Navy closes barn door after horses escape
The Associated Press reports that the Navy has increased scrutiny at their gates after they lost a sailor to someone who was authorized to enter the base, but probably shouldn’t have been granted access;
Those who commit certain crimes are prohibited from having a [Transportation Worker Identification Credential] card, but the crimes [Jeffrey Tyrone] Savage committed [last month] didn’t fall under any of them.
Savage’s criminal record included pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Charlotte, N.C., in 2008 for shooting a friend in a car and leaving his body on the side of an interstate. Prosecutors originally charged Savage with murder and intended to seek the death penalty if he didn’t plead guilty to the lesser charge. Savage’s criminal history also includes possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
So, the added scrutiny is supposed to keep the Savages off of Navy bases, as if that shouldn’t have happened before Savage murdered Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Mayo aboard the USS Mahan. You know, they probably should have learned the lesson when Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard gun man did his evil deed eight months ago.
Category: Navy
And at a civilian airport in Silicon Valley, a 15-year old went through a perimeter fence, sneaked onto the field, climbed into a wheel well, and took a no-peanuts, no-movie airliner flight to Maui. Instead of a kid, that could have been someone installing a bomb in the wheel housing. Nice, huh? “A congressman who serves on the Homeland Security committee wondered how the teen could have sneaked onto the airfield unnoticed.” Moron.
This action exemplifies exactly what the TSA is, an illusion designed to create a facade of safety and security where no such reality actually exists.
We have thus far been lucky that the enemy on our shores has been less persistent than a homesick teenager or else we would be engaging in an even more repressive series of intrusions into our daily airline travels.
I predict that the DC crowd will do what they usually do, open buttocks, insert head, and tie us up with a few more buckets of regulations!
Yes Proud and millions more dollars to keep the kids out of the wheel wells as 2/17 Air Cav reported.
How is voluntary manslaughter not a crime on the no-no list?
Just look at the recent break-ins at the Freedom Tower site in New York (if you can even call them break-ins.) For being so interested in security, we made sure to keep the building which exists on the site of the old World Trade Center very secure, right? Oh wait…
Not to mention the bulk of the TSA does not even know what a TWIC card is, let alone that they are the organization that made them!!