The TSA continues to protect us from the most sinister of foes: toddlers.
This much is true: An 18-month-old was pulled from a JetBlue flight and her family was questioned by Transportation Security Administration agents because the airline said the child appeared on a “no-fly” list, her parents said.
I have an 18-month old niece and while I do call her "The (Giant) Baby of Destruction", I think her taking down an airliner is probably outside the realm of possibility (at least as long as they keep the cockpit doors closed and locked). Also, she knows about five words, so it would be interesting to see the TSA "question" her.
I know times are tough and jobs are hard to find, but I would like to believe that I have enough honor to quit my job if it required me to 1) suspend disbelief and assume a toddler is a terrorist, and 2) forcibly sequester that toddler from his/her family and interrogate him/her.
Do stories like this make you feel any safer? We keep hearing more and more stories like this coming out about the TSA and yet, they continue to operate without any oversight or any semblance of common sense. They don't seem to care at all about public outrage, which begs the question: what do we have to do to get their attention and make them accountable to us (the people they supposedly serve)?
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