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By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 24th, 2010 at 10:44 AM  | 

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Got this last night in email:

Subject: What my boyfriend is doing tomorrow

He is going to “make it hard” for the TSA. He has a new knee so he always gets pulled aside.

He is going to take an ED pill. lol!

No kidding.

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  • jeffreywturner

    They are encouraging everyone with a prescription for one of those “make old guys feel young again” pills to take them right before going through security this weekend.

    Should be interesting.

  • WY_Cowboy

    I hope someone actually follows through with this and gets it on video.

  • rasvar

    Opting out and protesting by making the lines go slow is one thing. Pulling this kind of stuff is that same kind of garbage I would expect and criticize liberals for doing. It just makes a joke out of the whole protest.

  • http://www.flaliberty.org scorpio0679

    It’s all in good humor. Seriously, you can laugh once in a while. I can’t wait for the videos on Thursday.

  • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

    Excellent. TSA agents are going to be chasing gobblers all day. I’d stand in line all day to see that.

    Bet they’ll be something about the scans which really stand out, too.

  • alaskaescapeartist

    n/t

  • acat

    It’s security theater, it won’t stop the determined, all it does is to make the gullible feel safer.

    Those of us who are smart enough to still spot the security holes (of which the less said the better) would really like the TSA to go do their actual jobs.. keeping us safe… instead of play-acting.

    Mew

  • acat

    http://www.xkcd.com/779/

    but anything that draws attention to the insanity that the TSA has descended into is a Good Thing.

    Mew

  • Jim Tomasik

    as calling newly elected congressmen on their cell phones! Now THAT was boorish!

  • powertothepeople

    the liberals join us in this protest. Quite frankly, considering the way they treat these customers, for the customer to make sure they get a feel of the whole hard package seems to me to be irony, not hi-jinks.

    Since Obama will not stop it, lawyers say it is protected, TSA says they will “back off a bit’ yet that will take months (go figure), seems we the people do not have much of a choice in ways to protest this.

  • Stan

    … I’m hoping that the protests get worse and worse, until the government is forced to change this foolish policy. I’m all for being safe when you fly, but (a) this doesn’t work, (b) there are better alternatives, and (c) there is a point at which your 4th amendment rights are lost. Wasn’t it Benjamin Franklin who said “They who would trade liberty for security soon have none and deserve neither.”??

    There was an attack on one of the Saudi royals last year (I think) where a bomber secreted a quantity of C4 in his anus. So, when the terrorists pull that one on an airplane, what’s the TSA going to do then? Will we have to submit to a full cavity search just to get on an airplane? Where does this stop (or does it)?

    I, for one, would prefer that it stop right here, and right now. If the TSA wants to employ the “puffer” machines to detect explosives, and/or explosive-sniffing dogs, then great. It’s much less intrusive, and it gets the job done. But a virtual strip search or (and) a full-body grope? Too much for me.

  • StandardCandle

    Honestly, I’m waiting for the leaked memo where the TSA Union bosses communicated to Homeland Security that they wanted to expand their contract to get their appointed officials to stay Democratic appointees through generating more revenue under the cost of security. All that was needed was some reason to assume that this equipment/man hours are needed by law to provide more funding in the name of national security….

    Yeah… I’m quite sure this has NOTHING to do with the physical security of our citizens, but more the financial security of appointed officials. Everything else is as you stated… theatre for the public and the newsrooms.

  • bk
  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    The TSA doesn’t confiscate his fire-cracker!

  • fpete13527

    Check out this TSA screening video
    http://bit.ly/gfD8d7

  • Bobcat51

    thar TSA agents better get some real eye protection if Joe Public is going to give them some pointers today !

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    By the second day this stuff was news; I had alreaqdy been telling people I was going to do this.

    I am also doing this, but I’m not flying anywhere until December.

    The big debate left for me is underwear or no underwear. I’m leaning sans underwear. I figure they didn’t make these rules, I might give them advance warning that I’m happy to see them that underwear can suppress.

    I’m not ashamed of what I was given. Heck ! I might started getting called “Brett Farve” !

  • nancylee

    To do with security. Rush said yesterday that it is being done to see just how much the American people will put up with.

    If I were a guy going through the scanners, I would take an ED pill and put a penny in my pocket to be certain I’d get pulled out, and then opt for a patdown. The results might be very interesting if a few others did something similar.

    Even just the penny in the pocket and patdown would be annoying if done by enough people.

  • chbroussard
  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    Sorry, but just too inviting a target…

  • aesthete

    Enough said.

  • blooch

    You’ve still got to sit on the plane for a couple of hours minimum.

    I’ve heard that some flyers are eating Brewer’s Yeast the night before they fly, then ripping a few big death clouds while the screener is down there fondling. C’mon guys… there has to be some kind of stink sachet you can toss before boarding.

    So now we have seat belt issues, tray tables that won’t fully descend, a couple hundred air nozzles wide open, and some chronic ocupado in the loo

    But hey, fly like an eagle, y’all.

  • Bobcat51

    are left standing for longer than 4 hours, seek TSA agent for urgent assistance.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Is that a cucumber in your pants or are you happy to see me.

    Courtesy of Spinal Tap…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpWnK6Rg3E

  • rasvar

    Just be careful with those tray tables after you get on the plane. Turbulence could hurt.

  • momma

    nt

  • 6eorge Jetson

    nt

  • blooch

    Does it count if they’re just swordfighting in the aisle?

  • wannabeanncoulter

    Let’s just go back to the security we had before 9/11 — except that boxcutters are forbidden. Everybody thinks this is all such a joke, and we should just harrass the TSA agents with our bodily fluids and gases. Just think, in the early months after 9/11, such behavior would have been interpreted rather differently. Might have even gotten you a bullet in the head.

    The passage of time is such a strange amnesiac.

  • jackhammer

    And do they understand how ED drugs work? You do not get an erection unless you are sexually stimulated. so if your boyfriend is sexually aroused with a pat down from a man with latex gloves on, then maybe you have soem issues in your relationship….just saying.

    And I haven’t flown since all thsi started, but am I to understand that you can either decide to walk through a full body scanner with virtually no line, or voluntarily get into an hour long line to opt out?

    Maybe I really do earn too much money, but somehow I don’t see the sense in showing up an hour earlier for a supposed political statement.

    I mean I have found all this airport nonsense expensive and burdensome ever since the Patriot act started, and I was someone who flew out of Logan the night of September 10th on the last flight out….so I was sort of close to it all.

  • JSobieski

    For example, the most important change in security is fortifying the cockpit doors. Nobody is complaining about that.

    Banning nail clippers and toothpaste while checking people’s underware is hardly the best way to really make us safe.

    The Israeli’s don’t do any of that, and their record on security is far better than ours.

    So why not just keep the debate at a mind numbingly binary level and characterize comments as being whining instead of acknowledging that there other possible approaches between no security and stupid security policies.

    Call it the Israeli option—porn free, no hijackings, and no bombed planes.

    People complaining about Americans who are not sheep are such moody brats.

  • JSobieski

    when a Jihadist doctor starts surgical implanting bombs into a human being a la the joker?

    Will mandatory surgical exporations at airports become the norm?

    Will complaints be “whining” when that happens?

  • nativeconservative

    I have been concerned for some time that this is part of a plan to ‘nudge’ the TSA employees into voting to unionize. Most (not all but most) of these TSA employees cannot enjoy doing this to the American people and yet, the American people are taking it out on the employees and not the people who are instituting the policies (Big Sis and her counterparts). It is very clear that they want this sector in the union grip – the unions need more money – if the American people continue to act out at the TSA employee’s they will want ‘protection.’ Who better than the Union thug bosses? Just a gut feeling I’ve had.