Note to TSA: Children are not veal

I read the other day that a six-year-old boy, on the way to a surprise trip to Disneyland with his parents, was patted down twice at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle. What’s that all about? Did the TSA personnel have such a good time patting him down initially that they wanted to go at it again?

TSA’s abuse of its boss’s own edict has gone beyond ridiculous. In November of last year, John Pistole, head of TSA, said that children under 12 will no longer face pat downs in TSA security lines. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Apparently not if you work for the government and you sure as hell aren’t here to help us.

Explain this new procedure to the parents of an eight-month-old baby who was patted down in Kansas City. Just because Kansas City is famous as a meat packing center doesn’t give the Feds cause to look for something choice in the diaper of a baby. And what were they looking for in the underpants of this poor little six-year-old…a serrated-edged wee wee? Anytime a government agency is involved there’s no point looking for professionalism, smoothness or common sense. Its idea of fixing a problem is to throw more money and personnel at it. And the personnel are protected…when’s the last time anyone ever heard of a government employee being fired? I think it was the same year Jesus started playing T-Ball.

This Pistole guy (his name reminds me of a dirty postcard I once saw at my family’s junkyard. It showed this drunk guy leaving a tavern that said, “The Pistol Club…Drink Till 12 and Pistol 2) was on a number of national television shows touting the new TSA edict about not patting down those under 12. Apparently Pistole is as full of crap as a Christmas goose (whatever that means). The Seattle paper properly points out that Roger Clemens, a baseball treasure, is being tried for lying to Congress. Isn’t Congress the same group of yahoos that gave TSA its power in the first place? Clemens can be castrated but Pistole and every other lying sack of government guano gets a pass?

I hate to use the old cliché about “we pay your salary” but in this case it’s relevant. Since when have these blue-shirted thugs (shouldn’t they really wear brown shirts like the National Socialist Party did in Germany in the 1930s?) risen so far above the masses they’re paid to protect that they feel empowered to work their own sadistic will on them? I’ve often said that there are a lot of hard-working and dedicated TSA people…and I still stand by that. But when you have some bad apples…and these apples are grown by bosses like Farmer John Pistole…then the system is not only broken…but almost beyond repair.

It seems that the Special Forces at TSA only go after the extremes of society; if they’re not patting down a 93-year-old woman in a wheelchair who has to wear an adult diaper because of a medical condition then they’re going after a small child whose most dangerous weapon might be a smelly fart. Where are they when a group of questionable adult males with beards, sandals and hooded shifty eyes go through? They’re passed through quicker than a police car at a toll booth. But when a family is bundled together they’re fair game.

I have personally witnessed a group of TSA people being driven back to their parked cars in an airport shuttle bus, discussing the various “incidents” they took part in that morning. The majority of their insider-guffaws centered around “messing with the people.” It was disgusting. And these are the same group of people who this administration would like to see unionized? For the foreseeable future we don’t have a President with the testicles of Ronald Reagan who would stand up to a group of government employees who took a vow not to strike like the Air Traffic Controllers did. How many government strikes have there been since? I’ll give you a hint…pick a number between none and zero. But, as usual, I digress.

If things continue to the degree of absurdity that TSA has created with its inconsistency then I predict a land-based version of the passenger rush aboard United Airlines Flight 93 when Todd Beamer shouted, “Let’s roll” and led a group of his fellow passengers who overtook the hijackers and caused the plane to crash in an open field instead of the Capitol Building or White House that was its original target. Someone…or a group of someones…is going to snap and there’s going to be a flood of angry passengers running at the Blue Shirts like an Oklahoma land rush in the 1800s. The proliferation of the Tea Party already demonstrates the lost patience this country has had with its supposed “leadership” herding them around by the nose instead of trying to make things better.

Granted, they may not be able to be fired but I think that the public should be aware of what agents are the most child-lascivious and force them to wear muzzles. This will serve two purposes: it will alert parents what security lines to avoid; and it will keep the agent from drooling all over the floor, which would create an unsafe workplace and raise the ire of another government agency, OSHA. After all…there can’t be too much government when it comes to protecting our citizens…especially the children.

Al doesnt like being touched much less groped, see what happens to him next week right here.

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