The Department of Homeland Security, or is it Insecurity, has made its quarterly change in procedures for the Transportation Security Agency and air travelers. Last quarter it was all the knee jerk reactions to the Christmas day attempted bomber.

An AP news report says that the “U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy.”

I kid you not.

The U.S. government must now see “terror” as a threat that needed a new policy to “focus on specific terror threats and not travelers’ nationalities.”

Funny I thought terrorist were the threat not terror.

Confused or just terrified?

According to the Saturday, April 3, 2010, AP report, the 14 countries that have been home to “terrorist” are no longer a threat but TSA will expand the “pool of foreign travelers targeted for extra screening.”

I know a woman who goes home to the UK about every three or four months to visit her aging mother who lives in assisted living and gets “extra screening” every time she comes back to the USofA.

This is a woman who had an unlimited green card but that was taken away. She was a Marine Corps wife for 15 years of a 28 year marriage, who was responsible for the care and comfort of Marine spouses for the four commanding officer assignments and deployments, and taught grade school to American children.

They wrote to one Georgia senator who sent back a form letter saying that they were sorry but there was nothing they could do.

So, now I bet it will get worse for her.

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Someone at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must be upset that Canada beat the U.S. in Olympic hockey.

The Montreal Gazette reported that starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S.  DHS  has determined they are not terrorists.

The DHS “Secure Flight” program, which is set to take effect globally in December 2010, was created as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, adopted by U.S. Congress in 2004.

The real issue is this: The same people who couldn’t imagine an explosives-laden pair of skivvies on a man who practically had a sign that said “TERRORIST” hung around his neck when he boarded a plane heading to the U.S. last December, are from the same agencies and training programs that are charged with examining the Canadian flights.

When will this lunacy end?

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