Transportation Security Administration has managed to save the skies from another dangerous senior citizen. On July 13, 2011, TSA screeners at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport stopped, former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Apparently, Rumsfeld's titanium hips and a titanium shoulder set off the metal detectors, and this is when the TSA saw a chance to get frisky with a powerful older gentleman. The got out the gloves and gave Rumsfeld the friendly TSA treatment. (Ironically, his former boss, George W Bush, is largely responsible for the TSA we know and love today.)
This TSA pat-down on Rumsfeld demonstrates how stupid TSA procedures are. Donald Rumsfeld is seventy-nine years-old. He is an old man with artificial joints. He also happens to be one of the most recognizable old men in the nation.
Certainly, Rumsfeld should be subject to the same laws as everyone else, but why could the TSA not manage to recognize that an old man who was recently one of the highest ranking people in the Executive Branch might not pose a significant threat to a commercial jetliner? While these TSA goons were feeling up the former Secretary of Defense, who knows what sort of threatening people and weapons could have slipped through the checkpoint. At least the guy who got to pat-down Rumsfeld got to go back to the break room and brag to his buddies about how he got to touch the former Secretary of Defense's junk.
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