As a Canadian i will no longer travel to, or through the U.S. while these Bozo's have anything to do with airport security. Americans need to grow a set. Your rights are being abused. Stand up for yourselves...

I agree this has to stop but I'm not optimistic it will. After opt-out day was a total bust I'm convinced that not only is crap like this going to continue, it's going to get worse. The vast majority of Americans have traded their liberty for the illusion of safety and seem perfectly willing to continue to do so. Like @harpom said, people just have no guts these days. And as you can see in this video, even if you do have the guts to stand up, the system is designed so that they can mercilessly punish you for doing so.

>> ^harpom:

As a Canadian i will no longer travel to, or through the U.S. while these Bozo's have anything to do with airport security. Americans need to grow a set. Your rights are being abused. Stand up for yourselves...


Thanks for you support. I think we are finally getting some balls. Like the scarecrow said, sometimes it gets darker before it gets brighter. I think we still have a little while to go down this path before change comes...and even then, it could be a change from Julius Cesar to Nero.

Also, watching the double speed segments reminds me of the sims.

3rd world country. You are slaves to your own fear - don't hate the TSA, hate the people that put them there, hate why they put them there. Break your chains.

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I wonder what explanation the TSA manager gave for refusing to allow the alternate screening. If the maker of this video knew what the mother said in those dialogs, why not mention the TSA people's explanation?

(And no, I'm not defending the TSA. Just saying it would be interesting to know...)

And this is the part where I say, "Haha, way to go statist idiots."

I'd hate to see what would happen if the country was hit again. God damn, those towers were the least of the damage done... they couldn't have imagined how successful and far-reaching their attack would be.

Did the baby have to go through the xray?

Not going to upvote cause the video is fail and longer then needed to be... but yes the tsa is fail too.

Just like any other service.. I refuse what I don't want. I don't fly anywhere. Unfortunately of all our bitching, no one has ever done something to convince the guys cutting the checks (airplane and airports) that more people would fly if it wern't for the tsa.

Alas if he did pocket personal information, she could have a court case... time to get that missing footage via more authoritative means.

Why the fuck do they need to X-ray a liquid in the first place?

My guess would be cloudy liquid could be used to hide something in the center of a container....if it was full enough.

Although when they had her dump it into smaller containers, the "threat" should have been over then and there. Especially if they had done any kind of screen of it at all, but they didn't. They just wanted to fuck with her so she'll learn her lesson and not make them work.


I found the whole "glass room" with one door in the middle of everything to be pretty telling of the whole TSA business. It has one door and an open side.....so it's not there to keep them in...the door is there as a "suggestion". There is no chair, and when it looked like someone was trying to bring her a chair, they took it back. It looked like later in the video (after she'd been standing in that place for 30 some minutes) that someone was pushing a chair toward her in the background.

I know the video is trying to play on our sympathies for a "young mother", but hell I'd have been sympathetic with almost anyone after they put them in a glass cage as a spectacle for other people for 40 minutes and did shit all to deal with them during that period. It pisses me off to no end to see one person at a business clearly wasting time while people are waiting to get dealt with, whether it's to pay the cashier, see a customer service rep, or get someone to follow their own policies and get me processed or kick me off the premises.

Sure a young mother is a more sympathetic victim, but 40 minutes standing in a glass cage with no one coming to update you regularly, giving you a chair, and then at the end of it not even having you processed one way or the other is complete and utter bullshit no matter who is there unless they are guilty as hell of something. I wonder if they would have let someone use the restroom once they've been put in the "special holding area" (the "look at the bad guy booth").

>> ^jimnms:

Why the fuck do they need to X-ray a liquid in the first place?


Because she could have hidden toe nail clippers in the liquid and during the flight, taken it out, held the plane hostage with them, and then drove the plane into something.