Tag: travel
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TSA forces woman to remove nipple rings — with pliers
Yes, really; and then defends the “thoroughness of the Officers involved”. Don’t you feel safer now? Our tax dollars at work … From AP’s coverage of Mandi Hamlin’s press conference: The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin’s chest, the Dallas-area resident said. Hamlin said she…
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Five-year olds as national security threats
Boing Boing has stories on not one but two five-year-olds whose names are on the no-fly list and so get treated by the TSA as a security threat. Cory Doctorow comments You know, if you wanted to systematically discredit the idea of a Department of Homeland Security, if you wanted to make an utter mockery…