Who Will Screen the Screeners?
Posted by Gil Guillory on December 7, 2009 04:07 PMAs reported in Wired, TSA bureaucrats have inadvertently released their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure in toto, “redacting” text in the PDF by placing black rectangles over the subject text, still allowing even novice users to read the sensitive sections. One of the interesting elements of this manual is the collectivism it embodies. For instance, ALL holders of passports from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen or Algeria are to be designated for selective screening. However, there are a number of people TOTALLY EXEMPT from screening. As Wired reports:
- Foreign dignitaries equivalent to cabinet rank and above,
accompanying a spouse, their children under the age of 12, and a State
Department escort are exempt from screening.
- There are also references to a CIA program called WOMAP, the Worldwide Operational Meet and Assist Program. As part of WOMAP, foreign dignitaries and their escorts authorized CIA representatives are exempt from screening, provided they’re approved in advance by TSA’s Office of Intelligence.
- There are also references to a CIA program called WOMAP, the Worldwide Operational Meet and Assist Program. As part of WOMAP, foreign dignitaries and their escorts authorized CIA representatives are exempt from screening, provided they’re approved in advance by TSA’s Office of Intelligence.
Notice how statist this is. If private airlines conducted their own security screening, diplomatic pouches and these classes of people would not be exempt. Why would an airline exempt them? No reason. In fact, it is well-known that terrorists are disproportionately drawn from among those who choose careers in the military.
But because the screeners are part of the state, the state irrationally declares exemptions for its favored classes and elite at the expense of the masses.
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