but they're not intimidating anyone

[lanning]

Anyone opting out of the new TSA nuke-or-grope procedures will not be permitted to leave the security area and go home.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be

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[myownghost]

that's really alarming. i had so hoped that this kind of thing would ease up instead of getting worse.

wonder if the TSA will confiscate people's toilet paper so they can't have themselves an escape.

[lanning]

*sporfle* Hell yes! And then we'll get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected!

[vily]

Alice loves you and doesn't wish to be associate with this at all.

Thanks for reminding me I need to dig my album out for Thursday!

[lanning]

That's an album I've needed to replace for forever. I've always depended on my classic rock station to play it every Thanksgiving. :)

[vily]

3 hour car trip every Thanksgiving as a child with my three siblings, one of whom had toilet-training delays. For some reason, Arlo Guthrie would hypnotize us all.

I think we've owned every form of media: record, 8 track, tape, cd, mp3.

[sanj]

And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father-raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said,"Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 $1000 and pick up the garbage take the train instead." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." "Refusing to get fried and groped at the airport."

And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a public nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench.

Yeah. So be sure to create a public nuisance while you're there, I guess?

[lanning]

*dies* Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send your fingerprints off to Washington. *g* Yeah. I aim to misbehave.

[pyrotechnik]

I'm wondering what might happen if someone were to refuse the backscatter machine, and in front of the whole airport, take off their shirt, drop trou and shout, "I'm not hiding anything!" Technically, they are co-operating with TSA. Technically.

[lanning]

Someone has. Behold. *g*

[starsunwanted]

Of course it would be the Pirate Party. Excuse me while I swoon.

That link... doesn't exactly make it better, but it is supremely awesome.

[silkmoth101]

You know, this is worse than what my friend Frank told me about procedures on a China airport a few weeks ago. Just great.
I was out today *gasps* and in my whole life, I never saw so many heavily armed soldiers in this city. I need some wooden boards to nail up my door.

[lanning]

*hugs* Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm starting to consider collecting canned goods. Maybe building a bomb shelter in my mom's back yard. Why must we live in scary times?

[silkmoth101]

Well... I don't want to keep out any terrorists, I was thinking more about the soldiers. *sighs*

Though canned goods...

[lanning]

I was thinking about soldiers, too. Or at least TSA agents. *g* Yes...canned goods...