TSA is BEMRs. Napolitano is a BEMRtano.

Part 1

Government and most large business have a wonderful mental defect: if they haven't blessed you (sometimes "certified"), you don't know what you're doing and you are neither credible nor trustworthy. No matter how much education, training, or experience you have, you are nothing unless you are really and truly blessed by the government.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/26/2009-12-26_father_of_umar_farouk_abdul_mutallab_nigerian_terror_suspect_in_flight_253_attac.html#ixzz0au4jC6QV

'The terror suspect who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane is the son of a Nigerian banker who alerted U.S. authorities to his "extreme religious views" months ago, it was reported Saturday.'

When a disturbed individual's father notifies authorities that his son has terrorist tendencies -- well, since the 'father' wasn't government-'blessed' to know these things, these things did not exist.

Out dear and glorious -- and obviously blessed -- government allowed a suspected and reported terrorist to board an airplane.

TSA and blessed company are BEMRs.

Part 2

TSA said that to prevent similar events, all passengers must remain seated for the last hour of flight.

But -- wait -- wha-- So, if you fly a regional for less than an hour are you allowed to board the airplane?

TSA and blessed company are BEMRs.

Part 3

Conveniently, the system that allowed a reported terrorist to board said this proves we need full body scans. 

TSA and blessed company are BEMRs.

Part 4

Janet Napolitano said the system worked! 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122700593.html?sub=AR

So, our system -- the system that fears lawsuits for racial profiling, that harasses little old ladies in wheel chairs and six-year-olds with toys and blue-eyed red-blooded American males 'just in case', that misses over half the practice devices sent through scanners, that disavows reports of a terrorist by the terrorist's father, that allows this terrorist to board with a bomb, that blames the problem on the lack of sophisticated scanning equipment, and that blames the problem on not keeping peaceful, law-abiding, Caucasian Christians in their seats for the last hour of flight -- worked? 

Janet Napolitano is a BEMRtano. 

Addenda

The head of El Al security (you know, the unblessed Israeli dude whose airline thwarted all terrorist acts for 20-odd years) said we fail because we look for bombs and not terrorists. 

We are all BEMRs for not listening to the successful professionals instead of the failed semi-professionals.

BEMR