Al, I hear TSA is hiring or you can add Howie’s sofa cushion change to your stash o’ cash/change : )

- ZL

Al

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Is responsible for long lines at Airports while they go through our possessions and strip search and X-Ray us behind a curtain searching for contraband and possible explosives and weapons.

While they are doing this screening, some agents are helping themselves to our possessions as they see fit (If they can get away with it).

They are stealing our laptops, wallets, watches and whatever else they can get away with.

They have been caught on and off camera all over the country.

Who watches over an Agency that watches over us yet steals from us? Who can be trusted to make us feel safer when we fly? We need a department to keep an eye on the TSA. They are a private agency with the power to keep us off our flights and cause us legal problems at their discretion.

Power corrupts . . . A little power corrupts a little. This is saying that even a little power over one’s fellow human can corrupt enough for one to steal from us. After all, they are human and can fall victim to greed. Some do.

The TSA was accused of taking money out of a Florida couple’s luggage. No arrests have been made yet, and the agency refuses to release security camera footage that could implicate the thief because of “security” concerns. The agency also told the passengers that its screeners “never steal.”

Last month, another TSA worker in Memphis was arrested and charged with theft. Police say Ricky German, 48, tried to swipe a laptop that had been left at his screening station. Surveillance video showed Mr. German carrying away the laptop and throwing away papers with the owner’s name on it. After police arrived and said they would view the surveillance video, German then claimed he “found” the laptop.

This fall, a passenger going through security at Phoenix Airport left the screening area $200 lighter. He thinks one of the agents helped himself to his cash when he was checked. Surveillance video didn’t implicate the TSA, but the passenger, Tyson Tibshraeny, is unconvinced. “Where I have a problem is they wanted to separate me from my wallet,” he says.

A few weeks earlier, a TSA agent lost his job and is faced grand theft charges for allegedly pocketing a $450 pen owned by Rick Case, a prominent South Florida car dealership owner. Investigators say Toussain Puddie, 30, admitted to taking Case’s pen after it was left behind during a checkpoint screening at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport.

“Finders–keepers doesn’t apply when you are a public servant and have the public’s trust,” a Sheriff Department spokesman said.

It’s easy to see how agents like Puddie might think otherwise. After all, Congress allows the TSA to keep the pocket change air travelers leave behind — why not their pens or laptop computers?

I could go on. There are dozens more documented cases of TSA agents being arrested and charged with theft in 2011, but you get the idea. (And never mind the items that TSA confiscates from us legally, like cosmetics, liquids and other, so-called prohibited items.
Bear in mind that these are just the agents that are caught. Chances are, there are many other TSA workers who are getting away with their thieving ways. Pay attention to the reported convictions, too. Even the agents who are caught are often given a slap on the wrist. It might be reasonable to assume that now more than ever, the TSA is afflicted by a theft epidemic.

Why do the very people who are supposed to be protecting us also steal from us with such frequency? They do it because they can. They do it because, despite what their Lawyers tell us on the evening news, they know they’ll probably get away with it. They have zero accountability for their illegal actions.

I know that I will hold on tight to every single item that is important to me when I fly. No minimum-wage rent-a-cop is taking anything that belongs to me — not even a pen or spare pocket change which they help themselves to all the time.

HOWIE

Aliens actually judge humans by the way we treat our animals and lesser life forms.

Since we are the apex beings on this world, with the ability to change our planet for good or bad, it shows them much about how little we care for own own offspring by destroying our planet and not caring about what the future brings.

Why should aliens feel that we deserve any more consideration than we give our animals?

HOWIE