:: rolls eyes ::
(sigh)
Not all airports have the scanners—yet. Could be helpful when trip planning to know which do.
In CA, Palm Springs International doesn’t have them yet.
Watch the lines on approach. Some airports are putting all people thru lanes which have these. Some only have the devices on some security lanes.
Do your best to look bored and certainly don’t lose your temper. It seems if you make eye contact with the person doing the ‘random’ selections you are more likely to get picked.
Unless of course you are over 80, a nun, or a child. In those cases you are more likely.
Hope they bought you dinner & flowers.
bring plenty of dollars with you....for tips
Im heading back to canada during Christmas and already instructed my family to pick me up in Blaine WA. I’ve already heard of canadians getting PO;d about this. No wonder we have a drop off in foreign visitors..
Landed in Atlanta safe and sound. I really appreciate all the fine posts on this thread. Many good suggestions and links to other atrocities. We will see this new procedure scrapped within two weeks if we keep the pressure.
Now for some dinner and a margarita. Tomorrow will be time enough to deal with this controversy.
Mike “Pink Slip” Evers
Then, when they begin their SS procedures (you vill show us your papers, ja?), let out a blood curdling scream "Ooooooouuuuuch!!!", repeat it several times, make a scene if you have to. Dont say anything else. Just "ouch!!".
There is not a court in the land that could objectively prove you were NOT subjectively, physically hurt by the procedure, and you could embarrass these TSA on the spot, and nothing you do would be illegal to my knowledge, but simply an act of civil disobedience that would make everyone uncomfortable. They could threaten to arrest you, but on what ground? That you hurt upon being touched?
Meanwhile, burkaed Muslims are going to get a partial pass. This is almost as ludicrous as out of state Americans being charged extra tuition in some states, where as illegal aliens on the same soil get the same rates as residents for that state. ILLEGAL ALIENS!!???!!! When are we going to wake up and realize that the lifelife of this country, the average American, is being made a Second Class Citizen overnight due to Intrusive Goverment and Political Correctness.
I will tell you this. In the history of mankind, if man does not stand up against Government-Run-Amok, they, the Overlords, will get drunk on power and seize even more personal liberties from the individual. It is just the reality of human nature and power.
Either we submit to this and they take more and more from us (a year or two from now under Big Sis and Obongo, they will be doing full an*l and vag*nal cavity exploration on a regular basis, mark my words), or we put our feet down as a group now and put a stop to it, otherwise we also make them pay politicallly at the polls and make it an election issue for 2012, and also force our Congresscritters to take public positions even before the new sesssion (if they are being held over into the new Congress).