What has the TSA done for you lately?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

And what the TSA isn't doing, the Airline industry is taking on themselves.

That being said, I really don't know why all the hub-bub about airline security. First, if someone wants to blow up a plane bad enough, they're going to f'ing blow it up, regardless of security. Europe can attest to that. Second, nobody is going to be able to hijack another American plane again, ever. Why not? The passengers wouldn't let it happen.

[tubaboy81.livejournal.com]

Second, nobody is going to be able to hijack another American plane again, ever. Why not? The passengers wouldn't let it happen.

Thank you, I've been wondering for years if I was the only one who saw that.

[bluetooth16.livejournal.com]

LMAO! I actually saw a 7 year old boy searched at Laguardia* yesterday. I wondered why the TSA bothered to pull him aside.


*New York City's second largest airport.

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

Lewis Black told a story about a woman who was in a wheelchair getting searched twice by several security personal. His description of the woman was priceless; "She looked as though Protestantism had been birthed from her womb. ...Honestly , if our enemies can convert her, they ought to win. ...you don't search the 80 year old woman because as horrible as our enemies are, they are not masters of disguise."

He then goes on to tell a story about a woman with twins who has to take the twins out of a stroller, collapse the stroller and send it through the X-Ray machine. He goes on to say that you let the woman with the two kids on the plane because the woman with two children doesn't have the time or the energy to blow up a plane. And with those little monsters running around and searching and discovering new things all the time, they would be the ones wh find the explosive device - not the security guards.

Freaking. Hilarious.

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

> I actually saw a 7 year old boy searched at Laguardia* yesterday. I wondered why the TSA bothered to pull him aside.

I suspect that most of the rationalization is the possibility that a child could be given an item to hide by someone else.

[jimb.livejournal.com]

My family is flying to Montana next month to join a separatist movement. I hope my seven year old son isn't mistaken for a terrorista.

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a Family Circus I saw a year or so after 9/11. Little Jeffry hands the security guard at the airport his teddy bear to be searched. When I saw this cartoon I knew that the terrorists had one. And the fundamental crazies in the white house with fascistic tendencies were wringing their hands in delight, not unlike Monty Burns.

And. At SFO (San Francisco's airport) some close family had been chosen for additional searches. They have the bad luck of being of a darker color and they all had cavity searches. Their son, my cousin, is a San Francisco Police Officer - who was with them and was searched too. Hardly the terrorist types, you know?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

The terrorists had one what?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

A teddy bear. "Jeffry hands the security guard at the airport his teddy bear to be searched. When I saw this cartoon I knew that the terrorists had one."

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

New job opportunities for teh paedophiles? Don'tcha just love home-land security.

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Even though they're irretrievably intertwined with the TSA, they'd make the argument that the airlines are all private businesses and can choose who to allow to use their service. As an exclusive club they'd say that if they don't feel like letting X or Y person on their planes for whatever reason, they don't have to, just like movie theaters in theory not allowing moviegoers to bring their own refreshments onto their property.