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Angry White Dude hates the TSA. That's who

http://angrywhitedude.com/2011/09/tsa-h ... %E2%80%A6/

Nice! I do like a good piece of common sense outrage. Especially one I share.

wpoppert wrote:OK, so last week I flew out of Norfolk and showed my military ID at the initial checkpoint. The guy examined it like he had never seen one before. He eventually made a mark on it and sent me on to the scanning station. After passing through the scanner, I was told that I had been identified for additional screening. I was expecting a frisking, but intead they collected my belongings from the conveyor and swabbed them for explosives. FWIW, what they could observe of me is that I am a middle-aged senior officer of apparently Northern European heritage. Things they probably didn't know, but which added to my annoyance, are that I am an Afghanistan veteran and former NCIS agent. Perhaps I fit the profile of a potential terrorist as identified by DoJ not too long ago... This PC ridiculosity is going to kill us!

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Here is a thought, the idiot saw a military ID and then said to himself "They handle firearms and explosives, right? I might get a positive reading from this one." Even if you had a completely rational explanation as to why it might come up positive, the morons would probably have to go through 3 levels of supervisors and then call Washington to figure out that they could let you on the plane

I carried my personal computer to Iraq in a padded sleeve in a Camelbak assault pack, other times that backpack had various items in including thousands of dollars worth of sensitive items, NVGs and radios and ammunition, some f which had been in theater for several years. I continue to use that pack today, I have little doubt that mine would probably test positive. I wouldn't have been surprised if the computer was tested later and came up positive for ammo related residue, who knows how many times I carried ammo in it. I don't think I ever had ammo break open and leak the powder, however I did have magazines that had hundreds and thousands of rounds through them and I am sure they got some residue in and on them while in a rifle that was fired. I don't even know what there little test swabs would find Brass? Copper? Lead? imagine what a plumber's stuff would test like...