TSA hand swabs are all washed up.
TSA hand swabs are all washed up.
Just when you thought the lines at airport security were getting long enough, the great minds at the TSA have just come up with yet another sure fire way to detect the bad guys. They’re going to start swabbing your hands. They think this is a way to detect bomb residue on people that have been handling explosive material prior to boarding an airplane.
OK, now, let’s think about this. And, let’s try not to laugh too loudly.
The whole concept here is based on the presumption that the person flying is the person making the device or working with the potentially explosive substance and that he’ll be in contact with this substance prior to going through the security checkpoint.
Frankly, this not only defies logic it defies the basic tenets of sanity.
So, let’s say that we’ve got 3 terrorists working together to bring down a plane. Two of them will do all the construction and packaging of the devices and compounds. Once the final assembly is made, the 3rd guy will carefully hold open a clean container (zip loc baggie or two perhaps?) while the other bad guys gently put the stuff inside the bag. Then the guy with clean hands will seal the bag and put it in his luggage or inside his shorts. Does anyone think there’s going to be any detectable residue on the flier’s hands?? REALLY? Then you’re about as dumb as the TSA.
To give them perhaps added security, maybe they’ll wear these little plastic gloves you can buy at any hardware store. If it will keep AIDS out, it will most likely keep your fingers away from any bomb substances. Think the TSA’s new process will find this? Not bloody likely. Think that terrorists haven’t thought of these ideas? Think again.
Once again, the Justice Department and Homeland Gestapo Agency are more intent on being politically correct and mollycoddling terrorists than dealing with the problems. If some idiot wants to blow his balls off in a plane, I think we should give him the chance. Just take him a few paces out in the middle of a deserted parking lot, strap a couple M80’s around each nut and light the fuse. I think he’ll remember this for a long time.
I’m Don Rima and that’s how things look, From Where I Stand.
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