TSA Plants Fake Drugs In Baggage... SURPRISE!

Government, as I've said before, is made up of people. Some of those people are wonderful, some are evil, and some are just plain, well... I have no words.

When 22-year-old Rebecca Solomon was confronted with a TSA agent pulling a plastic bag filled with a fine white powder from her carry-on bag at an airport checkpoint, she had no idea what was happening.

"Where did you get this?" he asked her, a forbidding expression on his face and the incriminating bag held up for all to see.

Rebecca had no idea how the baggie had gotten there, because it wasn't hers. She didn't know who it belonged to, and she was scared to death.

That's when the TSA screener smiled. "Just joking," she was told, "and you can go through, now."
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20100121_Daniel_Rubin__It_was_no_joke_at_security_gate.html

This is a perfect example of my "government is people" point. What in the name of all that is holy possessed this man to TORTURE a passenger in this fashion? Planting evidence in a passenger's baggage... as a joke?


Now, what happened to the screener? Initially, nothing. Rebecca complained and was told he was training other agents on detecting contraband, but the screener remained on the floor. Only later, after this blew up, was action taken. He was, eventually, fired for the "joke."

But this illustrates my point: when we grant power to government it WILL BE ABUSED. Why? Because government is not some man-created God with altruistic motives.

Government is people.