23 Comments:

• I am actually happy to forfeit weapons and other metal options to prevent others from flying more planes into our landmarks killing thousands more Americans and citizens from other nations who came hear to try and live the american dream.

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 05:38:00 AM  

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• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  Ben Franklin

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 05:50:00 AM  

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• If the second ammendment to the US Constitution was recognized on US airplanes, 9/11 never would have happend. The hijackers would have had their collective heads blown off.
  
  Whatever happened to Liberty?

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 05:50:00 AM  

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• That's a really classy joke!
  I'm looking forward to trying this on my next flight, hehe

  By  ematoma, at 5/10/2006 06:31:00 AM  

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• Don't qoute Franklin stupid. It's not even the same thing. You have no RIGHT to fly a plane. You buy a ticket and in doing so you are agreeing to be searched. If you have a problem with it then freaking drive everywhere. Are airplanes controled by the government? Ummm no. If you are going to make a point at least be smart enough to do it right.

  By  Kevin, at 5/10/2006 12:01:00 PM  

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• The TSA is the government, Kevin.
  
  Airlines are private, roads are public, by your "logic" searches should actually be done on all roads because they're public. They're built by your good friends at the U.S. Government.
  
  Yes, traveling by airplane is up to you, but being searched is being done by your pals in the government who do everything so well and efficiently. And, your chums in the U.S. Government are forcing the airlines to search you.
  
  Good thing you feel safe. That's what's important to you. Actually *being* safe is a very different thing. Because you aren't any safer.
  
  The cards don't set off every metal detector. That should give you some sort of idea about how rotten "security" is at the airports.
  
  How about you get searched everywhere you go? At Starbucks? If your friends in the U.S. Government decided that all coffeehouses should have searches you'd be for that, right? I mean, come on, any religous nut (redundancy, sorry...) could blow up a starbucks.
  
  Okay, you and I know that getting searched everywhere you go is wrong, but there is an entire generation growing up who will feel uneasy if they're not searched when they go to some public event.
  
  They win. The government uses a tragedy to gain power and erode rights.
  
  But, you feel safer so it's okay.

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 03:40:00 PM  

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• If you'd gladly sacrifice your rights and privacy to corporate entities use a spell checker to lend your arguments more credibility.
  
  I assume you forgot the minimum wage employees who screen at airports are government workers. Not that it matters much. I have a fourteen inch stainless steel bar in my leg that neither SeaTac nor LaGuardia detected.
  
  Scott
  (I'm a combat veteran who fought for all the freedoms conservatives believe the masses should not have.)

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 03:45:00 PM  

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• This is one of the dumber things I've read:
  
  "If the second ammendment to the US Constitution was recognized on US airplanes, 9/11 never would have happend. The hijackers would have had their collective heads blown off"
  
  Why? Is their something in the 2nd Amendment that limits hijackers from carrying guns? I missed that part.

  By  Anonymous, at 5/10/2006 04:25:00 PM  

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• The hijackers would still have had weapons, possibly guns instead of the knives they had this time. The difference is that so would the other passengers (hopefully loaded with low velocity rounds, so as not to damage the airframe).

  By  Phil, at 5/11/2006 05:08:00 AM  

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• After all, an armed society is a polite society!

  By  Anonymous, at 5/11/2006 12:19:00 PM  

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• After all, an armed society is a polite society.

  By  Anonymous, at 5/11/2006 12:20:00 PM  

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• OK, getting back to those cards... I think they're hilarious and will provide me and the TSA employee with a chuckle at the very least. And if I buy the 5-pack, I'll have more for the next trip if TSA elects to hang onto them.

  By  PeteLecours, at 5/11/2006 01:29:00 PM  

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• I'd order a couple of these myself, but I don't want to be busted for posession.

  By  Anonymous, at 5/11/2006 07:35:00 PM  

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• To the anomymous coward that said "I am actually happy to forfeit weapons and other metal options to prevent others from flying more planes into our landmarks"
  
  If we forfit our rights, if we forfit our freedoms, if we forfit everything that this country is supposed to stand for in the name of "security", then the "American Dream" is dead and the terrorists - and all others who hate freedom and liberty - have won.
  
  The worse part is that those cowards that are willing to trade safety and security for freedom and liberty are the ones that did the terrorists dirty work form them.
  
  Unlike you, I'm willing to sign my name to my statement and belief. So very sad the same can't be said for you.

  By  Patrick McKinnion, at 5/14/2006 12:52:00 AM  

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• The SF Writer L. Neil Smith had a very good idea in one of his books.
  
  Simply make sure that the passengers weapons are loaded with frangible plastic bullets that are designed not to adversely affect aircraft structure and materials.
  
  Someone stupid enough to attempt a hijack? They won't live long enough to make that mistake again.

  By  Patrick McKinnion, at 5/14/2006 12:57:00 AM  

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• I'd seriously purchase it if there was an Australian version.

  By  Anonymous, at 6/07/2006 06:32:00 AM  

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• The highjackers that the U.S government claims were on the 911 flights are still alive and flying professionaly.

  By  Anonymous, at 7/01/2006 08:51:00 AM  

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• I think everyone has missed the essential joke here. It's a silly snipe at something that annoys a lot of people. It's better to laugh about stuff in the face of people who hate.

  By  Anonymous, at 7/09/2006 12:36:00 PM  

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• I love jackass's like you people(apparent civil rights experts)Try takeing a grayhound across the country and then tell me how much you don't like takeing 20 seconds to take the damn metal out of your pockets at an airport so those evil tsa people can do their jobs the best they can to protect whiners like you.Oh and by the way for all you experts--------getting on an airplane is a PRIVILEGE not a right..If it were up to you people there wouldn't be ANY laws and you could do whatever you wanted,but how sad that we have to live in a society where people are actually governed by laws..Get used to it hippies.And to the guy who wants to play walk through metal detector expert with his leg---learn how they actually work then get back to me...

  By  James McCarthy, at 7/17/2006 10:55:00 PM  

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• B. Revaeb
  Freedom moves from the abstract to reality in nanoseconds. Consider the half million "victims" of the AOL search data release, whose Google habits are now public domain. The issue isn’t AOL’s stupidity - the issue is the Government’s ability to spy on each and everyone of us while we mill around like lambs waiting for freedom’s slaughter.
  
  They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  Ben Franklin
  
  (and if someone wants to hit me with the UK terrorist crackdown, do ask yourself first: how many terrorists has the TSA captured in five years? Oh, and by the way, who checks the confiscated shampoo bottles to see if they are indeed liquid explosives)

  By  Anonymous, at 8/14/2006 10:23:00 AM  

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• Heh, interesting. Though, I'll have to disagree. Our rights are in no way affected by the security at airports. There are airport security in pratically the entire world. Some stricter than others, I heard that a former teacher of mine was leaving Amsterdam had the plane itself being searched for bombs.
  
  Stop complaining already about having our rights taken away because it isn't at all. All they're doing is limiting what you can carry on the plane, limiting hazardous products which is already understandable. Nothing more.
  
  Case in point, some airports are a bit lax, I had forgotten several times that I was carrying something forbidden by the airport and wasn't detected. The second time it happened, it was for purely experimental point.
  
  I just think that people who complain about security or rights being taken are taking it out on the wrong stuff or are paranoid people. I have nothing to hide, and no one else should have anything to hide. Those who do have something to hide are usually people committing a crime. The not 'usual' bit would be people who have something so outrageeously embarrassing such as that flatuence woman on the plane which was completely stupid. And I'll end my note here.

  By  Rini, at 12/26/2006 06:32:00 PM  

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• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
  Ben Franklin
  
  That Ben Franklin guy sounds like an Al Queda. Throw his sorry but in jail and make darn sure to take away his shampoo.

  By  Anonymous, at 3/17/2008 02:16:00 PM  

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• I believe airport security is a good thing. The searches there are reasonable and justified.
  
  But, I really have to take exception with the "nothing to hide" argument. Really, NOTHING?, are you sure? If someone taped you all day, every day, put every conversation you ever had with anyone, any thought that ever crossed your mind, any stolen glance, lie of omission, even if it were just to save someone from feeling hurt on a website, you wouldn't have a problem with that?
  
  There is no secret you wouldn't want to be public knowledge? No moment in your life that you wouldn't want to neighborhood watching? Do you have curtains in your house? Does your bathroom have a door? Why?
  
  Everyone has private information that is theirs alone, that they get to choose who to share with, or choose not to share at all. Privacy and sovereignty within one's own mind, action, and person is the first liberty.
  
  That is why we must be very careful what privacy we give up, for safety's sake. We must find an acceptable balance between the safety of the public, and the rights of the individual when others might, legitimately, NEED to know our business.

  By  Anthony Stanley, at 11/16/2009 07:07:00 AM  

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