Well, at least I’m not. Get this:
NJ Boy, 8, On Terrorism Watch List
Cub Scout Mikey Hicks Shares Same Name Of Person Who Has Drawn Suspicion Of Homeland Security Department
Oh, you’ll love this part:
His mother tells The New York Times she sensed trouble when her son was a baby and she couldn’t get a seat for him at a Florida airport. She says airline officials explained his name “was on the list.”
He was patted down as a 2-years-old at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Can someone explain to me how anything at the TSA qualifies as “intelligence services” when time and again they prove to use no “intelligence” in how they apply their rules?
The article does provide some good news:
Transportation Security Administration spokesman James Fotenos says in the coming months, the agency will cross-check names with birth dates and gender.
WARNING: Next segment NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Are you F$#*&ing kidding me? These morons haven’t been able to cross reference their list to something as simple as a birth date and gender????? Shit, Disney knows my birth date, sex, the age of my children, my preferences in lodging. Google is able to gather more information on me than the largest domestic security organization ever known to the United States!
The government who is unable to match my name, birth date and sex (Hello, state department? Yeah, have you issued a passport for this dude in Minnesota? You have? Great, could I verify the birth date and sex we have for him? Huh, that’s what we had too!) is telling us that keeping track of the voluminous mountain of health care records for every single American and determining mandates for precise, successful treatments for every variation of malady is as easy as snapping their fingers!
In the words of H/T Chrisfromracine: Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot!
If the TSA were about security, they wouldn’t be fucking with either you or 8-year-olds.