Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2016 13:16 -0400
After questioning whether a self-imposed process to make airline check-ins more rigorous, knowingly increasing wait times, was a Federally-funded scheme to force travelers to enroll in pre-check programs, thus manipulating people into cooperating with authoritarian strategies; it seemed rather appropriate that the following video, which went viral, shows what is simply a stunningly long TSA line wait at Midway Airport.
As WaPo reports, when Sean Hoffman arrived at Midway Airport last week for his flight home to Oregon, he said he was taken aback by the comically long line to get through security.
“I got to the end, (and) I was like, holy (expletive), people would probably like to see this,” Hoffman recalled in an interview.
And so he did…
And that wasn’t the end of it… Today the carnage continues at Chicago’s O’Hare, as CBS reports, with increasingly long lines to get through security at the city’s airports, many travelers have been missing their flights, and some ended up sleeping at O’Hare International Airport on Sunday.
American Airlines put out cots for fewer than 100 travelers who missed their flights Sunday night due to the long lines at TSA security checkpoints.
Adrian Petra said he missed his flight after standing in line for 2 hours and 20 minutes.
The TSA has been urging passengers to get to the airport at least two hours early for domestic flights, and three hours early for international flights. However, some passengers have said that is not enough time to get through security and still make their flight.
American Airlines said some 4,000 passengers have missed flights at O’Hare since February because of the long wait times.
American Airlines spokeswoman Leslie Scott sounded off on the security issues.
“We are frustrated. We know our passengers are frustrated, and our employees are really frustrated,” she said.
Scott said, on Sunday alone, American had to delay 30 flights, and about 450 passengers missed their flights due to the security lines.
Nearly 800 people missed American flights from O’Hare in the last week alone, the most of any airport where American operates.
The purpose seems clear, as we noted previously, Homeland Security wants to force more travelers to become “known” to the government via PreCheck programs.
Ultimately, it seems, Homeland Security hopes to be the arbitrator of who flies in the US and who does not. This is how fascism encroaches on public life, not all at once, but a little bit at a time.
How do we know? Our specialty is analyzing the “memes” of mainstream media, the propaganda regularly presented to create acceptance for globalist solutions.
Let’s analyze the steps taken in this case. The TSA has been embarked on a process to make airline check-ins more rigorous.
Here from Travel Weekly:
The confluence of events leading up to this point started last year when a TSA internal investigation revealed security failures at many of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators smuggled weapons through checkpoints in 95% of trials.
This caused the TSA to tighten screening methods and stop procedures that helped facilitate the faster flow of passengers, such as allowing TSA officers to use their judgment in moving certain people, such as families with children or the elderly, into the PreCheck lines.
The TSA and Homeland must have known that wait times would soar if more rigorous screening was implemented. They did it anyway.
But here’s the real reason, as we read in a just posted AP Article:
In the past three years, the TSA and Congress cut the number of front-line screeners by 4,622 — or about 10 percent — on expectations that an expedited screening program called PreCheck would speed up the lines. However, not enough people enrolled for TSA to realize the anticipated efficiencies.
In other words, PreCheck has been in a failure. Not enough Americans have been willing to make themselves “known” to FedGov and Homeland Security.
The way to fix it is to make people so miserable that they join.
TSA blames you for longer lines at airport security checkpoints
WASHINGTON (WCMH/AP) — Facing a growing backlash over extremely long airport security lines, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Friday asked fliers “to be patient” as the government takes steps to get them onto planes more quickly.
Travelers across the country have endured lengthy lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts, and into terminal lobbies. At some airports, lines during peak hours have topped 90 minutes. Airlines have reported holding planes at gates to wait for passengers to clear security.
Johnson said the government has a plan to deal with the lines but won’t neglect its duty to stop terrorists.
“Our job is to keep the American people safe,” Johnson told reporters at a news conference. “We’re not going to compromise aviation security in the face of this.”
The comments reflect a statement released earlier this week after long lines were reported at Newark, JFK and LaGuardia airport security checkpoints. When asked about those long lines, the TSA essentially blamed you in a press release, specifically passengers who bring too many carry-on items:
There are several factors that have caused checkpoint lines to take longer to screen passengers… including more people traveling with carry-on bags, in many cases bringing more than the airline industry standard of one carry-on bag and one personal item per traveler;
Passenger preparedness can have a significant impact on wait times at security checkpoints nationwide…Individuals who come to the TSA checkpoint unprepared for a trip can have a negative impact on the time it takes to complete the screening process.”
In response, some airport authorities are now threatening to dump the TSA and hire their own private security firms.
The Transportation Security Administration has fewer screeners and has tightened security procedures. Meanwhile, more people are flying. Airlines and the TSA have been warning customers to arrive at the airport two hours in advance, but with summer travel season approaching even that might not be enough.
In the past three years, the TSA and Congress cut the number of front-line screeners by 4,622 — or about 10 percent — on expectations that an expedited screening program called PreCheck would speed up the lines. However, not enough people enrolled for TSA to realize the anticipated efficiencies.
Congress this week did agree to shift $34 million in TSA funding forward, allowing the agency to pay overtime to its existing staff and hire an extra 768 screeners by June 15 to bring it up to the congressionally mandated ceiling of 42,525.
But that might barely make a dent on the lines. This week, the president of the union representing the TSA officers sent a letter to congressional leaders suggesting that 6,000 additional screeners are needed. J. David Cox, Sr. wrote that the $34 million just provides “a small amount of temporary relief for travelers” and defers dealing with the long-term, larger problem.
Additionally, the agency loses about 100 screeners a week through attrition.
Airlines and airports have hired extra workers to handle non-security tasks at checkpoints — such as returning empty bins to the beginning of the line — as part of an effort to free up as many TSA employees to handle passenger screening.
The help can’t come quickly enough.
Friday morning, American Airlines held at least five flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport because of passengers stuck at security lines, according to airline spokesman Ross Feinstein.
On the 7:20 a.m. flight to Las Vegas, 52 of the 160 passengers were not onboard 10 minutes before departure. American held the plane an extra 13 minutes past its scheduled pushback from the gate, allowing 23 passengers to hop onboard. However, 29 still missed the jet and arrived on later flights.
A few gates away, 27 passengers missed their flight to Orlando.
At another American hub, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, security lines peaked at one hour and 45 minutes on Thursday.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told The Associated Press Thursday that “the longer lines get the more passengers are going to miss flights and there’s not much you can do about that.”
File- This Oct. 22, 2013, file photo shows passengers walking through the pre-check lane at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport. The PreCheck program allows previously vetted fliers to use special lanes at the checkpoint. Shoes, belts and light jackets stay on. Laptops and liquids stay in bags. And these fliers go through standard metal detectors rather than the explosive-detecting full-body scanners most pass through. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
File- This Oct. 22, 2013, file photo shows passengers walking through the pre-check lane at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport. The PreCheck program allows previously vetted fliers to use special lanes at the checkpoint. Shoes, belts and light jackets stay on. Laptops and liquids stay in bags. And these fliers go through standard metal detectors rather than the explosive-detecting full-body scanners most pass through. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
The biggest help to ease lines is to have more fliers enroll in the PreCheck program.
Launched nationwide in 2012, PreCheck gives previously vetted passengers special screening. Shoes, belts and light jackets stay on. Laptops and liquids stay in bags. And these fliers go through standard metal detectors rather than the explosive-detecting full-body scanners most pass through.
PreCheck security lanes can screen 300 passengers an hour, twice that of standard lanes.
The TSA offered Congress a lofty goal of having 25 million fliers enrolled in the program. But as of March 1, only 9.3 million people were PreCheck members. Applicants must pay $85 to $100 every five years. Most must also trek to the airport for an interview before being accepted. Getting once-a-year fliers to join has been a challenge.
Johnson Friday said that 10,000 people applied for PreCheck Thursday, up from 8,500 a day in April and 7,500 in March. Still, at that pace, it will take more than four years to reach 25 million members.
Greetings,
I cheer this. The public needs to be made to understand that government fails at pretty much everything it attempts to do – everything. Each and every time something like this happens it produces scores of new converts. They get to see the DHS in action and see and know in their hearts that it is nothing more than a scam and a welfare program for the Retard Victim Class.
I hope the lines extend for 50 miles.
And how many terrorists have they caught?
If the sheeple would wake up and do the the research and learn the truth, ie; 911 was an inside job then they would realise that all this misery for the past 15 years was totally unnecessary. And if a few of those were real men, then possibly they would hunt down the bushwacker,cheny,israel and the NY jew creeps that made a fortune off of the false flag event.I will not hold my breath til this happens.
BTW, I think all the recent revelations that the Saudis were involved is BS.
I get the distinct impression that the American people are being ginned up to explode, at some provocation, as the provocations keep adding up.
Avoid crowds.
HZK, it sure seems that way doesn’t it? Exploding may allow da goobermint to implement martial law.
I don’t get this… why, all of a sudden, do they have a staffing shortage and long lines? Sure, it happened at just a few airports at first, but now it’s everywhere. What changed?
Good call Jimski, how many high jacking attempts have been foiled by the TSA anyway since it’s inception? Zero? How many shoe bombs have been discovered in all this time? Zero?
As a guy that travels for his job and witnesses the total dysfunction and sloth of the TSA army around the country, it is just sad. After sizing up this rag tag brigade of public service workers it is hard for me to feel safe and be convinced that they all did their job. Not to stereotype the whole group because I’m sure there are qualified people among the rank and file but as a group, good grief! I don’t know if anybody else that flies for a living feels the same way or not. To me the staffing levels seem way high now and there is really no excuse for the lines to be so slow.
Well, I haven’t been on a commercial airlines flight since the TSA was created. I don’t intend to do so again until the TSA is disbanded. My business doesn’t require me to fly and I’ll drive to any family function I attend. People who need to fly have my sympathy.
If you don’t let in the Muslims, then you don’t need any airport security at all. When’s the last time a fabulously non Muslim blew up a plane?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-13/why-were-texas-game-wardens-just-issued-nuclear-radiation-detectors
Yet look at the US boarder.How about moving TSA there and screening the obvious ?
TSA Spent $160 Mil For Scanners With A 96% Failure Rate
A recent security audit found that TSA scanners failed to stop explosives and weapons 96% of the time. Sen. Ron Johnson said that the scanners “weren’t even catching metal.” That’s worse than the TSA did in 2004-05, when it screening process missed “only” 70% of the time.Aug 17, 2015
TSA chief vows security overhaul after 96% failure rate in detecting …
https://www.rt.com/usa/311117-tsa-tighten-airport-security-failure/
RT
Jul 30, 2015 – Still reeling from a report that found the US Transportation Security Administration failed to uncover 96 percent of explosives going through
As Killary would say WHAT DOES IT MATTER
You know you are fucked they they come out and start VOWING to overhaul it..
I remember back in the day in our small airline we would park the A/C fuel it, check all the PAX in and do our OWN Security Screening as airline Employees!!..I screened for 5 years and NEVER missed a test item NOT ONCE!!..Its ALL bullchit
Can somebody tell me why I have been classified as a Precheck passenger the last couple of times I have flown when I never applied for it?
I find it creepy to consider the hundreds or thousands of people trapped in security lines in terminals. Talk about sitting ducks.
Atlas Shrugged 2.0
Gayle, are you active duty military? Do you work for the DOD, or have a CAC card?