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Following the Transportation Security Administration body scan and pat-down policy furor, we’ve heard some airport administrators say they would like to replace the agency’s personnel with outside contractors to handle security (although they’d still have to follow TSA procedures). Count Charlotte (N.C.)/Douglas International Airport Aviation Director Jerry Orr as one of those who would like to fire TSA. Why? Carolina Journal reports:
If it were up to Orr, far fewer travelers would be subjected to x-ray machines and pat-downs.
“We spend an awful lot of time putting an awful lot of people through things that are obviously unnecessary,” he said. “The process from the very beginning has been to look for things - and typically the things they look for are yesterday’s threat … we need to be looking at people with intent.”
Orr said security guards should be allowed to evaluate passengers “based on a number of criteria” and determine which of them should be selected for extra screening.
“If you’re looking for a perpetrator, you must look for the perpetrator,” he said. “If you want to call that profiling, then sure. It certainly raises your opportunity for success.”
But here’s where Orr thinks a real difference can be made:
There are 464 TSA employees at the Charlotte/Douglas. Their only responsibilities are passenger and baggage screening.
“To put that in perspective,” Orr said, “we have about 350 [employees] to run the entire airport, which includes perimeter security, the airport police and all of the people who keep this airport running.”
In addition to being more efficient, Orr thinks a private company could provide friendlier customer service than the TSA.
“They’re not very flexible. They operate based on protocols, which means they do the same thing to everybody all the time,” he said.
And just imagine how much more inefficient TSA would be if they were allowed to unionize. Yeesh.
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Elizabeth Conley| 12.3.10 @ 5:46PM
Excellent article. Awesome points. It's amazing to realize that those TSA goons actually outnumber the rest of the airport staff who perform useful functions - real security among them. Amazing.
Thanx!
Mark | 12.3.10 @ 6:13PM
Don't put up with this garbage! Boycott Flying COMPLETELY, until sanity returns! Please join us: http://www.facebook.com/pages/.....1010710392
PattyMor| 12.4.10 @ 9:46AM
Obami is building his patronage army with the TSA.
Jen| 12.4.10 @ 10:54PM
Same thing I was thinking, PattyMor. He talked about a "civilian army" or something like that during the elections. The TSA's starting it out. Now the food bill will add thousands of cafeteria workers to check kids' salads to be sure they didn't use too many bacon bits...
Dale Cord| 12.5.10 @ 2:10AM
The TSA is nothing but a bunch of criminals getting away with the crime of violating the American people, just as some crazed escaped drug addicted mental patient would, on the streets of any country that has no ethical or moral system of justice. I mean, come on people, lets get real here, and approach this crime with common sense and logic, something that has been missing from the majority of the American people and their intellect to discern right from wrong, for way to long now. You have in your government 535 senators in congress, who did not even bother to uphold and follow our Constitution, in demanding valid proof of US citizenship, from a native born subject of Kenya with Muslim heritage.Who now is occupying the highest office in our land,President Barack Husain Obama, who has directed his administration of "czars", to set up another powerful bureaucracy the TSA to control and violate his enemies the American people. Do you people even know anything about the country of Kenya and the violence,death and destruction its government has been responsible for? Do you really think anyone growing up in this environment would be of a sound mind to lead a country as great as America? Remember Muslims have sworn to kill and dismember any infidels as they call anyone, who does not believe in their ideology and radical Islamic religion. Muslims have killed and dismembered a multitude of people in the past to infiltrate and take over many countries in their quests for world dominance. The end result is always the same, millions of innocent men,women, and children are murdered by the same mental insanity that rose to power in Hitler of Germany,Stalin of Russia,Mussolini of Italy, Chiang Kai-shek of China, Hirohito of Japan,Paul Potts of Cambodia, and the list go's on and on. Good grief, has this generation lost all historical recollections of the past atrocities perpetrated on humanity, by mentally disturbed people as mentioned in this truthful and fact based comment and warning of things to come? if we continue to sleep at the wheel of our freedoms! Will are epitaph read one day soon "America a Gangsters Paradise" as some rappers coined the phrase in song years ago?. Muslims attacked New York city,Killing thousands of men,women and children, they attacked a military installation in Texas killing 14 American soldiers and wounding countless others,they have killed thousands of Americans for year throughout this country and our sitting Presidents country of "Kenya" that the bias news media will not report to its citizens, and now in Afghanistan they continue to butcher our Military men and women. These are true facts and statistics! Look it up for yourself in the thousands of books available to the public in this country.For heavens sakes, "Get a life and you just might still save yours".
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