{"id":16493,"date":"2010-01-05T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16493"},"modified":"2010-01-05T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:39:00","slug":"thoughts-on-new-tsa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16493","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on New TSA Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure that most of you saw that Michael Yon was arrested (or detained) yesterday in Seattle for refusing to disclose his personal income<\/a> to TSA screeners. Basically what happened was is Yon was taken aside for further screening (which he should considering his travel patterns) and was asked about his income. When he refused to answer, he was handcuffed.\u00a0 I can’t think of any valid reason why income would be an issue when it comes to screening airline passengers, but I guess some “analyst” or “security expert” thought it was pertinent question to ask airline passengers. I am assuming these are the same “analysts” and “security experts” who are coming up with all the new rules and regulations for airline security in response to the Christmas Day underwear bomber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My fundamental problem with the TSA implementing new rules is that is quite clear that the old rules and regulations were not being properly enforced prior to this bombing attempt. If the old rules weren’t being follow, what makes anybody believe that the new ones will? This is not like 9\/11 where the hijackers exploited loopholes in lax airline security rules. By no measure under TSA and Northwest Airline rules, should have the underwear bomber been allowed to even get near the plane. This was a failure in several different agencies (State Department<\/a>, CIA<\/a>, TSA<\/a>, etc.) and in the airline itself.<\/p>\n

The problem isn’t a lack of rules, its the people enforcing them.<\/p>\n

Last thing: we need to be careful about “profiling”. I don’t have a problem with the TSA pulling aside people who are coming from countries like Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, or Afghanistan for extra screening. These countries obviously are having problems with terrorism, but also are having issues with stability and naturally can’t be expected to have the same quality of security as would other nations. However, Al Qaida is a very dynamic organization and they will find ways around this, just like with everything else. The TSA needs to make sure they can stay one step ahead of them and remain flexible (and flexible doesn’t mean coming out with stupid new rules everytime they get a threat), but I fear they are too bureaucratic to do that.<\/p>\n

They should also looking into giving their employees some Combat Hunter training<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure that most of you saw that Michael Yon was arrested (or detained) yesterday in … Thoughts on New TSA Rules<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}