Tuesday, June 02, 2015

67 OUT OF 70

The results have been tabulated on a TSA airport screening test and the score is 95 percent

Now if you take a test of 70 questions and get 67 right, you made a score of 95 percent, which is damned good. On the other hand, if you take that test and get 67 answers wrong, you've failed miserably. And that is exactly what has happened with the TSA.

An inspector general's report reveals that undercover agents at airports throughout the country were able to get through TSA checkpoints undetected while carrying mock weapons and explosives 67 out of 70 times. That's a failure rate of 95 percent.

Past tests of the TSA airport screenings have also failed miserably. Billions of dollars have been spent on these screenings, the purpose of which is to protect us from terrorists.

Perhaps our tax dollars would work better if the TSA would adopt Israel's airport security measures. The Jewish state is under constant threat from Palestinian terrorists and their sympathizers, yet their screening system has prevented any hijackers or suicide bombers from boarding planes in Israel. Between 1968 and 1977, Palestinians attempted or carried out 29 plane hijackings, but all the boardings occurred at European or other airports outside Israel.

2 comments:

bob walsh said...

The Israelis use real security because they must, and are willing to do it right. Real security is by definition expensive, inconvenient or both. We deal with pretend security because we are unwilling to inconvenience too many people too much of the time, though we don't mind spending a LOT of money to pretend we are secure. It wont change until enough people decide it must. Don't hold your breath on that.

Anonymous said...

TSA is a waste of money. It was created to give a false sense of security after 911. The folks that were hired mainly came from the incompetent ranks of the private companies already working the airports.

Spend the money and train cops to do the job!