{"id":43579,"date":"2014-07-15T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/isnt-that-where-that-hugo-chavez-guy-is-from.html"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:38:04","slug":"isnt-that-where-that-hugo-chavez-guy-is-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/isnt-that-where-that-hugo-chavez-guy-is-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Isn't that where that Hugo Chavez guy is from?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Crikey.<\/p>\n

I tend to be moderately sympathetic toward the TSA. They have an awful job, of dubious utility, under political pressure, and, honestly, they (on average) remain a lot more professional than many of the rent-a-mall-cops who used to be handling security pre-9\/11.<\/p>\n

But, cheese and crackers, folks — how does a TSA agent not<\/i> know that the "District of Columbia" is a valid US jurisdiction?<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

"Gray, who lives in Washington, D.C., was flying out of Orlando International Airport when a TSA agent said Gray's District of Columbia driver's license wasn't a valid form of identification. Gray said his license is legal and up-to-date, but the TSA agent didn't seem to know what the District of Columbia was when Gray arrived at the security checkpoint over the weekend."<\/i><\/p>\n

Good to see the TSA is hiring competent people with at least an Elementary School education under their belts, eh? I feel safer already.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Orlando TSA agents getting geography refresher<\/a>
\n It’s something most of most students learn in elementary school — the United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia.\n <\/p>\n

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Crikey. I tend to be moderately sympathetic toward the TSA. They have an awful job, of dubious utility, under political pressure, and, honestly, they (on average) remain a lot more professional than many of the rent-a-mall-cops who used to be handling security pre-9\/11. But, cheese and crackers, folks — how does a TSA agent not … Continue reading “Isn't that where that Hugo Chavez guy is from?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/the-tsa-is-only-human.html","url_meta":{"origin":43579,"position":0},"title":"The TSA Is Only Human","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 12:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The point of noting stories like the one below (and the other cases mentioned in the story) is not to suggest that TSA agents are any worse than any other group of folks given power over our lives and goods, or to suggest that airport security should just be plain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12538,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/piercing_glances.html","url_meta":{"origin":43579,"position":1},"title":"Piercing Glances","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Mar-08 12:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Much (appropriate) blogosphere and news brouhaha (e.g., here, here) over a woman who was forced to remove her nipple piercings (which required pliers to do so) before she was...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tsa-plastic-bag.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24253,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/i-feel-safer.html","url_meta":{"origin":43579,"position":2},"title":"I Feel Safer!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 5:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I feel so much safer to know that someone with a purse design element that looks vaguely gunlike is guilty of a \"federal offense\" and can be harassed and made late for their flight. 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