TSA Explains Bizarre New Policy Of Testing Drinks Purchased In Airports

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Agency claims it is attempting to be “unpredictable”

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
July 6, 2012

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The TSA has attempted to explain away a bizarre expansion of its powers inside airports as part of a move to employ “unpredictable measure(s)” to snare would be criminals and terrorists.

Yesterday we reported on the fact that the federal agency is now demanding the right to test drinks purchased by passengers after they have already passed through airport security.

Many passengers have recently complained that TSA agents have approached them randomly after they have passed through the checkpoints, and have demanded to run tests on drinks they have purchased inside the secure gate areas, without explaining what they were testing for.

Travelers interviewed by the news channel KJCT8 condemned the rules as “ridiculous” and “extreme”, noting that practice is pointless given that the beverages are delivered securely to the airport in the first place and have already been passed though security checks.

Now, in a blog post on the TSA website, spokesman “Blogger Bob” Burns said the practice is nothing new and is part of the agency’s remit for creating “unpredictability” in the layers of security already in place.

“So, the most popular question that comes up with this topic is: ‘Isn’t this redundant?’” writes Burns. “On the surface, it does seem that way, and it’s the first logical thought that many have. However, any security expert will tell you that nothing is ever 100 percent secure. So, gate screening is kind of like our safety net to keep up with anybody who might be trying to get things past conventional screening,” he added.

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“If everything we did was always the same,” Burns continued, “it would provide a checklist for people to know exactly what to expect. While this would be extremely helpful for passengers, it would also be useful to those wishing to do us harm,” he added.

Any discerning person will fathom that this is merely another case of federally employed TSA agents throwing their weight around, intimidating travellers, and making up the rules as they go along.

Rules on taking liquids through airport security, passed in the aftermath of the highly dubious attempted “liquid bombing” incident back in 2006 (which completely collapsed in court), have already been savaged as pointless and unnecessary. Mothers are forced to drink their own breast milk in a procedure that seems to be designed to achieve little else than humiliating the traveler.

The TSA’s own guidelines allow for non x-ray screening for breast milk. However, TSA employees are clearly unaware of this, as Stacey Armato found out when she was locked in a glass cage for over an hour by TSA workers for refusing to allow them to screen her milk.

In one incident earlier this year, another working mother, Amy Strand, was even made to pump breast milk into empty feeding bottles before being allowed through security.

Perhaps the TSA’s efforts at being unpredictable can also explain why it consistently finds itself in the headlines for humiliating elderly people, marching toddlers off planesacting with complete ignorance toward people with disabilities, and becoming embroiled in bizarre situations such as leaving crude notes for people in their luggage, confiscating chicken soupcup cakes and candy and then bragging about it while people waltz through checkpoints carrying swords, knives and guns, and  knocking dead people’s ashes to the floor and picking through bone fragments while laughing about it.

If the TSA truly wanted to improve security, it should properly train it’s employees not only to understand their role, but also to be professional and courteous to travellers, rather than treating them like cattle. Perhaps the agency should also concentrate more on conducting background checks before it hires known criminals, sex offenders, and people who are just downright incompetent.

Former TSA chair Kip Hawley recently slammed the agency saying “it is a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people whom it is meant to protect.”

In a piece penned for the Wall Street Journal, Hawley said the agency requires a complete overhaul, and that it has spent years standing behind a “wrongheaded approach to risk.”

Hawley described airport travel as “an unending nightmare” and said that airport security had been reduced to an ‘Easter-egg hunt’ as officers look out for low-risk prohibited items, such as lighters, rather than focusing on disrupting terror plots.

“It is time to end the TSA’s use of security officers as kindergarten teachers to millions of passengers a day” Hawley stated.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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13 Responses to “TSA Explains Bizarre New Policy Of Testing Drinks Purchased In Airports”

  1. Nonsensical generally is unpredictable.

  2. You know what these assholes in blue smocks do, so if you still choose to fly just don’t complain to me if some TSA pervert sticks a Whites Metal Detector up your shpfing-shpfing.

  3. its ALL BS.

    financial fraud was front page news before 911

    investigations by the SEC in WTC-7 never hit by a plane,
    and pending audit of the pentagon for 2.3 trillion “missing”
    were NEVER a threat to some “sand ghost bin laden”.
    DC, Wall Street, big banks and corporates is another story entirely.

    the patriot act and plans for a DHS_TSA were ready and waiting BEFORE the “big event”
    the same treasonous economic saboteuring financial terrorists who DID 911,
    to keep their own criminal asses outta being sent to friggin prison,
    are who write the paychecks to their little DHS-TSA nazis.

    I’m sick of it!!

  4. the tsa want to make sure that you drink is piss free before they drink it and that you didn’t spit on your food before they hog it down.

  5. Just dip your nuts in a mocha before handing it to the traitorous goons. Visine works as well.

  6. illogical basterism

    the idiots who think up this abuse need to meet Karma

    R1 Reply:
    July 6th, 2012 at 7:56 am

    Baseball bats in parking lot, lets play Karma!
    rules of the game is you must use a metal baseball bat,
    The object of the game is the ball will be the NWO puppet idiots who think up this abuse,
    The game is very simple…
    swing away until you hear no screams…
    1 point for every scream or noise the puppet makes..
    1 point for ever broken limb on the puppet..
    Home run if you don’t hear them scream at all after one hit
    You win the game if you hit it’s head clean off out parking lot. LOL

    Now Lets play Karma ball!

  7. There has got to be a corporeate asshole who needs that concession revenue we can exploit dontya think?

    Where is the Airline CEO’s crying outrage at the way their customers are being treated?

    Some low hanging fruit here.

  8. Shake that soda can hard then let them open it… lol.

  9. They get you coming or going. Now to avoid the hassle you’ll have to sneak a bottle of water around, that you purchase after security check, or drink the fluoridated water out of the fountain. I think what they’re trying to do is force the TSA goons to make themselves look useful elsewhere instead of just standing around the security area harassing.

  10. “unpredictable” huh… Maybe TSA workers having a generaly courteous and friendly disposition, maintianing security mind you, but in a humane, efficient sort of fashion. They could possibly not waste time incrimentaly conditioning the public to accept rediculous prcedures and police state type protocols. Or people could be hired who arent bottom of the barrel psychopaths, rapists, pedophiles, thieves and so on. Now that would be highly “unpredictable”.

  11. The proper response is to point, laugh and ridicule. Malicious compliance, and very loudly. Let the whole airport know you are complying perfectly with their orders, but also that their orders are the stupidest in the world. The whole airport will finally learn how to deal with these tyrannical wannabes.

    It would be a shame to accidentally spill your drink on them in the process.

  12. The proper response is to point, laugh, and ridicule. Malicious compliance, very loud. Draw attention from the whole airport to how STUPID their request is. Cause a scene and embarrass the hell out of them. Go above and beyond their demands.

    But don’t accidentally spill anything on anyone.

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