TSA and PR
 

I haven't gone to the TSA's website in a long time. For some reason, I did just that today.

Among the highlights put on there, a link to story about catching a blasting cap found in a bag.

And catching a bank robber (with a completely misleading photograph) at PHL.

The PR campaigns the TSA puts on is quite amusing.

Government spin is always a great source of unintentional comedy. Defending the indefensible leads people into some pretty bizarre situations and stances, whether in Havana, Moscow, Baghdad or Washington. Some people will say and do anything for money though.

Fwiw... There might be no better demonstration (related to air travel security) of how liberty is inherently superior to coercive monopoly than to compare the tone and content of the centrally-controlled TSA website... with the tone and content of Wikipedia's market-guided TSA entry.

That's odd...I didn't see any mention of the missing hard drive???

Different Subject...
 

Much of this is for internal consumption and for use as a motivational tool for the screener workforce. Just think -- if you work hard enough, you yourself just might make the "big catch" -- a bank robber, a guy with a joint or two, someone with a lot of cash...

All of the other tear-jerker stories are ones about kindness towards people or other acts of simple humanity that any reasonable person would have done.

Duly noted.

:D