Don’t want to chit chat with your TSA fondler
Well, you may get searched. Seems they’re employing ‘chatdowns’ to get you to admit you’re a terrorist. Or something. And it’s nice how the draw attention to and attempt to embarrass those that don’t want to comply.
August 27th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Meh… Just ‘waiting’ for that…
August 27th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Like the screener is going to ask, “say, those Al Queda guys have a lot of good ideas, huh?” and the victim is going to say “ye-noooooooo.”
August 28th, 2012 at 2:40 am
I have been searched because I did not feel in the mood to be chatty at 6:00 am.
August 28th, 2012 at 5:22 am
I have been watching it evolve for the last 6 months. I almost wasn’t alloowed through security in Detroit because I didn’t want to say where I had been or where I was going other than home. Blah.
August 28th, 2012 at 6:47 am
At this stage of my life, I don’t have to fly so I don’t. I’ve only flown once since 9/11 and had to go thru the Jacksonvile, FL, airport. There was a little sign that said “Please don’t spit on the TSA checkers.” I marveled at that little sign until I was actually processed and then was amazed that the TSA goons hadn’t been drowned in saliva. I don’t know how regular travelers manage to avoid the degradation I felt after subjecting myself to their tender ministry.
August 28th, 2012 at 7:15 am
This guy is from Grand Rapids which means his mode of conversation approximates, “Apples, how much?” I’m from Chicago. I know how to talk to people. I would have had the TSA agent telling me the color of her panties.
August 28th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Now if they only did their Chatting in Arabic, Somali, Pashtun, Iranian….
August 28th, 2012 at 9:42 am
What happened to “Do it like the Israelis! Ask probing questions to determine if further investigation is needed!”
Sure, the TSA should be abolished, but at least avoid the dramatic hypocrisy over them trying to do something everyone has told them to do since day one.
And why might the intensive questioning of US citizens in the midwest not work as well as doing the same to Israelis and Europeans in the mideast? For the same reasons we had a revolution against oppressive government a while back.
At least it is good to know there is still some spine left in the country.
August 28th, 2012 at 10:42 am
If I ever fly and I see TSA try to purposely embarrass anyone by “announcing” the victim’s decision, I’m going to clap for the victim.
Encourage what you want to see.
I also expect to be held for questioning.
August 28th, 2012 at 11:39 am
mikee — the difference is that Israeli security is actually TRAINED to do it, and they apply appropriate profile techniques in addition to the interview.
They do NOT have the untrained Grope-Monkey trying to use interrogation techiniques in a non-confrontational manner in order to determine who needs even more intesive searches.
August 28th, 2012 at 11:43 am
So…
any word on what the TSA does when the suspect–I mean, person holding an airplane ticket–asks for dinner and drinks before the fondling?
August 28th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I just thought of what the acronym TSA means: Training Slaves Appropriately. I would never fly unless it was some dire reason. We should stop allowing these agents of tyranny to lay hands on us.
August 28th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
I got the full-on PornoScan, hand and carryon swabbing, impromptu interview and feel-up last time I came home from Richmond. I figure it was because I was huffing and puffing in an equine-like sweat up to the checkpoint carrying a portable oxygen concentrator (which is obviously an unknown device to them), 25 pounds of .fedgov marked laptops in a laptop case (which can’t leave my sight during travel) and wearing a kilt.
Obviously, it’s because I have gray hair.
August 28th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I haven’t had any issues with TSA chatters, including at the Denver airport where they seem to play a big role. But I get the explosive swab test nearly every time I fly, which is a couple of times a month. When I mention that to co-workers who also fly frequently, they don’t even know what I’m talking about. I’m about as non-threatening in appearances as it gets (5-8, 160, kind of balding with glasses), but the light bulb went off a couple of months ago when I was waiting for my wife at Reagan National in DC. Her flight was late, and I was standing near the security line for about 20 minutes while I waited. The only person the entire time who got the swab test was a middle-aged white guy with a “military style” haircut like me.