A docile public can only tolerate only so much idiocy at airports.

[liberal N proud]

Don't touch my junk

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, November 19, 2010

Ah, the airport, where modern folk heroes are made. The airport, where that inspired flight attendant did what everyone who's ever been in the spam-in-a-can crush of a flying aluminum tube - where we collectively pretend that a clutch of peanuts is a meal and a seat cushion is a "flotation device" - has always dreamed of doing: pull the lever, blow the door, explode the chute, grab a beer, slide to the tarmac and walk through the gates to the sanity that lies beyond. Not since Rick and Louis disappeared into the Casablanca fog headed for the Free French garrison in Brazzaville has a stroll on the tarmac thrilled so many.

Who cares that the crazed steward got arrested, pleaded guilty to sundry charges, and probably was a rude, unpleasant SOB to begin with? Bonnie and Clyde were psychopaths, yet what child of the '60s did not fall in love with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty?

And now three months later, the newest airport hero arrives. His genius was not innovation in getting out, but deconstructing the entire process of getting in. John Tyner, cleverly armed with an iPhone to give YouTube immortality to the encounter, took exception to the TSA guard about to give him the benefit of Homeland Security's newest brainstorm - the upgraded, full-palm, up the groin, all-body pat-down. In a stroke, the young man ascended to myth, or at least the next edition of Bartlett's, warning the agent not to "touch my junk."

Not quite the 18th-century elegance of "Don't Tread on Me," but the age of Twitter has a different cadence from the age of the musket. What the modern battle cry lacks in archaic charm, it makes up for in full-body syllabic punch.

Read the rest of the op-ed here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111804494.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline


Lots of good stuff here...

[HuckleB]

1. Kraphammer has spent the past ten years fomenting fear.

And now he's going to complain about the results of his work?

:shrug:

Pffft.

[liberal N proud]

3. Maybe his personal public groping woke him up

Of course the question is, was it enough to change his view on everything?

[hughee99]

2. I don't know, I'm constantly amazed by the amount of idiocy the public will put up with. n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

4. 3 videos poking fun at the TSA's feel and grope procedure.

Language warning - the 3rd one gets pretty raunchy.

http://dailybail.com/home/make-this-go-viral-dont-touch-my-junk-the-tsa-hustle-new-son.html