Rick Mercer is classic! Glad I don't travel to the US often :)

OMG! OMG! LOLOLOL XDD

Thank you for sharing this XD

That video is somewhere between hilarious and infuriating

I will say that the video that was there three minutes ago was a bit funnier, if only for irony

Ah ha ha ha! I love Rick Mercer, and it amuses me to see you post one of his clips.

On the other hand, I flew home from Canada to the US a few weeks ago, and my experience wasn't far off this. Strangely, my rage and frustration made me think of you and your related rants :V

The sad part is, half of the "new travel regulations" were already in place for people on the watch list...which was lacking in the firey pants dude but includes pretty much anyone with a Middle Eastern last name or who became a US citizen after school age. I actually would not be surprised at all if I get hosed down and strip searched trying to fly back to the states again when I graduate.

On the plus side, since I was looking up stuff on the HBO filming just before this, I now have a highly amusing mental image of Gregor Clegane responding to the security in this video. I don't think there are words for how enjoyable that mental image is.

Sadly, this is not far off, I bet. What the hell is this country coming to?

I love having a Conservative government managing our country!! It makes for some pretty funny satires. And Rick can be a pretty good «satirician» on his day (has illustrated best in the movie Bon cop, bad cop).

Free? The First Amendment has been sold to corporate "speech".

But this is only to keep us safe! :rolleyes:

Last time I flew to Kansas City, the TSA guy said "you may need to take off your shoes" (this was before everyone had to take off their shoes).

I told him, "no it'll be ok, they didn't set off the detector on the way in". I had already removed my belt, so I walked on through.

He then pulled me aside and said, "since you refused my order, you now have to submit to a full body search".

What an a$$hole. When does this end?

I guess this is so that our leaders can appear to be doing something. The only thing it's doing is pissing me off.

I hate that I actually have to argue with people about how this doesn't actually make us any safer. Most people just submit to this stuff like sheep, under the guise of safety. I tell you, it infuriates me every time I go to an airport. My wife has to calm me down (she's worried I'll get myself arrested - and I probably would)

hell, my brother flew last year after the ban with a Camel Pack full of 3L of water. He gets thirsty on planes. It could just have easily been bomb making materials, though...

I can't wait for the full cavity searches.

Let's all fly naked in protest!

/end rant

-Wes

hehe gotta love Rick Mercer

oh that is just excellent! *laughs*

I'm suddenly glad to be in Europe. And I've never taken the plane in my whole life, but watching this, I'm not enclined at all to come to America, country of all liberties...

Nadine

I didn't know America was a country. I thought it was a continent or two.

I flew home the week after the panty bomb incident and security wasn't too far from what you see in the video. The sad part is, none of the stuff they do had any thing to do with how the guy (who was on the do not fly list) was able to smuggle the bomb on board. Its all just show to make us feel safer.

Do what I do. I refuse to enter the damn scanners.

Ah Rick Mercer... because there's truth under the humour. I love his satires on Canadian politics.

I adore Rick Mercer.

My dad recently flew to Vancouver and his airport experience wasn't too far off of this. With the upcoming Olympics the scanners had been turned up to full sensitivity, and even his wedding ring was going off! At this rate, we'll soon be showing up at the airport with our clothes in clear plastic bags and dressing on the other side of security!

Hilarious and painful.

If you enjoyed this, you might like these TSA logos reflecting its new reality:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/tsa_logo_contes.html

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/bruce_schneier_on_the.php

Security expert/guru/king Bruce Schneier explaining why all the security is completely unnecessary and counterproductive. There're deeper and more in depth explanations somewhere, but I can't be arsed to find them. Just know that if someone tells you this is A. necessary or B. helpful, they're selling you a load of bull.

hilarious video george

Broad subject. I once commented on how this is also a conspiracy by nailclip manufacturers, it costs me a fortune everytime I forget one in my bag and have to buy a new one.

Doe anyone know what is the news on the writer who got badly mistreated by airport security? I can't remember his name offhand, but it was really worrying.
I also read more and more stories about items stolen from people's bags during searches.

Fight back with humour? What if we all decide that next time we get into trouble at airports we shout out "Winter Is Coming" ? But maybe this would mark our favourite author as a terrorist?

I figure it is only a matter of time before everyone is just shipped via low berth.

Popsicles don't blow up planes. Though you might not be able to pack them in as tightly as they do now... and there is no profit stream from selling drinks, food, trips to the toilet, etc.

And pulling the "rest of the world" down that spiral with you. I do not like it.

In January 2002, I was rather rudely searched at London Heathrow... traveling on NATO orders with a US Military ID. Who, exactly, are the bad guys in this whole equation, I ask you? I would argue that it's the universal human tendency toward knee-jerk reactions. It's not just the US.

... how many of you are alarmed by this rather than amused by the parody this short intends.

Do additional searches discomfort you during your 'God-given right to comfy travel'?

Aw.

My view is they can search all they want. I think I'd rather show up an hour early in support of my God-given right to not die when my flaming Jet Blue 'comfort coach' impacts the earth.

America is still free. You don't like it, don't fly...

Don't ever request a body cavity search. They do not think that is funny...