Originally Posted by
Caradoc
How much do you have invested in the underwear that you'd attack someone for balking at paying $45 for something that will have utterly no effect whatsoever on the dolt behind the scanner?
Write your congressman.
(I have.)
Check.
Originally Posted by
Caradoc
Write your senator.
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Check.
Originally Posted by
Caradoc
Refuse to fly until the TSA stops their silly nonsense.
(I have.)
Mostly. I refuse to let them influence my vacation travel to remote places they don't even have the wits to dream about.
Originally Posted by
Caradoc
Tell everyone you know about the rampant stupidity and injustice that the TSA and DHS are wreaking on what used to be a free country before our elected leaders borrowed a page from Goering and invoked "unpatriotic" as the equivalent to "standing up for one's rights."
(I have.)
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Originally Posted by
Caradoc
But paying $45 for stupid underwear that only the undertrained and overpaid nude-o-scope operator is going to see and completely ignore? That's profiteering in the same vein as Chertoff's - and may actually have a higher profit margin.
Yeah, but it costs .000001% of my typical vacation and provided .000001% of amusement. YMMV.