{"id":447,"date":"2010-11-22T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:47:04","slug":"the-competence-of-airport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/the-competence-of-airport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The Competence of Airport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will always be those submissive and gullible folks who\u00a0will say to just let the TSA do its job &#8211; they&#8217;re making us safer. But I have a question I posed\u00a0last Wednesday that is still unanswered: <a href=\"?p=397\" target=\"_blank\">Have the TSA security checks of passengers ever caught a single terrorist<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I was interested when I heard Rush Limbaugh ask that same question on the air today, and then he answered it &#8211; they haven&#8217;t caught a single one.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, country singer Buck Howdy has composed a new song about our friends in the TSA, titled, &#8220;Help You Make It to Your Flight.&#8221; We need his humor to handle this:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9a8jGVXOMsw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9a8jGVXOMsw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Other links: Click here to read my list of <a href=\"..\/tsa-abuses.html\">TSA abuses<\/a>. 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