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07/01/11 6:52 PM
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National Security: What kind of politically correct security allows a Nigerian man without a valid boarding pass to get on an airplane and fly cross-country while we search the adult diaper of a 95-year-old cancer patient? Lena Reppert, 95, is in the late stages of leukemia and must wear an adult diaper. Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, is a Nigerian immigrant who seems to collect airplane boarding passes the way some people collect stamps. Guess which one the Transportation Security Administration saw as the greater security risk? Accompanied by her daughter, Jean Weber, the wheelchair-bound Lena Reppert was subjected to 45 extra minutes of scrutiny when she tried to board a flight out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport. Her daughter was forced to take her to the bathroom, remove the bunched-up diaper TSA agents thought might contain a concealed weapon and fly without it. Perhaps after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, was able to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear for a Christmas Day 2009 mission he trained for in Yemen, the TSA concluded it would be prudent to strip-search 95-year-old cancer patients wearing adult diapers. The TSA did not consider it prudent to restrain Nigerian immigrant Noibi from boarding a flight from JFK to LAX using a stolen expired boarding pass not in his name. He was allowed to walk free, even after the flight crew discovered the breach and notified the FBI. After passengers complained that Noibi smelled bad, the flight crew noticed he was sitting in an unsold seat. Something stinks here, all right. Noibi may be nothing more than an itinerant flake and not a terrorist, but he could have been. At least the foreign national was a likelier suspect for terror than an elderly invalid who just wanted to visit family before she died. Noibi was arrested a week later when he tried to pull the same stunt, attempting to board a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta on Wednesday with more than 10 boarding passes in various people's names.
National Security: What kind of politically correct security allows a Nigerian man without a valid boarding pass to get on an airplane and fly cross-country while we search the adult diaper of a 95-year-old cancer patient?
Lena Reppert, 95, is in the late stages of leukemia and must wear an adult diaper. Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, is a Nigerian immigrant who seems to collect airplane boarding passes the way some people collect stamps. Guess which one the Transportation Security Administration saw as the greater security risk?
Accompanied by her daughter, Jean Weber, the wheelchair-bound Lena Reppert was subjected to 45 extra minutes of scrutiny when she tried to board a flight out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport. Her daughter was forced to take her to the bathroom, remove the bunched-up diaper TSA agents thought might contain a concealed weapon and fly without it.
Perhaps after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, was able to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear for a Christmas Day 2009 mission he trained for in Yemen, the TSA concluded it would be prudent to strip-search 95-year-old cancer patients wearing adult diapers.
The TSA did not consider it prudent to restrain Nigerian immigrant Noibi from boarding a flight from JFK to LAX using a stolen expired boarding pass not in his name. He was allowed to walk free, even after the flight crew discovered the breach and notified the FBI. After passengers complained that Noibi smelled bad, the flight crew noticed he was sitting in an unsold seat.
Something stinks here, all right. Noibi may be nothing more than an itinerant flake and not a terrorist, but he could have been. At least the foreign national was a likelier suspect for terror than an elderly invalid who just wanted to visit family before she died. Noibi was arrested a week later when he tried to pull the same stunt, attempting to board a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta on Wednesday with more than 10 boarding passes in various people's names.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577134/201107011811/TSA-Totally-Screwed-Up-Administration.htm