You can pack explosives into your crotch

Can you spot the terrorist?




Clean college student from Philly



Islamist fruitcake from Nigeria

Gee, wouldn't EVERYONE stop the clean-cut college type?

You can have three pounds of C4 duct taped to your junk.  You can be banned from returning to your home country.  You can even have close relatives call the U.S, State Department and report you as an extremist, fundamentalist Islamic scumbag.  You can board a plane with no visa, smelling of goats and mumbling about American devil infidels.

Just don't show TSA Arabic language flash cards.

The Wyncote native was detained for five hours after Transportation Security Administration screeners grew suspicious about something in his pockets.

Arabic-language flash cards.

George, who was 21 at the time, and about to fly back for his senior year at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca., says he answered every question to the best of his abilities, and figured he'd be quickly sent on his way.

But what questions...

According to a federal suit filed Wednesday on his behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union, a TSA supervisor asked him, "How do you feel about 9/11?"

He said he hemmed and hawed a bit. "It's a complicated question," he told me by phone. "But I ended up saying, 'It was bad. I am against it.' "

He was asked if he knew who "did 9/11."

He answered, Osama bin Laden.

Then he was asked, "Do you know what language he spoke?"

George answered, Arabic."

The supervisor then held up his flash cards. "Do you see why these cards are suspicious?"

Yes, a short-haired, white college senior studying Arabic would certainly be suspicious!  Suspicious enough to compel the asshats of TSA to detain him, question him, call the Philadelphia police and the FBI and treat him like a terrorist.

Next time, Nick George should simply pack his shorts with explosive. 

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  • 2/11/2010 12:12 AM Stephen wrote:
    I KNOW! I know. Are they stupid? It's not that difficult. Multiple red flags=no go.
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  • 2/11/2010 1:43 AM straightarrow wrote:
    Well uh, you see, they're interested in officer safety. After all, they just want to go home at the end of their shifts. Fucking with explosive penises might prevent that. But fucking with nobody might get them a bad performance review.

    So pick the easy safe target, pretend to be tough, pretend to be men, pretend to be intelligent, and go home at the end of your shift after proving to your superiors you are "doing something". Have your pay and advancement dependent on how many complaints are received by the agency as to your stupidity and bullying ways, the more the better.

    Fuck those people who died when the real terrorist walked through spouting "Death to America" with six pounds of primed Semtek under his turban. After all, you did you job. You fucked with people to no purpose and kept yourself safe. Nobody blew a bomb up in your face.

    Hooray for security theater.
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  • 2/11/2010 2:48 AM Matt Johnson wrote:
    Check out this story about fighting terrorists in Mississippi:
    http://www.my601.com/news/local/story/Fighting-Terror/8x9FPIFgGU2-CxT6imnzew.cspx
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