Did you hear about the Clouseau-like Transportation Security Administration inspector who managed to damage nine American Eagle planes at O’Hare this week, resulting in 40 flights delayed or canceled and putting passengers’ and crews’ lives at risk?
That’s just the half of it. The agency is reportedly considering a rule that would give TSA employees unfettered access to any airliner in the country.
It gives me no comfort at all to know that those nice people (whose long noses now allow them into my bags and to throw Grannies off a plane to be arrested just for not following a flight attendant’s instructions), will now be able to break parts of an aircraft and have access to places only trained personnel were allowed to tread — with impunity.
Time to start writing your Congressional representative or Senator. The policy wonks are mad and the implementation wonks are really dangerous.
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne blogs at T2 Impact.
