{"id":6307,"date":"2013-11-05T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T02:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2013-11-05T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:49:17","slug":"wash-times-op-ed-everyone-scorns-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/wash-times-op-ed-everyone-scorns-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wash. Times Op-ed: Why Everyone Scorns the TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/p.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/nov\/5\/bovard-why-everyone-scorns-the-tsa\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, November 6, 2013<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">BOVARD: Why everyone scorns the TSA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of last Friday\u2019s shootings at Los Angeles International Airport, some politicians and media commentators are feigning shock at the widespread hostility toward the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). There was no justification for the shooting suspect, Paul Ciancia, to gun down three TSA agents on the job, killing one. Ciancia\u2019s brutal rampage, though, should not obscure the fact that the TSA has perennially pushed many Americans to the breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, TSA speeded up deployment of its whole-body scanners in the wake of pervasive U.S. government security failures that permitted a young Nigerian to board a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with 80 grams of powdered explosive in his underwear. The agency claimed that the new scanners were necessary to protect against powdered explosives, but the Government Accountability Office warned that it \u201cremains unclear\u201d if the new scanners could detect such threats.<\/p>\n<p>As the TSA began touting its new \u201csee-all\u201d scanners, many Americans objected to having a \u201cbirthday suit\u201d photo placed in their federal dossier. Many travelers also feared the perils of getting regularly radiated by Uncle Sam, and such fears were fed by the TSA\u2019s refusal to disclose key safety data on how the scanners worked. An investigation by the Public Broadcast Service\u2019s \u201cNewshour\u201d and ProPublica revealed that the scanners could cause up to 100 cancer cases per year among travelers. Citing health and privacy concerns, theEuropean Union banned all body scanners that rely on radiating travelers.<\/p>\n<p>Objecting to the whole-body scanners, many passengers preferred going through the magnetometers that the TSA had used since 2001. The agency created a new system of \u201cenhanced pat-downs\u201d for anyone who sought to \u201copt out\u201d of the whole-body scanners.<\/p>\n<p>As USA Today noted in October 2010, \u201cThe new searches \u2026 require screeners to touch passengers\u2019 breasts and genitals.\u201d An elementary-school teacher complained to The New York Times that she was roughly handled after the body scanner \u201cdetected a tissue and a hair band in her pocket.\u201d People who had been victims of sexual assault were especially traumatized by the new procedures.<\/p>\n<p>While President Obama and top other federal officials publicly defended the TSA\u2019s intrusive new searches, the program never made a lick of sense. When \u201cenhanced pat-downs\u201d began, whole-body scanners were deployed in only 69 of the nation\u2019s 400-plus commercial airports. Would-be terrorists could simply go to airports that continued relying on magnetometers and nonpunitive pat-downs. The agency presumes that someone who is determined to commit suicide and wreak maximum havoc will be unwilling to drive 100 miles to some other airport that does not have whole-body scanners.<\/p>\n<p>The TSA greatly exaggerated the effectiveness of the new scanners. After Rep. John L. Mica, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, received a confidential briefing in 2012 on the scanners\u2019 performance in tests, he condemned them as \u201cbadly flawed\u201d and declared, \u201cIf we could reveal the failure rate [of the scanners], the American public would be outraged.\u201d The agency had no excuse for groping millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Other TSA programs have also pointlessly harassed or subjugated Americans. Gerardo Hernandez, the TSA agent slain on Friday, was part of the agency\u2019s \u201cbehavior-detection\u201d program involving thousands of TSA agents who \u201cchat down\u201d passengers at airports and watch for \u201cmicro-expressions\u201d that signal potential trouble. Though Mr. Hernandez may have been a model employee \u2014 competent, courteous and fair-minded \u2014 that program has failed to detect a single terrorist and has spurred the arrests of thousands of travelers.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 TSA agents complained in 2012 that the behavior-detection program at Boston\u2019s Logan International Airport had become a \u201ca magnet for racial profiling, targeting not only Middle Easterners, but also blacks, Hispanics and other minorities,\u201d The New York Times reported. The agents relied on \u201cterrorist profiles\u201d such as black guys wearing baseball caps backward or Hispanics traveling to Miami. In Honolulu, some behavior-detection agents were nicknamed \u201cMexicutioners\u201d for their proclivity for harassing Mexican travelers.<\/p>\n<p>The behavior-detection squad at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey engaged in such blatant stereotyping that it was derided as \u201cMexican hunters\u201d by other TSA agents. Some behavior-detection officers complained that their supervisors pressured them to fabricate false charges against illegal aliens to justify reporting them to law enforcement. Last June, an inspector general slammed the behavior-detection program as a perennial flop, deriding the TSA for failing to develop \u201cperformance measures\u201d or to \u201caccurately assess\u201d its effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Exasperation with the TSA spurred many Americans to give up on relying on air travel, but the agency is now seeking to seize control over other forms of transit. The TSA spends $100 million a year on 37 teams that conduct almost 10,000 sweep searches a year at Amtrak stations, bus depots and even local transit. Anyone who refuses to submit to a warrantless search can be banned from traveling. The swaggering name of its roving squads \u2014 VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) \u2014 personifies the TSA\u2019s attitude toward the American people. Newspapers often tout VIPR\u2019s \u201cshow of force,\u201d but it is a show seemingly intended to intimidate average Americans, not the terrorist suspects who do not exist in places such as Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n<p>People who are enraged at the TSA should recognize that some agents also oppose the needlessly oppressive practices that shred travelers\u2019 privacy and dignity. We can condemn the shooting of TSA agents without exonerating agency policies that trample Americans\u2019 constitutional rights. The Department of Homeland Security admitted in 2011 congressional testimony that \u201cthe large majority of travelers pose no security risks.\u201d By treating most Americans like suicide-bombers-in-waiting, the TSA often makes traveling hellish without making it safer.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: James Bovard is the author most recently of a new e-book memoir, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\/ref=cm_rdp_product\">Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>\u201d (Sixth Street Books, 2012). \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0On Twitter @jimbovard<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPB-artwork-from-Wash-Times-TSA-115_2013_b1-bovard-tsa-scan-8201_s640x688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6308\" alt=\"JPB artwork from Wash Times TSA 115_2013_b1-bovard-tsa-scan-8201_s640x688\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPB-artwork-from-Wash-Times-TSA-115_2013_b1-bovard-tsa-scan-8201_s640x688.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPB-artwork-from-Wash-Times-TSA-115_2013_b1-bovard-tsa-scan-8201_s640x688.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JPB-artwork-from-Wash-Times-TSA-115_2013_b1-bovard-tsa-scan-8201_s640x688-139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Illustration by\u00a0Greg Groesch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times, November 6, 2013 BOVARD: Why everyone scorns the TSA by James Bovard In the wake of last Friday\u2019s shootings at Los Angeles International Airport, some politicians and media commentators are feigning shock at the widespread hostility toward the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). 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The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism &amp; Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}