Posted on 10/14/2013 2:20:22 PM PDT by QT3.14
Travelers who attempt to make a joke about strict security procedures at airports have been warned they face arrest.
A loudspeaker announcement made by the Transport Security Administration warns the public: 'Any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest.'
Concerned passenger Matt Miller recorded the loudspeaker message while passing through George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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.
I was going to say it’s because many passengers are nervous about such talk at airports and it might therefore be considered a breach of the peace (like hollering “Fire” in a crowded theater where there is no fire), but it probably traces more to these airport police being duty bound to take such comments seriously until proven otherwise. Leave it to bureaucrats to come up with the most graceless way possible to warn the public, though.
Charge with what? A bad attitude?
Inciting riducule?
Signs used to do, but now it gets announced. Were they getting a spate of such awkward remarks from people who couldn’t read?
damned gestapo wannabes.
CC
Appropriate jokes would be just fine by this! And boy could we come up with hundreds here if we wanted to.
You do not diss your masters.
To find out who owns you, find out who you cannot ridicule
Hey tsa... I have a joke for you... THE TSA!
WWII references? Impossibly distant. This would probably fly right over the heads of most airport police.
I know it’s mighty tempting to get irritated at these bureaucrats, but a “God bless you” attitude (even though it cannot be “God bless the ridiculous, pointless mission they put you on”) will get much further than a “God damn you” attitude. In fact a good “Bless you” might confuse one of them for 5 minutes.
The New Clown Prince nobama Amerika: heads down...shuffle along...no thinking allowed...
As always, our enemy is the devil. All this ridiculous charade is obedience to same. Cut past the devil and the results are remarkable. That’s why I am not kidding here.
Such as..."Knock, knock....whose there? TSA...[use your imagination]...
“You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest.”
Charge with what? A bad attitude?
Inciting riducule?
The legitimate purpose of such a message would be to remind people not to joke that they have a bomb, or joke that the guy behind him said he was going to hijack the plane, etc.
These type of “jokes” could cause an unnecessary security incident, and possiby delay dozens of flights and incovenience thousands of passengers, and an arrest would be justified.
The other possible interpretation of the message, is that passengers not to make any funny, snide or otherwise negative comments about the probing and groping they are receiving, under penalty of arrest.
As I said earlier, if I trusted my government more, I’d assume the first, legitimate meaning was intended. With the government we have now, I am not so sure.
CC
I say sincerely, not sarcastically. This is not spiritual horsefeathers. It cuts right by the folly of the Garden. You want spiritual root privs? Go to the Lord.
“So, playing “the horst wessel song” or “Deutscheland uber alles” played from my kindle fire while waiting in the security line would get me in trouble? what if i replied to a request to open my bag with “jawohl herr obergruppenfuhrer!”
damned gestapo wannabes. “
I would not try it. There may be someone there who actually knows that we fought the Nazis in WWII and won. Temporarily, anyway.
21 Dallas-Ft. Worth TSA employees arrested selling/buying stolen airport employee parking passes?
The dozens from TSA suspended or fired in Pittsburgh over an illegal gambling ring?
The Orlando TSA agent arrested a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer for allegedly "conspiring" to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country involving five others?
All the TSA thefts in the news over the years?
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