certainly can't hurt anything.
Normal government incompetence? Huh, funny but sad term.
Having fewer officials would be easier and better for the budget, that's right. But how can it be implemented?
 
Normal government incompetence? Huh, funny but sad term.
Having fewer officials would be easier and better for the budget, that's right. But how can it be implemented?

Simple - reduce the size of government and move most federal government activities elsewhere.
 
Here are some additional details in the second story that will probably make you more sympathetic. She asked a flight attendant for an unopened can of soda and was refused while the man, sitting just next to her, received an unopened can of beer. What is the difference between those two passengers? He is a white Christian male. She is a Muslim woman. The reasons for unequal treatment are quite obvious in this case.

Muslim Cleric Denied Unopened Soda on United Flight Because She Could

There is more of a difference then that. He paid for the beer. Soda is given free. They open sodas, so that passengers don't take the free soda for later, when they are off the plane.

It didn't have anything to do with the potential use as a weapon. That was apparently just someone not understanding why they have the policy in place and coming up with their own explanation most likely due to all the security concerns. Since she was allowed to give unopened beer, she didn't even think of that as being a potential weapon until the coke lady pointed it out. Not racism, just someone trying to provide explanations for things she is uncertain of.
 
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There is more of a difference then that. He paid for the beer. Soda is given free. They open sodas, so that passengers don't take the free soda for later, when they are off the plane.

It didn't have anything to do with the potential use as a weapon. That was apparently just someone not understanding why they have the policy in place and coming up with their own explanation most likely due to all the security concerns. Since she was allowed to give unopened beer, she didn't even think of that as being a potential weapon until the coke lady pointed it out. Not racism, just someone trying to provide explanations for things she is uncertain of.

The explanation flight attendant gave to a Muslim woman was highly racist, I believe. She didn't even try to stop an openly racist passenger sitting next to her. The explanation she provided was flawed and religiously biased from the very beginning. If you are right and flight attendant didn't know what was really going on, she could have made up something different.
 
The explanation flight attendant gave to a Muslim woman was highly racist, I believe. She didn't even try to stop an openly racist passenger sitting next to her. The explanation she provided was flawed and religiously biased from the very beginning. If you are right and flight attendant didn't know what was really going on, she could have made up something different.

No possible way for either of us to know for certain, but the human mind does tend to do that - connect two unrelated items. She had been hearing of security threats and violence among passengers, etc.. and was being asked to provide an explanation for a policy that she did not know the explanation of. Instead of just telling her she does not know the reason, she felt she had to come up with an explanation. People tend to do that too.

She hadn't been hearing of people juggling unopened items, so wouldn't have offered that as an explanation as just an exmaple.
 
Acting TSA head reassigned after watchdog report reveals airport security failings | Fox News
http://www.buzzfeed.com/husseinkesvani/united-airlines-tahera-ahmad-outrage#.stvKrkABP

I am not surprised that 67 out 70 tests involving explosives and guns end up in failures. I am surprised that at the same time an unopened can is considered to be a weapon in the hands of a Muslim woman.
How TSA and airlines address the problem of security risks: a defenseless Muslim woman is being attacked be a flight attendant and a white passenger for asking an unopened can of soda.
How TSA and airlines should address the problem: work on existing security systems, make decisions based on objective reasons instead of discriminating against certain groups of passengers.

If only we could get the terrorist to use the 3 good airports......
 
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