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TSA agents aren’t exactly known for being professional and courteous. In light of this, the recent news we’re about to share with you might not come as a huge shock. It turns out the director of the TSA has been arrested for elder abuse, and the arrest went down inside the Atlanta airport. There’s a certain irony to this story, given the horrendous reputation of TSA agents for their aggressive frisking, yelling at innocent passengers, and treating travelers like prisoners in a work camp.

Now, seeing a leader of this disgraced organization charged with abusing elderly people seems to highlight the bigger issue of unprofessionalism running rampant throughout the TSA.

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TSA Assistant Federal Director, Maxine McManaman was arrested by US Customs & Border Protection, on a warrant out of St Lucie, Florida, as she exited a flight at the Atlanta Airport.

The charges are for exploiting an elderly dementia relative, and forging documents transferring property to herself and an accomplice.

She’s being held without bond.

Before & After her booking. 👇

Here’s a closeup of her before and after photos:

At the very least, this particular TSA agent deserves some type of award for proficiency in makeup.

Yahoo News:

An official with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been arrested on an outstanding warrant, according to local reports.

TSA Assistant Federal Security Director Maxine McManaman was arrested in Atlanta by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Dec. 28.

McManaman had a warrant for her arrest posted by the St. Lucie County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office, which claimed she and an alleged accomplice named Delroy Chambers Sr. exploited a relative suffering from dementia by falsifying documents in their name, according to Port St. Lucie Police.

The Florida authorities allege that the duo forged signatures on a quitclaim deed transferring ownership of a property in the relative’s name over to themselves.

The relative whose property was transferred to McManaman and Chambers allegedly could not have signed the quitclaim deed, because the individual was found to have been in Atlanta on the date listed, according to police.

The situation with the TSA and the aviation industry as a whole goes way beyond just dealing with power-hungry, rude agents. It’s facing a larger issue: the “diversity bug” has bitten the industry, and it’s causing the entire house of cards to fall.

Revolver has been investigating this “diversity disaster” in the airline industry, where the focus on diversity could be putting both crew and passengers at risk. In a field where skill and expertise should be the most important things, there’s growing concern that skill is being overshadowed by a political need to hire based on gender and skin color.

Revolver:

The case of Damian Campbell and the near-collision incident in Austin, together with numerous other such incidents, raise troubling questions that deserve a deeper dive. Revolver News conducted an investigation into the matter in considerable depth. We spoke with several air traffic and FAA personnel, most of whom insisted on staying anonymous and off the record.

While the disturbing decline in aviation safety is complex and multifaceted, we identified two major contributing factors that have received scant media attention. The first such factor is the likely contribution of disastrous COVID-era policies to the staffing shortage of many air traffic control rooms. The second factor is that aggressive affirmative action policies implemented during the Obama administration have resulted in a catastrophic collapse in the quality of controllers. In short, COVID policies have gutted the quantity of air traffic controllers, and diversity policies have gutted the quality of air traffic controllers, creating unprecedented danger for the aviation industry.

Revolver calls what’s happening in aviation a “crisis of competency,” where airlines are putting progressive policies above safety.

The aggressive substitution of merit in favor of diversity has led to a so-called competency crisis, jeopardizing not only our ability to generate innovative technology but, in a more dire sense, our ability to simply maintain the proper functioning of various complex systems vital to our existence as a first-world civilization. Despite the superficiality of “diversity” as a matter of rhetoric, the reality of diversity as an ideological, cultural, and legal imperative is not merely cosmetic—far from it.

While a full treatment of this topic would run far outside the scope of this article, we have discussed elsewhere the manner and extent to which the affirmative action regime is embedded deeply into the law, economy, and every major institution in the country.

There’s a lot more to this saga, so we encourage you to read the entire Revolver piece.

Crash Landing: The Inside Scoop About How Covid and Affirmative Action Policy Gutted Aviation Safety

In the meantime, let’s hope this TSA director faces consequences for her actions and serves as a warning to others in similar positions. It could be the wake-up call needed for agents who mistreat passengers who are simply trying to travel from point A to point B.

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