Drip drip drip.
Air travellers waived their 4th, 2nd, now 1st.
“You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest.”
If I trusted my government more, I’d think this was probably only meant to warn passengers not to joke about have a bomb or some other weapon or make other such comments that could lead to a false alarm.
damned gestapo wannabes.
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Hey tsa... I have a joke for you... THE TSA!
It’s long been known that it isn’t wise to greet your friend, Jack at the airport by loudly exclaiming, “Hi, Jack!”
Q. Why does TSA airport security look so well staffed?
A. All the jobs for taxi drivers were filled.
Can hardly wait to try that one out.
Don't like the trash on tv ? Don't subscribe to cable.
Don't like Nazis at the airport ? Don't go to the airport.
Bbbbbut some of us 'have' to fly for work !
And if the airlines' survival depended on those few, both the TSA Nazis and the Vichy airlines would come to a screeching halt.
Use air travel for discretionary trips and you're part of the problem.
Period
Anybody who patronizes airports deserves the totalitarian state that is coming.
A week of nobody flying in protest would shake the feral government bullies to their core.
Violation of our rights. You can’t be arrested for saying anything!
The least they could do is periodically play Reveille from time to time to wake sleeping TSA agents. Going through DFW a couple of years I was floored seeing a sleeping TSA agent guarding some unused exit.
Can we still photograph TSA workers who have fallen asleep by the x-ray machines?
Meanwhile, all men who “appear to be Arab” are waved through with their AK47s in hand.
Did the illiterate Justice Roberts eliminate the 1st Amendment along with the 10th?
I’ve been lurking here since the Clinton days. To prove it, I predict that several people will point out that I just signed up today, others will say that I’m a DU troll, and I will probably be accused of a double post as well.
Anyway, after reading this article, I had to tell of my travel experience this weekend. I was flying from Knoxville TN to Dallas TX. I realize that Knoxville is not a huge city, but there was only 1 TSA agent and 1 x-ray machine/scanner for all departing passengers. When I got there, there were about 30 people in line in front of me and it was taking at least 1 minute per person. So it took over 30 minutes for me to get to the front of the line.
I had a baseball cap on when I went through the scanning machine, and of course the hat got flagged. Believe me, by this time I was in a pretty bad mood. The TSA agent told me to take off my hat. As he was squeezing my hat he said, “You don’t have any guns or knives hidden in here do you?”, as he chuckled. I snatched the hat out of his hands and said “Hell no!” Then I said “If I had made a wisecrack like that, you would have had my face on the floor with a gun to my head! It’s a good thing we don’t all have to live by the same rules.”
He was pretty much speechless at that point and had a confused look on his face as I walked away. Anyway, I got a small amount of satisfaction from the exchange.
That’s all I have to say, but to prove that I’ve been lurking here for years, I’m sure a grammar/spelling nazi will point out my errors, and several people will complain about my formatting or lack thereof.
This is not new. I know I have heard this message multiple times as I do a LOT of travel through IAH.
I cracked up travelling out of LAX about 10 years ago hearing the central scrutinzer on the PA insisting that the white zone is for loading and unloading only. Any Zappa fan would “get it”.
So the terrorists won? They managed to destroy Americans’ freedoms.