Your tax dollars at work

HARTSFIELD ORDEAL

Our sympathies go out to anyone caught in the incredible mess at
Hartsfield International Airport on Saturday. I'm told that literally
thousands missed flights because there weren't enough TSA screeners on
duty to get the job done. Here is just one of the emails we've received
about Saturday's Hartsfield Hell:

I took my 77 year old parents to Hartsf-Jack airport Saturday. we
got there over 2 hrs. ahead of time (you know how old people have to be
early) flight was 3:20 and we arrived outside the Airtran counter at
1:20. thank goodness we were early since the cops there had traffic
blocked past the parking lots. parents picked for random screening. both
have heart problems and dad has diabetes as well as a hip problem.
screening took 1.5 hours and they missed their flight. they just got on
a flight now (11:00 pm) after 10 hours. both parents are Irish German
with an American name. not Muhammad. I am so ****ed. what are the odds
that they will come to visit my family again after this ordeal? (Donna C.)

Like the Israeli security expert said; Americans have it all wrong. We
look for terrorists. They look for weapons. There is no way these
77-year-olds should have been singled out like this, but political
correctness being the rule these TSA types can't spend their time
actually looking for those who really would present a threat.

There's another way to look at this. When a passenger walks up to an
Israeli security checkpoint the Israeli security personnel are actually
trained to observe the passenger, talk to the passenger, ask pertinent
questions and make a judgment as to whether or not this particular
person would constitute a threat. Now that I think about it, maybe were
better off with our security agents strip-searching each passenger
rather than actually trying to use their heads to make an individual
judgment.