"Sir, the amount of sugar in your coffee is dangerous. It may kill you, eventually. Ma'am, too much fat in that latte. Are you a terrorist?"
In the aftermath of our TSA story going viral yesterday after being prominently linked on the Drudge Report, the federal agency has issued its usual glib, inadequate response as to why travelers are being forced to have their drinks tested for explosives after they have already passed through airport security.
The TSA's ludicrous new policy was highlighted yesterday in a video shot at Columbus Ohio Airport which shows TSA agents using a test strip to check travelers' drinks at the departure gate.
The TSA's official Twitter account sent out a link to an earlier post on the TSA blog which achieved little other than emphasizing once again how glib, myopic and arrogant the TSA is in failing to acknowledge the sheer idiocy of many of its procedures.
"Blogger Bob" begins by sidelining the issue as "not a big deal really," adding "Heck, even I have been pulled aside for random gate screening," as if just because "Bob" has experienced it that somehow makes it OK or normal.
The TSA's official mouthpiece then reels off the usual trite platitudes about the drinks testing policy being a "necessary unpredictable measure that makes it more difficult to do malice to the transportation infrastructure."
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