Many DUers agree with Luke Russert....

[ChisolmTrailDem]

TSA issues new rules on some overseas flights...

http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_cycle_1tsa_140707_256581

The TSA has issued new rules on certain overseas flights returning to the U.S., where passengers will have to turn on their cell phones, tablets or computers when passing through security.

I guess I was wrong and if I don't like it, I'm guilty of whining and should not be a big deal at all to anyone, anywhere to be subject to this request or any other the TSA dreams up. From now on, anything they want us to do is justified as long as they tell the press there's a threat of some sort.

My bad...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I saw that and was thinking Luke Russert is the whiner.

We're the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE.

Not the land of the RESTRICTED and the home of the COWARDS.

Past time we dumped most of this candy-ass fear boogeyman stuff they created after 9/11 in order to enrich the companies Cheney and Rumsfeld invest in.

That having been said, I had to turn my laptop on BEFORE 9/11 ever rolled around when I hit the airport, so I'm not sure why people think this is such a new thing.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Beats taking off your shoes and belt.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. If they ask you to strip naked and bend over and grap your ankles while they do

a cavity search, it's ok. You should go ahead and do that and keep your mouth shut.

(I know, I know, having to turn on your device isn't the same. Right.)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. That's a bit of a leap there.

I just happen to think taking off my shoes and belt is not only intrusive but stupid and pointless. On the other hand, turning on my cell and iPad to show they are what they appear to be is not intrusive, stupid and pointless.
Maybe I fly seldom enough (as I hate everything about it) that I can still look at all this security stuff in its totality, saying this procedure is dumb while this other one isn't, rather than seeing every additional measure as it comes along as yet another attack on my rights.
Maybe someone else will come along and give you the argument you seem to be looking for.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. Well, all some guy in some terrorist network somewhere has to do is claim

that he's come up with a way to hide a bomb in someone's bum that can't even be detected by x-ray and next thing you know, we're bending over, because TSA said. And we should absolutely willingly submit, rather than whine about it.

[TheKentuckian]

6. Does anyone really believe that folks smart enough to make such a bomb couldn't make it come on as

normal? Double true if they know they need to to get through the screening?

More security theater and/or a data gobbling scheme.