Via Homeland Stupidity, many reasons to avoid TSA ineptitude at airports around the country.

Pies are common fodder during Thanksgiving; however, travellers who had the misfortune to go through Cleveland were met with:

Thousands of Americans this holiday season are going to go without Grandmother’s homemade pie, because the Transportation Security Administration has apparently banned pies from aircraft. “In the last two days, we have taken a dozen baked pies,” Rick DeChant, TSA assistant federal security director at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. But the pies didn’t get thrown out like all the other potentially explosive liquids seized at the checkpoint. Instead, the potentially explosive pies were fed to soldiers waiting for connecting flights in the USO lounge.

Cleveland was presumably the only airport so afflicted.

There are plenty of good links in the referenced article; read the whole thing. Pay special attention to the DHS alert warnings and what they mean for the rest of us.

Now, I’ll offer a solution to this mess: stop flying. The TSA operates on the whims of individual, untrained, government-bureaucrat wannabes, with security of the airline system not even a by-product. The TSA has done nothing in its 5+ years of existence, there is no review of its processes, if there are in fact any processes to be reviewed, and the cost to the taxpayers is astronomical. So: stop flying.

If enough people stop flying, the market will move the airlines to get the message, and pressure will hopefully be brought to bear against this inane security theater.

There may even be a little “No Fly Zone” banner flying from this blog in the near future.

-k-

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