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TheCatt wrote:

TPRJones wrote: Seriously, though, what are the current rules and procedures for the average traveler to avoid getting your ass probed?

No metal (take anything metal off, put in the container for xray scanner)
Liquids must be 3 ounces or less, and all contained in a clear plastic quart-sized bag that you have to take out. (Checking liquids is fine, I think)
No coats (take them off)
No shoes (take them off)
Take laptops out of bag (ipads/etc are fine)

Bloomberg reported that airport employees have already been notified at some locations that they need to employ a “more rigorous” and “thorough” screening. The screenings will reportedly include “more intimate contact” than before. The new measure also applies to airline pilots and flight attendants.

TSA public-affairs manager Nico Melendez told the Redding Record Searchlight there’s another reason for the new policy: It “lessens the cognitive burden for our officers.” That may well be necessary considering that one needn’t have so much as a high-school diploma to get a job as a TSA screener, but it’s hardly reassuring.

Stratte-McClure, who told NBC News he had undergone “the most intriguing, intense and invasive pat down I’ve had by the TSA since they came into existence,” also “doubted that the new pat-downs would be much more effective than the old ones, which he said didn’t work in the first place.”

Twitter user JE Gallagher, the associate executive producer of the No Agenda podcast, tweeted that the TSA’s latest move is “pure theater to groom Americans to accept tyranny," asking, “When was the last [time] they [the TSA] prevented a terrorist plot?”

Truth be told, the TSA doesn’t have to foil terrorists. In fact, a successful plot on the TSA’s watch would probably only lead to more funding for the agency — as government failures usually do — and even less freedom for travelers. The TSA merely has to make it look like it’s doing something to protect flights — while reducing the “cognitive burden” on its agents, of course.

TheCatt wrote: Today pr check was 0 minutes, just walked through. 10 to 14 minutes for my traveling companions without it.

He believes that despite the fact that he has served the public in law enforcement for nearly 30 years, he was a target of racial profiling and that his rights were infringed by what he calls an 'unlawful detention'.

Malcolm wrote: The TSA has returned to the standards of incompetent, slow, unnecessarily fucktarded idiocy that first made them famous. Full on gential groping isn't just legal, it's fucking required. Fuck the TSA, DHS, and all their bosses and employees who should be convicted of treason and executed.

GORDON wrote: Do the TSA keep the peasants from looking you in the eye?

I mean, that has to be the best part.

GORDON wrote: Well at least you are spared their stink, and the stink of the chickens and goats they always seem to want to bring on flights.

GORDON wrote: There should be hoses in the regular TSA line just continuously spraying them down.

A delousing station, at the least.