The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (among others) is reporting that new federal airport security screeners won’t need a high school diploma to land the plump gubbmint job.

[…]The Transportation Security Agency, the new Department of Transportation organization created to supervise transportation security, decided earlier this month that a high school diploma isn’t necessary if candidates have a year of on-the-job experience.

‘We don’t want to disqualify anyone with one year of experience just because they don’t have a high school diploma,’ Transportation Security Agency spokesman Paul Takemoto said. ‘They’d be a valuable asset.’

…Yeah. As scapegoats, maybe…

No word yet if a madrassah diploma will be accepted in lieu of one year of experience, though the TSA has ruled out certificates of completion from most major terrorist training facilities, regardless of the airport screening experience or bomb-making prowess of those applicants. This “decision based on the worst kind of racial exclusionarianismopitegemony” has not gone unnoticed by C.A.I.R, who (in addition to coining cool new words) finds “the marginalization of Muslim Extremist technical students based solely on their area of training — in this case, applied explosives engineering — deplorable.”

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