I don't believe the girl in the first part at all (full video of that http://www.videosift.com/video/Police-Rough-Up-Airport-Traveler ). "Please get off me" was more likely "Get your fucking hands of me, you pigs" and she was very in the examiners face during the search of the bag.

That said, with power comes great douchebags too.

I'm so sick of these arrogant goons with their epaulettes and toy badges. Unfortunately it's just the beginning .

I dig the new theme schmawy. Everyone loves a serious cat in uniform.

Ah, yes, Mr. Turgler. Your boarding pass please .

here kitty kitty kitty, i have something shiny and metal for you

>> ^schmawy:
Ah, yes, Mr. Turgler. Your boarding pass please .


*waves hand*
this is not the turd you're looking for

Remember to thank the republicans, and the complacent congress, for the politics of fear. How much are people willing to give up to feel safe. My personal opinion is, if I know I am going to go through a metal detector, wouldn't I want ot take out the nipple rings. But if you want to fly, you have to admit that some crazy american not just terrorists, might do something stupid, so now we have to check everyone.

I've had a TSA numbnuts ask me to unbutton/unzip my pants. I opened my fly in front of a bunch of kids in line, and I thought to myself if I did this in front of kids anywhere else I'd probably be arrested.

9/11 sucked. The TSA sucks more.

How much tax money goes towards paying these goons to enforce ludicrous rules, disregard common decency, and trample all over the concept of innocent until proven guilty?

Reasonable response to 9/11: Sorry kids, no more visits to the cockpit to get free plastic pilot wings from the captain, because now we keep that door locked.

Actual response to 9/11: Form a massive, fascist thug squad to give a vague illusion that the government can prevent all "shit happens" situations by frisking 71 year old men and confiscating water bottles and toothpaste, and call it the TSA.

*Man sets off alarm*

+"Excuse me sir, could you step aside?"

-"No!"

+"Just who do you think you are?"

-"I... AM... IRON MAN!!"

*kills all TSA agents*

The End

Best sequel ever.

That's what we get for allowing our politicians to do whatever they want during a time of fear, or under the guise of "we're at war".

"Only" 110,000 complaints?

Can anyone show me ANY evidence that all this unnecessary bullshit has prevented ANY hijackings? The only thing I can think of is that fucking shoe bomber that was only caught AFTER he got on the plane.

Much uncalled for harassment warrants the label "pigs". "Law Enforcement" seems to know no bounds or Civillty. Having had familiy and friends in "Law Enforcement", I know first-hand that they think they're above the laws the rest of us are subject to.

Everytime I fly, encounter TSA morons and start stripping half my clothes off, I thank (God) that the "shoe-bomber" wan'ts hiding anything up his ass. Imagine what we'd be going though now...

2,000,000,000 inspections, 110,000 complaints. Are you one of the 1 in 20,000 who gets hassled enough to complain?

My 79 year old mother in a wheelchair got felt up, under her breasts, when we recently went through airport security. Thank god too, as you know 79 year old grandmothers have a real tendency to hijack airplanes, smuggle drugs and/or weapons. Me? Never even got looked at twice. Then, while on the flight, the airplane's cockpit was opened up, not once, but twice, with only the beverage cart and two effeminate stewards guarding the controls. (Presumably from elderly grandmothers...)

The TSA/airline industry is a joke.

The title is really not making me want to press play.

You can be safe or you can be free. You can't have both.

She didn't seem like the nipple ring type of lady.

My nipple ring has set of the alarm a few times. I delight in showing them my man-tit.

Why not make the cockpit require a SEPARATE ENTRANCE POINT ACCESSIBLE ONLY FROM THE OUTSIDE OF THE PLANE?! The senior flight attendant could get the cushy job of hanging out with the pilots and everyone else serves the rest of the plane. The worst someone could do is blow up the plane and hope it falls on something. It would be such an inefficient means to cause terror that no one would bother. Air security achieved. None of this shit is required anymore. Done.

There is no reason for any of this. Cockpit security is already fine. Before 9/11 everyone in the industry was told to cooperate with hijackers. What used to happen was a flight to Cuba or some other destination and then a hostage stand-off. Simply changing to the locked cockpit door is the only new security that was, or is, necessary. The rest of this is just security theater, but no one seems to know how to stop.

Blame political correctness.

Everyone KNOWS a 73 year old woman is not a terrorist, but if they target the real potential threats (Muslim males 16-45) it'd be called "profiling".

Cultural Marxism is a PATHOLOGICAL POISON that is killing our COMMON SENSE and it will IRREPARABLY DESTROY European civilization.

>> ^Pprt:
Everyone KNOWS a 73 year old woman is not a terrorist, but if they target the real potential threats (Muslim males 16-45) it'd be called "profiling".

I totally agree with you. I'm white and I strongly believe that profiling people is the only logical way to do things.

As long as we're talking about only profiling brown folks.

"Only" 110,000 complaints?

Don't let your knowledge of statistics fly out the window. 100,000 complaints out of 2,000,000,000 searches is 1 in 20,000.

This makes me want to get a Prince Albert just piss them off!

>> ^xxovercastxx:
You can be safe or you can be free. You can't have both.

Disagree.

Don't mistake disrespect for increased security. A respectful security agent is at least as effective as a disrespectful one. All of these searches could have been done in a more respectful way. (You'll notice nobody is complaining that there's too much security, just that it's disrespectful.)

When I used to travel by air through the States, the security folk had this attitude like I had no choice but to travel through the States, and that gave them licence to bark orders at me in O'Hare and JFK, like I'm a convict being admitted to prison. But I do have a choice, because I'm only passing through, so I never travel through the States anymore, if there's any way to avoid it. And I'm safe. And respected.

When I turn 71, I'm pretty sure the struggle will be to get me to pull them back up...