And yet, I've had one of these on my keyring every time I've flown for the past 13 years:RoyGBiv wrote:I had to break off my nail file from the clippers once. Silliness.K.Mooneyham wrote:nail clipper set
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My favorite TSA theater story of all time: A woman I know from my church is married to a retired USAF Col., who is a Captain for American Airlines, who flies their international routes all the time. He was going through the TSA crew inspections before boarding a flight to Europe, in which he was flying the aircraft. He had forgotten a pair of nail clippers in his pocket, and found it when he was emptying his pockets for TSA. The wannabe cop took the clippers from him and told him he could not be allowed to carry them onto the aircraft. When he asked why not, the wannabe says with a dramatic flourish, "because with THESE, you can take control of the aircraft!" .......totally oblivious to the fact that he was talking to the aircraft's Captain, and that he of all people didn't need a pair of nail clippers to take control of that which he already had control of by virtue of his job title. The confiscation of the nail clippers would have made no difference if the Captain had decided to fly the plane into a building in the name of allah.
I'm sorry...... I'm sure that there are some decent and honorable people employed by TSA, but the vast majority of them are mindless drones who are not the least bit disturbed about what they put people through in the name of theater. And for the men and women serving on these VIPR teams, they have mindlessly signed on to an abdication of their moral and constitutional obligations. That makes them no better than the SS, who ALSO thought they were defending their nation's interests and security.
If they encounter me, I'm probably going to go to jail, because I'm going to insist on my rights. Loudly.
I urge all who have not done so to read Matthew Bracken's "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic" trilogy, and then seriously ask yourself if this country has not already actually become the stuff of fiction. We are in deep kimchi folks, and VIPR is just another datapoint along the slippery slide into the sewer. It's getting near time to batten down the hatches.