Comments on: Homeland Security Creating Passenger Terror Scores — Illegal But Still Doing It

By: meetsy

meetsy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:01:07 +0000

so, now can someone explain why I get the shoe/search everything/body massage/rubdown/wipe down and “sit in that chair and put your feet on the big yellow stencil feet painted on the floor”delay…every time I fly? What did I do? I assumed it was because they’d matched my email/posts on this blog!!!

By: Hugh G. Rection

Hugh G. Rection — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:49:22 +0000

Just protecting our “freedoms…”

By: tallwookie

tallwookie — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:27:25 +0000

one more reason not to fly anywhere, ever

id rather drive. I cant be harrased by the tsa when i drive

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:01:14 +0000

#6 – Thank you for having the courage to say what I was only thinking

The terrorists have won… But losing is so sexy…

By: Walter Sobcheck

Walter Sobcheck — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:07:46 +0000

That picture really turns me on.

By: Ballenger

Ballenger — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:08:07 +0000

It’s just nuts out there. Last week going through Dulles, the TSA pulled my wife aside because she had put her make-up crap in a GALLON size (anti-democracy) Zip-lock and not the QUART (pro-democracy) size bag. If our safety in the air depends on the size of a baggie we are more than screwed.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:03:33 +0000

I think a discussion should be opened for people who know they are on the shitlist and what happened. My story was flying to Colorado from the Caribbean, for vacation. In Orlando to Denver leg, I asked the ticket agent (in Orlando) if we could change our plan and get off in Denver, instead of continuing on in Albuquerque, then renting a car and doubling back to Colorado. (Four Corners area). I told the girl that I was not requesting a refund for the flight from DEN to ABQ and that they could use the seats anyway they chose to. Seemed like a win-win to me. Oh no, that would be fine they said, you can depart in Denver and pick up your luggage in Albuquerque. They would not let my luggage off with me. I spoke to the manager, and I said something stupid like, “I’m no security expert, but wouldnt you want the luggage to leave with me, with the terrorists threat and all.” Yeah, I know, dumbass, open mouth insert foot. I now have made 10 trips back and forth and we are always given the “special treatment”.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:19:39 +0000

I bet a score low. Dang it.

Get this story (true) ….
Last month I forgot I had a 4 oz tube of Dr Scholl’s rough heal cream loose in my duffle bag. Well, it was caught on the X-ray. I was taken aside and confronted with “undeclared liquid” (I did declare my toothpaste and deoderant in the baggie).

I merely reached for it to see what it was and the gestapo dressed TSA chick nearly took me down for “interfering with an investigation”. I was set aside and questioned why I did not delcare said liquid . I said it was a cream, not a liquid and it was 3 oz. Ouch. That got the bitch furious and she called for backup.

Needless to say, she opened up “the TSA shitlist”, put my name in their, drivers license, ticket #, etc and sent me on my way.

Clearly, they will find I am a liberal and my mother is Cuban. OMG. I am screwed.

By: BertDawg

BertDawg — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:06:54 +0000

Again, the very existence of the TSA and Homeland Security empires is a disgrace. “We are not descended from fearful men.”
These two bureaucratic monsters attest to the opinion that THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON !

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:02:44 +0000

Good, I hope this kind of crap gets overruled. Making references to Ben Franklin sayings has become trite at this point, but this reaction to terrorism, by our government, got out of control a long time ago.