Letter to Congress RE TSA.... and theater

[nadinbrzezinski]

I travel more or less frequently to Mexico City's Juarez International for family reasons. And this is one thing that I have noticed as a waste of resources. When I go through Juarez I have gone through an Israelized airport where I have been given a far more thorough check than TSA ever will, In fact, there was one check that I am proof positive TSA would never do. When I approached the counter, due to change of age, I was sweating profusely. They asked me to open my suitcase, checked it manually and did an explosives check before it went anywhere. I do not expect TSA to ever do this...

Yet when travelling back I have to go thorough the security theater that is TSA again, without leaving the sterile area of the airport, The waste in resources doing this is just insane For the record I would get it if coming from oh Quito... but there are only like five airports around the world where I would get it.

And yes I have some limited experience in Security and yes Mexico City has SUPERIOR security to oh San Diego Lindberg for example, nor do they have the obvious tasty target (called the conga line before security) They place that behind a barrier, for example.

Now if we are all talking about cutting unnecessary government activities, that is one. For the record, because of that circus, unnecessary as it is, these days I get longer lay overs at airports. I have come this close to missing flights.

Of course do not get me started on diapers and 91 year olds. Hasn't management heard of this old design called bomb sniffing dogs? I mean if they absolutely needed to, they are that far less intrusive and more effective. It is things like that which tell me TSA is not about security but control. If it were about security... things like getting to a counter drenched, which I have done at Lindberg, that lovely hormonal change, would trigger, and SHOULD trigger, what it did in Mexico City. A careful once over on my luggage BEFORE it get's checked in. That is like a screaming CHECK ME NOW trigger.

For the record, I feel that much safer flying out of Juarez International than I will flying out of Lindberg or any other US Airport. That is until we remove the theater, and actually start doing security... for example take a look at the preferred shipper program... that is like a screaming hole.

Sincerely,

Nadin

PS for some odd reason I don't expect a single letter to make a whit of difference any longer, but I still bother.