Comments on: Newark Airport security supervisor assumed murdered man's identity for 2 decades

By: elix

elix — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:25:00 +0000

Clearly, that’s the rational response. However, Navin was specifically pointing out that this is the response of rabid anti-government libertarian-leaning gaggle of Internet dipwads and the fact that they’re getting what they want, since the gentleman in the story was responsible for managing the private guards staffing the TSA checkpoints there. And the fact that this guy had pulled this off for 20 years.

By: JonS

JonS — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:37:00 +0000

Um … the (rational) call isn’t for private security goons to replace the TSA goons. It’s for *all* the goons to GTFO and return to minimalist pre-9/11 screening, and secure cockpit doors.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:00 +0000

He was PRIVATE security, which is exactly what so many of this rabid anti-government, libertarian leaning mob of commenters has been screeching for.

So there you have it guys. Your private security in action!

said Oyewole entered the United States illegally in 1989 and had worked under several contractors at the airport, most recently FJC Security Services, and supervised about 30 guards. The agency said its investigation found no indication that he used the fake identity for any reason other than to live in the United States.

Now everybody will quietly skulk off until they can repeat their hysterics the next time some TSA person inflicts some holocaust-level indignity on some middle class person…

By: Agent Smith

Agent Smith — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Everybody bitches about government waste. So, we didn’t let this go to waste.

By: CLamb

CLamb — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:17:00 +0000

The man has demonstrated he is willing to lie, cheat, and steal an identity for his personal gain. Those are reasons enough.

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:01:00 +0000

This guy was a private airport security contractor, not a TSA employee. The TSA still sucks, though. Make no mistake.

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that video.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:49:00 +0000

Well if no body else was using it…

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:46:00 +0000

Apparently 9/11 did not actually change everything.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000

“Abnormal, and unlucky” – i’m going with cruel and unusual, or maybe fast and loose.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:07:00 +0000

I prefer to call these types “Armin Tamzarian”s.

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:00 +0000

Bimbo beats dick?

By: JonS

JonS — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:29:00 +0000

” … this guy obviously performed his job functions well enough, and that’s true, but to me that just says the TSA got lucky.”

No, that’s not lucky. Not at all. That’s /normal/.

Abnormal, and unlucky, is the nonsense that the TSA have been inflicting on the public in the US and – as a result of diplomatic shenanigans – around the world this last decade.

By: bryan rasmussen

bryan rasmussen — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:57:00 +0000

anyway I don’t think he lived a double life, did he? I was expecting that he worked as a security guy during the day but at night he doubled as the murdered guy while dealing drugs at a singles bar.

By: bryan rasmussen

bryan rasmussen — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:50:00 +0000

Now I have that old Jim Reeves song going through my head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gu0dE2A60

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:33:00 +0000

Yeah, he could have been just another dumbass goon, who had no clue and didn’t give a shit. Here’s hoping the tsa gets REALLY lucky and is flushed down the toilet.

By: twianto

twianto — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:27:00 +0000

Beats “Dick.”

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000

I totally trust these guys to vanguard our nation’s security when shit like this can happen. I mean honestly, you’re telling me people have been harassed by the TSA over the past decade, and they can’t even figure out if the guy running one of their branches is an imposter?

People are talking about the fact that this guy obviously performed his job functions well enough, and that’s true, but to me that just says the TSA got lucky. He could have been ANYBODY.

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000

People are talking about the fact that this guy obviously performed his job functions well enough, and that’s true, but to me that just says the TSA got lucky. He could have been ANYBODY.

By: Avram Grumer

Avram Grumer — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:03:00 +0000

Yeah, reading the article I was hoping he’d turn out to be named Dick Whitman.

By: noah django

noah django — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:43:00 +0000

TSA, putting the “S” in security since… never.

http://www.la-foodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bimbo-bread.jpg

By: zombiebob

zombiebob — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:42:00 +0000

Dear god, I feel bad for nigerians, all we ever read about regarding them are their brethren who are up to no good in one way or another. But on occassion, a virtuous one makes herself known. Why, the other day I received an email from Sister Nania jibofwekwe of the Our Holy God of God Orphanage, asking me to reclaim a red tape tied inheritance on her behalf, all to benefit the Children! Such selflessness!

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:33:00 +0000

Yeah… I was gonna say. Bimbo? Really? I feel sorry for the guy, I wish him the best possible outcome.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:48:00 +0000

Yep. Silly stuff.

By: JonS

JonS — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:42:00 +0000

“They’ll say he was a major security risk”
Induitably, but given that he worked there, in a security role, for two /decades/ ‘they’ would be wrong.

This is an interesting case that, I think, talks directly to the folly of trying to associate security with identity. Presumably Oyewole fulfilled his job functions at least good enough. Given that, does it matter who he really was?

And, to extend that more generally, why does it matter who any of us are, when we travel?

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:24:00 +0000

Seems like a lot of effort to get rid of the name Bimbo, IMO.

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:24:00 +0000

Seems like a lot of effort to get rid of the name Bimbo, IMO.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:14:00 +0000

Pretty clever. Don Draper anyone?

I bet he’s a hard, honest worker, and he’s being used as a scapegoat – more security theater from the TSA to excuse their handling of “security breaches” at the airport, and he’s an easy target rather than investigating who’s actually responsible for security problems.

They’ll say he was a major security risk since he could have been blackmailed – exploiting illegal immigrants with the threat of deportation is despicable, but happens all the time. Says he was discovered via anonymous tip, so if he failed to keep his secret for whatever reason, I guess I can’t sympathize too much.