Well, I’m referring to the mess in Newark where the guy kissed his girlfriend and everyone went apeshit…because he went through security, NOT because the effing dumbass guard left his post. One of the elected nutbags went on a rant about it….funny, didn’t seem incensed about the guard LEAVING HIS SECURITY POST. No, let’s pick on the chinaman.
Just more C R A P from the morons who inhabit the halls of power.
“…His actions might have seemed innocently romantic to him, his friends said. But the incident was yet another lapse in airport security that frustrated harried travelers in the wake of the failed plane bombing on Christmas and incensed one New Jersey lawmaker over the leniency of Mr. Jiang’s potential penalty. …
In an interview on Saturday, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, of New Jersey, said he was hoping that the United States attorney’s office would consider bringing federal charges because the penalty Mr. Jiang is facing, “is hardly noteworthy and would not discourage people who want to break through the perimeter.”
The senator said the trouble the security breach caused far outweighed the punishment: 1,600 people stuck in the airport for six hours; flights delayed and an “incalculable” loss of money. And then for five days after the incident, New Jersey law enforcement officials searched exhaustively for the man caught on a grainy surveillance video, one which Sen. Lautenberg had released on Thursday. …”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/nyregion/10newark.html accessed 1/9/10
