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- diggerhater, on 10/10/2007, -1/+89I'm going to write a book called "Why Airport Screeners Like to Have Sex With Animals".
And then I'm going to read it at airports...and its going to be awesome. - zombiedepot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+56I'll never read the Anarchist Cookbook when I fly again.
- johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48this is worth reading for real... it's creepy. very Orwellian.
FTA: Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip. - fyrehart, on 10/10/2007, -3/+42I'm gonna bring Mein Kampf next time I travel. I'll say it's a biography of the President.
- ibeetle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26All the more reason to bring along a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook when you fly.
Remember boys and girls when you read a book that was banned or challenged you piss someone off. Being a dissident and questioning government is not just your right but your duty. Piss off someone in authority everyday. - iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Books to bring:
1984 - George Orwell (which I have found on multiple occasions in the airport bookstores)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Anarchist Cookbook - William Powell
Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman
Give them something to think about. - tehnico, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24That kind of apathy will get you in trouble one day.
- keitho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23I read the 9/11 Commission Report on a flight.
- 5xSTUN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23I don't think that the DHS is actually the slightest bit interested in stopping terrorism at all. I think at the heart of their real agenda is an ongoing campaign to make Americans more and more afraid and compliant until it becomes paralyzingly terrifying to even think about wanting to change the status quo.
- lithera, on 10/10/2007, -21/+41Exactly the reason why I will never ever will set foot in the U.S.
I am sure it's a nice and fascinating country to visit and up until a few years ago I was still planning on that. But stunts pulled like this made me say no already. U.S. has gone blacklisted for me. I don't wish to be interrogated when I'm planning to sight see a country. I don't wish to end up in a terrorist database just because I read a book the U.S. doesn't like. I don't want to be a suspect because I visited another country that the U.S. labels as some axis of Evil (try go on a holiday to Egypt and try to enter the U.S. after that for example)
***** you, you arrogant paranoia self-centred pricks. This will backfire someday, I'm rejoicing already. - Hollic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Pretty sure you just won the Internet.
- Raider007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I wish I had known this before I went to Europe for vacation a couple months back. My choice of reading material? "Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare".
- heepajunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
You'd do well to learn that. - MadKennyP, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19"Matching the description" != Profiling.
- GreenSox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17You're going to keep pissing away your rights until you lose one that you care about.
- Savor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18No airport screener will decode the House of Leaves.
- freecon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Just make up about 100 bookcovers with that title.
- stevenb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16apathy will be the end of this country. Not war, or terrorism.
- stevenb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Have you not watched the random journalists and investigative news people who manage to get dummy bombs on planes... by distracting the TSA people with bottles of water?
You're truly the perfect sheeple for our government, and you are exactly what they want.. cause by the time you realize you've got your head up your ass and try to do something it's gonna be too late.
Seriously wake the ***** up people. - NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16That's it. Next time I fly, I'm bringing along a copy of "My Pet Goat" to read on the plane.
- Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I don't think anyone voted for this.
- GreenSox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I've had a red star or other marking printed on my boarding pass "at random" a few times since 9/11. Each time I have it, I'm pulled aside and searched behind a screen. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? I've always been told that they just print them on random boarding passes.
- torrzilla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15But does he like movies about gladiators?
- Masefield, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Yes, yes. EVERY American citizen is an arrogant, paranoid, self-centered prick waiting to interrogate you and place you on a watch list.
- Dotcommer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I only read skymall magazine when at the airport or on the plane. Why? Because its given out for free, and I never know where to find a luxury nose hair trimmer and other rare necessities.
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14The real issue is that questioning our government these days results in someone getting pissed off. You are no longer respected for questioning that authority, but you are now a suspect.
- MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Not since 1998 my friend
- miketrin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14It's still true if you are a large corporation.
- fyrehart, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18"When you sacrifice freedom for security, you lose both."
~Ron Paul - kurtwinter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I call *****. Its a well known fact that airport screeners can't read.
- xero69, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15I decided back after 9-11 that flying was something I would do only when absolutely necessary (family emergency for example). I'm modifying a big comfy car for better fuel economy, GPS, etc and taking road trips from now on so I can soak in the scenery. Or course that won't work when I want to fly overseas. Guess I'll take a cruise or build a boat next, lol
- Abomonog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Short List of books to bring (or not to bring) on your next flight.
1984
Airport
The Langoleers
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Never eat anything bigger than your head. (yes it's a real book)
Whack your Porcupine (real too) (last two added for the shock effect when the screeners see the covers)
And this one just for the ladies:
Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Remember to bring these books if you want extra scrutiny.
Whats funny is that I do private property transportation as a side thing. This entails buying a lot of one way tickets so I can drive whatever back. I do it from Canada to Panama (just my range). But I never get searched at the airports. in 30 some bizarrely crisscrossed trips since 9/11 I've never been searched except for the shoe routine (which stopped after the day I left my shoes at the boarding gate) while grannys after me get the full Monty. I am a 41 year old male with a long history of civil disobedience (including once tying up a security guard and stripping him naked in a parking lot). I must ring a bell somewhere. Why are old ladies on vacation getting searched while my unshaven but-ugly ass with a police record on a one-way flight getting through?
If in 30 flights ONCE I got patted down I might agree with all this (at least they would be searching someone who LOOKED like they needed a good searching), but I have gone through gates more unshaven and unshowered than your average islamic nutcase without so much as a second look. Sheesh.
BTW: in reality this is just a cry to get that HOT gate guard at Newport News International to pat me down a few times. :) - techpr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13What's next? screen what I'm listening or viewing in my iPod?
- geekchic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12How is recording what food you eat on a flight necessary, or even informative about your "criminal intent" ?
- cranium, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13You know, it's sadly telling that George W. Bush has made Godwin's Law irrelevant.
- Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'd buy one.
- fnaqzna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12DMCA?
- agarc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10That has never happened to me...
(Slightly off topic) Several flights ago, I was waiting in the security line at DTW. There were four lines open. One of the lines was longer than the other three. A helpful TSA officer announced to everybody in the line, "Lane 4 will take longer because we're doing bag checks there (with the walk-through bomb particulate detector). So if you would like to wait in a shorter line, use the other lanes."
==> We need something way better than TSA! They're a joke! - Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Hah! I just bought a copy of Naomi Wolf's "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot". I'm flying internationally next spring, I should see if I get blacklisted or detained.
- fitzsimj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10"...the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip."
This is why, in defense of our rights, we need to all my a concerted effort to be weirder. Bring along fifteen tiny flashlights, or twenty toothbrushes in various cartoon-themed designs, onto a plane. Run your hands under the edge of your bathroom stall! Wear costumes when it's not Halloween! Ride New York subways in only your boxers! - pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9reading in the dark is very suspect. and his foundation sounds like a robot rebellion. we can't have this type of nonsense on planes.
/s - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Welcome to your police state.
- hiphoc, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Land of the cowards home of the slaves. We are sitting here watching the country die.
- Loki, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11and what perfect country do you come from? i love how all of these anti-america diggers aren't brave enough to end their rant with want country they reside in.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8makes me want to carry a book with the front cover titled " US Gov't Screeners are spying on you" someone should make that book for ironys sake
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Note to self, new bizness idea. Sell book covers at a kiosk in airports around the country.
- Diggaholics, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Interesting: "They are noting people's race and they are writing down what people read," Scannell said.
- StarlessKnight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8If America gets to that point where we are arrested or otherwise punished for what we read that we need to listen to books on audio, in secret, it wont be a shame. It'll be a disgusting travesty.
- JohnnyRad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8its ok, my magazines don't have many words.
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