2009's Biggest Villain Is...
You know, if we were naming the winners of these 2009 awards a few weeks ago, Ryanair's crazy CEO Michael O'Leary would have easily won this category for "Biggest Villian"; hello, the man wants airplane passengers to pay to pee and to have a standing-room-only section on planes with just handrails. But then last weekend's attempted terrorist event struck, bringing with it days of TSA failure after TSA embarrassment.
Therefore, the Transportation Safety Administration is 2009's Biggest Villain. We had only just forgiven them for stupidly releasing the unedited version of their entire security proceedings on their own site when they go and subpoena two travel journalists over source information for the security directives the writers had posted following the Christmas Day terrorist attempt and the TSA's knee-jerk new batch of rules.
It gets worse, after the jump...
Aside from being heavy-handed with this, we're wondering how the TSA got itself together enough to have agents personally visit these two writers at their homes and threaten them, with the papers already drawn up, when the TSA failed across the board only days earlier when Abdulmutallab boarded a plane with underpants full of explosives, a one-way flight paid in cash, no luggage, and his name on the terrorist watch list.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. If the TSA isn't careful, 2010 could become the year they become synonymous with Big Brother tactics and general ineptness—oh wait, that already happened in 2009.
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