About four years ago I had to renew my CDL with a HazMat endorsement. A new ruling from the TSA stated I had to get security clearance to get the HazMat renewed. Cost me almost $100.00, got digitally fingerprinted, and the whole mess of my background checks done. Passed everything and thought I was all set....
Then I had to have a TSA issued TWIC card to work at the docks, this again required the fingerprints and background check and another $100.00 bill.
Today, I got a letter from the State saying I now have to get another TSA background check to get my HazMat endorsement renewed on my driver's CDL for next year.
This is starting to piss me off, my fingerprints haven't changed, and either my CDL or TWIC cards should be good for both jobs because they go into the same computer (or should). If there was new information that made me some kind of threat, I would think in a realistic world, that data would automatically go into my "File".
Instead, I have to redo everything as if I was a new person every five years on both cards.
This is total insanity, someone who wants to blow up something isn't going to go to the trouble to get trained knowing full well they are nuts! Yeah, I know the 911 guys got a pilot license, but we are talking trucks, in ten min's I can show someone of "Normal" abilities to make a truck go where they want to.
It is bad enough that the TSA is mandating that passengers on flights are now treated like they were all terrorists and groped to where an average person doing that would go to jail as a pervert.
As a point, can you imagine anyone trying to highjack a plane nowdays, the passengers all will figure they are going to die unless they rip the arms off the guys that want to take over the plane. Case in point, the underwear bomber got the shit kicked out of him by the passengers when they realized what he was doing, as did the underwear bomber as well. When they showed both of those two clowns, they had faces that looked like they had been in a meat grinder... as they should have.
The terrorist have clearly won and we are going to bankrupt our country because we are turning into a bunch of idiots with very little common sense. If someone looks/acts like a terrorist and are from countries that harbor them, then strip search them by all means.
Tomorrow I think I am going to write some letter to my Congressmen!
Think maybe a few of you should be doing the same thing!
Then I had to have a TSA issued TWIC card to work at the docks, this again required the fingerprints and background check and another $100.00 bill.
Today, I got a letter from the State saying I now have to get another TSA background check to get my HazMat endorsement renewed on my driver's CDL for next year.
This is starting to piss me off, my fingerprints haven't changed, and either my CDL or TWIC cards should be good for both jobs because they go into the same computer (or should). If there was new information that made me some kind of threat, I would think in a realistic world, that data would automatically go into my "File".
Instead, I have to redo everything as if I was a new person every five years on both cards.
This is total insanity, someone who wants to blow up something isn't going to go to the trouble to get trained knowing full well they are nuts! Yeah, I know the 911 guys got a pilot license, but we are talking trucks, in ten min's I can show someone of "Normal" abilities to make a truck go where they want to.
It is bad enough that the TSA is mandating that passengers on flights are now treated like they were all terrorists and groped to where an average person doing that would go to jail as a pervert.
As a point, can you imagine anyone trying to highjack a plane nowdays, the passengers all will figure they are going to die unless they rip the arms off the guys that want to take over the plane. Case in point, the underwear bomber got the shit kicked out of him by the passengers when they realized what he was doing, as did the underwear bomber as well. When they showed both of those two clowns, they had faces that looked like they had been in a meat grinder... as they should have.
The terrorist have clearly won and we are going to bankrupt our country because we are turning into a bunch of idiots with very little common sense. If someone looks/acts like a terrorist and are from countries that harbor them, then strip search them by all means.
Tomorrow I think I am going to write some letter to my Congressmen!
Think maybe a few of you should be doing the same thing!
