On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:28:34 -0500, John H wrote:

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:23:03 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:

Is it me, or what? Am I profiling?

This is JUST for the people who've actually been to an airport on a trip
in the last year. Others, please STFU.

Okay. This is just me.

I have noticed that A LOT of airport workers, particularly TSA
employees, are of a minority group. (there's that profiling I warned
you about) All look like they are either in a trance, or they want to
rip the lining out of your baggage in search of some elusive contraband.
They're either over the top or sleep walking. No in between. All
watching their watch to see when their next break is.

Flying back from Hawaii, I had a bottle of EXPENSIVE cologne
confiscated, yet they left a FULL SIZED PAIR OF HAIR SCISSORS in the
same shave kit.

Are all these people steered to these jobs from ACORN? Are they SEIU
members?

I mean, it COULD be me, but I see a pattern here. The term Airport
Security makes me feel very unsecure. And actual PROFILING isn't used
enough, IMHO.

Rant off

Steve


I got called off to the side where a big lady reached into my bag and
asked, "Is this yours?"

To which I replied, "Yes Ma'am."

She said, "What is it? You know you can't take this on the airplane?"

I said, "It's a jar of homemade blueberry jam I was going to give my
brother. You're welcome to open it and taste it."

But, she wouldn't give it back. Those were some careful people. They
definitely fit your profile. My ballpoint pen was in my pocket. Shoved
up the nose of a stewardess, there'd be a dead stewardess. But,
ballpoints are OK. I don't understand it either.



Think for a moment. After 911 thousands of people were hired off the
street from the hard core unemployed and homeless ranks. They were given
an opportunity to boss others around without boundaries. They pictured
themselves as officers of the federal government. The testing was quick
and easy. The not so bright slipped through the ranks and if they weren't
high on something that particular day they got their pictures taken for a
badge and a job. They are then part of homeland security over night.

At that point they could order the general public around as if they were
just peons. They had become officers of the law of the land.

We didn't hire any unemployed brain surgeons to ask for ID's or look
through a list of the forbidden.