[353FMG]

I doubt that the TSA will make the same claim vis a vis the Muslims.

[Responsibility2nd]

Thanks for posting this article.

In view of the recent United passenger being forcibly removed after he became disruptive, and the many arguments both for and against him; I thought it was strange that the whole country was focusing all this attention on this small minor incident.

While ignoring the many more worse personal and humiliating violations that tens of thousands of flyers face every day by the goons at the TSA (Touching, Squeezing and Assaulting).

[baltimorepoet]

As my 19-yr old son would say, people with power or authority think they are invincible until you are sitting on their chest outside their place of residence, with both of your thumbs pressed into their eye sockets gouging out their eyes.

[Cementjungle]

Intimate apparel has been a source of concern ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day 2009 by detonating a bomb hidden in his underwear

Of course using "profiling" to screen the most likely threats would be racist or some such thing... we wouldn't want to offend those who want to kill us.

[VideoPaul]

Ah yes. The TSA. 7 billion dollars a year checking your shoes. The largest government make-work program since the Works Projects Administration in the 1930s. Employing the biggest collection of lowlifes and the hard core unemployable and giving these mopes health care and pensions.

A completely unaccountable agency, they answer to no one, proudly refuse to answer and questions and tell congress itself to piss off. And we haven’t the talent in congress to stand up to these sub humans.

Makes me want to go through the live with a hot load in my shorts and gleefully allow them to go groping. Well, I was just divesting myself of my gels! Wanna see me get rid of my liquids and gases too?

[Uncle Miltie]

The Underwear Bomber:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

[JimRed]

Homosexuals and would-be molesters are probably lining up for those job opportunities!

[bgill]

Piss on the TSA. Literally. People shouldn’t meekly comply but make the gestapo’s job harder.

[Kartographer]

Between the airlines behavior and that of the TSA I can't understand why anyone flies. And in fact I am getting a bit tired of the bitching. Grow a pair and stand up for your rights and do something. Even now airline margins are so low it would only take a general boycott of ten days to two weeks to bring them to their knees.

"You're men aren't ya?"

[taxcontrol]

TSA is NOT law enforcement.

They do not have the right to attack or strike you. If the lady was struck in the throat as reported, the next action should have been calling for the police and pressing assault charges.

[G Larry]

Save your revenge for later.

No point in challenging their authority on their field.

[lee martell]

What’s panty-liner? I guess I’ll just google it.
I’m guessing it’s something like ‘Depends’.

[WKUHilltopper]

And you could get a fat lip and loose teeth...get used to it.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I hate the modern police state. I hate GW for creating the Nazi thugs at TSA. This is a power mad, abusive bunch that needed to be dismantled yesterday. Yet not a single time was candidate Trump ever asked a question about TSA. I would scream at my TV begging someone to ask him if he would dismantle TSA and let airports resume their own security.

The TSA makes me livid.

[Vaduz]

TSA = Touch some a$$

You don’t get on until we get off

[baltimorepoet]

Food for thought: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[beelzepug]

Let me guess who the TSA goon was - Barack Obama’s 350 lb sister?

[48th SPS Crusader]

Intimate apparel has been a source of concern ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day 2009 by detonating a bomb hidden in his underwear.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Evelyn Harris

Now which named person would YOU suspect might have a bomb and need to be searched?

[Mashood]

Boy am I glad the terrorists haven’t won!

[kosciusko51]

Another reason that I don’t fly if I can avoid it. At this point, I only fly for work, and try to avoid it as much as possible.

I haven’t flown for a vacation since 2011, and only to celebrate a family member’s 100th birthday on the opposite coast.