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- Diefree, on 06/28/2009, -1/+167The TSA needs to be totally revamped they're nothing but thugs at this point.
- l0rdishtar, on 06/29/2009, -2/+161As George Carlin said:
As far as I’m concerned, all of this airport security – the cameras, the questions, the screening, the searches, is just one more way of reducing your liberty and reminding you they can ***** with you anytime they want, as long as you’re willing to put up with it. Which means, of course, anytime they want. Because that’s the way Americans are now. They’re always willing to trade away a little of their freedom for the feeling – the illusion – of security.
You have got to be realistic about terrorism. Ya gotta be a realist: Certain groups of people – muslim fundamentalists, christian fundamentalists, jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana – are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. That’s the reality. Angry men in combat fatigues talking to god on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment. - Falldog, on 06/29/2009, -0/+129"The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics."
See, these agents weren't being power hungry dicks, they were just highly confused. After all, they were only able to get jobs with the TSA. - cosworth99, on 06/28/2009, -1/+96So it is turtles all the way down. Hmm.
- PaulClayberg, on 06/29/2009, -1/+91Yo dawg, I herd you like writing comics...
- inactive, on 06/28/2009, -0/+90He should write about this instead.
- warp99, on 06/28/2009, -1/+77I see that the Ministry of Love is alive and doing well.
- nickycakes, on 06/29/2009, -1/+73The TSA is totally ridiculous at times. Do you really think a terrorist is going to start talking about terrorist ***** in an airport? Are airports the only thing they can target? Honestly the inconvenience that is created by this ***** completely dwarfs any actual security that is being created.
- Lavarock, on 06/29/2009, -0/+64Jesus christ it's like an MC Escher painting of endless spiraling government *****.
- 8FoldPath, on 06/29/2009, -0/+58I recently witnessed two TSA agents spend about 30 minutes flipping through obviously-innocent reading material in peoples' luggage. From a fashion mag to some kid's school yearbook, they were flipping through every page. Your tax dollars at work, folks.
- beachsouthpaw, on 06/29/2009, -1/+57TSA agents can read?!
- benzzene, on 06/29/2009, -0/+54Three days ago at Dallas-Fort Worth airport, a TSA agent who was holding my passport asked me "Which country is this from?"
Seriously, if you can't figure that out by yourself, you have no business working in an airport. - trolleyfan, on 06/28/2009, -3/+54I know you're supposed to "write what you know" - but isn't the order backwards here?
- rangah, on 06/28/2009, -1/+50This story is awesome.
As much as anyone has to be pissed that they're being hassled by the TSA - this guy was probably pretty amused. - Tryptomine, on 06/28/2009, -0/+40Self-fulfilling prophecy? Once they saw the script, the TSA guys just couldn't resist.
- ryanisjimdandy, on 06/29/2009, -0/+40You know it's bad when it can easily be the title of an Onion article.
- Hraes, on 06/29/2009, -4/+42Welcome to 1984.
- Moralogic, on 06/29/2009, -1/+38How about the TSA kicked out of airports as a whole. They are not doing anything, how many terrorist plots have you heard of them stopping? How much of anything have they done compared to the ***** they have caused, even killing an innocent man by shocking him to death. They racially profile in a way that is insulting to America, and they have gotten technology approved that you know some pervert employee is using to get off.
- yaminohikari, on 06/29/2009, -0/+34***** THE TSAA!
- GregLoire, on 06/29/2009, -1/+30To bad indeed. Damn illiterate digg users with no appreciation for the written language or its many grammatical nuances!
- anotherjack, on 06/29/2009, -0/+29You just know that the whole time, even as he is talking his way out of it, he's thinking "OMG I can totally use this!"
- DamonToo, on 06/29/2009, -0/+28You know the whole time he was wishing he had written the comic about a writer that turns into Batman, wins the lottery, and marries a supermodel.
- mikelieman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+25PROTIP: It's stamped in gold leaf on the front.
- dafragsta, on 06/29/2009, -0/+24I love recursion.
- alexforcefive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+22well yeah, but he was joking so...
- shillabus, on 06/29/2009, -0/+21I love recursion.
- gamebittk, on 06/29/2009, -1/+21THIS STORY IS SO META.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19TSA: so if this is a comic book, where are the superheroes?
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -1/+20Yup, no police state there.
/s - marmotjmarmot, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
- codyman, on 06/29/2009, -1/+20I haven't gotten on a plane since 2002 and am glad
I'm not "scared" of flying, it's just constantly proven to be a hassle where you are either A) Waiting in a line or B) Waiting for your delayed plane which is going to lose your luggage anyways
Obviously certain distances you "have" to fly, but for domestic travel, I have just been enjoying roadtrips which allow for a "mini-vacation" on the way to wherever my destination is - rac1234, on 06/29/2009, -1/+20You know, it's not usually a good sign when a country starts detaining its citizens because they are carrying the wrong literature.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -1/+18They're also destroying the future of good entertainment by confiscating the stashes of writers, musicians, directors, and actors.
- TheJimid, on 06/28/2009, -1/+18So...your not putting me in eh? Well I guess someone needs another cavity search.
- Exasperated, on 06/29/2009, -3/+20It's called harassment, you fascist *****.
- Invent91, on 06/29/2009, -0/+17I was actually driving back from Canada a few months ago when the lady at the checkpoint pulls the green card out of my Canadian passport and asks, " Who is this?"
Who do you think it is, it only has the same name, DOB, and information as the passport.
Also, my front license plate was sitting on the dashboard as I hadn't gotten holes made in the front of the car yet, because i used to live in South Carolina before moving back up north and they only have one plate in South Carolina so there is no need to put holes in the front.(lol run on sentence)
Anyways, she asks why my plate is in the front and I tell her. The next question out of her mouth was "are you importing the car?"
That doesn't even make sense. wtf - FattyAcidTrip, on 06/29/2009, -0/+16My mother in law use to work for TSA, she said all that they did was just one big smoke screen.
Also, this blows my mind. - casey3353, on 06/29/2009, -0/+15I'm travelling to the US this week with a mate of mine who's travelled to North Korea. He's bringing a mate of his in LA a copy of the North Korean Newspaper. I now have a feeling that this won't end well :/
- mikelieman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+15Phhpt.....
One liner:
10 GOTO 10 - Brian818, on 06/29/2009, -0/+15Why are people being searched for anything other than weapons in the first place. I think that anybody flying domestic should be able to purchase a ticket and fly 100% anonymous. Imagine you hop on the greyhound bus from los angeles to vegas, and a tsa rifles through your stuff reading your letters checking computer files, you would be outraged. Tell me what is the difference between taking a grey hound and flying domestic? As long as you have no expl0sives or weapons you are no threat to national security. 'Im waiting for the day when just walking down the street will require a weapons inspection...oh wait.
- MrFisty, on 06/29/2009, -0/+14I'm already picturing the movie, and yes, Malkovich is in it.
- kelmaster1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+12Oh no, not a paradox!
*head explodes* - tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11I would actually object to the idea that any security is being created at all. And if someone would kindly point out just how the TSA is accomplishing this security creation i'd love for you to explain it to me and everyone else.
- okitasan, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11It begins...
- empath, on 06/29/2009, -1/+12I'm skeptical of this story. He wasn't detained for the script at all. He was pulled aside for extra screening, THEN they found his script -- and??? what happened after that? He doesn't say. Maybe he shared a nice laugh with the TSA folks on the irony of it all and they sent him on his way.
- marmotjmarmot, on 06/29/2009, -1/+11You just can't make stuff like this up. I've given up on flying, gone back to Amtrak, and just have to plan on more time to travel.
- anotherjack, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10He was joking, but he also feels strongly about comics as a legitimate literary medium. As a longtime supporter of the CBLDF* I respect his coolheaded determination, he talked his way out of it before it could go further. He could have gone the way of Mike Diana**.
*Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
** Yes he's a jerk but that was a blwo to freedom to be bared from *drawing8 by the law. - contradictator, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10Whoa, this... this is heavy.
(I know you were making a "Big Brother" reference, but damn it, I love Back to the Future.) - CobraClutch, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9I've got nothing to say to you, except "I've got nothing to say to you."
- appleofdischord, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9Malkovich malkovich malkovich malkovich?
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