“Clay Biles served as a Federal Air Marshal and instructor from 2008-2013” with the TSA–and he excoriates the agency. He isn’t saying anything the TSA’s legions of critics haven’t already said; after all, the gate-rapers’ absurd policies violate common sense, so that anyone with an IQ in double digits easily understands why sexually assaulting passengers does not and cannot protect aviation. (Fortunately for the TSA, the public educational gulag and the corporate media have so stupefied Americans that they can no longer reason; ergo, the continuing reign of terror at airports rather than mass riots to abolish the TSA.)
Those non-reasoning graduates and couch-potatoes may believe the TSA’s pretense that Listerine turns explosive at 30,000 feet, but they’ve also been trained to trust “experts,” which they generally define as someone employed in the upper levels of an industry. Clay qualifies. And here’s his inside poop on the TSA:
A current air marshal opined [to Clay] … that TSA is suffering from “a need to justify its existence, and a further need to find reasons to increase its budget.” The air marshal added, “it seemed like every time TSA was up for budgetary funding, we began doing more special mission coverage or VIPR missions.”
The evidence seems to suggest TSA will continue feeding the US population with a fear campaign at every opportunity, however unfounded their messages may be.
Clay criticizes in detail the TSA’s orders to marshals about handling an explosion from thermite mid-flight. First, he states that though a “report and analysis” from the FBI “only proposed that the ‘possibility’ existed that thermite could be used as a weapon against commercial aviation, it clearly stated intelligence ‘does not indicate any extremist interest to target aircraft.’” Catch that? Turrists have no “interest” in sabotaging flights. Perhaps they figure TSA is punishment enough for us infidels.
Ah, but the TSA exploits thermite’s “possibility” anyway: the agency will “request more funding to buy more detection equipment and determine ‘solutions’ in order to better train an already TSA-weary air marshal force.” I like the “TSA-weary air marshal force”; nice touch, isn’t it? Clay then explains what balderdash the TSA’s procedures for dealing with thermite are, primarily because the agency didn’t bother consulting “persons intimately familiar with thermite reactions.” Instead, it bloviated as usual.
I hope a man of Clay’s sensibilities advocates the TSA’s dismantling. And that those deluded dimwits out there who won’t listen to common sense heed him.
9:32 am on April 30, 2015