If Your Hair Is Nappy, the TSA Is Not Happy

When commenting on various hairstyles popular in the Black community, comedian, Paul Mooney joked, "If your hair is relaxed, White people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they aren't happy."

That sentiment seems to be no joking matter at the Transportation Security Administration. In July of 2011, Laura Adiele had her "poofy" hair molested by the TSA.  Most recently, Isis Brantley of Dallas was at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on September 19, 2011. She made it through a TSA checkpoint only to be stopped again to have her afro searched. Apparently, the TSA was concerned Isis Brantley's hair might contain explosives.  The intrusive search left Brantley feeling humiliated and outraged.

We can all rest easy, because the threat of Isis Brantley's exploding afro has been eliminated. It turns out Isis Brantley was not a terrorist and did not hide any explosives in her hair. She is a hairstylist, who proudly wears her hair natural.

The TSA simply has to find a better way to handle situations like this. There is an abundance of technology that can be used to detect explosives. It is completely unnecessary for the TSA to be poking around in people's hair.  The TSA does stuff like this because they can, and they want to show you they are in charge.  Think about it this way, when a unifromed federal officer is rummaging around in your hair, is there any question about who is in control?

TSA Lets Nigerian Man with Invalid Boarding Pass Fly Across United States

Well, the Transportation Security Administration has failed again. While the TSA was busy molesting elementary school kids, harassing wounded war veterans, and worrying about elderly cancer patients with wet diapers, they neglected to stop a Nigerian man from flying across the United States with an invalid boarding pass on June 24, 2011.

Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi boarded Virgin America Flight 415 at New York's JFK airport and flew to LAX in Los Angeles. After the flight was airborne, a flight attendant noticed the Nigerian man was sitting in a seat that should have been vacant. Noibi was allowed to get off of the plane in Los Angeles and leave.

Going untouched for days, Noibi returned to LAX. He said he spent the night in LAX Gate 51B and attempted to board a flight to Atlanta on Delta Airlines the next day. In this incident, Noibi was searched and found to have ten more boarding passes. All of the boarding passes belonged to other people.

This is a perfect example of how extraordinarily incompetent the TSA is. They never noticed Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi. An flight attendant had to do the TSA's job for them.

Maybe Noibi was just trying to fly for free, but he is from Nigeria, a country that is a massive hotbed of terrorism. The TSA is defending itself by stating Noibi was screened, but that is a silly defense. The 9/ll hijackers made test runs before the actual attack. Al-Qaeda is known for probing defenses just to see what they can do without getting caught. You cannot have people from hostile countries flying across the country without proper documents.

What if Noibi was not just flying for free? What if he was up to something more dangerous? The TSA should be looking at people from dangerous countries flying with fake credentials instead of harassing innocent US citizens all day.

TSA Employee Kidnaps Woman from Airport and Rapes Her

Transportation Security Administration employee, Randall Scott King, has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a woman from a MARTA parking lot at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and raping her. The TSA, the same agency that wants to capture images of you virtually naked, grope your genitals, and rub their hands all over your children's bodies, hires mentally unstable and violent sex criminals. The guy who is looking at naked scans of you tomorrow morning could be kidnapping and raping you tomorrow night. How can we possibly trust the TSA?

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