Misplaced Honors for a Murdered TSA Worker Dilutes Recognition for Real Heroes

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Los Angeles, CA—Yes, our tax dollars paid and will continue to pay for undeserved honors for a dead TSA screener.

On November 1, 2013 suicidal gunman Paul Anthony Ciancia opened fire at Terminal 3 at LAX Airport killing TSA screener Gerardo Hernandez.  Hernandez was not a law enforcement officer, first responder or soldier.  He did not deliberately place himself in harms way for others.  He was like thousands of other unfortunate killed in the world, simply an ordinary murder victim.

The TSA security theater façade includes some 50,000 people without significant background checks, law enforcement training, arrest powers or firearms.  Dressed in police costumes these workers simply screen passengers that are fully aware they will along with their belongings be searched prior to boarding commercial aircraft.  This is not a dangerous job like being a cop, convenience store clerk or cab driver.

I have recoiled in disgust every time I heard a politician or news reporter say that Hernandez, "died in the line of duty." That's never applied to some murdered 7-11 clerk working nights to feed his or her family.  The TSA police costumes seem to have left a false impression.

I'd put TSA workers in simple  red jumpsuits saving taxpayers untold millions. They gave these people gold police type badges too? 

Being a TSA screener is even safer than being a flight attendant, pilot or gate ticket agent. 

LAX is the world’s fourth busiest airport moving nearly 40 million people every year.  It has its own police department and is supported by numerous additional local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. The TSA is nothing more than a pathetic illusion of security that insults, provokes and demeans passengers.  The TSA program is also in direct conflict with the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution.

Since the beginning of the TSA more than a decade ago no other worker lost his or her life while working.  Our government window washers, garbage men or postal service workers have a higher mortality rate from job dangers than the TSA. 

When non-first responding government workers are killed on the job we don’t place flags at half-staff or hold government sponsored memorial demonstrations reserved for soldiers, cops or firemen killed in the line of duty. Why are they going whole hog for a TSA screener?

The full government honors given to Hernandez dilute the distinctions reserved for heroes.  I don’t mean disrespect for Hernandez or his family but being a murder victim does not confer special honor like heroism.

The TSA is an organization created to unlawfully trade liberty and privacy for unobtainable security. As a nation too many of us has allowed our government to convince us to forfeit our freedom for TSA fascism. 

If anything the attack at LAX showed it’s beyond impossible to protect our airports and passengers by creating a totally screened Gun Free Zone!  This program was an abject failure. 

The TSA was nothing more than a massive government jobs program for our unemployable, aimless and ignorant underachievers. 

When it comes to government regulation of our skies and airports the inmates are clearly in charge of the asylum. 

This deadly attack by a lone suicidal gunman who easily breached this secured airport terminal while having his way was absolutely predictable.  Thankfully the gunman avoided shooting innocent passengers while targeting TSA screeners.  That’s why scores or passengers were not killed.

Try to imagine what just three trained and determined terrorists could have done.  They would have owned Terminal 3, its passengers, employees and planes.  The carnage would have been extensive long before law enforcement could have ended such a siege.

If you still think that the TSA somehow helps prevent terrorism you are living in OZ.  The responsibility to defeat terrorism lies within all of us to physically do what we can to prevent it. Disarming off duty or retired cops, pilots, and trained security professionals is a sure way to insure that terrorists will always win.

Few people are aware that on September 11, 2001 two of the hijacked planes contained off duty cops that were disarmed by insane FAA regulations that are still mirrored by the TSA.  Had those officer been armed those two planes would have quickly removed from danger.

Had the airline pilots been routinely trained and armed Sept 11 would have been just another day.  Even today the revised armed, Federal Flight Deck Officer program is a paper tiger since the pilots can’t carry their firearms outside the locked cockpit.

I’m beyond shocked to see the TSA union and some politicians seeking to arm untrained and un-vetted TSA screeners before off-duty, retired cops and our pilots. 

Immediate Lessons From The LAX Attack By a Lone Suicidal Maniac

Los Angeles, CA—We are quickly learning about suicidal gunman Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23 who shot up Terminal 3 at LAX Airport.

Ciancia had one of those ugly black guns outlawed in his home jurisdiction of Pennsville, New Jersey and within the not so golden state of California.

We will learn about Ciancia's frail mental health and how he broke various gun bans and restrictions already in place.  Again we learn that gun laws are only obeyed by the law abiding who are left defenseless and at the mercy of armed thugs.

Ciancia’s parents put out a frantic call to police after the troubled lad sent disturbing suicidal texts to his brother.

Assuming he survives his UCLA Hospital stay we will learn a lot more about Ciancia’s psychiatric failure in some courtroom.

Ciancia suddenly taught us that our airports are still soft targets and that determined thugs can easily defeat the Security Theater Gauntlet posed by the TSA.   Imagine what three armed terrorists could have done after they breached the TSA barriers within seconds like Ciancia?

Let me also say that terrorists could even more simply gain access to any airport tarmac quickly and virtually unnoticed to do mayhem to any jet filled with passengers.

We must remember that our jets are not made of bullet or bomb resistant material but soft and light aircraft aluminum.  A small truck bomb could kill hundreds on one of our normally filled to capacity planes.

The TSA does little but destroy the employability and lives of people that absent-mindedly leave lawfully owned firearms in their suitcases.

When it’s suggested that forgetfulness is no excuse we seem to forget our own female family members.  Every day they forget and leave expensive lotions and beauty potions in their carryon’s only to see them confiscated by TSA workers.

The TSA practice of disarming pilots, off duty or retired cops and military members only makes our soft airport targets even more vulnerable.

Overall the TSA is one of the more worthless jobs program ever created.  Putting the hard corps unemployed into police style costumes has done nothing to make anyone safe.

The real less here is we will only get more of the same because our brain-dead politicians will never understand nor accept reality.

Read the Federal Complaint and Affidavit below:

  ciancia-complaint.pdf

Today’s LAX Gun Free Zone Shooting

Los Angeles, CA—This morning, Pennsville, New Jersey native Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23 was apparently a ticketed passenger.  His parents as described him as being suicidal.  Allegedly Ciancia removed a carbine and stormed the TSA checkpoint easily breaching it entering the passenger terminal area.  LAX police officers responded to this engaging and critically wounded the lone gunman.

As many as seven were injured and one TSA worker was killed.  Ciancia is believed to be under FBI guard in critical condition after surgery at the UCLA Reagan Medical Center.

The media is erroneously referring to the TSA workers as “law enforcement officers”.  They are not and law enforcement officers nor can they enforce any laws.  They are not vetted, trained or qualified to do more than report what they see to the real police. 

Media morons have been rambling on calling TSA workers “brave men and women” sending me looking for a big barf bag!  The TSA is nothing more than actors in the security theater jobs program.

If anything this shows the ineffectiveness of the TSA security program.  The local cops had to respond and deal with Ciancia’s assault.

Imagine if a few as six terrorists breached the TSA gauntlet.  They would have easily neutralized armed cops as they gained access to any planes connected to jetways.

The real protection really rests with trained and armed pilots that make a tiny percentage of flight crews. 

This incident was so over policed that it cost airlines and taxpayers millions in disruptions. Passengers missed weddings, funerals pre-paid vacations and business meetings.

They forced hundreds of thirsty and hungry stranded passengers to the street.  How difficult would it have been to obtain and distribute water to these victimized passengers? 

Traveling by commercial airlines has become an expensive and necessary evil rather than an enjoyable experience.  TSA and airline workers visualize themselves as prison guards as they abuse passengers under color of law.

I can’t wait to hear the TSA workers whining for their own gun rights as they deprive everyone else.  Bureaucrats will try to dream up more way to abuse passengers in the name of security.

Airports are like any other Gun Free Zone inviting violence with inexcusable vulnerability.

More on the TSA and its un-American Assault on Liberty, Privacy and Dignity

TSA Thug named Butler    From Video by Paul Huebl

Washington, DC—Most Americans surrender, line up like sheep and allow the despicable practice of the TSA's amateur security workers as they have their way with our personal property, bodies and even our children.  They abuse us tolerated simply because Americans are to intimidated to defend themselves.

Despite hundred of billions of dollars and this illusion of security the TSA has not stopped a single terrorist event.  The known post 9/11 efforts to disrupt air travel have been stopped by alert passengers that understand their duty to protect each other.   The TSA is in itself a meaningless exercise of the absurd.

Our government puts these poorly vetted, trained or educated unemployable losers in police style costumes with gold badges.  The reality is they should have put them into red jumpsuits and saved taxpayers a bundle rather than allow this officious masquerade. 

Here are three videos.  One is a musical satire hit piece from, Without a Face, Twisted Sexual Assault.  The second is from a political opponent of former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi named John Dennis.   The third video is that of a shocking encounter I had with an African-American TSA bimbo named Butler, trying to seize my camera and prevent me from shooting video outside of Terminal 2 at LAX.

Grab the popcorn, sit back and by all means enjoy the entertainment: