and I am incredibly outraged. The sooner these TSA power-trippers are put in their places the better off we will all be.

Soldiers, yes. Unloaded weapons, yes. But Nuns . . oh no. Nuns need to be searched.

…that’s just standard stupidity. The overall treatment of these fine men and women, THAT pisses me off.

It would be funnier if it weren’t a sure sign of insanity. If this doesn’t show the inmates are in charge of the asylum, nothing will.

This question needs to become the focus.

The Israelis look for terrorsits, and they have not had an aircraft incident for decades. Yes, it is a much smaller scale, but a much bigger target.

I would like one of our representatives to ask the top people at TSA and/or Homeland Security:
Suppose you had a profile that would have precisely identified the 19 9/11 hijackers – every one of them, and no others. And that profile did not consider religion, race, or nationality.
Would that profile have been acceptable? Would you use it? Or would it be rejected, even today, knowing its effectiveness, because it picked out too high a proportion of Muslims?

And from those answers, many other questions should follow.

It’s a nudge!

they have willingly signed up to participate in an unconstitutional activity. We have wondered many times if the military or law enforcement officers would come to the rescue of America’s citizens, should a tyrannical government take over, and, I would say that the TSA screeners have signed up to be on the side of a tyrannical government enforcement intrusion. I believe there are something like 65,000 of them. Now that we see that they will probably be a part of a public sector union, are the perks more important to them than the citizens freedoms with respect to the 4th Amendment? There really is a danger in promoting fast food workers, who started on lettuce today, and were promoted to fries tomorrow, and are now TSA workers making the big bucks.

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Great story. I always thought it was strange when I can take an M9 and an M4, as well as plenty of scalpels and needles and drugs in my medbag, but even the tiniest knife was apparently a huge threat. I’m still laughing at this story because it is so true to life.

do you think they might have engaged in any kind of RACIAL PROFILING [shudder, cringe, Oh the Humanity]?

You have my admiration, since I didn’t hear about this on the evening news.

“It’s probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons.”

And of course, all of YOU are weapons. You’ve all had basic hand-to-hand combat training, yes? You don’t even need a “weapon” to take someone down.

Nail clippers, riiiiggght. My two empty hands and my martial arts training versus nail clippers… Hmm. Let. Me. Think…..

My two empty hands and no martial arts traing vs nail clippers…and I’m a 210 lb, 5’6″, sedentary blogger…..

Someone tries to take over a plane with those and they deserve the butt-whuppin’ that some granny is going to give them….

Give the clipper to a TSA agent and tell them to charge after you with it.

Then demonstrate how effective the but end of a rifle is at being a skull basher…

…had head-butted the TSA Agent. Or instructed him on how dangerous a rifle can be without any bulllets while in the hands of a well-trained American soldier. His job is, after all, to defend America from all enemies, foreign AND domestic! Alas, no. He has more class than me.

Remember how Federally-employed TSA Agents were supposed to be a “temporary, 3 year program?”

The TSA is trying to provoke an incident. All this unnecessary rough treatment cannot just be a coincidence.

I have read people from the ‘Far Left’ to the ‘Far Right’ write all of the same things on the TSA topic. So rare to listen to people on both sides agree on something!

So what will happen?

My guess; not much of anything…the police state will continue, they will just work out some new PR campaign to reassure us all that they are just trying to keep us safe, and anyone who disagrees with the TSA is at best ignorant, at worst a terrorist sympathizer.

“…And so it goes”.

These servicemen & women have been through enough for us, the citizens of the USA. TSA should have been warned against bothering them.

Now I am outraged for them.

Isn’t TSA going to be unionized soon?

The Keystone Cops had their act together better than TSA.

In 2005 when we deployed via charter flight out of Hawaii. TSA told us we had to check bag our knives but then it got better. With our rifles we had to remove the firing pin (most removed the bolt carrying group) even though we had no ammo.

Flights that make more than one stop in the states were always subject the the jurisdiction of TSA and that means a hassle. We had to be rescreened in Minn St Paul before actually hoping back on the plane for Iraq

TSA was a mistake. We have personnel that inspect people and cargo everyday. They are the US Coast Guard. They probably don’t have the #s to do every airport but that is nothing more than assigning them the mission and time to increase their ranks. Many would love the opportunity to live in a metro area or close to home verses an ocean cutter or an inland waterway. Anyhow, my 2 cents

……before Congress? Stephen Colbert or this soldier? Sean Penn or this soldier? Janet Napolitano or this soldier?

The ostensible purpose of “security checking” is to preserve liberty, is it not? So, we become fascists to protect ourselves from fascism? What’s wrong with that picture?

According to news reports, an Orlando (Fla) airport is opting out of the TSA “protective” services in favor of using a private security outfit. That’s probably a good solution for most of the country – it won’t fly in corrupt-to-the-bone (liberal-controlled) area-airports such as Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway, New York City-controlled airports, etc., but everyone should start applying citizen-pressure on relevant authorities and bodies to terminate the TSA “service” at their local airports in favor of private security outfits. If enough airports get rid of the TSA, a lot of passengers will avoid the airports that retain TSA and the problem will resolve itself.

It happens with every government agency, everywhere. When following procedure becomes the most important part of someone’s job, they tend to lose their minds and do stupid things like this…..

It’s yet another reason why we need a smaller, less intrusive government.

n/t

is what it’s time to do. We can stand around and chat about it all we want but it’s TIME TO DEFUND this nightmare. Each of us has to make sure we keep an eye on our state and US representatives.

Start by cutting government 10% then go from there. Expose how wasteful our tax dollars are when they are used for such incompetence. Constantly expose them. Let the people watch how imbicilic the politicians look trying to defend such nonsense. Then go after their jobs… yes, boot them out again and again until they finally get it.

WE THE PEOPLE! Get it?

Call me selfish, I WANT YOU TO!

Use racial profiling, behavior, and psychological profiling. Until then, the stupidities and anomalies of the TSA will continue and multiply.

This is nuts. I for one would let a soldier keep his freakin’ nail clippers, because if they can be used as a weapon (omg!) then I’d still want a soldier defending me from a hijacker, even if he used nail clippers to do it.

The TSA has about two brain cells in the whole agency, absolutely no common sense, no sense of common decency, and a power-trip that is quickly catching up to Bozo’s in size and scope.

Oh, by the way, TSA? An unloaded rifle still makes a GREAT club to beat people over the head with. You should be glad our noble warrior there didn’t decide to demonstrate on you.

this is a MILITARY charter. Our fighting men and women…MILITARY (sorry, I have to keep repeating it, it’s driving me crazy)

. These people have gone through the biggest hell on earth imaginable. The fact that TSA is inspecting them and confiscating a nail clipper is mind boggling.

What did they think he was going to do with it? Demand that the pilot fly back to Bagram?

This proves that one of the requirements for a TSA position is the lack of intelligence or common sense..

God help us all..

for someone to place a bounty on blueshirts.
Totally out of control.
This is America and by God I will do all in my power to keep it that way.

If this is true and accurate, does Ms. Napolitano have a copy of this. Not that she will do anything with it.

This soldier needs to report this to his/her Conrgessman/Senator. If they do not support the military or our views, then to some who does. This is absolutely intolerable treatement. Along with asinine!

And wait until they all become unionized.

Remember when everyone thought it was a good idea to kick out the people that had always been doing the job and to get the government people in there. I thought it was stupid then and think it is even more stupid now. Remember these people are only doing what the commander in chief tells them to do. Government is the problem. Little talking bricks all uniform in doing their masters bidding.

TSA would have to treat individuals differently. We all know that can’t be allowed, it reeks of that “p” word, yep, profiling!
Imagine, actually requiring a TSA employee to think, rather than employing a robotic response to a list. It makes one’s brain ache.

It would have been more appropriate for the TSA workers to applaud our uniformed men an women. Shame on our government, and the TSA, for allowing such demoralizing and cavalier treatment of our military on their way HOME!

Since when does a governmental sub-agency (TSA is a part of Home Land Security) have jurisdiction over the US Military? Were there no Officers on board to protect our troops from these fools?
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Until we begin to take TSA to task via the courts (unfortunately, we will need lawyers for this). Until then, they will continue to harass our military, grope our wives, daughters and grandmothers. If you haven’t seen Penn Jillette’s report of his own persona experience with TSA at McCarran in Las Vegas on the Drudge Report, you need to read it. It is gratifying that someone of his high profile is willing to use his fame and money in search of freedom for all. Attaboy, Penn!

in the law that allows a municipality the option to fire TSA and hire an independent contractor to provide security. With all the military coming home it looks like a great opportunity to start a new PRIVATE industry that will provide intelligent and effective airport security.

This all starts on the local level.

Wow… I would love to see a terrorist take over a plane with 300 soldiers coming from Afghanistan with a nail clipper.

Reminds me of the Airplane movie where people were lining up to help control the lady that was freaking out. That would be Epic. LOL

if those servicemen wonder if it was worth the hell they just went through defending stupid, brain-dead bureacrats and politicians who have the gall to call themselves citizens of the United States! But I know first hand what the “guvmint” can and will do to you if they get a case genitalia tumescence over your unwillingness to submit. Our only safety is in numbers. Lots of numbers. Active numbers. Loud numbers. Never give up! This is the last bastion of hope! We can stamp out this disease! We must not quit!

Idiocy such as this is the result of liberal indoctrination, political correctness (mind control), and zero tolerance policy (otherwise known as: I do not have any judgement or common sense, but I cannot be held responsible). It could only thrive and survive in the government environment.

Get ready people. This is just the warm up for what is just around the corner. Once the sheeple are used to being fondled at the airports they will find their privates being patted at theaters,shopping malls,football games and lots of other locations all in the name of national security.All it will take is for a bomb to go off in one of these venues and kill a few hundred innocents and mother government will step in and take away some more freedom to make us more “secure”.It is a favorite way of communist and socialist to take over a society and bring the populace under complete control. We had better get this rogue government under control or we will become the Socialist States of America.

The level of TSA airport screening agreed to and performed on ALL muslims and ALL members of the U. S. Congress before ALL public air flights is where I am on this security issue.

Why make the issue complicated?

Sign me up with those two groups and make us a “Package Deal”.

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I’ve always wondered….. Will a M-240B machine gun fit in a TSA inspector’s rear orifice?

No TSA official has the authority to impede military troop movements. The leader of any movement of troops should be taught that.

The leader of any movement of troops that is impeded by a TSA official, should place said TSA official under arrest and call the local sheriff.

I travel a lot, and TSA agents can swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. One time, I actually had a TSA agent take away perfume (which was the correct size,) lipstick and tampons from me. Yes, tampons. It was ridiculous. Frankly, I think she wanted my new perfume and lipstick for herself, but to this day, I cannot figure out what was up with the tampons.

But, on another occasion, I had inadvertently forgotten to take some scissors out of a carry-on bag. It was a simple oversight. Although at first, the TSA guys were all over me about it, the one that was going through my bag told me to go ahead through with them. He was really nice about it. I thanked him…I was totally expecting him to throw them away. So, I’m not surprised when I hear these kinds of stories. Some have great people skills, can deal in stressful situations and make good decisions, while others cannot do the same. Unfortunately, those who go to the ridiculous extreme, making no sense are always the ones that are remembered.

Being a Veteran of the US Army, and having been deployed, I am not buying this story. Returning from deployment, specifically a war zone, US troops are not required to be screened by TSA. That is a regulation, and my personal experience. While I think the TSA are morons, i’m thinking this story either isnt true, or has been embellished. But returning from a war zone, American troops carrying weapons do not go through TSA.

I did a little research, and yeah, this bogus story was circulated first back in 2004, by an “anonymous source”, and now it’s back again as a recent event. Notice not one news outlet, including Fox, has covered it?

Sorry Erik, youve been had on this one.

Rod in Oregon

Should have handed over the nail clippers and followed up by beating the shit out of him with the rifle. After all he would have been in possession of a threating weapon so self defense would be necessary. And after/if he recovered he would probably no longer confiscate nail clippers. Some people only learn through experience.

THIS is what our government has metastasized into. Is anybody in Washington actually listening?

As far as I’m concerned, the military should be frisking the TSA agents. I trust them far more than the morons at the gates.

These folks should have been welcomed with gratitude, and waved on through with a humble thank you, not treated as a threat.

If you are familiar with life under communism or fascism, this is not at all surprising. Even when agencies are created for noble purposes, in short order the mission of all bureaucrats mutates from whatever the original mission was to perpetuating the bureaucracy. You do that by continually finding new areas in which to assert the power of the agency. This is not supposed to happen in democracies where the citizen as opposed to the state is supposed to be supreme.
“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” —H. L. Mencken

Then again they don’t care about cancer survivors with scars (http://bit.ly/bKUhRe) like mine or prosthesis. I enjoy the fact that people are so used to government over-reaching they doubt the tales told by those maltreated by the TSA.

done by private companies. After DB Cooper, about 1974, the airlines did a lot of their own screening, then private companies took it over, better run, cheaper and less headaches for the airlines. After 9/11 the GOVERNMENT took it over (“we’re here to help you”….right….) and now they think they need to be UNIONIZED and boy will that mess things up even more! Some small airports are “opting out” of the TSA, and I think it’s a great idea. Hopefully Congress (the House) can put an end to this nightmare….whatever happened to common sense? I guess in many cases it isn’t there when you’re uneducated!!

Admittedly, I am no constitutional scholar, so please educate me… Why couldnt we use our own military to do screenings and security checks? Get rid of the TSA idiots altogether.

OK. But nail clippers were removed from the banned list several years ago.

Does the Obama regime’s decision to begin regimenting America and habituating it to fascism by using the TSA to force people to accept child molestation by government bureaucrats require 2nd Amendment remedies?

Sign the petition

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/boycotttsa/

God bless all of those fighting over seas for us. Are you really kidding me though? Come on. I have a very hard time believing thatwhole story. With so many dramatic claims being posted in the past week or so this just over doing it. Start off first nail clippers are not a prohibited item and at least the Gerber has a knife on it though I even doubt that was/would have been taken since it is a military charter AND THEY STILL KEPT THEIR FIREARMS WITH THEM. If the flying public was on the plane there would be no weapons in the cabin of the plane.

There are enough true issues that should be dealt with instead of all the false or extremely misleading stories coming out.God bless all of those fighting over seas for us. Are you really kidding me though? Come on. I have a very hard time believing thatwhole story. With so many dramatic claims being posted in the past week or so this just over doing it. Start off first nail clippers are not a prohibited item and at least the Gerber has a knife on it though I even doubt that was/would have been taken since it is a military charter AND THEY STILL KEPT THEIR FIREARMS WITH THEM. If the flying public was on the plane there would be no weapons in the cabin of the plane.

There are enough true issues that should be dealt with instead of all the false or extremely misleading stories coming out.

I beg to differ with you, bub. As a former Soldier I can identify with the story. I was coming back from Korea just after 9/11 and I had a tiny hem remover confiscated from my uniform sewing repair kit. It was maybe an inch long with a small hook on the end of it. The customs idiot actually stood there and “demonstrated” its lethality by jabbing himself in the finger to show me how it could be “used” as a weapon. On my second trip back from Iraq in 2003, we had to switch flights in Paris. The idiots in customs tried to take our GAS MASKS, because they may be “contaminated”. Stupidity, it appears, is an international affliction.

SFC Cheryl McElroy
US ARMY (RET)