While many of us have been focused on the swimming pool incident in McKinney last weekend, you know what I just can’t stop thinking about? It’s whether the TSA can really protect me the next time I fly to New York, Los Angeles, Houston or anywhere for that matter.
Ever since that Transportation Security Administration report showed that undercover investigators had smuggled fake explosives, guns and other weapons through airport security checkpoints, not a few times but 95 percent of the time. 95%. That is utterly ridiculous and to be honest, very scary.
In one of the incidents, the undercover investigator was stopped when he set off an alarm but when agents patted him down they failed to find a fake bomb taped to his back. That’s crazy.
Homeland Security says it plans to retrain all the agents as well as continue random tests and that we should still feel safe because there are other things they are doing to protect us that we don’t see.
Well, I want to see something because as of now, I do not feel safe just because you make me take off my shoes, pat me down and force me to throw away my mouthwash bottle because it’s bigger than four ounces.
Sam Putney