The valiant warriors of homeland security

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TSA Screener Finds Blogger’s Vibrator, Orders Her to ‘Get Freak On’ LINK

Passengers at major airports can expect the Transportation Security Administration to take a snapshot of their naked bodies through their clothes — or, if they’d prefer, to be molested instead. Now they can also expect TSA to make juvenile comments about the contents of their luggage.

Well-known blogger Jill Filipovic (full disclosure: a pal) unpacked her suitcase this morning after a flight from Newark International Airport to Dublin, where she’ll be speaking to Trinity College students this week about abortion rights. She discovered that TSA agents turned a notice of inspection slip into a comment card. “GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL,” it reads. […]

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But my personal favorite TSA tale comes via my mother. To paraphrase, “I was standing in the line at LaGuardia and I remembered that I had put that knife I bought in the City in my purse. I thought to myself, ‘Well, maybe they won’t notice it.’ And they didn’t!”