Even though this agency was set up way after the famed TV
series ended, could MacGyver have successfully circumvented the TSA’s established
airport security routine?
By: Ringo Bones
Given that MacGyver is white, he already has won half the
battle against TSA – and that’s based on actual post 9/11 political climate in
America that exists until this day. But would the famed TV super-agent MacGyver
have successfully defeated the TSA if it was around back in the 1980s?
The Transportation Security Agency or TSA was created as a
response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. It is now an agency of the
US Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security
of the traveling public in the United States.
The TSA was created in part of the Aviation and
Transportation Security Act, sponsored by Don Young in the United States House
of Representatives and Ernest Hollings in the Senate, passed by the 107th
US Congress and signed into law by the then US President George W. Bush on
November 19, 2001. Originally part of the United States Department of
Transportation, the TSA was moved to the Department of Homeland Security on
March 9, 2003.
Imagine a TSA agent asking MacGyver “has your luggage in
your sight the whole time?” or “Did you pack your luggage yourself?” or “Any
contents of your luggage that can potentially be used as a weapon?” That’s
tough given that MacGyver could probably find a way to “throw” that cheap pulp
fiction book that he bought in the airport kiosk to within 10-percent of the
speed of light which could easily bring down a plane – never mind those paper
clips that can potentially be used as a deadly weapon. Forget screening
liquids, MacGyver could potentially used whatever is at hand into an unseemly
improvised weapon.
